The Sun.
London, England, 1869-10-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 19, 1869.

1757. H O'S GRAINGER? LICENSED
VICTUALLERS' TOBACCONIST, SHEPHERD'S-BUSH.
The SPORTING EDITION of "THE SUN" can be seen at
GRAINGER'S Establishment, as above, every evening by Eight
o'clock.

HE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN,"
Ig giving all the SPORTING NEWS of the day, may be seen
at JEM IVY MA NTON'S house, "The Swan and Horse Shoe,"
Little Britain, City, E.C.

riiE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN "
supplied, as soon as published, Every Evening, by W
ALEXANDER (late Brooks), Newspaper Agent, No. 4, Old
Cavendish street, Oxford-street

THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN "
may be seen at Eight o'clock every Evening at Mr. J.
NEWFORTS% the Oxford Arms, High-street, Camden-town.

THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN "
supplied as soon as published, every Evening, by. S.
WILSON, newsagent, and special agent for the North-western
district, 24, Delancey-street, Camden-town, N.W.

THE SUN.—LATEST EDITION to be seen
every Evening, at Eight o'clock, at Mg GILLMAN'S, " The
Wheatsheaf," High-street, Camden-town.

THE LATEST or SPECIAL EDITION of
"THE SUN" every Evening, at Eight o Clock, at Mr
ROBERTS', "The Black Cap," High-street, Camden-town.

THE LATE EDITION of " THE SUN " at
J. SMITH'S. 39. Boer-street, Covent-garden.

TIHE LATE EDITION of "THE SUN" at
It W. SMITH'S " Camden Stores," 78, Park-street, Camden

town.

MITE LATE EDITION of " THE SUN' at
1_ JAMES SPEEDY'S, "The Wellington,"Wellington-etreet,
3 rand.

FOR THE AUTUMN & WINTER SEASONS
E. MOSES and SON have made preparations,
on an unusually large scale, in every depart-
ment of their business. For trades and ad-
dresses. see following advertisement.

A RARE COMBINATION.
The RARE COMBINATION of EXCEL-
LENCE with CHEAPNESS will be found
in every .article sold by E. MOSES and SON.
Every description of Clothing ready made,
m• made to measure, for all ages, and all
.lasses.
Commodious apartments for measuring
Ind fitting in the spacious and elegant Show
tlooms, which contain a very large and diver-
sified stock of materials.
For the convenience of Ladies accompany-
ing their Sons there is a distinct department
for Young Gentlemen's Clothing.
Orders by Post are attended to with care
and punctuality, and the easy and accurate
'system of self-measure introduced by E.
MOSES and SON enables them to guarantee
a faultless fit.
Orders front persons who are not known to
the firm should 1.0 accompanied by a remit-
tanee, or a London reference.
Any article not worn or injured will be
,heerfully exchanged, or, if desired, the
nonev will be returned.
All' Goods are marked in Plain Figures,
from which no abatement• can be made.
The Stock of Hosiery and Drapery, Hats
tnd Caps, and Boots and Shoes, is un-
equalled for magnitude, variety, and cheap-
ness.
Complete Outfits for all Climates, with
every requisite for the voyage.
Lists of Prices, with Rules for Self-mea-
sure, Patterns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and
post-free.
E. MOSES and SON'S Establishmonts
are closed every Friday evening at sunset till
Saturday evening. at sunset, when business
s resumed until eleven o'clock.
E. MOSES and SON, Ready-made and Be-
snoke Tailors, Habitmakers, Woollen drapers,
Hatters, Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Manufac-
turers, and General Outfitters for all
Classes.
'rite following are the only addresses of E. MOSES
nd SON:—
LONDON.
CITY ESTABLISHMENT,
155, MINORIES
1:56, MINORIES

157, MINORIES
83, ALDGATE
ALDGATE
ALDGATE
ALDGATE
R 7. ALDGATE
88. ALDGAT
49, ALDGATE

OXFORD-STREET BRANCH.
50G NEW OXFORD-STRE!,T
%07, NEW OXFORD STREET
.08, NEW OXFORD-STREET
1, HART-STREET
2, HART-STREET
3, HART-STREET

TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD BRANCH.
137, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD
138, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD
/83, EUSTON-ROAD.

Country Branch:
19, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS.
20, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS.

