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An astounding paper appears in the new number,
just published, of Macmillan's Magazine. It leads
off the instalment of that popular periodical for the
approaching month of September. The title of the
article is " The True Story of Lady BYRON'S Life."
The contribution is not anonymous. It announces
itself, plainly, as having been written " By HARRIET
BEECHER STOWE." For the extraordinary statement
therein set forth, that writer herself is alone respon-
sible. The Editor of Macmillan allows, it is true, the
pages of his magazine to be employed as the medium for
its publication. But he does so by right of his position
as one of the recognised custodians of the interests of
literature. And he acts thus in the present instance upon
the avowed authority of two women—one living, one
dead—whose names have, in very different ways, no
doubt, but very con=picuously, been long connected,
and that most intimately, with Anglo-Saxon Litera-
ture. The author of the paper we are here referring

to, is principally known as the writer, nearly twenty
years ago, of a work of fiction that, within a brief
interval from the date of its first appearance, obtained,
on both sides of the Atlantic, a wholly unparalled cir-
culation. It is she, it is the Authoress of " Uncle
Tom's Cabin," who has now been prompted

Of course by the most conscientious convictions
in her own wind as to the veracity of the narrative
she is relating) to recount, several years after Lady
BYRON'S death, what is here entitled " The True
Story " of that most unhappy woman's existence.
Mrs. BEECHEP. STOWE boldly puts her own name to
the narrative. But the real author of this " True
Story" (so called) is, of course----as, in fact, Mrs. STOWE
lot us know very plainly indeed on pp. 394 and 395
no other than Lady BYRON herself. It was from Lady
BYRON'S lips that the writer of this most afflicting
paper in Macmillan received her information. It is,
in a manner, at Lady BYRON'S instigation that
the tale, as it is bete told to us, is recounted. Pub-
lished in a distinguished magazine like Macmillan,
written by a celebrated novelist like Mrs. STOWE—
the responsibility involved in the setting forth of this
"True Story of Lady Brno N's Life" is Lady BYRON'S
own and no other's. It is neither Mrs. STOWE'S nor
the Editor of Macmillan's. It is wholly, solely, and
exclusively Lady BYRON'S own posthumous responsi-
bility. We would insist upon this most emphatically.
Having received the solemn assurance of her
dying friend, Mrs. STOWE bad possibly no alterna-
tive but, according to the dictates of her own judg-
ment:Jo write this most afflicting, and we must add,
most revolting statement. Mrs. STOWE having
written it and placed the manuscript at the command
of the Editor of Macmillan, the latter had of course
no alternative but, according Jo the promptings of
his own judgment, to give the statement on its
openly avowed authority to the world at large, by
issuing it verbatim et literatim in the pages of
his periodical. Again,we say the responsibility is nei-
ther the Magazine's nor the Contributor's, it devolves
alone upon the memory of that most unhappy woman
by whose vividly remembered declaration the pen of
this individual contributor has been guided through-
out. Having said this, having insisted upon this,
we would now at once add, with all the force arising
out of our own most deliberate, most dispassionate,
and most conscientious convictions, that after
reading this so - called " True Story," we do
not give it one instant's credence. We re-
gard it as, from first to last, springing
out of a monstrous hallucination. Lady BYRON
believed it herself, no doubt, but she did so as
any monomaniac believes bin or her rooted hallucina-
tion. Lady BYRON regarded her lord, no doubt—
just as in so many words SIIAKSPERE describes Mot-
LET as regarding the King—as " that incestuous and
adulterous beast." But—just in the same way—she
regarded Lord BYRON as mad. Insanity and incest,
in his regard, were her two hallucinations. Appalling
though the cruel accusations thus set forth against
Lord BYRON—upon the authority of Lady BYRON'S
most positive declarations—undoubtedly have proved
to us in reading them, they themselves carry, to our
mind, a full and absolute conviction that they have
sprung, from first to last, not from Lord Byr.oN's
guilt, but from La3y BYRON'S hallucinations. For
one thing—they are not new—they arc not now pub-
lished for the first time—these most cruel hallucina-
tions of Lady BYRON'S in regard to the incestuous
character of her husband's profligacy. We have for
many years past known that to have been the impu-
tation directed against him by the wife who, alone
in the:world, was the oue to accuse him—Lord BYRON!

