A SISTER'S WRONGS.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2005, 8 June 1875, Page 2

A SISTER'S WRONGS.

X jaTTinlM^pußfislies the followiagY^r f!fn the will of a countess, wha died . recently ih^Bngiand,-wm tynmA&fkatm directing that her right hand be e&i off and buried in the parlc at. - drttef* Dennington at the bend' of the hill to the - Trent; with a small crttti ore? it, betriar the motto, ,«I byde my-tynie/ v Tbe explanation of this singular request showsthat, the countess, -who had been, a Hfe-long enemy of Queen -Victoria," desired to carry her implacable hatred cf Victoria beyond the grave. The place of burial overlooks one of the Queen's, country seats., The skeleton hand' frith , jits threatening, epitaph WMmeaut.T to 1 !point.its cold .finger at 'the^ Queen, reminding her of the injustice done'Jong -years' ago to a; Vounjrer sister . of, the countess. in the early queenhood, of Victoria the •natef mentioned was a maid of honor! ;Gayand;thoughtless, the young girl had a", freedom of manner wnich gftVethegossips of the day an opportunity, all too well abused, of blackeningheffame, which had been tarnished, by no crimnal act of hers. The Queen "nearkened to the slander, and J banished 1 the beautiful but indiscreet girl from her household. The falsity of the scandal -was shown, but not until the poor dishonored maid of honor died of a broken heart. The countess blamed the Queen for her sister's untimely fate,' and determined to avenge that sister's wrongs. Never after did she appear at Court, and upon every Boyal fete day kept closely immured. Her after-death pursuit- of the Queen is ghastly, butunimportant."—Ballarat Star." Referring to this''same paragraph, a correspondent wrote to the Ballarat paper' as follows:—Sir—ln the Times article, "A Sister's Wrongs," in your issue of ' Saturday, which, of course; refer* to Lady Flora Bastings, there are one or two.inaccuracies. -Castle: Dennmg ton .should be Castle Donnington, a villige six milesP" *"* from Melbourne, in Derbyshire. And again—" The falsity of the scandal was, shown, but not until the poor dishonored maid, of honor died of a broken head;." The falsity of the scandal was proved beyond doubt very soon after, her dismissal;. - and although her death was, ho doubt, accellerated by this circumstance, it was said at the time that she was laboring under some disease to which sooner or later she must have succumbed. It is hard to' reconcile this act of the Queen'smith her otherwise eremplary life.—Yours, &c, L.