THE " SINGER" SEWING MACHINES.
THE " NEW FAMILY"
SEW THE LOCK-STITCH AND THE NEW EMBROIDERY-

STITCH.
Work by Hand and Treadle, and in a Portable Case
for Travelling.

THE g, SINGER " SEWING MACHINES
ARE WORLD-RENOWNED AS THE BEST SYSTEM
AND THE MOST COMPLETE, WITH NEW IMPROVEMENTS
FOR EVERY CLASS OF SEWING.
The p tuliar simplicity of these Machines enables any one to
require their perfect use in a few hours.
Illustrated Price Lists post free

ME "SINGER" MANUFACTURING COMPANY
Chief Office in the United Kingdom:
147, CHE APSIDE.

THEATRE-ROYAL DRURY-LANE.
gole Lessee s.n,l 7tianafrer, Mr. F. B. Chatterton.
Tins EVENING, at 7, BELLES OF THE KITCHEN. At 8,
FORMOSA : Messrs. Barrett, H Irving, David Fisher, Brittain,
Wright, John Rouse: Mrs Billington, Misses M. Brennan, Mac-
donald. and Katharine Rodgers. Conclude with BORROWED
PLUM ES

THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.
THIS EVENING, at 7, TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING
Mr A shley, Mr, Stephenson, and the Misses Harris. Followed
by LOST A T SEA: Mr A. Stirling, Mr G. Belmore, Mr E.
Atkins, Mr Beveridge, Mr Stephenson, Mr Smith, Mr Romer;
Miss Rose Leelereq, Miss Eliza Johnstone, Miss Lennox Grey,
Mrs Leigh Murray And DOMESTIC ECONOMY: Or G.
Belmore and Mrs L Murray.

41 4.1.
j;54 1.14416

it appears in the newly-published number of the
Quarterly. It is complete, and it is conclusive. It
demonstrates, as with the clearness of a syllogism, the
utter groundlessness, the absolute impossibility of the
infamous charge brought against the second greatest
poet of England. A charge brought, not only against
him, but against a lady of blameless life and spot-
less reputation. It chews that the tenderest
intimacy subsisted between Lady BYRON and the Hon.
AUGUSTA LEIGH, not only throughout the period of
thirteen months during which Lord BYRON and his
wife were living together, but immediately after their
separation from each other—a separation arising
purely and solely out of the one (sufficient) cause
of incompatibility. It realizes far more even than
this—it actually realises, not merely by dates and
arguments adduced in startling juxtaposition, but by
the irrefragable testimony of a mass of documentary
evidence, never before published, that Lady
BYRON and the Hon. AUGUSTA LEIGH were conti-
nually, during all the years that followed the se-
paration of the former from her husband,
the custodians and fosterers to the very last—until,
in fact, one of them died—of that same tender inti-
macy which preceded the date of the separation, and
which, instead of being diminished or loosened by that
separation, appears to have been thereby more
securely and more closely knit. together. Lady
BYRON'S letters—of various dates—are thus brought
triumphantly in evidence against the whole of Mrs.
STOWE'S monstrous argument—letters addressed
to Mrs. LEIGH by Lady BYRON, and in
which Lady BRYAN writes to Mrs. LEIGH
always as her " Dearest AUGUSTA," or in some
similar term of sisterly endearment. How, now,
about the " hour of revelation "—about the
" guilty paramour"—about the Incestuous Adulte-
ress? Lady BYROX under her own hand—address-
ing herself, again and again, to the cruelly-maligned
half-sister of her husband—is, unintentionally, her-
self, the triumphant vindicator (from this hideou a
charge of incest) of the noble poet's (in this par-
ticular) unsullied reputation ! Lady BYRON, by
those letters of hers, addressed at intervals,
during a long series of years, to Mrs. LEIGH as
her " Dearest AUGUSTA," gives the lie direct to
Mrs. BEECHER STOWE'S atrocious narrative. Talk
of appealing from PHILIP drunk to PHILIP
sober It has nothing to this appeal from Lady
BYRON'S maundering and morbid hallucinations of
thirteen years ago, hallucinations which were whispered
into the ears of the credulous Yankee Magazine-
writer, to be afterwards shamefully trumpeted by the
latter, as so many Gospel truths, for so much (par-
ticularly) filthy lucre—this startling appeal by
the Quarterly to Lady BYRON'S own (fortu-
nately preserved) Correspondence. Supposing that
most unhappy woman to have really told
Mrs. STOWE, in confidence, what the latter,
with an atrocious breach of that confidence has
told the two hemispheres—the only conclusion we can
possibly come to, holding in our hand these letters
of Lady BYRON'S, addressed by her to Mrs. LEIGH as
her " Dearest AUGUSTA," the only conclusion we can
come to in the light of those letters—now, thank
heaven, laid before the world by the Quarterly Re-
viewer—is, that thirteen years ago, Lady BYRON was
labouring under a horrid, morbid, monstrous,
hallucination. That was our instantly avowed
opinion directly Mrs. STOWE'S intollerable
" True Story" came into our hands in
an early issue of the number of Macmillan's Maya.
zinc for September. We then, at once, de-
clared it to be a charge springing out of a horri-
ble craze or hallucination on the part of Lady
BYRON. And we did so in the very first publication
of our journal after we bad had the pain of reading
Mrs. STOWE'S unwomanly, execrable, and wholly
unjustifiable narrative. That narrative appear-
ing before the English public on the first
of last September, we denounced, as utterly un-
true, in He Sun of Monday, the 30th of
August. That conclusion we have since insisted
upon, and maintained by arguments, in a series of
leading articles, of which the present one is the
eleventh. Now that Mr. MURRAY'S Quarterly has
spoken, and has spoken, too, thus decisively and
conclusively, nothing remains for us but to add—that,
in the name of public decency, Mrs. STOWE and her
supporters in this country supporters of such __emi-
nence, we grieve to say, as the Saturday Review—
should at once come forward and make what repara-
tion they possibly can, by means of an honest
apology and retractation.

