The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-09-07 00:00:00

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guilty ; and where did he OA it?
Meer plaid LAMM] ! thy conuseed lake,
With the wild world I dwelt in, is a Using
Which minis me with its Milne. to (meths
lie°onee" mw.wangtedn°4l6"• simS:hflampeaminN willaPiPtlrmss " bave
ale..tesee.
Earth's troubled waters for a punt spring.
TMs quiet mil Isass noiseless wing
To waft me from detraction ; once I lored
Tom Ocean's rose, but thy sun murmuring
sounds meet as ifs Sistwor VO.O. mooed
TAM I with shwa IWO& rhombi e'er haw bons so mosed."
He never had bat one sister, and yet his unquenchable
notion of Sister was one who lures a brother from
"stern delighte. He would perforce Wive aseasiated
her with one who lured to them, if this horriais
ie
soulrl for one moment be admitted.
The writer believes there was • time it may be mo.
after Lady Braes separation from her husband, whew
; the really believed he had an inormtuous intrigue with
his sister, that be refused to abandon it. and drove her
from him became "she personated conscieses," and ia
; elder that be might follow out the guilty pia°, that
wee *ensnaring him, but contends that it wss &complete
bolluoination ou her part first suggested to her by her
I desire to account for his other alleged treatment of her
by ,
nasty rummer by her resolve never to live with bin
epin or byai all i
three
time.
tioorn.bithisedg, ...l.fdottm, ni
eludlucins.
ties yle must
be
the true account of Be origin. If it took its rim later
en, the matter becomeesimpler still. Humour, fostered
by Lady Byron' dogged Aimee, attributed every crime
oonoeivable to her htuitiand—ineest, it would seem among
the number; and onee Mins powered of the hallucina-
tion, every word and incident in BOn'S Plat and
fattiest life would but strengthen it. 111 Stows credits
Lady Byron with • "enparnatund sense of moral
divination," and it is rialto clear that Mrs. Btoire's
catalogue of Lady Byron's qualities was obtained from
Lady Byron hermit. This belief in a supernattual sense
of divination would nati.rally make her infallible in her
own eyes. Then came "Manfred '." then come "Cain r
then Game the stelae' to Augusta; and Lady Myron,
arguing like tire. Stowe—end no doubt Mrs. Slows we
the argument from Lady Byroo—would feel that any-
body who reed them with the belief that Lord Spoil
had committed Mast with his sister, would see plainly
that be must have done so. The hallocillation wosia
grow with yearr, until—crowning statement of all
Lady Byron's supeinatural sense of moral &ideation
enabled her to know that a ehild of Mrs. Leigh's was
"an unfortunate child of sin, born with • eerie rwon
her, mil with abnormal propensitim toevuts tt,.- and
to pick it out and watch over it till death took the
responsibility out of her hands. Here we reach thei
climacteric of the fabulous. Of Mrs. Leigh herself it Is
; said that she looked to Lady Byron in her last mil:knew
I and dying hours for soniuslation and help; and Ponds-
der ng that she was left by her husband in eomparativia
poy,rty—she bed_apartmenta in Bt. James's Palace—we
think she was fully entitled to them. We can further
easily understand how Lady Byrne, the victim of
hallucinatioo, and of • decidedly pious temperament,
would enjoy heaping "oasis of fire on the unoonsmous
heed of so terrible • sinner.
Were there even DO other evidence than that of hi
writings to rebut the charge of his bating his wife and
labouring by brutality to get rid of her in order to gratify
an incestuous passion for his sister, they alone would
Amid like impenetrable guardian spirits between ha
grave and the abominable aspersion Mrs. Stowe sualas
' every nerve to inscribe on it. The story, as we have,
seen, besides brimming over with pose
is full of utterly irreeonoileable inconsistencies., and is
born with the stamp of death upon it. To the end of
time Byron and his verse will be among the most
cherished possessions of mankind; and if Posterity '
deigns to preserve the memory of this fool fable in COP- .
section with his name, it will be only to remember that
it was penned by an American writer of Romances,
published bye illegasine mimes, hat in need of notoriety,
accepted at once and without a guano'. by • leading
newspaper during "the silly semen," but sitar due
scrutioy and just reflection entirety repudiated by the
definitive voice of an offended people.

Lady Byron's descendants and representatives entire!,
and absolutely disclaim all eotintenance of the ?apes Pub-
lished in /lanai/lines Magazine purporting tobe "Th.
True Story of Lady Byron's Life." We are now authorita-
tively informed that "Lady Byron did, by her last willand'
testament, executed • few day. only before her decease,
bequeath to tines persons as trustees, all bet mane
-
scripts. to be by them first sealed up, afterwards de-
poaited in • bank in the names of such trustees, and she
directed that so one else, however nearly connected with
her, should, upon any plea whatever, be allowed to have
access to, or to inspect such documents, which the
trustees thereof were alone to make use of.. they might
judge to be best for the isterests of her grandchildren."
Mrs. Beecher Stowe is not one of these trustees, and it
follows that her paper is entirely gratuitous and mum-
thnrised.
The Pall Mall says it will be observed that Messrs.
Wharton and Fords, in their carefully composed letter,
make no charge of material inaccuracy against
Stowe, but dwell on the incompleteness of herstatemeat.
It is to be inferred that substantially Mtn. Stowe's state-
ment is correct, and that more remains to be told ; worse
cannot be behind. It is believed that the additional
itifortqation in their possession is chiefly of seta of.
violence by Lord Byron.

TR! English agricultural implement makers were
highly successful at the great agricultural exhibition
which hu been held at Santiago under the auspices of
the Chilun Government From the official prize list
it will be seen what an overwhelming proportion of
reward. and distinetioos fell to the share of the British.
exhibitor.. The Crud Prise, gold medal and E 180,.•
Rusomes, Sims, and Head, for the beet oollection
agricultural machinery. Steam thrashing machine
First prize, gold medal and £lOO. Busomes, Sims, and
Head ; second prise, gold medal and LSO, J. Bradley
(Pitt'. American system) ; third prize, gold medal, Roby
and Co. Best portable steam engine. : First prise,
gold medal, Rardiomes. Sims, and Head ; wend prize,
gold medal, Clayton. Shuttlewortb. and Co.; third prize
gold medal, Ruston, Proctor, and Co. For cotlestion of
plough.: Special prize, gold medal, Messrs. J. and F.
Howard and Rana:met Sims, and Read. General
purpose plough : First prise, Ransomes, Sires, and.
Head; second prir?, Hornsby and Sons; third prize,
J. and F. Howard. 'tapers : First prize, Hornsby
and Sons; second prize, Samuelson and Co. Harrow.:
First prize, J. and F. Howard. First prize,
Hornsby and Sons ; second prize, Garrett and Sons.
Corn mill; First prize, Ruston, Proctor and CO. ;
second prize Ransomes, Sims, and Head.—Pall Moll
I Gazette. . .

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expected the telegrAphs will be in the hands of the
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pram at Act, and the chief object now sought is to give
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required to enable the Post.nastereGenersl to carry into
effect the arrangements be is making. These are few
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