The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-10-26 00:00:00

THE BYRON CONTRovEmy.

That Lady Byron was under • delusion when she
made the st iteicent which Mrs. Stowe attribntes t her,
'here now seems to be really no ground for doubt.
In an nrticle which appears In the Qunrterly ReritlO
there ere several hitherto unpublished letters of Lady
Byron to Mrs. Leigh. which could never have been
weieten had Lady Byron at that time believed what
she talked of later. In one of teem aka assures
Auguota" that "I am ' Truth itself when I say that
whatever the situation may be, there ie no One whose
society is dearer to me, or can tantribuie more to my
happiness!' In &posher letter, written the day after
lady Byron left London for Kirby Mallory, mho says,
s' My dearest A., it is my great oeinfort that you are in
:" that is to say, with Lord Byron. A few
flops afterwards she again tells " Dearest A," " You
have been ever since I knew you my best comforter."
It is impossible to imagine that Lady Byron could have
written in tide way to " Auguste.," within • month of
her versa:alien fr m her husband, bad the cause of that
divorce been whet Mrs. Stowe describes.
The Hertford Coweenst of the 7th inst. contains the
following card from Mrs. Stowe :—To the editor of Lb.
Coeraist.—Mn. Stowe desires the friends of justice and
fele dealing to publish for her this anuouoceinent : That
oho has keit silence hereto/omin regard to the criticisms
on her article on Lady Byron for two reesons. Flret—
Because she regarded the public mind as in too excited
a state, to consider the matter dispsesionstely ; and,
second—Beesuse she has expected the developments of
additional proofs in England, sonic of which, of great
importance, have already come to hand. Mrs. Stowe
I. preparing a review of the whole matter, with farther
(wits anti more documents, lee/lading several letters of
Lady Byron to her, attesting the vigour and soundness
(.1 her mind at the period reforest to, and also Mrs.
Stowe's own letters to Lady Byron at the same tune,
which were returned to her by the executors soon after
that lady's death. She will also give the public • full
acenunt of the circumstances and reason. whicn led her
to feel it to be her duty to make this ilmalosure as an
obligation alike of justice, gratitude, and personal
Itrwiahip.

On of the New York parrs bowie of I female cattle

uporter.
le is said that Mr. Nicholl hu sold his mastiff,
"Turk." for I:4:V.—Pursue.
A vuxtreit inventor has taken out • patent for
"stockings s.ith garters attached."
Aff American paper confides te its readers the havers
tint fact that Napoleon wears no nightcap.
A tom; man tf good family in Paris, who got into
debt by living tos fast, "bolted "on Saturday with the
cashsbez and one of the beautic• of Mabille.
Is Wheeling, a few days ago, a photographer took the
picture of a well-known toper, am he was lying on the
sidewalk, and he was soon on exhibition in all the shop
windows. The inebriate signed the pledge..—Asurican
.1' ler.
It was noticed by those who bade adieu to Father
Hyacinthe ot, his leaving Path, thrt be bad abandoned
the cassock in favour of a long overcoat of black cloth
with • white turned down collar and • round hat:
Ptarauns have been post- d at Clapham containing
;he fatowies piquant invitation to worshippers at
" Bethesda Chanel "—"Nil: Wright, who before his
cohveraion aas convicted three times of burglary, will
deliver 3 ( kle14:1 address. Conic and wsloutue I No
collection !"
I .• Queer help recording a statement I heard positively
made by 11 member of a certain club, which shall be
nanclesr, that one candidate had been black balled
la cause "his wife dtopp7al her • Ws,' " and another
because "he was so ugly."— Correspondeltt of G &be.
FANNY Feats says: " If oneshalf the girls knew the
previous livee of the men they marry, the list of old
maids would be wonderfully Increased." Whereupon
the Bostou Pat asks, "If the men know what their
futon, n•es ware to be, wouldn't it lacrosse the list of
old. maids still further •:"

OLIAA, AT. n °JOT'S NNT AND PILL& - -Much vrateh•
!al, s. mod he osereised at the present tlme, and the
enrliest e•idences of ill health must be immediately
checked, oi a slight Ultima limy result in a serious
malady. littered sod sore throat, diphtheria, quitmy.
congha ellremie cougb, brosiebitia., end met other
f.ulmonam affections will be relieved by rubbing this ,
cling Ointment into ti.. !Ida ea bow sa prsetimble to !
the seat of misehlef mt. treatment. an simple and
Effective, ia adintrahle for the removsl of them dowses
during infancy and youth. Ohl •etheiatio invalids will
&dye marvelloas relief from the use of Hollaway'a
,rife. which hove brought roiled many soeh
'nffererr, and re-eltabliilad health atter over, other
;rine bid signally failed.