THE relations between Assurance Companies and
the law are bad enough already, and the decision
of Vice-Chancellor JAkrEs in the case of the
European is not likely to improve them. That
he dealt out sound law in his judgment on
Friday there is no reason to doubt, and his verdict
seemed to be popular enough from the applause it
met with in court ; but it raises one very serious
consideration. The VicE-CHANcELuou, was asked to
wind up the company on the ground, in the first place,
that it was unable to pay its debts. But it was
shewn that no creditor who had actually applied for
his due had been denied it. There is no certainty
that the office will continue to meet its claims, and
the company's own statements testify that a large
number of liabilities will fall due within the next three
months. But it was answered that there was much
capital remaining uncalled, that the shareholders
forward. The Court
might in case of
ehmadergemneety demand, and and
of Chancery has power to wind up
insolvent com-
panies, but the VICE-CHANCELLOR laid down that
the insolvency must be actual, not contingent ; the
court could interfere only when the company was
unable to pay money really due, not when it was only
probable that obligations not yet ripe would be
dishonoured. On this point the petition was dis-
missed. It had another bearing. The court was
asked to wind up the company on the ground
that it was just and equitable so to do; but
this request shared the fate of the former. The
petitioners argued that the concarn had been very
badly managed. It had little or no reserve, whereas
it ought to have a million. Large sums—£243,ooo in all
—had been spent in buying business, or, in other words,
had been thrown away. Claims were rapidly coming in.
But, on the other hand, there was again the uncalled
share capital. The Vice-Chancellor agreed that if
the assets had been proved to -be less than the
liabilities, according to their worth at the present
time, he would have granted the petition. This
however, had not been shewn. There was the capi-
tal to fall back upon, and this ought to be sufficient
to stave off the worst.

The result may be well. Great care may yet retrieve
the undoubtedly falling fortunes of the European,
and the directors nave received a lesson which
ought to induce them to exercise caution. But,
on the other hand, the result may be disastrous.
The business may proceed, as the petitioner's case
put it, only to the destruction of the sole assets out
of which the liabilities of the shareholders can be
discharged, or the claims of the shareholders
realised. The grave consideration which this
case raises, and it is obvious enough, is that the
claims upon an assurance company are mostly con-
tingent, and yet no firm can be wound up in Chancery
except through its inability to pay debts actually
due. Very few of an assurance office's liabilities
may have fallen in at Any given time,
though it may be hopelessly insolvent. And
thus people may be called upon to continue paying
their premiums for an indefinite length of time after
the company is unable to refund the policies. In short,
this case raises the • old grievance : life assurance is a
peculiar business, resembling no other, and yet the
rules of the ordinary commercial law are made appli-
cable to it,

