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rTHEAYY WEATHER,
/father Heavy Snow-Storm in
' lowa, Minnesota, Wiscon-
sin, and Illinois.
/£he Railroads Again Blockaded
and Travel Inter
i\ rupted.
jjii Fiercest Storm of the Winter Rag
i- ins in the Provinces of
‘ ' Canada.
Qjfat Floods Following the Break-Up in
■f ■* • . Kansas and Nebraska. .
T ! *
; rocKFonn, ill.
j . Special BirpaUh to The Chicago Tribune.
' SfICKFOiiD, 111-, March 12.—Another heavy
dow-storm visited tills section last night,
•jeompanied by'a strong wind from the
- northeast, and to-dav travel on the several
itfjoads'has been very light. The North-
Company had only just got their.
Mad open, and now it Is blockaded almost as
tad as before. The 2 o'clock train from the
jtgj night'was abandoned after reaching
tSTcity, and was ordered hack tin's morning
{Jinn to Chicago on the'Freeport express
{tine. The Freeport day-train, which passes
this* city about 10 o’clock, has been
stack ah day in' a huge drift between
Pecatonica and Winnebago. The mail-train
ftom the east arrived about an-hour late, be
tag-broughl through with two engines, the
head one having on a large snow-plow, and
literally covered with a thick coating of
mow. The Kenosha train left here on time,
Imi is now in a drift at Caledonia. The Chi
mp&iowa Road has given up in disgust,
22 no attempt lias been made to run a train
in any direction. This road between here and
Bochelle is worse off than it was last week, for
Uie'wiml was just right to ill on the cuts
which were cleared last Sunday. The North-
Western Company intend to keep their road
Mtween here and Chicago open, in spite of
file storm, if they have to keep a couple of
snow-plows on it constantly.' It is stiff
showing quite hard to-night.
DUBUQUE, IA.
DubCQUE, la., March 13.—Another snow
itbrm swooped down upon us last night,
adijing ten or twelve inches to what has al
rtaiy fallen. It was accompanied by some
wind, but is not drifted as badly as the one a
irtet ago. Still, for the time being, it has
placed an embargo on trade and travel. The
osls line of road miming is the river one,
Bbitween8 bitween Clinton and La Crosse. No trains
wfei* sent east or west this morning, and none
aibived last night The Chicago trains came
gh; also one from LaCrosse. Messrs,
y. Parker, and Qnimby, officials of the
is Central Road, are snowed in at Mar
a. The railroads have adopted a new
method of fighting the snow,— by housing all
their engines until the storm and wind abate,
sdlhen use the force available to open the
triads. This plan saves dead engines from
being snowed in on the open prairie. The
storm has about ceased, and the efforts made
tdday and to-morrow will have the block
ade raised by Monday night The snow is
Ight and easier worked than the former
MILWAUKEE, "WIS.
"IT Special Dispatch to The Chteago Tribune,
Milwaukee, IVis., March 12. —About four
Inches of snow fell in and about this city to
. djly. AH the trains were somewhat delayed,
bid gone of them are suspended. The storm
his been more disastrous west of here. The
Souihern Minnesota and Northern lowa
njads are again completely blockaded. The
si'Paul Railway managers said this evening
that these routes were justaooutbeingopend
after suffering the embargo for several weeks.
Now they are in nearly as bad a condition as
before. It snowed hard up till 9 o’clock to
night, but at the time of writing this dispatch
(11 o’clock) the atmosphere is clear and the
snow-plows are making good progress in
clearing the various railway tracks.’ There
was not any drifting, which makes it com
paratively easy to keep the roads open. The
§t Pan! managers say that there is no dan
ger of a stoppage of traffic between Chicago
agdJSL Paul. -
A.. OMAHA, XEB.
•• , Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune*
VO-MAUa, Neb., March 12.—At numerous
Points between Omaha and the North Platte
ths'counlry is flooded with surface water,
irt.many places a foot deep, presenting the
appearance of a vast sea. In many places
fl>ete is water for miles, so that the trains
ckn’t run. One east-honnd exnress-train has
laid un at Schuyler since Thursday,
and another is detained at Plum Creek. One
westbound express is detained at Grand
Istaid. No trains have arrived here from
the west for days, and none were sent out
today. The only trains that arrived from
Cjiifego were two over the Chicago, Burling
ton &Quincv, which were several hours late.
Trains on the Chicago & Northwestern and
the Chicago & Rock Island were abandoned.
Tralnsonihe Burlington & Missouri Rail
road in Nebraska are also troubled with
water.
' 1 CLINTON, IA. <r
- CirsTO.v. la., March 12.—Another furious
raotv-stomi prevailed yesterday afternoon
and last night between the Mississippi and
ll)e Missouri Rivers. All trains on the North
western were abandoned last night The
road hemp; opened to-day, the express-train
left Chicago yesterday noon and
r©4hed here at C o’clock, and laid here until
this afternoon, consolidated with last night’s
kaitumd proceeded west A train is being
Made up here to go east at 10.-liO tonight.
Thye are no trains from the West yet Su
perintendent Whitman is out with a large
Wee of shovelers. The road will be opened
to BelleTlaine to-nignt The storm is still
raging in Western lowa. No trains have ar
rived on the Midland Railway.
1 ; CEDAR RAPIDS, XA.
■ • - Spcciai Diipaich to The Chicago Tribune.
' Wdab Rapids, la., March 12. —The storm
continued furiously until to
day, blockading all travel. Barge forces of
Mefihave been put on to open up the various
roads. The blockades of the past month
depressed business badly, and mer
cmnts are becoming considerably con
jjrajd about trade, fearing a bad spring
pintle to do.
FREEPOUT, Hill.
•feKnonr, 111,, March 12.—A blinding
W® of snow set in last evenlntr, and raged
“Pnlglit over the nortliwest section of the
accompanied by high winds and heavy
JjVw* All trains are again abandoned on
Illinois Central Road. Xo trains have
Spvdff since hist evening on the Chicago &
-Jrthwestern. Those on the Chicago, Mi 1-
Paul are blocked up along
l |lrre engines started with the Ghi-
this morning on the
ivinona, minn.
•fSmial Dicpatch to The Chicago Tribune.
Minn., M arch 12. —From six to
"wirelnches Of snow, with strong winds,
rfßre ported at points between here and the
rSponri. This has filled the cuts on the
* Saint Peter Railroad, causing a
pension of all trains except passenger,
jS-S-JHa: running hut to Saint Peter,
Ray & Minnesota reports cuts all
■ 1 ' ' “TORONTO.
March 12,—A-tremendous snow
oft? in to ' ni S llt , with every appearance
t e *S? t| h u h>g. Dispatches from tlie western
Sai, ? Province say it is the heaviest
this winter.
. iV- MADISON, ins. . .
ojvcial DUiuteh to The Chicago Tribune.
