The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1872-08-08

which thinking men made inquiry, might
be acknowledged as hers. Children were
born to them. Their tastes were no more
dissimilar than was consistent with COM
mon if not promotive OF unusual harmony,
and their home was often spoken of by
those old enough to remember the two as
furnishing happy contrast to that which
her mother had abandoned twenty years
before. But Lady Lovelace craved excite
ment Neither town life nor country was
sufficient to satisfy her inherited desire
for constant stimulus. Neither her stud
les nor her pen, the care of her children
nor the pleasures of society, her rank
among the aristocracy nor the admiration
her beauty anAgifts Received wherever
she appeared, re sufficient. She spec
uated in the fun I, bet at horse races,
bought and sold in ne stock market, and
finally, during<he railway mania that,
under the lead of Hudson, was second on
ly in its universally among the rich and
great to tha0Sputh Sea bubble of the early
days of the H. q hsdry, partook largely
in the ventures this could well enough
be without hetkn6xledge, as it was, Of
her husband Besides the ample ''pin-
money" allowed her in Aaamarriage set
| Element, large returns came to her from
trust funds held for her in her own right.
But she went too deep. Her risks were
unfortunate and though she might have
recovered from all this, most inopportune-
| ly her attorney became a bankrupt, and
her operations were exposed, in his assets
before the courts, to the world. Terribly
mortified, she appealed to her husband,
who, to save the scandal of any legal
process, Cancelled her liabilities by very
considerable pecuniary sacrifices. The
shock. however, was too great for her eX-
| citable nature. and it has always been be-
lieyed bethose who best knew what fol-
lowed that ~ shame she felt at the ex-
posure was thee4mote, ehot the proxi-
mate. cause OF halnleSh. 1t is not best,
perhaps, to trace toy accurately a family
history But ''blouA is Kicker than water
and a lesson in .sfrpicullMNs. may be learn
ed from a wVu more about<a race that
has for mofe than q century, in some one
Of its representatives, been before the
world. OF she living we have nothing to
say, but Lord Oakham, the eldest son of
Lady Loveiace, inherited the VICES Of the
Byrons without their genius. n his errat-
ic life ASIA boy whom no discipline could
tame, a nf4dshipman in thfyRoyal Navy
disgraced fsr petty thieviQgs, a common
sailor sober only when q at sea before
the mast, a piYp for thePaltrlest gains in
in Scott RusscllSs shi4yard near the Lon
don docks, he exhibited all the meannesses
OF the Byrons OF tt slast century, without
4 redeeming trait ii, their nobleness. He
died September 4, As62, at the age of
twenty-siv. THO mas Carlyle says that ev-
cry mans life fontainsNnaterials for an
epic poem. HAT the lives Of the Byrons
could do this very one oNhem since the
middle of he seventeenth. century, no
reader of english biography will doubt.
Gifted al! We its peers, proudh rash, en-
lowed f with extraordinary. physical
| strength aud beauty, at war with conven-
tionafties, and sometimes deAressed,
SOMETIMES exalted by fortune, theNByron
race has furnished to sociologists from out
OF mind physical phenomena that are as
positive in principles as they are invalua-
Bile rs facts. From beginning to end the
race is the same And as the negro, the
! Chinaman, the six-ngered, the scrofulous,
the hair-lipped, the left-handed, the bow
| legged the dwarfed, and the gigantic
| perpetuate their kind, despite the intervals
that may elapse, so in the Byron family
| have the railing traits of the distant ances-
tor reappeared in the most remote de.
scendant