TRADE AND FINANCE

SAI'tIIDAY EVE:SDP:I

The New York press has been greatly exercised by the
recent panic in the gold market. The subject has been
variously discussed, and the action of Mr. Boutwell has in
many quarters been severely criticised. We read, however,
of few suggestions in regard to the prevention of such panics
for the future, the difficulty being apparently accepted as a
necessary evil. It seems to us, however, that while the
difficulty cannot be altogether obviated, it might be much
modified were the United States Government to adopt
some more rational mode of conducting their
financial arrangements. The action of the Govern-
ment has by a certain party been much condemned.
It is argued that by interfering the Government have
given to what was merely a contest between two bodies of
speculators, both equally unscrupulous, a character of na-
tional importance. It must not be forgotten, however,
that the Government created the gold market by
demanding the payment of the import duties
in coin, and thus causing a daily demand
for gold, and it may reasonably be argued that
the Government are responsible for the evils which sprung
into existence with the premium itself. It may be re-
marked that the transactions which passed through the
Gold Exchange Bank are chiefly of a speculative character,
for while the transactions ordinarily represent a total of
between one and two hundred millions of dollars, the
actual amount of Lend fide sales is not above two
or three millions of dollars. The daily necessities of the
merchants, however, have caused the gold market to
assume an importance which is not justified by the extent of
the legitimate transactions which take place in it, but gold,
having lost its distinctive character as a circula.ting medium,
would become a mere article of commerce, is naturally
highly sensitive in value, and affords the most favourable
opportunities for speculators. The gold premium is very
high—ordinarily about 33 per cent.—but there is no reason
to believe that gold is becoming scarcer in the United
States. In point of fact the presumption is rather the
other way. But the great fault of American finance lies
with the Government. The United States Treasury have no
banker, and owing to the fact of the interest on a consider-
able portion of their debt being paytble in gold, they
naturally feel compelled to keep a largo stock of coin in
reserve. Before Mr. Boutwell's heavy sale of five millions of
dollars there were upwards of twenty millions of dollars lying
idle in the Treasury. It is to be noticed that this reserve is
completely withdrawn from the market and is lying alto-
gether idle. The withdrawal of so largo an amount of
gold cannot fail to have a very important influence upon
the gold market, and must undoubtedly tend to raise the
gold premium. It may reasonably be concluded that
if the United States Government were to adopt
the plan of having a banker, as is the case
with the other leading commercial States, the matter
would assume a very different aspect. The Act of Congress
which allows the use of the national banks as depositories
of the national funds is still in force, and it is difficult to
understand why advantage is not taken of it, especially
when trade generally is suffering hem the want of a
reserve of gold. Had the amount of twenty millions of
dollars been in the hands of the banks, such a panic as that
of which the particulars have lately come to hand would
have been entirely out of the question, nor would any
body of speculators have been able to assume so great
a control over the market. We aro aware that
the American Government feel it advisable to
hold a large cash reserve, in order to convince foreign
holders of their bonds of their perfect solvency, but in the
present state of their credit this is almsst an excess of
caution.

Lady Mordaunt is said is to be more hopelessly de-
ranged than over; and Mrs. Vivian remains in Paris,
having, the John Bull hears, declined the Marquis of Water-
ford's offer of marriage.

A correspondent of the Northern Whig states that
Mr. Nicholson, of Balrath, who was fired at in his carriage
some days since, when his coachman and female relative
were shot, has determined to sell his farm and leave the
country, and that two hundred labourers have been already
discharged.

The actuary of the Penny Savings' Bank, at Heck-
mondwike, a Mr. Eversden, who is also master of the Town's
School, has disappeared with above £lOO belonging to the
bank. Ho has also embezzled other BUMS of money, one
being the balance left in his hands as treasurer of a Work-
ing Men's Club.

The colliery at Wigan reported on fire on Sunday
is still in a dangerous state. Thinking that the measures
adopted had put the fire out the men ventured into the pit
on Thursday, but were driven out again by the smouldering
coal, and the pit was again closed, and will have to remain
so for a week or two.

The last sitting of the Bridgwater Commission has
teen held for granting certificates of indemnity to the wit-
nesses. After deliteration a certificate was granted to liogg.
and Prior, who were instrumental in getting .CT,OO spent in
bribery for Kinglake at the last elevtion. Mr. Lovibond,
Liberal lawyer, was refused a certificate. The commis-
sioners adjourned to Westminster until the 2d of November.
At the Belfast Police-court, on Friday, a prosecu-
tion, which is probably the first instituted under the Mer-
chant Shipping Act, was heard. The owner of the Wonder,
a steamer plying between Donaghadee and Portpatrick, was
summoned for carrying passengers on the 9th of September
without the duplicate of certificate required by the Board
of Trade. The case, after some evidence had been adduced,
was adjourned.