one of the sanest as well as one of the most peer-
lessly gifted intellects of his age !--of being a mad-
man. We have known of this as being the damning
accusation directed against him by the distraught
imagination of his wife—we have known of this for
about as long as we can very well remember. Co-
vertly insinuated it was during most of the
miserable years of Lord and Lady BYRON'S separation.
It has been whispered about, hinted at,
referred to more or less openly, for years
upon years. All that is new, in reference to its
setting forth, now, is the fact of its being stated, here,
in Mrs. BEECIIER STOWE'S narative, point blank,
and so to speak categorically, and upon the avowed
authority of Lady BYRoN herself. But—when
is it that it thus makes its appearance ? After
Lady BYRON'S own death. After (cola ra sans
dire) the death of Lord BYRON himself. After the
death of MOORE. After the death of the Hon. Mrs.
LEIGH. After the death of Lord BROUGHTON.
After the death of every individual, who might
have had anything at all to say upon the subject
authoritatively. As to the passages selected by
Mrs. BEECIIER STOWE from " Cain" and from " Man-
fred," it is perfectly monstrous any dramatist having
quoted against him sentiments put by him into the
mouths of imaginary or historical characters. Ac-
cording to that system, the infamy of a murderer, of
a ravisher, of a miscreant guilty of every imaginable
crime might be proved to attach, upon the same evi-
dence, to the unsullied memory of SHAKSPERE. What-
ever the joys and sorrows of the domestic life passed
by him at Stratford-on-Avon, SHAH SPERE, at the least,
had not the unutterable affliction of having married
a wife who had the hideous hallucination upon
her of his being afflicted with Madness and guilty of
Incest. That Lord BYRON was not insane the whole
world knows perfectly well. That be was ever guilty
of incest, there is not to this moment one tittle of
evidence. The statement is only blazoned out, now,
in all its hideous distinctness, when every individual
who could adduce any evidence whatever upon
the matter has long since been dead and passed away.
Among all the glorious poetry with which the res-
plendent genius of Lord BYRON has endowed the
literature of England as with a priceless treasury,
there are no portions that are more exquisitely pure
and beautiful than the lovely minor poems, and
fragments of larger poems, in which allusions
or direct apostrophes are made to his beloved
sister AUGUSTA. For ourselves, we do not, for an
instant, give credence to this hideous story—born
out of a morbidly jealous and (because of that mor-
bid jealousy) out of a prudishly prurient imagina-
tion. Wild, erratic, wayward, prodigal, profligate
in the ordinary sense, the life of Lord BYRON was,
not a doubt of it—more particularly after he had been
hounded into exile through the popular clamour
raised against him in one of England's most insensate
outbursts of virtuous indignation, and that, too,
after the young poet had been stung to the very soul
by an infamous accusation, directed against him by the
one who ought to have been to him, out of the whole
world, the nearest and the dearest ! Deliberately,
unreservedly, conscientiously, we again say—we do
not believe one syllable of this atrocious accusation.
Lady BYRON herself believed it very possibly. But,
in so believing it, she waslabouring under a monstrous
hallucination. Just as she was labouring under a
monstrous hallucination, when she alone in
the whole world charged the author of
" Childe Harold" with being a madman. " She
dies and makes no sign," a few months back
wrote an eloquent contributor to Maga, at
the close a most impressive articleon the
long vexed question of Lord BYRON'S marriage
" She dies and makes no sign-0 God forgive her !"
Those words were quoted at the close of the article
just now referred to as having appeared some time
since in Blackwood—mon tbsbefore any ono haddreamt
of seeing this truly afflicting paper by Mrs. BEECIIER
STOWE in Macmillan. Recoiling, as wodo now, from the
astounding revelations set forth at Lady BYRON'S
own instigation, thus, posthumously, while we
may echo (slightly altered) the earlier words
of that pathetic quotation, saying thus —" She dies
and makes a sign" in regard to those other and more
affecting words of the ejaculation, " 0, GOD, forgive
her !" we have hardly the heart to say Amen ! Amen
sticks in our throat.

THE essential difference between the two " inter-

national " events which took place on April 17, 1860,

and August 27, 1809, marks an improvement in
many respects that is very gratifying. The Thames
match between Oxford and Harvard had not one of
the characteristics which disgraced the Farnborough
match between SAYERS and HEENAN. To begin
with, the latter incident was wholly free from
the brutality which marked the former. Super-
fine reviews, organs of blood and culture,
might do their utmost to glorify pugilism with the
magic of clever writing. The pluck of the little
against the giant
AE
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ri
chamn am
in
galist sheeemstfooord muvhpile to throw a glamour
of heroism over the battle. But pugilism would not
go down with the great bulk of the British people.
The spectacle of two men pounding each other's
faces into jelly and gore, society could not tolerate.
Public opinion was too much for the reviewers. It
forced the lawtointerfere and to forbid thesecontests.
When pugilists attempted to evade the law, aidedby the
railway companies, they found themselves now out-
witted, now betrayed. The prize-ring received a
fatal blow two years ago, when one of two intending
combatants, fearful of the result, gave notice to the
police, who arrested the other. In proportion as
pugilism has descended in the public estimation, 1
aquatics have ascended. During this seventh
decade of the nineteenth century we have,
unquestionably degenerated in many respects.
Horse-racing has ceased to be merely a pastime, a
race has ceased to be a holiday. That which was
once a sport has become a serious business ; that
which was once a festival has become a most wearing
and harrassing day. The upas tree of the betting-
ring has cast its deadly shade over the turf, and the
national amusement of our forefathers' day has
become the bane and the curse of their degenerate
descendants. Aquatics have not wholly escaped
from the same evil influence. But though reporters
speak of " welshers " and odds freely offered, this
sport is as yet comparatively free. May it, like cricket,
long continue so; may both the oar and the bat long
flourish.

