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DUKEDOM CLAIM.

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MYSTERY OF JOHN HUDSON,

MONUMENTAL PUNS.

ANCIENT JOKES FOUND IN CHURCHES.

Further consideration' was given: by the Comm'ce for Privileges. The Shaftesbury Memorial Foun- of the House of Lords to the petitain, is now being dismembered tion of Brigadier-General Sin Edward Hamilton Seymour, claim and taken away from Piccadilly ing a writ of summons to Parlia Circus to be absent for about two ment by the name and style of the years, or until such time as the Duke of Somerset. The Marquis Underground station is rebuilt. of Hertford also presented a peti. The base of the structure will go tion urging that in the event of it being proved that the claimant was to storage at Stockwell, and not lawfully descended from the bright little Eros will take up hfa eighth Duke of Somerset, he was new quarters at the County Hall, entitled to the writ of summons to i Among much that has been Parliament by that name and style. | written about Eros the point seems Mr. G.'S, R. Gibbons, n« profes. to have been overlooked that he fa sional reader a!" the British really a monumental joke, writes à Museum, said he had made a "correspondent of the Morning search of the ledger, log books, Post. He and the never playing and other books of the "Manship." fountain below are there in com- These records showed that John memoration of the good Earl of Hudson's wages, began on De-Shaftesbury, Eros, it may be ember 24, 1785.

The vessel left noted, is directing his shaft in a London on December 2, 1785, direction which will inevitably arrived at Calcutta in July, 1786, bury it, in the ground when it is sailing for England on October 27, Įlungened Trony his hand 1786, and arrived in the Thames

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The European political situation The first of his serios of lec- makes so constant a claim on tres on "The Counting of

Joseph Conrad once reminded usi attention that we are apt to Atoms," which Sir Ernest Ruther that seven tenths of the world's. ignore another great problem of ford delivered at the Royal In- great iterature had been written foreign policy which for several stitution, was mainly a survey of under Mediterranean influences. years has been assuming a degree the growth of the atomk theory Leaving out the word "great," for British policy in China. The war first propounder over 2,000 years of urgency. It is the problem of of the matter from the time it was has modified the clements of this go by Greek philosophers as a authors, the French Riviera is ours is rather a mixed bag of

problem as profoundly as it alter reasonable hypothesis to explain maintaining in 1925 more than its ed the foundations of many other the things they saw around them. normal part in this tradition, writes international relationships, writes

The modern theory of the atom,the Cannes correspondent of the William Richards in the "Out- sald Sir Ernest, in little more than look."

a century old, and it served Daily Chronicle. On the one hand, there is aris-chemista and physicists for a Poéis, essayists, novelists, play- ing a new China; on the other, hundred years without involving | wrights, biographers and autobio that nubulous body known in the the necessity of determining the graphers, purveyors. Far East as "The Powers" is far dimension's or

of that masses of the nebulous category of books which from being to-day what it was atoms they dealt with. in 1914. The Powers, is repres

appears in publishers! catalogues sented by the Diplomalle Body at particularly since the discovery of all are filling their fountain-pens But in the last twenty years, under the heading belles lettres, Peking, came into being at a time radium, and other similar sub- or tapping at portable typewriters when China recognised reluctantly stances, men of science have been on sunlit balconies that overlook that she was not. is she had busy inventing and developing the palms and tangerine trees of cultural, spiritual, and political atoms, and these investigations, always, imagined she was, the methods of counting and weighing the Blue Coast, centre of the human race. The have resulted in a complete experi- Chinese stood in one camp and the mental verification of the atomic Western Powers--reinforced by a theory.. Westernised Japan-stood in the This census of the atom has dogged, of a midshipman who (ob. 1418) has on his seal a other. The Westerners, na they disclosed both the enormous num-them in the right mood for plays

frankly admitted at Washington, ber and the incredible smallness pursued policies. in China of the atoms in the amallest which would not be in harmony particle of matter. Something like with world public opinion to-day. 100,000,000 could be placed side It remained for China to avail by side in the space of an inch, herself of the extremely favour-and it is certain that the radius able feeling towards her shown at of a single molecule is somewhere the Washington Conference. This between one 50,000,000th and one she has not done, and the purpose-10,000,000th of an inch. less civil war which has recently, simmered down" is but one of the obtained