1/jADisox, Wis., March 12.—Another snow
commenced here this morning. Five
h»Sart<? C j es o£ snow i)ave follcu, which
P’iiin.D 6 ** so badl y thaftrains on the Sun
.--f™ 11 ® 11 *“<l fire Portage Branch have
. . Depended, and the trains on the Xorth-
.western are behind time. The snow has
nmre yC th a s < hi t 0 / a . 1 '- Should there be no
shoiilVi blockade will not be serious, but,
in rise the hw?- n ; ulH! "febt. and the wind
10 serious 6 bloctade ln Wisconsin is likely to bo
FORT DODGE, TA.
Soceial Dismtc,'. o The Chicago Tribune.
Four Dodge, la., March 12.-A little girl,
led jo years old, daughter of James Connolly,
livmg eight miles west of this place, per
ished in the storm last night She was going
nStlfioll! 1 sc hool, lost her way. wandered
fonndinf.PP'j l6 ail n, e and was not
found till this forenoon. When found she
ag- "as dead and nearly covered with snow.
LINCOLN, SEH.
Lincoln. Neb., March 13.—The Platte
River rise came down five feet high, carry
ing ice three feet thick. The current ran on
in top of the ice. The water in the lower river
did not rise. This is the worst time for a
break-up. It is the highest water in the
history of the river. The same story of
bridges gone along its course for 800 miles.
A SERIOUS RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
~7 Millers, Xnd., March 12.—A somewhat
th seriQUS accidentoccuredon the Baltimore*
me Ohio, on the track just west of this point, at
,rai ii o’clock last night Contrary to orders,
, the engineer of a west-bouud freight over
! _ hauled and ran into the way passenger and
tas freight at a siding. The cars took lire mid
the jive coaches, including one passenger,
ing burned. Nobody hurt. The guilty engineer
> n ~ tp ok to the woods and has not been seen
css sujce< trains suffered short delays.
ises DES MOINES. IA.
?en Des Moines, la., March 12.—Railroad
Jen trains are again blocked with snow. The
h"' frains which left Chicago yesterday noon
tho have not yet arrived. The north and south
roads are also blocked.
i,p f AURORA, ILL.
la- Aurora, 111., Marcii 12.—Six inches of
ist, snow fell here last night accompanied by
rain, and followed by freezing and more
snow. The end is not yet.
“kf A SMASH-UP.
ind Denver, March 12.—Two coaches and a
of sleeper of a west-bound Atchison, Topeka
of & Santa i’fi train jumped the track near La I
dll Junta, causing considerable damage to
the property. Twelve or fifteen passengers
were bruised, but none seriously wounded.
W- A TRAIN WRECKED.
it, Dallas, March 12.—A construction train
il- on the Dallas * Wichita Railroad was
ne wrecked near South Denton, mid three em
i a ployesfatally and two seriously injured,
as _ ——
lj e THE SIGNAL SERVICE. •
ie Office of the Chief Signal Officer,
ls ’ Washington, D. C, March 13—1 a. m.—For
ue the Oliio Talley and Tennessee, variable
ue weather. In Tennessee, cloudy or partly 1
■ s cloudy weather, occasional rains in the Ohio ;
kg Valley, coldernorthwesttosouthwestwiuds, .
ir - and rising barometer. i
sw For the Lower Lake region, cloudy weath
dl er, with snow, variable possibly shifting to 1
!'■ colder westerly winds, and stationary or '
■J, higher barometer, ;
•“ For the Upper Mississippi and Lower Mis- ;
!,” souri Valleys, clearing weather, winds most-' j
15’ northwesterly, stationary or lower tem- (
T perature, and generally higher barometer. J
p For the Upper Lake region, cloudy or -
. partlycloudyweatlier, occasional snow, winds ,
shifting to northwesterly, stationary or lower -
temperature, and generally higher barome- ;
ter. ■
Cautionary signals continue at Milwaukee, ,
ir Grmid Haven, and Ludington. J
0- LOCAL OBSERVATIONS. |
(1, CHICAGO. March 12—10:13 p. m. j (
m Tim/. Bar.iThrr, Hu Wma. Wl K’n.j Wraiher ( t
16 6:ISa. m. 23.126 23 R) E 17 .23* Lt-sleeu J
.„ i.-UOjum. 2:1.126 2> S 3 E 11 LLsleeL C
11 :Iba. m. 211.381 32.5 71 E. 7 .. .. TbrCiiu; I
10 2:l)U p. m. 29.343 36 81 IS 5 LusloeL i,
S:2S p. m..SUHOj 36 SU K 4 .10* Jhuleet. *
I? 9:1X1 p. m. 2A4<3 39 82 Calm.. 0 IU. rain. H
d 36:13 p. m. 3S 81 S. W... 3 .04 (Cloudy, i 5
e ‘Meltedsleet! •” jI?
Barometer corrected for temperature, deration, I Jj
lS and instrumental error. I t .
Maximum temperature. 41; minimum temperature, J *:*
25; mean barometer, 29.423; mean thermometer, 35.7; I ii
a mean humidity. 837. U
e GENERAL OBSERVATION'S,- } jg
n Chicago. March 12—10:13 p. m. j
6 Thrr. Tner. I b
1- Stations* jo:« Wind. R'n irWr r«
e P. m. p.m. g
1“ Albany 37 33 N.E..;Gentle. .06 H.snw I U
0
Bol»e City 3-6 32 W... Fresh Fair. V-,
Moorhead 20 17 N. .. Fresh.. .64 Cl’dy. I-k
Buffalo 31 31 N.R.. Fresh.. .17 Fototy. D
Cairo 57 50 MAY. Fresh Fair. „.
Cheyenne 31 2S K.... Llaht. Clear. H
Chicago 33 JtS SAY. Guutie. .04 ci’dy. Jtl
5 Cincinnati 62 51 \V... (Fresh.. .01 Fair. I E
6 Davenport. 32 26 N'.W. Gentler .05 Ci’dy. 4v
. Denver. 42 33 5.... Fair.
’ Des Moines... 27 26 N.... Fresh.. .01 Cl’dy. jE:
6 Detroit. 31 51 Calm... .01 Th’ne. 1 u
c DodeeClty 46 30 N.VV. Fresh Clear. I
25 Dubuque 29 I9*
S Duluth 23 23 N.... Fresh.. .02 Lt-snw [E<
Erie 34 39 S.W. Liubt... .06 Ci’dy.
5 Escanoba., 22 11 .N ... Brisk... .03 Dusnw Iz'
Fort Garry 23 23 h.E. Fresh.. .05 Lt-snw ro
1 Fort Gibson.... 55 : ; 66
B Grand Haven.. 24 24 E.... Fresh.. .10 Dusnw (v
Keokuk 42 30 \V... Fresh.. .05 Dt-shw
i Da Crosse...... 25 27 N ... Fresh.. .01 Ci’dy. Lii
Deavenworth.. .<3 ‘JS S.W. Brisk. Cl’dy. | nn
t Louisville 62 51 W... Fresh Cl’dy, t .
