The Fingall Succession

The Earl of Fingall, recently givei. miich nev.'spaper prominence in Lonlon, who is the head of the great Irish house of Plunkett, has been one of the sufferers through the depreciation of Irish property, and about a couple of years ago was compelled to sell to a New York merchant, bred as a peasant on the Fingall estáte, his ancestral county seat, Killeen Castle, in County Meath. Lord Fingall is quite a young nan, being 35 years of age, and he holds the heieditary office of State Steward to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Having no son, but only a little girl 2 years :)f age, his earldom, which is one of the oldest peerages in Ireland, will, ifter his death, pass to his uncle, neriy an omcer in tne army, dui now i Roman Catholic priest engaged in missionary work in those very goldraining settlements of Australia which have proved so disastroua to nis nephew; and after the missionary's death the earldom will pass on to Sir Francis Plunkett, now British Envoy at Brussels, and who, like so mafty other foreign diplomáis, has married an American girl, the daughter of Mr. Charles W. Morgan, of Philadelphia. -