The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-09 00:00:00

THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

The visitors at the International Exhibition yesterday
were:—

By season tickets ..
By payment

Total

A ROMAN7IC HISTORY.

Ayonthful member of an aristocratic house, whose
beginning and end are alike fraught with interest,
has just paid the debt of nature. We allude to
Byron Noel, Viscount Ockhem, whose death took
place on Monday, the Ist instant, at Wimbledon
Hill, by the rupture of a blood vessel, at the early
age of 26 years. This young nobleman was the elder
of the two sons of the Right Hon. William, eighth
Lord King, who was raised to the earldom of Love-
lace at her Majesty's coronation in 1839, and is
Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the
county of Surrey. His mother was Ada, late
Countess of Lovelace, a lady of hereditary interest
far beyond the narrow pale of the peerage-roll, as
the only child of the poet Byron, the very Ada
whom Lord Byron so feelingly apostrophises in one
of the most passionate of his poems. His grand-
mother was the amiable and ill-starred
wife of the proud and haughty poet lord.
The heiress of the Noels was not happy in
her union with George Gordon, Lord Byron,
as all the world is aware; and perhaps the world at
large, far beyond the borders of Surrey, knows that
the inheritance to which the Lovelaces succeeded
has been less happy than most in respect of domestic
concord. At all events, those who have sojourned
in Vie neighbourhood of Ripley and Guildford are
aware that since the death of Ada, Countess of Love-
lace, the proud towers of East Horseley have not
held the heir apparent to the titles of his father and
of his grandmother; but that he has been living a
life from hand to mouth, well contented to earn his
daily bread as an artisan by the sweat of his brow
in a dockyard not a hundred miles from Black-
wall, rather than run riot in his father's lordly
halls. There seems to have been in the case of
young Lord Ockham a sort of hereditary Nemesis
—as classical writers would call it—which pursued
him, if not from the cradle, at least from his earliest
manhood, to the grave. At an early age ho entered
the Royal Navy, but left it after a few months'
service. The next that we hear of him is as a
common sailor; for it is a fact, though the
eldest son of a peer of the realm, he went out to
America in a merchant vessel, working his way be-
tore the mast. Tired of his newly-adopted profession,
the young lord assumes a new character, and next
turns up as a common workman in the shipyard of Mr.
Scott Russell, in the Isle of Dogs, where he took his
wages week by week, along with his plebeian bre.,'
hren. It was rumoured—and we knov; 'no% whether
the rumour be true or false—thatiiilst working in
the dockyard he had linked liiis fortunes with those
of a young woman of th.`' humbler classes, but of
most respectable character. If this be so, the lass
from Blackwell, or Stepney, or Poplar, is now a
peeress Vi England, and has a right to claim a
kiP upoa her cheek from her Majesty whenever
she may be " presented" at a " drawing-
room" at St. Ja:nes's ; and, possibly, Lord.
Exeter himself will no longer be able to boast
that he is the only son of a plebeian mother who
has a right to a seat in the House of Peers. In con-
elusion, we should remind our readers that the late
millwright at Blackwell was not only the eldest son
of a peer, but had been for the last two years a peer
of the realm in his own right, having succeeded to
the barony of Wentworth on the death of his ami-
able but unfortunate grandmother in the summer
of 1860.—Sunday Jimes.

MARKETS-THIS DAY,

HAY MARKETS.

SMITTIFIELD.--Meadow hay, £1 IGs to £5 Os; clover,
efit.ondiltsowrlasv, £1 16s to £2, Os per load.
request at our quotations.
CumunnnAND.—Mearlow hay, £1 16s to £5 Os ; clover,
£3 lOs to £5 15s ; and straw, £1 16s to £2, per load. Trade
do.,
Both hay
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WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £1 16s to £5 Os; clover,
do., £3 lOs to £5 15s • and straw, £1 IGs to £2 Os per
load. A steady demand.

COLONIAL.
TEA—There has been a very limited business transacted,
and prices have remained without material variation.
St-GAR—The market has been more active, and good and
fine descriptions have fully maintained previous prices. In
refined qualities a large business has been done.
COFFEE—A fair demand has been experienced for colo-
nial at fully late qualities ; inferior qualities of foreign,
however, have been a shade cheaper.
Ittcß—For the better qualities of East India there has
been more inquiry, and late prices are generally well sus-
tained.

SALTPETRE—A moderate amount of business has been
transacted, without, however, any material alteration in

value.

TALLOW—Business has been vory quiet for both present
and forward delivery. PYC on the spot is quoted 48s 3d ;
last three months, 49s 6d; and spring delivery, 49s 9d per
cwt.

In an article on the Polish school. at Paris the
Opinion Nationale has the following passage :—" The Mi-
nister of War recently decided that the sons of foreigners
born in France, and who would not be French, must show
that they have submitted themselves elsewhere to military
service. The effect of this measure has been to constrain
young men, who were little desirous of going to serve in
the armies of the countries of their origin, to take their
chance in the conscription of their adopted country."
THE CZAR NICHOLAS.—In the Prince Eugene
Obolenski's "Recollections of Siberian Exiles," a modest
and touching record of suffering, lately published at Leipsic,
we find a very characteristic anecdote of the late Czar. The
Prince Troubetzkoi had been exiled to Siberia, and his wife
had by extraordinary exertions gained from the Emperor the
great favour of sharing her husband's banishment. Subse-
quently the prince's lot was aggravated, and he was sent to
work in the salt mines of Nertschiask. When the princess
heard of this she and Princess Marie Volkousky beset the
authorities with the prayer to be allowed to share their
husbands' hard life. At last they were told they might de
so if they would sign an engagement to submit to all the
obligations imposed on convicts' wives. They were obliged
to renounce all their right of birth, they were deprived of
all communication with their relatives, they were to see
their husbands only when and where it might please the
authorities, and they were liable to menial duties, such
as washing floors and the like Services. On these condi-
tions alone were these two high-spirited ladies allowed to
join their husbands. Tho Princess Troubetskoi was
of French extraction, being the daughter of Count
Laval, an emigre, who settled in Russia. She had been
marrie l five years when her husband's catastrophe hap-
pened. Her union had been childless at Petersburg, but in
Siberia she bore five children, ono of whom is now Duchesse
de Morny. As her children were growing up, Princess
Troubetskoi caused a petition to be submitted to the Empe-
ror Nicholas that she might be allowed to have three of
them educated in some large town in Russia. The empe•
ror's distinct reply to the petition was, " The offspring of
convicts, being themselves convicts, always know enough,"