. Marquette. 21 23 S.W. Fresh.. .W 1 Dtsnw J - L,<
1 Memphis 62 57 s*.W. Gentle Clear.
• Milwaukee 25 26 N.E. Fresh.. .25 Ll.snw tic
S’ashville *77 5.3 NY... Gentle Clear. 1 t>^
I New Orleans... 71 (5<J 5.... Dlkht- Fair. (tr
1 North Platte... 35 21 N....il resh Clear. IMI
. Omaha...., 26 21 N.W.jFresh.. .02 LTdy. JLt
. Osweco »5 34 S. E. I Fresh..' .15 Dusnw lu,
, Vincent 21 24 N.E.. Gentle Cl’dy. V*
1 PJoche 41 25 N..,. Fresh.. .05 j.unr I tlh
Bittsbunr 48 40 5.... Liebt... .44 Fair. mi
Port Huron.... 23 26 N.E.. Geutie. .24 Cl’dy. J-t
Rochester 32 32 S.K.. Fresh.. ,16 Lt.snw xr.
Sait Lake City.. 31 31 Calm... JO Cl’dy. ITI
; Sandusky :>i 30 5.... Fresh.. ,04 Th’n*. S<>
San Francisco.. 52 17 S.W. Brisk. Clear. I /i »
1 Shreveport..... 6* 57 \V... Uchu 'Clear. I J'-’
I
St. Ixjuts 45 3i W... Brisk... .OljdMy. jof
Su Paul 31 25 5.... Fresh., JKiCl’dy. a#
T01ed0..... 3:1 .*ls Calm Kousy
Vickabunr. 68 .59 S. \Y. Fresh ft.’lear. Ti
Winnemucca... 27 27 2*.... Brisk... .oLFair. c u
Yankton. |23 9 X.,.. Fresh (Clear. yjj
m Lo
A BURGLAR SHOT.
A Clerk tu a Dry-Goods Store Shoots a
Thief in the irionth. Performing; a aut
Neat Dental Operation. tile
At about 4 o’clock yesterday morning a burg- Ki]
lar deliberately broke a pane of glass In tho Cir
front door of F. J. Poole’s dry-goods store, No.
459 Madison street, with the purpose of after- ?A
wards entering the store and carrying ott a large jv-T
and select quantity of goods. As usual with
burglars in working jobs of this kind, the a bl
window was smashed when no one npoenred to £
be within sight or hearing, but to make sure of old
bis safety the burglar raa at once to a biding a gi
place, and remained there until some minutes i’oi
lapsed. Theo, feeling sure that no one had ' V} } ;
been alarmed by mo crash of the P 1?.
brokon glass, ho returned to tho window, and, |‘,j .
preparatory to entering, picked the broken
pieces of glass out of the frame. All tho while
Edward M. Bagley, a young clerk in the employ Dh
of Mr. Poole, whosleeps in the rear of tho store, 'I
and who had been awakened by tho noise, was ago
lying in wait for him, and just as he was about Tli<
lo enter Uagley let drive at him with a 32-
calibre revolver, which he is In the
ha’bit of keeping beside; him ready for use.
The burglar fell back with a groan, and, with S^ol
tho assistance of a companion, was seen to run
across the street, and thence west to Loomis J3ea
street. Hagley was certain of having bit bis man, Pet
us ho took deliberate aim, and had a full view of fort
hfm ns he entered the. broken window. He rics
dressed hastily, and llred several more shots into
the pavement just outside the store by way of r•“
attracting tbo attention of the police, but no
one answered. Subscquentlv bo searched In !.?„
Inmt of the store with a light and found two
teeth and a small piece of jawbone. These would y 1 ®*
indicate that the bullet struck tho burglarlu tho «•
cheek, and glancing upon tho jawbone entered Call
cither the base of me brain or the neck. The Ctm
trail of blood from the store front was followed Mon
to the American Insurance Company’s Building aud
at the corner of Loomis street. The wounded ivti
burglar fell exhausted there, and must have n rde
remained on the comer nearly half. an
hour. The in the cilice saw I, 1
him and his companions, but for some
reason or other garo no alarm,, .and J-J
in tact appeared to think nothing of the matter mini
until closelv questioned by the police during tho Mav
day. From this point tho police were able to. to tb
truce in daylight the footprints of tho wounded elev<
man and bis companion south.to Monroe street,
and thence diagonally through Jefferson Park
to the corner of Adiyns and Jefferson streets. A ,
pool of blood in the park indicated that the Ir •
wound was of a severe nature, and that tho ney,
recipient was obliged to take frequent rests. Mey;
Tho police, ns they always do iu a case 100 deep Hem
for their comprehension, obsen*od the strictest and
sevresy about the affair, and it was tho general Kerr
belief yesterday that they bad captured xhe com- iri.
panions of the wounded burglar and had located t t -t .
him beyond all doubt. Such was not the case, iVT.'
however. It is known to a certainty that the I
wounded man is Nicholas Roach, a notori- j JLne
ous young thief and burglar, living with | Blaci
THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE; SUNDAY, MARCH 13, 1881—EIGHTEEN PAGES
his parents on the second Boor of a building at
tlie southeast corner of Twelfth street and Cen
tre avenue. Thither he was taken by bis com
panions in crime, but before the police became
aware of • bis Identity he bad been re
moved to some place which they had not
found up to nn early hour this morning.
His mother, was was absent on a visit to friends
In Milwaukee, arrived home yesterday, sup
posedly In response to a telegram, and the po
lice hope by keeping a close watch of her to as
certain the whereabouts and actual condition of
the son. From all that they have been able to
glean on the subject, Roach’s wound is thought
to be a mortal one.
Roach, although quite a young man, and of
respectable parentage, is us notorious a rascal
as can do found within the limits of the West
Twelfth Street Police Precinct, which is notea
for its many hardened young thieves. He
has been tho intimate associate of
of the Van Hcssler boys and other well-known
thieves, and tho Van Hcsslcrs until recently
lived Just opposlt him. Tho .police are able to
judge who were his companions in theattempted
burarlnry yesterday morning, but thus far have
made no arrests, most likely for the reason tint
none of them could be found.
THE PEERAGE FOR 1881.
A Glance Through tho Paged of Burke
and Bod, and the Odd or Interesting
Pacts They Contain.
Pino York trorid.
The year.l&SO witnessed an umisually large
number of changes in the English Peer
age, Baronetage, and Knightage. Ko
less than seventeen new creations
were recorded' during the twelvemonth,
though three of these were only promotions,
Lord Beacousfield making Lord Lylton the
Earl of Lytton, Lord Skchnersdale the Earl
of Lathoin, and Baron Sc cd;>s Earl Sondes.
Baron Watson’s, too, was only a law peer
age. In addition to these, the retiring Pre
mier called Viscount Holniesdale to the
House of Lords in his father’s Barony of
Amherst; conferred the Barony of Slmte on
an Irish nobleman, Viscount Barrington;
gave the Duke Portland’s stepmother the
title of Baroness Bolsover, and made
the following. Peers: , ( Baron Hai
don (Sir Lawrence Palk) ; 'flSafon Wim
bbrne (Sir Ivor Guest); Baron Ardilaun (Sir
Arthur Guinness); Baron Lamiugton (Mr.