The South London Press says that a new system of
strategic house robbery has come into fashion in South Lou-
don. The lady of the house is tempted out by a ruse to visit
a Neighbour's residence, when the robber enters her abode,
and if confronted by the servant or any other person left in
the house, feigns to bo intoxicated, and then suddenly
makes his escape. If no inmates are found, the plunder is
rapidly proceeded with.

The revising barrister for Reigate on Friday struck
out the whole of the claimants who appeared in the Report
of the Parliamentary Commissioners appointed to inquire
into corrupt practices in the borough of Reigate (1866) to
have been bribed. The Mayor, who said he was personally
interested in the decision, contended that the revising bar-
rister was exceeding his authority. The latter intimated
his willingness to grant a special case for the Queen's
Bench.

A court-martial has been sitting at Woolwich for
the trial of Sergeant Grimes, of the Royal Artillery brass
band, for drunkenness and for lending money at high inte-
rest to the men and boys under his control on security of their
pay. The charge of drunkenness was dismissed; but Ser-
geant Grimes was found guilty of two charges of usury, and
sentenced to be reduced to the ranks and sent to his duty as
a common soldier. Ho has volunteered for India, and will
be sent out with the first draught.

Professor Fawcett regards an Irish land bill as a
necessity for next session. Addressing a Liberal meeting
in Warwick, he said that a moderato land bill could be
passed with Conservative support; but it would not settle
the question, and would not pacify Ireland or meet her just
demands. In a few years there would be an English land
question to settle. Our laws ought not to foster artificially
the creation of largo landed properties, and our laws of
primogeniture and the restrictions on the sale of land ought
o be abolished.

Lord North Rook's Committee held a sitting on
Wednesday at the War-office, and examined Lieutenant-
General Forster, Lieutenant-General Lord William Paulet,
and Lieutenant-General Sir J. Hope Grant, with reference
to the proposed reconstruction of the Military Head-Quarter
Establishments. It is said that the "economists" aro bent
311 eliminating the military element to a considerable extent,
and would seek to condense the offices of Military Secretary,
Adjutant-General, and Quartermaster-General in one
"Chief of the Staff."

ALARMING BOAT ACCIDENT OFF BRIGHTON.—
An accident of a very alarming character occurred on Sun-
day off Brighton. Every visitor to Brighton is acquainted
with the four large pleasure sailing yachts which make
daily trips from the beach at the bottom of West-street,
the point to which every excursionist wends his way
immediately upon arriving in the town. On Sun-
day, the Sea Lark, one of the largest of this
class of boats, started about noon with something
like thirty passengers on board. After going a short dis-
tance to the eastward she was put about and run down
off Brunswick-square, and was returning to her station
when everyone on board was alarmed by a shock which
shook her from stem to stern. It was immediately dis-
covered that she was filling rapidly, a large hole having
been knocked in her starboard bow, which had come in
contact with a pile connected with the Western Outfall
Works. The alarm increased to a panic, but the master
and his crew behaved with great coolness and presence of
mind. They immediately set every stitch of canvas they
had with them, and made for the shore, from which they
were nearly half a mile distant ; but the passengers
shrieked and waved hats and handkerchiefs. Their cries
fortunately attracted the attention of the promenaders
upon the esplanade. The yacht was then fast settling down;
her low position in the water, which was then level with
the gunwale, indicated that something, was wrong. Several
boats immediately put off, and several of the passengers
were taken off, others jumped over and were picked up;
and, thus lightened, the vessel gradually drew towards the
shore, where by this time two or three thousand persong
had gathered together. The remainder of those on board
were safely got out, some of them in a very exhausted
state, produced by fright. Everyone on board was saved.
Luckily, the wind was off land, or the consequences would
aye boon salmi.

TIIE "QUARTERLY _REVIETV" ON. TEL

BYRON CONTROVERSY.