Many years ago Farnday many proofs of this fact.

gold ilms about 1.000.000th of an inch thick, Nevertheless, it would be awhich Sir Ernest Rutherford grave error to shut our eyes to estimated contained from tep to the fact that these unproducfive fifty layers of molecules, and Some ivalries of military lenders are of these historie films the lecturer not a comprehensive picture of projected on a screen by means of the body politic of China. The lantern. Customs Revenue indicate that latest figures of the Maritime the commerce of this vast country

on April, 1787. There was no list of the crew in the log and very few dames were men- tioned in

There It.

were occasional records of a man being

deserted, and of a passenger who died. The ledger showed that one man deserted at Madras, and about forty at Calcutta..

There were a number of cases where imprest money had been paid, but the balance of wages was not paid. In those cases the word "run was written against the account. The word run" appeared against the account of John Hudson. He had made a search to see where the members of the crew who died had been buried, searching the ledger, log, the Ecclesiastical and

or

When heraldry was more of a honoured art and science than it is to-day the rebus, a badge: device, forming a pun on a man's surname, was very popular,

Richard Lord Grey of Codnot

gray or badger; William lord Botreaux (ob. 1461) has buttresses; Thomas Lord Ros of Hamlake or Hemseley (ob. 1464) hemlocks; and the lady Margaret Beaufort marguerites.

Bishops, abbots, and priors did not hesitate to joke in stone on the buildings under their charge. In most cases the humour took the form of a play on their names Bishop Walter Lyhart of Norwich used a hart lying water; at Ely B. Alcock had a cock on a globe as being all the world; two large hares with a well rising between By Lord Summer: There were them crouch at the feet of BP Several cases where the entry Harewell's effigy at Wells; and an "funeral charges was made inox, the letter N., and a bridge the ledger against accounts. For make the rebus of Canon Oxen example: "Richard Palmer, but bridge in his chantry chapel at cher, killed at Calentta, funera}} Windsor. charges £4859d;"""Daniel Grant, funeral charges. £3 16 34" "Laverick, died at Calcutta, sick quarters £2 55 6d, and funeral charges £3 18s 3d."

Probate records.

Cross-examined by Me. Cunliffe, K.C., witness said there were several cases where deaths were recorded in the ledger but not in the log book. He could not draw any conclusions from what he read in those records, but merely stated the facts.

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the surface of a large basin of He also producef an oil film on water, the thickness of which was

in flourishing. Moreover, there is probably about 1,000,000th of an sweeping over China a intel-inch, and showed on the screen The visitor to the church of St.lectual renaissance known to the the marvellous variety of colours Bartholomew the Great in Smith Chinese, as "The new tide of resulting from the formation and field may notice on the south wall thought," which is of the utmost slow disintegration of an equally of the old, choir an 'oriet window, which was placed thereby William significance. It is impossible to thin on ilm, which consisted of Bolton, the pertlimate Prior, who describe it in detail or to consider billions of atoms. As the film died in 1532 His memory is even briefly some of its more grew thinner a black spot spread conserved by his rebus, a cross-important features such as the from the bottom upwards, the how bolt piercing a wine-tun, "Pai Hwa or National Language blackness indicating that the film carved on the panel below the Movement,

Suffice it to say was then too thin to reflect any centre panes. A pretty wit had that largely as a consequence of light. This black portion of the in China a factor very familiar to maximum size of the atoms could this renaissance there is rising film provided data by which the

the West, but hitherto strange to be calculated. Chin-a national consciousness.

mentions Bolton in his play "The the worthy prior. Ben Jonson New Inn, or the Light Heart."

Old Abbot Islip could not invent

beiter.