Baillie-Cochrane); Baron Donington (Mr.
Abuey-Hastings); Baron. Trevor (Lord
Arthur Uill-Trevor); and Baron Rowton
(Mr. Montagu Corry). During his second
administration Lord Beacousfield conferred
thirty-nine titles, including the Dukedoms of
Connaught and Gordon and his own Earl
dom, to say nothing of the imperial rank to
which lie promoted ids sovereign. Last
year Sir. . Gladstone made “ Bob ”
Lowe Viconnt Sherbrooke, Mr. Kuatch
bull Hugesseii Baron Brabmirne, and
Sir. Cowper Temple Lord Mount Temple.
The next Peers, it is understood, are to be'
Lord Odo Russell and Sir Uarcourt John
stone, who retired from Scarborough to give
Mr. Dodson a seat. During his first Admin
istration Mr. Gladstone added thirty-six
names to the peerage, among his creations
heing the Duke of Westminster, the Marquis
of Ripon, the Earl of Dntferin, and the
Baroness Burdetl-Coutts. The year 18S0 saw
more new creations and promotions than any
since JB3I, when eighteen names were added
to Uie roll of the peerage.
Tile deaths of IsSO included sixteen peers
and one peeress in her own right,—the Dow
ager Countess Cowper, whose Barony of
Lucas descended to Person Earl Cowper.
Two titles became extinct,—those of Rivers
and Stratford de Redeiitfe. borne by mem
bers'of the political families of Pitt and
Canning. The giving of the Barony of Shute
to Viscount Barrington, an Irish Poor,
leads to a peculiar stale of things by
reducing the number of Peers of Ire
land, exclusively such, to 100, at which
point an important clause in the act
of Union comes into operation authorizing
the Crown to fill up"any further gap so as to
keep up the Peerage of Ireland to the num
ber of 100. Upon the roll of the Lords at the
opening of the second session of the Twen
ty-second Parliament of tile United Kingdom
there are 51T names, but as six Lords (Lord
Selborne, Earl Spencer, the Duke of Argyll,
Earl Sydney, the Earl of Ken mare, and'the
Earl ot Erne) are twice named, the total
nuinbernf Lords, spiritual and temporal, is
511. Of these, four are Princes of the Blood
Royal, two are Archbishops, twenty-two are
Dukes, nineteen are Marquises, KWare Earls,
thirty-two are Viscounts, twenty-four are |
Bishops, and 370 are Barons. Thelirstnameor,
the roll is that of the Prince of Wales, who | ■
is followed by the Royal Dukes of Edin
burg, Connaught, and Cambridge, the Arch
bishop ot Canterbury, Lord Seluorne (Lord
Chancellor), the Archbishop of York, Earl
Spencer (Lord President of the Council), and
the Duke of Argyll (Lord Privy Seal), the
premier Duke is the Duke of Norfolk,
Earl-Marshal of England; the junior, the
Duke of Westminster. The premier Mar
quis is the Marquis of- Winchester;
the junior, the Marquis ot Abergavenny.
Earl Sydney, as Lord Steward, comes
first in the roll of Earls, followed by the
Earls of Shrewsbury mid Derby; the junior
Earl Is Earl Sondes. The premier |Viscount
is Viscount Hereford; the junior, Viscount
Sherbrooke. Of the Bishops the B’shop of
London comes first, and the Bishop of St.
David’s last, the Bishops of Rochester, Tru
ro, Litchfield, mid Liverpool not yet having
seats in the House. The Earl of Kemnare
(who being an Irish Ear), sits as Lord Ken
mare) conies lirst in. the roll of Barons, as
Lord Chamberlain, followed by Lord de Kos
and Lord Mowbray: the junior Baron is
Lord Brabourne.
People who are interested in personal sta
tisties may care to know that * ide-st
Privy Councilor is Sir Sir John Macpherson
Mucleod, aged SB, and the youngest Prince
Leopold, aged 27. The oldest Duke is the
Duke of Cleveland, ageil TT: the youngest,
the Duke of Newcastle, aged 10.' Of Mar
quises the oldest is the .Marquis of Donegal,
S 3; the youngest, the Marquis Camden, 8.
The oldest is the Ear I of Buckinghamshire,
»i; the youngest is Earl Ilussell, 15.
(Courtesy titles, of course, are not
included, else we should have the Earl
of Arundel and Surrey, heir of the Duke
Of Norfolk, horn in 1ST!)). The oldest
Tlacountis Lord Eversley, aged s«; he was
ooeaker of the Comumus front HSfil to 1557 as
Sir Charles Shaw-Lefevre; the youngest is
Lord Southwell, aged T. The oldest Enron
is Lord Mostyn,—»i; the youngest, land
Southampton,—l3. Of the English Bishops
the oldest is Dr. Olivant. Bishop of Llandalf,
82; the youngest is Dr. If ill. Bishop of Sodor
and Man, —14. In the Irish Episcopal Church
the oldest prelate is Dr. Darley, Bishop of
Kiimore, —SO; the youngest is Dr. it. ij
Gregg, Bishop of Cork,—hi. in tile
Scotch Episcopal Church the extremes
of ago are represented by Dr. Eden,
Bishop of Moray and Boss (Primus)—T(i, and
Dr. Mackarness, Bishop of Argyll and the
isles—s 7. The oldest Baronet is the vener
able Sir Moses Montefiore—l)o; the youngest
is Sir Thomas Lends Hughes .Wave—(l. The
oldest Knight is Sir Duncan MacGregor,
aged 93, who entered the army in 1S00; the
youngest is Sir Ludlow Cotter, aged 27, who
was knighted in accordance with a special
privilege contained' in the patent of his
father’s Baronetcy. Of the Judges, Vice-
Chancellor Sir James Baker, Chief Judge in /
Bankruptcy, aged 82, is the oldest, and Sir 1
Charles S. C. Bowen, of the Queen’s Bench
Division, aged 44, is the youngest.
The Boman Catholic members of the Peer
age in the three Kingdoms are thirty-eight.
The list runs as follows: The Duke of Nor
folk, the Marquises of Bute and Bipon, the
Earls of Denbigh. Newburg, Ashburnhaui,
nestmeath. Piugall, Granard, Kenmare, Or
ford, mid Gainsborough; Viscounts Gorman
ston, Netterville, Taalte, and Southwell; and
Barons Mowbray and Stourton, Camovs,
Beaumont, Vaux of Ilarrowdeu, Brave
Pelre, Arundel! of Wardour, Dormer, Staf
ford, Clifford of Chndleigh, Ashford, Hur
ries, Lovat, Louth, Ffrench, Bcllew
De Freyne, Howard of Glossop, Acton
O’Hagan, Eml.v, and Gerard. No less than
forty-seven Baronetcies of the three King
doms also arc held by Boman Catholics, the
youthful Sir,Henry Tichborne standing at
their head, and the last being Sir Maurice
J. O’Connell. There are also seven Boman
Catholic members of • her Majesty’s Privy
Council,—Lord Bipon, Kenmare, Boliert
Montagu, Bury,- Howard of Glossop, Emly
and O’Hagan. The heir to the Barony of
Petre, umess we are mistaken, lias taken
orders, so that we are likely to see at no dis
tant date a Catholic priest sitting in the
House of Lords.
