The Sun.
London, England, 1869-10-02 00:00:00

THE BYRON SCANDAL.

The Hartford Courant publishes a short article on the
Byron scandal, which is regarded by the American press as
a, communique from Mrs. Stowe. In explanation of Lady
Byron remaining with her husband after the discovery, or
at least after she had strong suspicions of his crime, the
writer says :—" The critics call this a slander upon Lady
Byron. General Butler calls it condoning crime. Yet if
any point is plain in Mrs. Stowe's paper, it is just this,
that it represents, and intends to represent, Lady Byron
as such a pure, chivalrous, religious woman, moved by as
divine a tenderness for her husband as a mother ever feels
for a ruined, sinful son, that she was capable of making
any personal sacrifice for him. This is the claim of Lady
Byron, whom plenty of contemporary testimony called
the-most saintly and noble woman in England. Perhaps the
world cannot yet comprehend such a character. Perhaps
it is more angelic than womanly. It certainly is excep-
tional. But it is not Mrs. Stowe's invention. It is her
representation of Lady Byron as she saw her and
knew her, and as others saw her." As to Mrs. Stowe's
alleged mercenary motives in the publication of this
story the Hartford Courant says :—" We are happy to be
able to say, as we are authorised to do, that Mrs. Stowe
received nothing more for this paper than she receives for
her ordinary contributions to The Atlantic, having, we pre-
sume, a fixed arrangement with the publishers. That
she did not write this for money, is evident to those
who know how pressed sho is with literary engagements
on all sides, and in a position, so to say, to name her own
terms of remuneration."

The Wolverhampton Free Library was formally
opened on Thursday by the mayor.
MOUNT ETNA.—Accounts from Catania of the
26th state that Mount Etna is in eruption on the eastern
side of the last cone. Two torrents of lava are descending
into the Valle di Buc. Hitherto no damage has been
done.

IRISH 'WIT.—Tt is in nnr perorailona we shine in
Ireland. "May the blessing of the Almighty Father
follow your honour all the days cf your life," whined the
old hag, as she trotted after the gentleman; and then,
seeing at last that her entreaty had not moved him, she
added, "and never overtake you! "—Ccradius O'Dowd, iii
Mack-wood.
Mr. Murray's new periodical, The Academy, of
which the first number will appear this day wcek, will
contain two important contributions to the Byron contro-
versy. One of them is a hitherto unpul lisped document,
written by Lord Byron, at Venice, in 1516, relating to his
separation from Lady Byron; the other is an authentic
narrative of the circumstances under which Lord Byron's
autobiography was destroyed.—Daily News.
BUSINESS AND RELIGION.—During the period of
a religious excitement in Boston, a person met a Christiar
neighbour, who took him by the hand and said, " I have
become a Christian." " I am glad of it," he replied ;
" suppose we now have a settlement of that little account
between us. Pay me what thou owest." " No," said the
new-born child, turning on his heel; "religion is religion,
and business is business."

VELOCIPEDE POSTMEN.—The Journal des Poster
states that a ccmrcittee nominated by the Administration
cf the French Post Office has examined some new models
of velocipedes for the use of the rural postmen, and
that it has adopted one with three wheels very ingeni-
ously constructed. A mechanism worked by the hands
enables this vehicle to ascend the steepest incline.
There is also a place behind for carrying a box
or portmanteau of moderate size. The inventor is an en-
gineer of Perigueux. The great defect in the velocipede is
thus overcome.

THE MAN AND THE DOG.—A. Mr. 11. Chester, a
solicitor, 69 years of age, too old, we should think, for an
expert climber, has lost his life in the attempt to take a
dog up the Lyskamm, a mountain near Z3rroatt and no t
to llonte Rosa. He had two guides with him, to whom ht
was tied by ropes, and a little dog. The dog fell over a ledge,
and ho, leaning over to look after it, fell and dragged his
guides with him over a rocky precipice, and over a slope
of snow many hundred feet in length. Mr. Chester just
survived the fall and then died. The guides, though terribly
bruised and injured, survived, and are likely to recover
What could havo induced Mr. Chester to take a dog with
him up a difficult mountain ascent? He raid on the pre-
vious day at the table d'hôte that "he had no one depen-
dent on him"--perhaps he meant excepting the dog, and
was resolved to live or dig with it. If so, it was really a
°remarkable" case of fidelity en the part of the man to the
dog—a rare set-off to the innumerable cases of fidelity or
the part of the dog to the man.

TRADE OtiTRAGES.—An outrage on the property
of chainmakers was committed on Thursday morning at
Crudley, near Stourbridge, where the manufacture of
chains is carried on to a large extent. There is a row cf
chainmakers' shops at High-town, Crudley, in the occu-
pation of John Raybould, John Robinson, Tidal Pearson,
and Edward Dallow and others, and the shops of the
above four were forcibly entered early in the morning of the
30th ult., and a good deal of malicious damage was in-
flicted. In John Raybould's shop seven pairs of large
bellows were destroyed, the leather being cut all to pieces;
in Robinson's three; in Pearson's, four; and in Dal-
low's, two. There has been a movement among the chain,.
make's recently for an advance of wages, and the
men who have been working at the lower rates appear to
have rendered themselves obnoxious to the others. This
may serve to explain the outrage, so far as Robinson,
Pearson, and Dallow are concerned, but Raybould has been
working at an advance. It is suggested that the nocturnal
visit to his shop was a mistake, and that another person
was intended to be the sufferer.

RIBBON OUTRAGE IN TIPPERARY:
A brutal
attack has been made on a labouring man named John
O'Hara. and his wife, who reside at Glencarbery, county
Tipperary. Two men with blackened faces entered
O'Hara's cabin lato in the evening, when the poor man was
eating his supper, and, without any remark, commenced to
beat him with stout cudgels having heavy iron ferules.
They next attacked the wife, who was sitting at the fire
when they came in, with a young child in her arms.
The man got fourteen dangerous cuts on the head, and
his skull was fractured in two places. The woman got
three cuts on the head, and her right hand, with which
she endeavoured to ward off the blows from her child, is
quite disabled. Both husband and wife are in a most

precarious condition. It is a general opinion that O'Hara
and his wife were beaten in mistake for others. Strangers,
it is said, were emploped to beat a certain person, to
prevent him attending court to prosecute in a case that is
pending, and the hirelings mistook the house of O'Hara
for that of the real object of the attack. Tho people in
the neighbourhood will not give the police any inforragio4
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