National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1872-12-30

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Tho ElopcmenI Of Lady Townshend and
Lord Edward Thyme.
London correspondent says: You arc,
suppose, acquainted with the last scandal In
high life, seeing that an Irish paper has given
II loud tongue. | mean the elopement Of
Lady TOwnshend and Lord Edward Thyme.
You have heard Of the pursuit Of the parties
and the discovery Of them In Paris, and Of
that strange $50 English" scene at the hotel
Lard Macduf pommcling Lord Thyme, and
his gillle doing tho same for half dozen
French walters who came TO the soducor's
aid. Further information throws some light
on the affair. The lady was very young
when she became n wife-a school girl OF
seventeen-and she Is now but twenty
Her husband was devoted to her, but he was
no less devoted to the philanthropic labors
with which his name Is associated. In those
labors the lady bore no share. She was not
wanting In heart, but she could not make
the care Of the poor the absorbing interest Of
her life. And she had no great womanly am
bltion Of any other kind
Her leisure was u torment to her, and so
she tried to make an occupation Of amusc-
mcnt She entered with an acquired rest into
all the elegant designations Of English fashion,
and, unfortunately, without husband for
her companion. The Marquis was too weakly
indulgent OF her tastes. He was always kind,
pulses carried him to the haunts Of the poor;
his wifcs carried her to the Jetes Of the rich.
From the outset Of their marriage fate had
decrced their separation In heart and mind, a
divorce Infinitely more complete than those
kindred judgments of the law which affect
only the body aud the cst ate. The husband
went one way, the wife another; the one
needed no other compRnionship than that Of
his own high thoughts; the other had no such
inner resources against solitude, and she
found Lord Thyme.
OF this nObleman 1t Is perhaps, not too
much to say that he Is one OF those men who
are masters Of all the arts Of misleading, yet
they are at the same time so completely the
slaves Of their faculty that In default of a
better subject they will deceive themselves
They do not alone tempt women from the
path Of honor, but men from the path Of duty
Their activities alternate between amOrous
intrigue aud thegaming-tablC, and they arc
forever moving In u vicious circle Of de-
bauchcry. This type Is not at all uncommon
among the younger sons Of the British aris-
tUcracy-mcn cursed with the fortune Of
peasant and the tastes of a peer. There is a
dull uniformity Of mlschanco In their lives.
They live on the bounty Of their rioh relations
at home until that Is exhausted; they get into
debt and arc obliged TO fly abroad, whore they
seek the means of support In the business Of
proying on their kind. As II takes thief TO
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a fool of gentleman. They have the true
hawkers eye for fEt quarry OF their class.
Young Engllshmen with pockets full Of money
and minds Us rich In experience may always
be had for the seeking In Germany and In
France, aud the aTistOcratic sportsman Wi. 0
hunts In both countries may live comfortably
on the spoil. Insolvency had driven Lord
Thyme from England, and he went to Paris
as naturally ~ cOnsumptiye patient seeks
the air Of the South.
He subslsted on q slender allowance Of
E5O0 year, provided mainly by the bounty
Of his sister, and on some remains Of his
wife's property. Such, at least were his
known sources Of income, and for the rest II
Is naturally not within our province to at
tempt to estimate them In detail. lie was
accompanied In exile by his wife, and her
inspected name was passport for both 10
the most brilliant society Of the French capt.
tai. His tall, slender form was familiar
sight ut Musard's and at the skating club,
aud although lie was vcrging on sixty, he
was distinguished by his orrCt bearing and
his dandyish air among the men who attended
the imperial receptions, He was one Of those
born LOthariOs who cannot cease to dazzle
until they cease to live. His hair was Of
silvery whlteness, but II 1t had been black a.
! night he could not have trimmed II with Q
! more COqucttish air. He was the idol Ol
many ladies, and he counted among his con
quests not only the daughter of an English
nobleman, but the wife Each received hi
visits to the family on her own account, and
| both were the sport Of the acquaintance Ia
whom they revealed their secrets In turn
But the mother at last surrendered her sup
posed interest In him by clipping with another
man, the Captain Gordon whose final exploit
was the assassination of an Italian lady AND
Of himself at Naples the other day. SuCf
was the foreign society Of Paris In 1855,
] Rat saFI - aNFtl
| His relatives made u compromise with hi
creditors, and he returned to London sOm'
short time before the outbreak Of the war
| Thus whitewashed he was once more enableI
| to figure In good company In his own country
and Lady Tuwnshend came In his way. Hi
mind was free from the prescription o
/ fixed principles, unless the determination /,
make oneself agreeable at all hazards may b.
| placed In that category Of honor. lie neve
failed In his attentions TO the woman who's
pride had hitherto taught her that she wa
neglected for a dcaTer 81 object Of regard. Il
| fact, Lady TOwnshcnd fell deeply in love witt
Lord lynne, and all the world was aware o
| II hut the person chiefly concerned, Lad
| TOwnshend's lord.
TWAS talked OF In society. While his lord
ship was absent on his philanthropic mission
his wife took her daily turn In the Row, an
the new friend Of the family was always b.
her side II was talked Uf nj the clubs, 70
her old adnlirCT at last grew ~ unguaTded i
his attentions that II wa impossible for eve
men to shut their eyes. Women had lon
been In tho secret, aud when the outrage
wife Of Lord Thyme ublicly upbraldod Lad
| TOwnshend at a ha. the scandal at Las
reached the husbands ears. But his tTustiu
affection readily accepted tue CTplanatlO
that was offered, aud his confidence was 3
firmly re-established that he did not even SUI
poet the cause Of her flight until three day
alter she had left his house.
} There Il every reason To believe that III
elopement though due to u deeply laid deslg
on Lord Thynne's part, was prompted by
sudden impulse on that Of his victim. HI
Admlrer had disposed Of his house In LOndO
for ready money, and he had several tint
seemed TO be urging her TO some course whiC
she rosolutoly declined. On the day OF ht
flight she was dressed for round Of visits
town, and totally unproyidod with the sin
plest necessaTies Of the toilet for u VOyag
Her costume attracted attention at Dover, al
when she was discovered her maid had TO
dispatched 10 Paris with her jewels al
clothes. X. l..
REMARKABLE SUCCESSION OF DEATHS.
A singular fatality appears to have attaChC
to the new building Of the Young Men
Christian Association Of New York, as
less than eight sudden deaths have OccurrI
among the artists, occupants Of It's studio
and Of those Intimately connected with theI
3 within period OF a little more than tW