The Barons created in ISSO were unusually
numerous. Between November, isrti, and
May, 1880, but one Baronet had been added
to'the list—Sir Andrew Buchanan; last year
eleyen new Baronetcies were made, the gen
tlemen thus elevated being Sir Henry All
sopp. Sir Edward Bates, Sh Janies Bourne
Sir Archibald Campbell, Sir Gabriel Gohl
ney, Sir J. Farnaby Leonard.-Sir Thomas
Meyrick; Sir John Robert Mowbray, Sir
Henry W. Ripley, Sir Edward \V. Watkin,
and Sir Peter G. Fitzgerald (Knight of
Kerry;. . . .
The five grades, or ranks, in the Peerage
it is almost superfluous to state are those of
Duke, Morquis, EarL Viscount, and Baron.
The -first English. Duke was Edward the
Black Prince, created Duke of Cornwall by
his father. Edward 111., in 1337. The title
ot Marquis—probably .from the guardians
of the Welsh and Scotch frontiers or Marches
—was first bestowed by Richard IL on his
favorit, Robert de Vere, Earl ot Oxford, cre
ated Marquis of Dublin in 1380. William
the Conquerer changed the Saxon’title
of Alderman or Earl (Danish, Jarl) into
Earl, the equivalent of Count (comes—a
county; the Continental form survives
in the feminine Countess;, Baron, however,
replaced the Saxon Thane. (Baron, by the
wav, is a word that has singularly fallen off
in the course ot centuries; it is now the low
est title of nobility; originally it included all
great Lords and lent dignity to Kings.) The
title of Viscount (Vice Comes) was long in
use before it was bestowed on any person in
England, the first wearer of the title being
John Beaumont, created Viscountßeaumout
and Count of Boulogne in 1440. As a chief
title Viscount occurs about four times as
often in the Irish Peerage as-it does in the
English.. Tlie rank has always been con
ferred by letters patent.
The Duke of Atliole with his seventeen
inferior titles is the most abundantly titled
member of the British aristocracy, being
Duke of Atliole, 1703; Marquis of - Tullibar
dine, 1703; Marquis of Athole, 1070; Earl of
Tullibardinc, 1C0C; Earl of Atliole, 1629;
Earl of Strathtay and Strathardie, 1703; Vis
count of Balquhldar, 1070; Viscount
Glenalmond and Glenlyon, 1703; Baron
Murray. 1004: Baron Balvenieand Cask, 1670,
all in the Scottish Peerage; and Baron
Percy, 1299; Baron Lucy. 1414: Baron Poyn
imrs, Pitz-Payne, ■ and Bryan, 1446;
and Baron Latimer, 1597, in the Peer
age of Great Britain, and Baron Strange,
1623; Baron Murray and Earl Strange, 1786
(Great Britain), and Baron Glenlvon, IS2I
(United Kingdom), by which last three titles
lie sits in the House of Lords. ’ The Duke of
Argyll, with sixteen titles, holds-his seat as
Baron Sundridge and Hamilton; the Duke
of Hamilton has 10; the Duke of Buccleuch,
13; the Marquis ot Bute, 15; the Duke of
Northumberland, 13; the Duke ot Abercom,
12, and so on. It not three single gentle
men at once, the Duke of Hamilton holds
threeDukedoms,—thosool Hamilton, in Scot
land; Brandon, in England; and Chatel
herauit, in France. The Duke of Richmond
and Gordon is also Duke ot Lennox in the
Scotch peerage and Duke ot Aubigny in
Prance. The Duke of Marlborough is a
Prince of Mindellieim. in Suabia. His
Grace of Leeds is also, we believe, a Prince
of tlie Holy Roman Empire; so is Earl Cow
pcr. Lord Arundell of Wardenr and the
Earl of Denbigh are also Counts ot the same,
the latter claiming consanguinity with the
Imperial house ot Austria. The Duke ot
Wellington is Prince of Waterloo, in tlie
Netherlands, and Duke ot Vlttoria and
a Grandee ot the first class in Spain: Earl
Kelson is Duke of Bronte in Italy; the Earl
of Clancarty is Marquis ot Huesden in the
Netherlands, and the British Minister at
Washington, Sir Edward Thornton, is Count
Cassillias in Portugal, the distinction being
a sort of semi-hereditary one. since it was
conferred on Ins father and will expire with
ids son. “The first English title derived
from a place outside of England,,” says
a writer in the Comhill, “ was that
of Viscount Barfleur, conferred to
gether witli the Earldom ot Oxford on
Admiral Russell, the victor of La Hogue,”
that tight commemorated in Browning’s
“Uerveßiel.” We are not sure of the exact
sense in which this is intended to criticise it,
and hence pass on to remark that sucli dis
tinctions are not uncommon nowadays. Thus
the Duke of Wellington is Baron Douro and
Marquis of Douro; Earl Kelson’s heir Is
Viscount of Trafalgar, while such titles as
the Ein of Camperdown, Lord Lawrence ot
the Punjab, and Lord Kapier of Magdala,
will readily .occur to the reader. A
curio?.ity in titles may be noted in the case
ot the Lansdowne family,—the heir-apparent
in one generation is Earl of Kerry and in
the next Earl of Shelburne. Still more
curious is tlie fact that the tenure of one
English building has a peerage attached to
it,—Arundel Castle, whieli confers on its
holder, the Duke of' Norfolk, his title ot
Earl of Arundel. Mr. Planche says that
“the name and dignity ot Arundel was
solemnly decided in the reign of Henry VL
to belong to the possession of the Castle of
Arundel, the tenure ot which was determined
to constitute the Earldom without any other
form, patent, or creation whatever.”
•‘Barony by tenure.” says Finlason in his
“Hereditary Dignities,” implied that the
owner had got it by the ’sword or in reward
for bravery, and that what he had got by the
sword he would hold by the sword.- Title
went with lands, but the last time this fao
was recognized was in W 33, when Sir John
Fitz-Alan, holding tlioVown.and castle of
Arnudel, claimed to Ue EAVLof Arundel by
such tenure, and the claim was admitted,
although only, it seems, through a special
act of Parliament.” The infant Earl
of Arundel has a female name, Philip
Joseph Mary, conferred on him in con
sequence of a vow, the Duke, and
Duchess having made a pilgrimage to a
shrine of the Virgin,—Lourdes, we believe,
where their intercessions for an heir were
rewarded. An American officer has a right
to remain covered in the presence of the
Queen.—John Eitzrny de Courey, Thirty
lirst Baron Kingsale, Premier Baron of Ire
land, whose creation by Henry 11. in list,
heads the list of the historic peerage. Lord
Kingsale served in the English arm Turkish
armies, and commanded a Federal regi
ment during the war of secession,
and was also stipendiary magistrate at
San Juan, Vancouver, during the Harney
disturbances. An ancestor of Lord Forester
also held a grant from Henry VIII.. still ex
tant, conferring the privilege of wearing his
hat in the lloyal presence. One peer has the
distinction—more honorable perhaps—of
being a Professor at Cambridge University;
this is Lord Uayleigli, M. A., of Trinity, and
Senior Wrangler in ISUS. By way of com
pensation for Earl Kelson’s Italian title of
Duke of Bronte, an Italian nobleman, Sigis
mund Kicholas Veiiaiitius Gaetano Fran
cisco Ginstiniani. Prince and Marquis
Bandini, holds the Earldom of Kewburg,
inherited through his mother.