The new number of the Quarterly Review contains an
elaborate article on the controversy raised by Mrs. Stowe's
"True Story of Lady Byron's Life." The Reviewer writes'
in a atyle of which the present generation has had little
experience, that of the slashing pamphleteer. Ile begins
by apparently repudiating the plea put forward by some
of Byron's defenders that the poet's works are to be
judged of apart from his life; the "fair fame" of
Lord Byron is dear to the admirers of his genius,
and "to weaken his moral character is to lower
his literary reputation." On the next page, however,
ho leaves this strong ground, and asks, " Are we not to
relish Rousseau? because, whilst expatiating on parental
love, ho sent his illegitimate children to a foundling
hospital, or Alfieri, because he committed adultery with
Lady Ligonier." With these feelings t'he writer proceeds
to " take Childe Harold and Don Juan out of quarantine,
and fumigate them for family use." The Quartes/y
Reviewer has some substantial contlibutiens to make, not,
perhaps, to a solution of the Byron mystery, but to the
defence of Lord Byron against Mts. ..,Aowe's particular
charge. They consist of letters written by Lady Byron to
Mrs. Leigh, the poet's sister, long after the date of
which, according to Mrs. Stove's narrative, Lady
Byron had become aware of the incestuous con-
nection between her husband and that lady. Of the
letters now published for the first time, we are told:—
The first, not dated, was evidently written by Lady Byron
in January 1810, shortly before she left for Kirby Mallory,
her sister-in-law being then under the same roof with her.
Mrs. Leigh remained with Lord Byron in Piccadilly for
several weeks after the departure or Lady Byron; and only
left him when she found she could be of no further use to
either party. "You will think me very foolish, but I have
tried two or three times and cannot talk to you of your de-
parture with a decent visage—so let me say one word in
this way to spare my philosophy.. With the expectations
which I have, I never will nor can ask you to stay one
moment longer than you are inclined to do. It would (be)
the worst return for all I ever received from you. But, in
this at least, I am 'truth itself' when I say that whatever
the situation may be, there is no ono whose society is
dearer to me, or can contribute more to my happiness.
These feelings will not change under any circumstances,
and I should be grieved if you did not understand them.
Should you hereafter condemn me I shall not love you less
I will say no more. Judge for yourself about going or
staying. I wish you to consider for yourself, if you could
be wise enough to do that the first tima in your life.

"Kirby Mallory, Jan. 16, 1816

(the day after she left London).
"My dearest A ,—lt is my great comfott that you aro in
Piccadilly."

"Kirby Mallory, Jan. 23, 181 G.

"Dearest A.,—l know you feel for me as Ido for you,
and perhaps lam better understood than I think. You
have been, ever since I knew you, my best comforter, and
will so remain, unless you grow tired of the office, which
may well be."

" Jan. 25, 1816.

"My dearest Augusta,—Shall I still be your sister? I
must resign my rights to be so considered. But I don't
think that will make any difference in the kindness I have
so uniformly experienced from you."
"Kirby Mallory, Feb. 3, 1316.

"My dearest Augusta,—You are desired by your brother
to ask, if my father has acted with my concurrence in
proposing a separation. He has. It cannot be suppeEed
that, in my present distressing rittaticn, I am capable
of stating in a detailed manner the reasons which will
not only justify this measure, but compel me to take
it; and it never can be my wish to remember unnecessarily
:sic] those injuries for which, however deep, I feel no
resentment. I will now only recall to Lord Byron's mind
avowed and insurmountable aversion to the married
;tate, and the desire and determination ho has expressed
-Aver since its commencement to free himself from that
•)ondage, as finding it quite insupportable, though can-
didly acknowledging that no effort of duty or affection
has been wanting on my part. He has too painfully con-
vinced me that all these attempts to contribute towards
his happiness were wholly useless, and most unwelcome
',o him. I enclose this letter to my father, wishing it to
-eceive his sanction.—Ever yours most affectionately,
I. BYRON."

" Feb. 4th, 1816.

" I hope, my dear A., that you would on no account
withhold from your brother the letter which I sent yester-
lay, in answer to yours written by his desire; particularly
Ls one which I have received from himself to-day renders
it still mere important that he should know the contents
)f that addressed to you. I am, in haste, and not very
well, yours most affectionately, A. I. Brnolc."
" Kirby Mallory, Feb. 14, 1816.

" The present sufferings of all may yet be repaid in
blessings. Do not despair absolutely, dearest ; and leave
ne but ruough of your intere.t io afford you any consola-
qon, by partaking of that sorrow which I am most unhappy
to cause thus unintentionally. You will be of my opinion
hereafter, and at present your bitterest reproach would be
orgiven ; though Heaven knows you Lave considered rue
,nore than a thousand would have done—more than any
thing but my affection for 8., one most dear to you,
3ould. deserve. I must not remember these feelings.
Farewell! God bless you, from the bottom of my heart.—
A.. I. B."

