The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-06-02
Death Of Lady Byron.

| W." VI AToio byron, uieu on tue lbtn uIt., a
st. Georges Terrace, London, in the 6sth yea
, fher age. She was the daughter Of Sir Ralpl
Milbauke, and was married to Lord Byro,
Jan. I'd, 1915:
Lord Byron addressed her about a xea
previous, aad. although his suit wa
not at that time accepted yet her re-
usal was accompanied with every as
surance OF esteem and regard, and a friendl,
correspondence WAS kept up between them. 4
second application, in September, proved sue
cess full. Prior to the nupfials, in a letter I,
Leigh Hunt, dated Oct i5 1911, Byron wrote
am about to be married, and am, o
course. in all the misery of 4 man in pursui
| of happiness. My intended is two hundref
! miles off. and the efforts l am making with
| lawyers, &c, &c, to join my future connec.
| TONS are for parsonage of my single and in We
terate habits, to say nothing Of dolence q nit,
| prodigious.
In another letter. speaking Of Lady b. dur
ing the term OF his engagement, he adds:
what An odd situation and friendship is
| ours without one spark. of love on either side
ana produced by circumstances which, in gen :
eIa' lead 10 coidness on one side and aversion
| on the other She is a very superior wo-
| man, and very little spoiled, which is strange
| IN an heiress-a girl Of twenty-a peeress that
Is TO be in her own right-an only child and a
| sarnnts who has always had her own wav
ohe Is poetess, a mathematician and wiihal
| very KInd, generous and gentle, and with yery
| Ht'ie pIetension; ANY other head would b.
turned win nall her acq uisitions and a tenth
OF her advantages
Ihe disastrous result Of the marriage M.
pears TO have been an tcipated by Byron even
| AZ the bridal altar. The looming events cast
.nelr shadows before Lord Byron's prose
| account of The wedding, in his sunpras ed me-
| moirs, Is said by MIR. Moore to have agreed
cl' seiy IN all its circumstances with his poei.
cai description of il in The Dream II is to
| oe ln1erred from Byron's published CORES
pohdence mat, even at his wedding, the
| thoughts OF his first love of Mary Chaworth
| oi Annesiey Hall, whom he SO poetically term
ca MS bright Morning Star, Of AnnesIey, I,
| M Meie pleseni TO MS imagination. Aunesley
| nan and all its fond associations noated like a
| VISION before his thoughts, and on the point OF
| FrohouncInS his nuptial vows. A marriage
| contracted under such circu stanccs could
| towards the month of March following tina
| event, Lord Byron and lady took up their re.
| siaence In London, where they lived in splen :
| oo' aAd expense, far beyond Byron's income
| aho ne soon became deeply involved in the
| most distressing pecuni1ry embarrassments
About the first of February, 1916, a separa.
| tion between Lady Byron and her hus ba nd
| took place. She had lett London few days
| belore on VISIT TO her father in Leices ter
| shlre, and Lord Byron was to follow her as
! soon as he could make some arrangements OF
| his financial affairs. The two parted in kind.
| ness. She wrcte him on The road a letter in q
| style Of the most playful fondness Imaginable
| put Immediately on her arrival at Kirby VI III.
| lory-the seat OF her family-her father wrote
informing him (Byron) that she would not
| again return. They never afterwards met The
particular causes of this event still remain in
| obscurlty; and in all that can be gathered
| from the epistles and poems of the great poet
"',hough somewhat contradiciing in them
| selves, he takes the onls of blame of the sepa-
| ration from his wife on himself
| Byrons $ daughter was married July s. 1885
| TO william King, Earl of LoveIace. She died
November :, le52. Ada inherited the restless
| disposition OF her father; and, although OF
| good natural abilities of Il mathematical turn
OF mind, she delighted in specializing in rail.
| way shares and on the turf
In 1880 Lady Byron wrote n letter, and
| caused 1t to be published, exonerating hel
| Iatne' ana mother from charges connected
| with her separation from her husband-o
| which they had been accused-but throwing
| no 1urther light upon the birct. Lady BY.
| ron succeeded, November II, 1856, to the baro.
| ny OF Wentworth. She was noted for her lib
| eral disposition. In 1856 she sent the sum O,
| $3.50 TO the New England Kansas Emigration
| Society. and she figured frequently con.
| tTibutor TO phianthropical enterprises. Hell
| immediate fortune at the time of her marriage
was about ten thousand pounds sterling bu
On the death OF her father and mother she be.
| came possessed OF estates to very large
amount.
! THE WONDERS OF SoMNAMBULIsM-Henr
Ludtord, Il terryman, of Troy, New York
hearing Il man call "over,' - arose from his bed
passed down stairs, out of doors, and down the
long stairway TO his skif got in, crossed riv.
or, brought the passenger over who was calling
took his toll cut Of Il quarter fastened bis
river boat took the passenger over in the No.
hawk basin boat, and recrossed back again to
his station on the Island, passed up stairs in
the dollhouse, where the ferrymen sleep, took
the lighted lamp in his hand passed to his bed
and back again to the hatchway, where be
stepped of and fell to the floor below, making
great racket and waking up All the rest of the
hands, who hastencd to see what was The ma t.
ter, and on inquiry found that Ludford had
been sound asleep all this time. Curiously
enough he received but a few slight brus 8 by
h!s tall. He remembered nothing OF what had
| occurred, and was bewildered when found ly-
ing on the floor, and anxious to know how he
came there, and ready to swear that he had
not been over with a passenger since an early
| hour in the evening. The change made by him
was taken from table on which the quarter
| lay. The midnight passenger called attention
| 10 The queer conduct of the ferryman, and
said he never saw SO dumb chap before.
l II Ecc torn