ISCHIA.
Tlio Recent Rlsanter—la Saratoga or
White SulpUcr Springs in Similar
Ranger!
yew York Evening Mail.
Prof. Palmicri, who is a scientific author
ity of the highest rank, mid who lias made
the vagaries of Vesuvius ids special study,
lias advanced a rather startling theory in re
gard to tiie disastrous earthquakes at Ischia.
After declaring that Vesuvius was undis
turbed at the time of the catastrophe, and
that the earthquake was not owing to any
abortive attempt at an eruption, as was at
first believed, he intimate’s that it may have
been owing to a sudden sinking of the ground
caused by the corrosive' action of mineral
springs. ! '
It there is any truth in this theory it is one
which may well excite the attention of our
own citizens. If the mineral waters of Ischia
can corrode or eat into tile rock and soil so
as to create a sndden sinking of the ground,
wliy may not such a phenomenon occur at
any of qur own watering places ? Ischia is
a rocky island.. The White Sulphur Springs
of v irginia are in a rocky region and equal
ly exposed to this danger. Saratoga is on a
sandy soil which reaches down many feet.
But who knows the nature of the substratum
of rock on which this soil rests? The real
sources of mineral waters are still a mys
tery. Science has not yet penetrated into
the unknown laboratory ol nature, or
snatched from the dark recesses of earth the
secret of her healing springs. The waters of
Saratoga have flowed for,centuries, mid their
corroding processes have been slow indeed.
Instead of wearing away the earth and rock
about them, they have, as in the case of the
High Itock Spring, only left surface deposits
of sedimentary matter. '
For centuries, too, the waters of Ischia
nave flowed only to kindly and beneficent
purposes. Yet at the same time, if we adopt
tiie Palmier! theory, the corrosive work lias
been going on slowly,.•undermining the
foundations of the island. The fullness of
time came at last; mid-when the last prop
was eaten away, the unsupported surface
fell, and‘2oo lives were sacrificed.
Who can assert that such fate may not be
instore for Saratoga or the White Sulphur
region? We have all the elements of such a
catastrophe, only magnified in the propor
tions. "
However. all this corrosive theory may be
only a scientific chimera. -None of the cable
dispatches advance .the idea that the local
volcano of Ischia may have awakened to un
expccted activity and caused the calamity.
IheEnceladus of Etna still lies beneath the
mighty mountain in uneasy slumber; biit
mayhap the Euceladus'of Epomeo has'awak
ened.
For at the centre of the Island of Ischia
™6 v olcano of Epomeo rises to the highi of
-,000 feet, and this giant is encircled by
twelve other dwarf volcanos. Epomeo has
been very‘amiable and quiet for a long time,
no j‘mvmgimlulged in an eruption since 1301.
At Lassamicciola and Eacco, in the fertile
valleys that lie in this volcanic group, are
warm springs held in much repute bv the
Italians. Without knowing anything really
about it, It may yet be permitted to assume
that the heat o£ these waters is owing: to the
hidden fires which SSO years.ago found their,
way even to the crater of Epo'meo, and still
exist far beneath the surface.
Ischia has had various aliases. It has been
called at various times Artime, Inartime,
-Enntna, and Plthecusa. It is an island in
the Mediterranean, just outside the Bay of
Naples, and eight miles southwest of Cape
Misene. The soil is very fertile, producing
h?s and corn, while on the mountain slopes
of Epomeo (he is called by the pious San
Nicolo) are rich vineyards. The whole pop
ulation of the island is about 24,000 souls, the
chief town is also called Ischia, having 0,300
inhabitants. It has also a diocese of the
Bomlsh Church.
The Castle of Ischia is a favorit subject for
landscape artists, and serves often for the
atre drop-curtains. It is a picturesque struct
ure, “ standing on a high isolated rock of
volcanic tufa and ashes which rises out of
the sea opposlt the Island of Yivara, and is
connected with the mainland by a mole."
Alfonso 1., of Arragon, built it in the twelfth
century, and it has its romance and its his
tory. The recent earthquake gives it a fresh
and startling interest.
THE PERIL OF THE PIG,
An English Paper on the Trichinosis
Question.
London Tefcorapft, Feb. 24.
Do weeping and "wailing prevail just now
at Chicago 9 Is the shore of Lake Michigan
dotted with groupsof saturnine men arrayed
in sackcloth and ashes, gloomily murmuring
that their glory is departed, and that the
prosperity of Porkopolis is temporarily sus
pended? Do the magnates of State and
Dearborn streets. Calumet and Wabash ave
nues, “ feel bad ” 9 How stands it with the
speculators of the Chicago Board of Trade
and the pork-packers and ham-curers of tne
Union Stock-Yards 9 Assuredly, within the
last few days, events have occurred in Eu
rope of a nature to make all those concerned
in the gigantic pork trade in the Phoenix
City look and feel very serious indeed. At
the meeting of .the Agricultural Society in
Paris on Tuesday it was stated that the Gov
ernment of the United States had summarily
prohibited the importation of wines coming
from France, ostensibly on sanitary grounds,
but in reality as a deliberate act of retalia
tion for the exclusion, through dread of
trichinosis, of American pork from the terri
tory of the French Itepublic. A resolution
was passed by the Society calling on the
French Government to protest against a
measure the scopeof which, it is to be hoped,
has been greatly exaggerated, even if it Do
not altogether misrepresented. It has been
also stated that the Belgian Government has
repudiated any idea of following the action
of France, no case of trichinosis having as
yet occurred in the dominions of King Leo
pold, whereas in. France an entire fam
ily were recently attacked by the
fell parasitical disease, deatli in one
case ensuing. To be sure, the pig
from the flesh of which the family had fed
was not American but home bred. Mean
while, the reply given by Mr. Mundella ia
the Commons on Tuesday, to a Question
asked by Mr. Dixon-Hartland, seems calcu
lated, from one point of view, to restore the
lengthened visages of the pig-jobbers and
pork-packers of the Great West to their nor
mal dimensions. The honorable member
for Evesham inquired of the Vice-President
of the Council whether it had come under
his notjee that the importation of pork from
the United States had been prohibited in
France, Russia, Austria, Italy, Spain, Portu
gal, and Greece, in consequence of the prev
alence of trichinosis, and the apparent hope
lesness of inducing the poorer classes to dis
infect the pork, and so prevent disease; and
whether lie was prepared to forbid the impor
tation of such pork Into Great Britain and
Ireland.
