Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1845-07-31
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From Correspondent of the Boston Atlas.
BULWER, DISRAELI, SC.

bULWE En-, DISRAELl, &C.
Amongst the members of the House oil
Commons are some of our most celebrated
writers of fiction. In general, they do not
shine as orators, although, as in the case OF
D'Israeli, they put themselves "pretty con-
siderably" forward. Southey, to whom a
place in Parliament was frequently offered
had the good sense to decline it and II
would have been we'll for the reputation of
some of our writers if they had followed
his example
Let me continue my sketches of political
literati, and conclude my notices of polit-
clans by selecting a few specimens of those
whose names are by their writings render
ed familiar to the jewellers on this side of
the Atlantic. And first, allow me to de-
scribe Bulwer, or rather Sir Edward Bulwer
Lytton, he having adopted The latter sur
name since he came into some property on
the death of his mother.
The first time ever saw Bulwer, was in
the summer of 1886, when was strolling
in Chppenham Meade, near the town of
Monmouth, a place which, like Boston
Common, was allotted as a promenade for
the people, and which was the favorite re-
sort of the poet Gray, who styled it Athe
delight of his eyes, and the very seat of
Ticdsuren The author of ''PeIham" was
evidently enjoying the beauties of the place
] did not know the celebrated writer, until
one of the boatmen who had brought him
from the town of Ross, some tW eIve miles
up the Wye, informed me who his passen-
ger was.
He was dressed in the extreme of fashion,
vulgarly SO, thought; but ! should not
have recognised his features from my ac-
quaintance with the published lkenesSes Of
him. He was by no means well formed,
and was rather awkward in his carriage
As shall have occasion 10 describe his
personal appearance when | afterwards saw
him under more favorable circumstances,
shall defer describing him for the present.
1t was some years after this when again
observed him; he was then in his place in
the House of Commons; and, in the inter
val. the separation between him and his
beautiful wife has made considerable noise
in the fashionable circles of London. Re-
speeding this separation, hundred stories
were in circulation, and in most of them
the gentleman was made to appear in any
Der that the most generally received piece
of scandal was to the following effect
Bulwer, for the sake of convenience, occu-
pied chambers in the Temple, which he
used as a study; but in consequence of his
frequent nocturnal absences from home,
Mrs. Bulwer began to suspect that it served
other purposes than those of meditation
and manuscript making. One morning $50
runs the gossip Bulwer informed his lady
that he should be absent from town for three
or four days, and babe her very affection
ale adeu. The lady, however, was not to
be done, and on the following morning she
put into practice a plan which she had
formed, for the detection of her supposed
delinquent husband
About eleven O'Clock in the morning
succeeding that one, when he had profess
sedly left his wife for the purpose of at
lending to pressing business in the country,
6he popular novelist was sitting clad in his
! magnificent dressing robe, in his chambers
in>tbe temple, III company with a fair but
frail lady, who, with him, was doing ample
justice TO an elegant breakfast The fra
grant aroma of the Mocha berry filed the
chamber-the prawns lay in tempting pro-
fusion in the China dish-poached eggs,
looking like primroses on snow banks.
gladdened the eye-cresses, from the brook,
in all their dewy freshness, invited the fin
ger of the consumer-in short all was as
it should be-and the gay voice of {" Pei
ham, and the silvery laughter of his com
panion, ssthe little French Milliner," pro-
claimed that care for while was flung ia
the winds. But, alas ! for all sublunary
delights there came rap at the door, anc
Immediately afterwards-without the slight