PERSONAL GOSSIP., V m wI The Countess of Crouiartle.♦ * - ' jA marriage is arranged between the Countess of j Cromartie and Major E. VV. Blunt, Royal Artillery.; The Countess of Cromartie is a peeress in her own right. Her grandmother, the first wife of the late Duke of Sutherland, was a descendant of th»» MacKenzies, Earls of Cromartie. a branch of the ancient and historic family of the MacKenzies ot Kiutail. The Duchess was succeeded in the Earldom of Cromartie by her second son. who died in 189', j leaving two daughters, the elder of whom, Sibell I Lilian Mackenzie, was, by letters patent granted in 1895, confirmed in the dignities enjoyed by her'father.i Crimmfltidpr of thp Oreanlr. 1