Mr. Mundella proceeded to explain that he
had read the statements referred to by Mr.
Dixon-Hartland, but that lie had no special
information on the subject, and had applied
at the Foreign Office for the precise facts of
■the matter in hand. The annual importa
tion of foreign pork into this country, he
added, exceeds nine and a halt million hun
dred-weight, or more than twenty pounds
weight per head of the entire population;
and the estimated value of this enormous
mass exceeds nine and a half million pounds
sterling. Nearly the wholeof this dead meat
—for it was exclusive of the vast numbers of
live swine imported—came from the United
States, Canada, Germany, and Belgium;
and Mr. Mundella thought it would be a
great hardship to die poor suddenly to cut
oil a food-supply which so long had
been abundant and regular. Only great
urgency could, after grave consideration,
warrant the adoption of such a course.
Again. Mr. Mundella held that" trichinosis
existed elsewhere than in America. It cer
tainly prevails, and has prevailed for some
years, in North Germany, and it is an old
Jokeof the Berlin “Kladderadatch ” that a
guest at a restaurant never orders pork,
without'calling for a microscope at the same
time. The Vice-President also pointed out
that lie had received a report from the Local
Government Board, but that it made no men
tion of any appearance-of trichinosis in this
country- Three years ago there had been
an outbreak of disease on board one of the
training ships, but the distemper on investi
gation was found not to be trichinosis.
When the Duke of Richmond and Gordon
was in office lie was asked a similar question
to that put by Mr. Dixon-Hartland, and,
in his reply, he stated that a guarantee
for safety trom disease could be found
only in the thorough cooking of the
pork, and that there was rpason to
believe that the practice of eating imperfect
ly-cooked sausages and pork on the Conti
nent materially contributed to the spread of
trichinosis. That, Mr. Mumlelia cheerfully
remarked on Tuesday, was not the case in
tins country; and there was consequently no
reason for prohibiting the importation of
pork from the United States. He did no
state with precision what “trichina” or
“trichinosis” really is, ami whether the ver
micular affection to which foreign pork is
said to be subject arises from a disease of the
animal during life, or from the carcass being
too hastily, carclesly, and not thoroughly
cured, so that the process of decomposition
lias not been entirely arrested. It is at all
events certain that among foreigners, the
Germans in particular, eat vast quantities of
what they avowedly quality as “raw ham,”
just as they devour “raw” salmon, the
curing of which has been of a very per
functory character, and that the various
forms of sausages to which they are so pas
sionately attached are as a rule only dried or
smoked, mid are eaten almost entirely un
cooked. At least our poorer classes take
care that their saveloys and “small Germans”
shall be boiled before theyeatthem, although
of what precise ingredients the saveloys and
“small Germans” may be composed is not
nnfreqnentlyaiiiystery. It is not, then, on the
whole im probable that much of the trichinosis
said to exist in Germany and elsewhere
on the Continent springs quite as much from
home-bred mid badly-fed swine as from pork
imported from the United States. As for
English people, it is lilting that their patron
saint should be Saint George, whom Gibbon
declares to have been a contractor for the
supply of bacon to the Imperial Human
armies in Cappadocia. They eat more
pork, fresh and salted, than any other
people in Europe. They claim that
their dairy-fed pork is the whitest and sweet
est in the whole world: and that, although
Chicago may point with justifiable pride to
her “ royal hams,” there is no preparation of
the pig so fine or so succulent as areal
Yorkshire ham. As for Berkshire and Wilt-
shire bacon, we are entitled to challenge all
Christendom to produce bacon firmer in
flesh, richer in fat, and of finer flavor; and,
finally, we may pride ourselves on having
sent across the Atlantic more than 200 years
ago a band of Pilgrim Fathers who so soon
as ever they were settled in New England
began to regale themselves on pork ana
beans, and whose descendants have been re
galing themselves, thereon with insatiable
avidity ever since. In American eating
houses tiie patriotic designation of “ Stars
mid Stripes ” is popularly given to pork and
beans, but the dish is in reality one of genu
ine old English extraction, mid hails much
more from Boston in Lincolnshire than from
Boston, Mass.
The telegrams of the next few days will be
instructive as to any disturoing, not to say
disastrous, influence which the' action of the
European Powers—Belgium, Holland, and
the Scandinavian countries excepted—may
have had on the American Produce Ex-
change, mid especially on the great “ pork
corners ” of Chicago, New York, and Cin
cinnati. For within the last few years it has
been as habitual to make a “big thing” of
“cornering” pork as of “cornering” grain.
read of some enterprising com-
When we
niercial geniuses oh the other side who, not
many days since, bought up 25,000,000 pounds
weight of “ short ribs.” 15,000 barrels of
pickled pork, and 200,000 dozens of bladders
of lard, in order to deplete the market, the
financial peturbationsof this “ring” of spec
ulators, owing to the trichinosis soirahs
scare, may be more easily imagined than de-
f unable 10 realize tlie
lar-reacomg scope of ‘•comers,” “rli&s” « biff
aKpmnfp' «t^ d - ** boon ? s *” ,n teW loSk on this
n «rklMr* S «Y vmff glutting the produce
market as so much forestalling and regrad
ing, which, according to Blackstone, is cog*
mzabie by the criminal law in England. The
trench people, m the early days of the First
Bevolutton, dealt out swift and sharp justice
to the accapareurs ”of food. They hanged
them to the nearest lamp-post. Butin this
age, on both sides of the Atlantic, larger and
more elastic notions of the legitimate bounds
of commercial and financial business prevail
“Heroic’’enterprise is possible even in the
matter of bug’s liesh; and, in fine, Ameri
cans may plead that ail the world demands
salted or cured pork from them, and that
they have the right to make as much out of
tlie product as they can. They are not them
selves a very conspicuously pork-eating
race. Down South “bogand hominy” are
the staple food-of the negroes, and the
New Englanders preserve their traditional
fondness for pork and beans, while
“pork steaks” find a place in the break
fast bill of fare of most hotels, but joints of
what we term “dairy-fed pork ” are rarely
seen at private tables in the States; the
sausages are poor in camparison with our
juicy and chubby Epping and Cambridge
sausages, and the very best American ham,
unless it be boiled in champagne or madeira,
is far from grateful to the European palate.
The same may be said of the bacon, although
the Americans persistently declare that more
than half the ham, bacon, and salt pork con
sumed in Europe is imported from the States.
Possibly the greatest part of It is eaten by
the peasantry and by the poorest class of the
laboring population. However scant may be
our pity for the potential collapse of several
most adventuous 1 pork “cornereis,” it cer
tainly seems hard on the farmers and pork
packers of the mighty West that their busi
ness should be suddenly paralyzed by dark
and distant rumors, probably without much
foundation, of infectious American pork im
ported into Europe.
ANCIENT WINE.
TUc King ofßavarla Empties Some Old
Cellam and Gets Gold.
London Telegraph, Feb. 21.