The Reviewer thinks it not unlikely that there arc
those who, even with these letters in their hands, will
)elieve that Byron did act as Mrs. Stowe has related, and
tie imagines a number of sophisms by which they may
receive themselves. Alter these letters the following from
Earl Stanhope will probably seem pale and super-
.uous :—" I was very well acquainted with Mrs. Leigh about
forty years ago (alas !) and used to call upon her at St. James's
Palace to hear her speak about Lord Byron, as sho was
very fond of doing. That fact itself is a presumption
against what is alleged, since, on such a supposition, the
subject would surely be felt as painful and avoided. Sho
was extremely unprepossessing in her person and appear-
%nee—more like a nun than anything, and never can have
had the least pretension to beauty. I thought her shy and
sensitive to a fault in her mind and character, and, from
what I saw and knew of her, I hold her to have been
utterly incapable of such a crime as Mrs. &teller Stowe is
so unwarrantably seeking to cast upon her memory."
The Reviewer accounts fora considerable proportion of
Byron's evil reputation by "his tendency to be le fanfaron
des vices gu'il n'avait pas." His habit of mystification was
so inveterate that he paltered with himself. Of Lady
Byron the Reviewer's conclusion is that her delusions are
most charitably accounted for by monomonia. " Her mind
was not a weak one, but she had impaired it by religious
speculations beyond her reach, and long brooding ever
her trials, involving some real and many imaginary wrongs,'

Sir Titus Salt, Bart., is providing a park for the
people of Saltaire. It will extend over eleven acres of land.
Notice has been given by many of the cotton
spinners of Bolton of a reduction of 5 per cent. in the wages
A all hands—to take effect in about a fortnight.
On Friday afternoon a terrible explosion took place
at Brymbo ironworks, belonging to the Messrs. Darby. One
of their large blast furnaces from some means exploded, and
killed one man and severely injured three others. The acci-
dent caused great consternation in the neighbourhood.

It is believed that the answers to the questions
issued to the clergy and churchwardens of the diocese of
Oxford, prior to the ensuing Visitation, will show that more
than a million of money has been spent for Church purposes
whilst the present Bishop has held his See.

The Vienna Presse publishes a telegram from Con-
stantinople announcing that the Khedive had convoked the
principal Arabs, and had asked them whether they had any
reason to be dissatisfied with the Government. They replied
in the negative. An the Turkish mudirs have been replaced
by Arabs.

A meeting of the magistracy of the county of
Armagh has been held at Lugan, to cons7d r the pro-
priety of memorializing the Government Lr an increase
of the police force in Lugan and Portadown. Lord Lugan
presided, and 35 magistrates were present. The meeting
was unanimously in favour of the increase, which is ren-
dered necessary by the July riots in both towns and by
the subsequent disturbances. In conscquetc f the illness
of Lord Derby, the banquet to the Duke of Abercorn at
Belfast, has been postponed.
THE RAPACITY OF PIKE.—The only well-accre-
dited fact of a pike devouring salmon of large size
occurred to a correspondent of the Field. at Winn,. He
says :—"A short time since, when returning from fishing,
we saw a large jack floating apparently helpless on the
top of the water. As we had a gaff in the boat, we rowed
very quickly till nearly within reach of the fish, when,
with a swish of his tail, he went down. While we were
waiting and wondering, we saw the fish come up again,
and floating on the water about fifty yards off ; and then,
although perhaps nct very spertsmanl:k-, I Halo thou
row me ashore for a gun, and, gi, ing the fish a charge in
the back of his neck, we soon got him into the boat.
Having landed, we weighed the fish, which was just 2oz.
short of 201 b., the length 3ft. lin., and in beautiful condi-
tion, and with the stomach evidently gorged. We after.
wards opened the fish, and found the air bladder enor-
mously distended, which fully accounted for its being on
the surface, and on cutting open the stomach we found the
remains of a salmon ; the head and shoulders were digested,
and the fork of the tail also. The remains of the salmon
weighed just 41b., and the length was llin. ; and judging
f corn the shape and size, the fish must have been at least
71b. when .411ve,77.The TiO4,