The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-06-11
The Wife of Byron's Grandson

Many times may be seen at Brighton
fair woman, upon whose head falls
the sunshine yet from the eastern
horizon of life whose contours have a
girlish roundness, but whose features
begin to show the harsh touch of the
chlsel of care. Looking upon her, one
would believe her to be a girl yet, for
her years cannot be more than twenty
three-one who has been a very Psyche
of girls, and who is not yet far sepa-
rated from radiant, buoyant youth.
And yet this fair woman is one whose
name has been smirched by one of the
most monstrous scandals of fashionable
English society. She is the wife OF
member of the prOudest aristOcracy in
the world, who is heir to two earidOms,
and whose wealth is so great that he
himself hardly knows it's extent. This
is L ord Wentworth, son of Lady Love
lace, who was Ada, sole daughter of
the hearth and home" of the poet,
Lord Byron. By the paternal line, he
will inherit the title and hOnors of Lord
Lovelace +; by the maternal, he came in
possession of his present one. Ada
very pecliar temper ament, inheritiug
which in lis case were a reactionarv
effect of emotional dissipat ons, but
in hers a constitutional depression.
Hers was not happy married
life, although one free from scan
dal, and Lord Lovelace, when
he was mistaken for servant by the
pretty widow who was afterwards his
wife, upon the hotel steps at Madrid,
fa1E Af ho
revived emotion which Lord Byron's
pIlseless daughter had chilled to almost
death. She transmitted a peculiar
mental constitution to her sons. The
elder, Lord Ockham, who would have
been Lord Wentworth had he not died
before the title descended from the
elder branch, in his early youth abandon
ed his home, his luxurious habits, and
all the refined associations of mis- rank,
and worked for months in blacksmith's
shop. Later, he married pubilcan's
daughter and died soon after his NAL
riage. Dying childless, the title
of Lord Wentworth passed over
him to Lady Lovelace's second son,
who now bears it. It is told of this no.
bleman that, one evening, going into
the theatre, he made bet with one of
his companions that he would marry
the most beautiful woman at the play
that night. 1t chanced that the lovely
daughter of a Newcastle clergyman Oc-
cupied stall near the young man, and
before the curtain had fallen upon the
drama of that night the tragedy of their
lives had began, for Lord Wentworth
determined on the spot to make the fair
girl his wife. OF the subsequent pp-
pearance of the couple in the divorce
courts, of the shameful charges brought
against the wife, who seemed to have a
lover for every change of the weather,
of the dreadful counter charges brought
against her husband, who seemed to
have in him the morbid taint of his an
cestry, all England knows full we'll.
IMPROVEMENTS IN EGYPT.-In Egypt,
very hot country, the vicerOy Is en-
deRvorlnR to introduce the plants aud
shrubs of colder climates. He is above
all fond OF reslnOus trees, and has bad
several cargOes sent to him, Scotch
pines, Austrian blacks, aud other cone
bearers, together with sraucarias, and
excelsa. He has also had apple trees
transported from Europe The Easba
has laid out some grounds not far from
the sea and facing the north, and has
surrounded them with high walls des-
tined to shelter the western plants from
the rays of the midday sun and from
the hot and sandy breezes. Long
alleys of these products of the north
have been planted, and the result is now
awaited Down to this time some
chestnuts which were introduced look
well, and the apple trees are flourish
ing.