A London firm, it is said, lias bought from
ibe King of Bavaria—who lias become a re
crrant to Bacchus —certain .liquids of an
antiquity exceeding all but the oldest En
glish peerages. His Bavarian .Majesty is
rather celebrated for talcing his pleasure
solitarily, and it is something to his credit
that he does not extend this habit to vinous
indulgences. To listen, “you by yourself,
you,” to an opera is perhaps not out
of character with the Aristotelian
conception of magnificence, but to
drink Steinwein of 1540 in solitude would
be wicked. This exceedingly curious wine
is said to be included among the vanities of
which King Ludwig has disburdened him
self, and it is followed in the list by Lelsten
wein—a vineyard with which we profess no
acquaintance at first hand—of 1031, and then,
longo proximum intervallo, comes wine of
1811. The King is the fountain of honor, but
as even the Royalty cannot lengthen a pedi
gree, it is to be hoped that the “proofs” are
as clear as if the venerable bottles presented
themselves for admission to an orderof chiv
alry. The Steinweiu and the Leistenwein
must have survived many dangers. War is
an exceedingly thirsty business, and there
have not been wanting skeptics who have
doubted whether any ancient German wine
survived the French invasion of the
Revolutionary era, in which, on the au
thority of Alfred De»Musset, the petits vins
blancs of Germany were not ungrateful to
the soldiers of freedom. But the liquids in
Question had seen many vicissitudes before
the right? of man were heard of. The Prot
estants of the Schmalkaldic time are not
supposed to have been any more indifferent
to good wine than their master Luther. The
Thirty Years’ War was a period of terrific
consumption, and if on both these occasions
Bavaria was on the winning side and may
have known how to guard its cellars, the
same can not be said of the struggles of the
close of the seventeenth century. Our armies
and those of Holland, Prussia, and so forth;
after their exertions, vocal and other, in
Flanders—exertions directly tending to make
the throat dry—made terrible havoc of the
Elector’s dominions. But it is reasonable to
suppose that : a faithful butler may have
proved too much for the followers of John
of Mariborough.-
This cellar, if it be a fact, throws altogether
into the shade that famous one which was
the other day withdrawn from its natural
purpose in order to minister to Dr. Richard
son’s anti-Bacchic fancies; but, except as a
curiosity, it is doubtful whether it will prove
much more satisfactory. The testimony of
the few privileged persons who were admit
ted bn that occasion to “wake” the late Sir
Walter Trevelyan’s stores, sufficiently con
firmed the theory that wine can be too old, as
well as too new. But that cellar was an
eclectic one, and it included examples of
many wines—Cyprus, Tokay, Old Sack, Ma- -
deira, and so forth, which, both from their
place of growth and their manner of manu
facture,' were much better able to stand age
than the vintages of the Rhine. Even the
stoutest Hock becomes a wreck after a few
score years, and it is most probable that the
Steinwein of 1540 is either vinegar or else the
same sort of aromatic but colorless, bodiless,
and tasteless fluid which the few specimens
known of Kpman and Greek wines have
turnedout to be. There are, indeed, only three
sets of conditions in which wine will
keep much over a generation. It must either
be doctored with entirely foreign bodies such
as turpentine, salt, etc., as apparently Faler
nian was and the still elder Greek wines, or
it must contain an immense proportion of
sugar, or it must be brandied. In the two
latter cases, it may keep, it properly stop
pered, almost indefinitly: though wines orig
inally very sweet are apt to develop with ex
treme age a kind of bitter essence which is
hardly palatable. But the comparatively
modern habit of waiting until the grapes are
full of sugar before viutaging them is not
likely to have been pursued in 1540, and distill-
ed spirits were then far too rare, anti regarded'
too much as halt medicinal and half magical
prepanuiims, to he used in wine-making.
Therefore the persons who do not drink any
of these Itoyal Bavarian wines (and they are
likely to be a considerable majority of the in-
habitants of London) may console themselves
by the thought that they are not likely to lose
very much. In this instance it is but too
probable that the grapes will be very literally
sour,.except in the case of the ISU wines,
which may be allowed the benefit of a doubt.
It seems likely that though age in a more
or less modified sense has always been con
sidered a merit in wine, that ago has gener
ally been much less than most people
think. The hundred-year-old Falernian of
Trimachio was a mere caprice. The ordinary
standard of the time, or a time not far dis
tant, is much better given by Horace's speci
fication of Quadrimum as something out of
the common. Seventeen hundred years later
St. Evermond, in a very interesting dis
cussion of the merits of champagne.—not
yet a sparkling wiue,— speaks aa though the
vintage of each year was fit to be drunk in
the next It has been said that the great age
of some classical wines was probably con
nected with their process of manufacture,
and the same may be .said of foreign wines.
Only when under the influence of the
ifethuen treaty the strong wines of Portugal
began to be generally drunk in England
was very long keeping of wine possi
ble, and the practice of« bottling as
sisted this. For wine in the cask, or,
it may be added, in the porous amphora.
develops much more quickly than in
glass, and glass bottles did hot very early
become common, at least as articles of geu-
The taste for long bottled port
eral use.
communicated itself in some sort to claret
drinkers during the last century, and the re
sult was the loading of the wines of the
Gironde with Hermitage and other heavy
growths. But of late years the taste for com
paratively natural wines has set in again,
and shell wines will not keen nearly so long.
Perhaps the longest-keeping wine now made
is sherry, and it must be remembered that
the process of. making sherry, though quite
honest and wholesome, is in the highest de
gree artificial. The casks are kept in a warm
atmosphere, and they are perpetually filled
with fresh wine, so that the actual age of
sherry is never very easy to determine. The
modem Anslese hocks, which more directly
concerns the subject of the King of Bavaria’s
cellar, are made on the principle already al
luded to—of leaving the finest grapes of the
vine until the near approach of winter, and
they, wo, ought to keep. But on the whole,
the-change of . taste already alluded to,
the largely increasing consumption of wine
in non-winegrowing countries, and the
immense expense of keeping, make the
existence of very old bottled wine
more and more unlikely every year.
This last question of expense is a curious
one, and seems to be little thought of by
those who confidingly buy cheep wine said
to be of great age. Set most people know
that money doubles itself in fourteen years
at 5 per.cent,' and 5 per cent is not consid
ered a very magnificent trade profit: Those
who are great at the history of prices can
perhaps tell us what good hock would have
cost now in the year IMO, jjv multiplying
that sum to exactly the same power Mia Uw
famous legend about the horse, the nails
and the farthings, the fair commercial value
of the King ot Bavaria’s oldest wine roar he
arrived at. It is not on the whole likely that
the London hrm who have made this pur
chase have paid that price; but. if they have
not, it is evident that the particular Electoi
of blessed memory who laid in the wine
made a bad investment. He might fairly
reply that he did not count on having i
series of degenerate descendants, who would
first abstain from drinking the wine and
then would sell it. There was awful drink
mz at Laiisbon—close in the neighborhood—
during the seventeenth century, as we know
on the unexceptionable authority of Sii
Etherege; but this particular wim
Sliiiifi lr 9 e y rKe an(l 1,13 contemporaries
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