Or Prior Bolton with his bolt and

fun,

This concluded the case for the Marquis of Hertford, and Mr. Luxmoore, K.C, addressed their lordships on his behalf. The real question, he said, was whether John Hudson, the husband 'of Leonora Hudson, was or was not alive after September 3, 1787, the

"Old Abbot Islip" of West date of the marriage of Colonel minster laid the foundation stone Francis Compton Seymour and of the Chapel of Henry VII. He Leonora Hudson. Every branch has a chantry chapel on the north of the family had the tradition that side of the great Abbey, which is John Hadson did return after best known to visitors by the fact September 3, 1787, and he that in the chamber above are the submitted that there must be some wax, effigies of Queen Elizabeth Sort of foundation for it. He and other famous folk, the "Ragged suggested in regard to the fact Regiment" which was used to that the name of Mrs. Perkins, supplement the income of the Leonora's mother, appeared in the minor canons.- iate-book for No. 9, Padington- street, that she was paying the Jates for the son-in-law-and-was- therefore put on the rate-book.

AN 18TH-CENTURY MOTHER- IN-LAW.

Lord Atkinson said he had heard of many uses for a mother in-law, but not for the payment of rates. (Laughter.)

Mr. Luxmoore, proceeding, said

I thought on Naseby, Marston Moor, and Worcester's crowning fight.” **** When on mine ear a sound there fell-it chilled me with affright,

I heard a voice begin

As this in low, unearthly ties,

Monk! Sir, please put sunat ip,"

"This here's the cap of Ginira!!

formation which up to the present had not been touched. He con tended that John Hudson did re Turn, and that he found his wife from I klip)? The Abbot died int Leonora married to another man, and there it stands unto this and with a child. "That was not a new story. It had often happened, day to witness if I lie.

Its growth will of necessity be

Madeira for his, sun-bath holiday, If Mr. Barnard Shaw chooses other dramatists acclaimed by London have come to the Riviera for the winter months, during which summer conditions keep about smart set," that dubious bird of bright plumage.

cleaning his outlook in the Hotel Mr. Frederick Lonsdale is spring. Bristol at Beaulieu, where he shares Michael Arlen, and is perhaps &workroom, with Mr. collaborating with him in a comedy which, combining their separate talents for firework dialogue, should be a flaring rocket of a piece.

EPIGRAMS AND FANTASIES. out new versions of decently old Arlen, meanwhile. is thinking epigrams to add to his finished dramatisation of "The Green Hat," and Miss Gladys Cooper, who

will be "Iris Storm" in the veniently in the same hotell novel's stage version, is "con-

Mr. St. John Ervine, also at Cannes, has finished a play, and is completing what is likely to be a very provocative Life of Parnell.

Tennyson Tesse, while on their Mr. H. M. Harwood and Miss F. yacht Moby Dick around Cannes and Mante Carlo frequently re ceived cheerful telegrams about Pelican," and have now gone home the success of their play "The to produce Miss Jesse's House at the Royalty before they Any

hardly seem to harmonise with the return in March.

"Potash and Perlmutter" would

Casino.com-Mimosa life of the The lecturer gave the mathe-Riviera, although as a matter of

matical formule by which the

fact you meet in most of the big slow in a country nearly two-size and mass of atoms have been hotels their enriched translations thirds the area of Europe. poor determined, and pointed out that in communications, peopled by though different methods varied some 400 million persons of whom in precise results, they were all probably 90 per cent. are illiterate, in close agreement, and thus but already it is a force to be corroborated each other, reckoned with as was evident in the Shantung question.

Up to the present this new China has manifested itself chiefly through the student class and found expression in hostility towards Japan in particular and the whole privileged position of the Western, Powers in general. The past two years abound with incidents small in themselves, but significant in the aggregate, which prove that the Western Powers no longer occupy their old position in the eyes of millions of Chinese.

they did, for if the war impaired It would indeed be remarkable

Of the thousands who visit the the traditional unity of the Lega- there were stifl sourers of in-waxworks how many cast a glanctions at Peking, the Peace cut Abbot has left on the frieze-bis Russia now stand apart from the un the monumental joke which the clean across it.

Germany and fig tree, with a man falling there Treaty wies and have no extra uwn rebes, and eye and a slip of a

territorial rights in China Germany is industriously rebuild ing her commercial position in the Far East the Bolsheviks are equally busy in the exploitation for political purposes of this new Chinese nationalism and their own

before. He submitted that the

John Hudson who died in 1791

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the bushand of Leonora

Hudson, and that there was, no second marriage:

Da Bonne, the fearless animal tamer of the circus, had a dread of cold air that amounted almost to an obsession.

into real life. Mr. Montague Glass, their creator, is driving up and down the Corniche Road, and has found time to win many thousand francs at chemin-de-fer.

