The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-07-28
Lady Bulwsr and fier Hu.band-A Drama
In Four Acts.

Lady Bulwsr ana fier Husbaad-A Drama
I'm Four Acts.
TweIty.seven years ago there was a fashion
able and literary wedding in London. The
bride grocm, Edward Lytton Balwer, was n
young nan Of mark. He bad graduated with
horrors, received the prize for the best English
poem, ond had begun TO publish the
novels which have since created au
tqual sensation In Msy Fair and in ST.
Giles. He was the pet of the delicate, inte-
resting young ladies who were little blue. II
was one Of these angels that he led to the altar
A once popular poetess tells to the world that
Bula.r vas pale and fascinating young man
biz bride was the more charming because she
wss in delicate health, and her complexion was
ike "rose leaves crushed on ivory" No union
could have promised better. Bulwer was rising
to the tormost wave Of success, while his wife,
who MAS beautiful and clever, found welcome
in every drawing room Of Belgravia.
A little more than ten yesrs pass away, aud
we find cur couple not quite 80 interesting to
tbemselves. A con has been born to them.
Lady Bulwer inclines to en-, bon point and has a
bad temper. Her husband has been created
baronet, and is recognized as one Of the first, if
not the fret, living writer's of fiction. He
works hard, and I'D interim, it is whispered,
amuses himself after the fashion of Young
Eugland. His chambers are those of
bachelor. Madame lives in the coun-
try, and comes down post one day, to
find her husband entertaining q dinner party
more joyous than select. The twain have lived
apart for some time, and the separation is made
eternal by a circumstance which occurred ia Sir
Edwards introduction TO political life. He rises
to speak for the first time in the House Of Com.
mons, and fails to fulfil the great expectations
that had been raised Ivy his literary achieve
ments. In fact, he breaks down altogether.
Tainted by his wife, he so far forgets
his manhood, according to report, as to
IL flict q blow upon her. From this time
war is declared between them. The lady
makes her dfbm in the literary world with
novel called 'Cheverly," which is followed by
pamphlet detailing her family troubles and two
other novels, severally entitled '.Bebnd the
Scenes" ard Every Successful" All of these
novels contain severe attacks upon Sir Edward
and bis friends. Curiously enough some of her
bitterest sarcasns In Behind the Scenes" we're
levelled against Mr.. Charles Dickens, whose ma
trimonial troubles have since afforded vide
field for the LoSdon gossips.
Lady Bulwer's venom against Sir Edward is
rather heightened as she grows older and iatter
and as be grows richer and more famous In
az ha 10 h. ...ta1
and lie appointed Colonial Secretary.
To accept this appointment he must resign
his seat in Parliament, and enter upon hotly
contested election In his own county, where he
Is far from being personally popular. While
finishing bis address to the electors with the
customary tribute to the "gaIaxy Of female
beauty" within sight Of the hustiug7, the rose
leaf beauty of thirty years ago appears upon
the sceDe, In the shape OF a stout. red faced
matron OF about fifty summers, before whose
dread presence the statesman beats an iuglo
rious retreat, while she gives to the public a
piece Of her mind" ia relation 70 the charac-
ter Of The honorable gentleman who has just
solicited their suiirages However notifying
this rencontre must have been to the paronet
the result was in bis favor. lie was returned
10 the House, duly installed in toe Cab net, and
has now succeeded in incarceratiug bis wife
ia a madhouse.
We are obliged to say after reading the mar
dent-aud pubIisbed in another part of to-
day. IIrRAID--tbat the later proceedings of
Sir Edward Bulwer Lyt,on are such as will go
far TO damage him In the estimation OF his most
ardent admirers. II appears thu. he received
with bis wife her income Of e4OO per annum,
which was most welcome TO him at the time;
that when he became rich he refused
to allow Lady Lytton more than the
sum above named, and that now he has
attempted to silence her forever by
combining her as maniac, without the smallest
possible ground for such action. A novelist by
profession, he has given The plot for sensation
story of Che first class; statesman by nclna-
sity Of still further guards around the personal
liberty of the subject. A member of the Pal
merston Cabinet made an unenviable notoriety
a. rouf and a gambler, but he did not preach
the fine sentiments which form the stock in
trade of Lord Derby's Joseph Surface. The
newspaper accounts, however, go TO show that
he has begun to be ashamed of his course and
that he promises to compromise matters with
Lady Lytton. There seems to be some peculiar
fatality attendant upon marriages between
literary people. No sooner has the world ex-
bausted the scandal about the Hon. Mrs. Norton |
than the Bulwers give new topic for gossip;
and rs this grows stale, The troubles of Mr.. and
Mrs Dickens agitatc the clubs, the journals and |
private circles.
BAD News FOR NIxrCo-Thc Hoiars Awo-
yrctos, Of Madrid, contradicts the story that |