Another point to be noticed is the altered feeling
which was shewn towards our rivals on Friday as
compared with nine years ago. We remember with
shame how a fresh disgrace was added to an en-
counter disgraceful in itself when the English
bystanders, seeing that their champion was
in danger of being worsted, cut the ropes,
rushed into the ring, and broke off . the
match. Very different was our conduct on the
Thames. Every effort was made to secure an honest
race. Cantabs, remembering their many defeats,
may fairly complain that the same precautions taken
on Friday by the Thames Conservancy Board was
not taken in the inter-University matches.
These matches have been all but spoilt by the
crowding of the river steamers upon the rival
crews. But in the present race a rule,
rigid as the chain by which it was put in force, was
passed absolutely prohibiting the passage of the
steamers. The very rumours which prevailed so
widely a week or two ago, that under no circum-
stances would Harvard be permitied to win, were
their own corrective. They stirred up the authorities
into action, in order to prevent that which would
have been a lasting national disgrace. And though
it was, we suppose, but natural that a crowd
composed mainly of Englishmen should wish
Englishmen to win, the Americans cannot
say that there was any sign of rudeness or antagonism.
On the contrary there were probably not a few spec-
tators who, prompted by internatioual courtesy,

would have: liked to see Harvard first, just as they
would have liked to see Oxford first on American
waters. This altered state of feeling is due, no doubt,
in great measure to that decreasing insularity and
increasing world-sympathy which is one of the most
hopeful signs of the English character. It is due,
however, still more to the fact that Englishmen and
Americans understand each other so much better
than they did nine years ago. The fight at Farn-
borough took place a year before the fatal shot was
fired from Fort Sumter. The international jealousy
which was so discreditably manifested at the en-
counter of 1800 became intenser and fiercer during
those four sad years of the Civil War. But all is
changed now. America is at peace ; America and
England are at concord. They have no other con-
tests than those of rival oarsmen.

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PEARFUL SUICIDE FROM THE CLIFTON
SUSPENSION BRIDGE, BRISTOL,

On Saturday evening great excitement was produced at
Clifton in consequence of a young man precipitating him-
gelf from the suspension bridge into the river A''dii. The
mspension-bridge, it may be well to state, spans the gorge
)f the river, and connects the beautiful Downs, on the tclp
of the St. Vincent, Clifton, with the romantic demesne
known as Leigh Woods, on the Somersetshire bank of the
Avon. The height of the structure is 245 feet abciVe high-
water mark, and the low-water point ripmi ivhieii the
unhappy young man fell was some twenty feet below that.
ft would seem that the poor fellow paid his toil at the gate
For crossing the bridge, and proceeded as far as the centre
of the bridge on the upper or Bristol side, rind that then,
having denuded himself of his hat, coat, and waiscoat, he
)lainbered over the parapet. He was seen by persons at
the Ilotwells to get over the rail of the bridge and hold
rn by both his hands. In a few moments he released one
)f them, and almost instantly was seen tumbling over
and over through the air into the abyss below. Owing
to some barricades which have been raised along the banks
of the Avon to cover some exAensive works going on in
connection with the improvement and extension of the
harbour, the persons on the Ofoucestershire banks of the
river did not see him actually strike the mud, but Mr. Wil-
inson, the resident engineer of the port and pier railway,
who happened to be passing, heard a loud "thud," On run-
ning to an opening in the planks of the balustrade, he saw the
poor fellow's body on the mud, lying on his back. Mr.Wilk in-
ion at once obtained the assistance of some of his men, and
the body was got up and removed. On the clothes being
searched by the police 11d, in money was found in the
pockets, together with a knife and some minor articles,
but nothing that could at all point to his identity. The
body is that of a fine young man, of about 22 or 23
years of age, with a bronzed handsome face and very thick
hair.