Even Mr. W, J. Locke, who writes his one human novel a year in Cannes, has turned to the stage He is now dramatising for London in Les Arcades, that lovely villa production" The Morals of Marc his exhibition in a cage with a during the cock tail hour" be One day after where friends gather on the porch fierce lion, he remarked to thetween 11.30 and 1. circus manager, John, old man, this will be the death of me yet." Riviera éalanist, lives. in a plok Mr. Phillips Oppenheim, another "You're not losing your nerve,villa al Cagnes-sur Mer, and there, are you, Dan?" inquired the other in a garden pavilion on the edge. anxiously. "You're not afraid of of the golf course. he dictates a that lon

trigue each morning before hurty. chapter or so of international in-

early afternoon, and the next item The chapter is revised during the Ing off to do an easy round in 78.

of the novelist's remunerative day is likely to be a motor ride to the restaurants and gaming rooms of the Monte Carlo about which he writes so vividly..

“Afraid of that beast!" snorted

place on earth for drafts. Some But those cages are the worst Dan in digust. "I should say not!

day I'll take cold in one of them and it will be the death of me."

the cumbersome, often embarras British polley is still enmeshed in sing, and nowadays ineffective procedure, of "Joint Note from The Powers."

British policy in China can be simply stated. It aims at assist

among the flowers of her Monaco The Baroness Orczy, seated house, thinks out further adven- tures for her Scarlet Pimpernel, and. presumably, finds in the garden a satisfactory atmosphere for writing those full-page signed testimonials 10 the valuable system.

namely, the tradition, the rate independent position. Meanwhile ing China to attain good order and of a famous institute of mind |

Mr. Cunliffe who appeared for books, and the evidence, if it were. Brigadier-General Sir Edward evidence of the death of Joha Hamilton Seymour, the claimant, Hudson, in Marylebone. As to said that is all his experience the evidence of the rate-books,. never had a claim been made to a their lordships were to alive to the tille on such imsy and even presumptions made in them that frivolous materials. The evidence he would add nothing to what had he had produced could not be already been said. The theory attacked by any positive proof of suggested appeared to be that the existence of the first husband John Hudson raturned from

of Leonora at the time of the birth India to find his wife married to of the eldest son of Colonel Fran- another

man, and, with the

cis Compton Seymour. The so. delicacy which animated Enoch called tradition in the family Arden, he retired to another was no tradition. It had been house. So far as the proof of the repudiated by every branch of the death of John Hudson-In Maryle family except the one which bone was concerned, it was sought to bastardise the two elder obvious that toom was left for sons of Colone! Francis Compton doubt that that John Hudson was Seymour and Leonora, widow of a different John Hudson, or at any John Hudson. What more likely rate was not proved to be than that this so-called tradition the same John Hudson He was the outcome of a quarrel be. would not express any opinion, Tween the different branches of hut as representing the Crown,; the family. Everything went 19 he would say That it ap show that Leonora had led a re- peared to him that the choice putable life. There was nothing lay between the evidence which in the evidence produced to justify prima facie stood of the death of them in bastardising the branch of John Hudson in India, and the family which had for all these evidence which undoubtedly years been regarded as legitimate, suggested many anxious surmises, Sir Thomas Inskip (Solicitor and, in some aspects attractive General), who addressed their lord. speculation. That was a matter ships on behalf of the Crown, said it for the Committee,

was obvious that the choice in the Lord Donoughmore the chair:| case lay between the evidence of the man, announced that the decision death and burial of John Hudson of the Committee would be made in India, and the evidence, which known, after consideration," at might be divided into three parts, some later date.

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M. Nene Perla has arrived in New- York to teroat American asso elations in the establishment of angle mall service between- bog, Portugal, and South Amer Ican capitain, bees senctioned by the League by The service has Nations, and its apouaora apert:1 will, ofrele the world when tha er

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Mr. James Joyce, of "Ulysses"

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