The New York Herald Newspaper, September 19, 1869, Page 4

£. EUROPE. Queen Victoria’s Tour and Re- ception in Scotland, Bases for a New Ivish Land Act. The German mail steamship Weser, Captain Wenke, from Bremen the 4th and Southampton the 7th of September, arrived at this port at an early hour yesterday morning, bringing our special Euro- pean correspondence and a mail report in detail of our cable telegrams dated to the day of sal from England. A return issued by the central administration of the German Zollverein shows that the receipts for the first quarter of 1889 amounted to 5,442,084 tha- lers (3f. 75c. each) against 6,075,456 thalers in the corresponding period of the previous year, being a diminution of 632,772 thalers. A large portion of the deficit arises from a reduction of the import duty on unmannfactured tobacco, ‘The state of the works on the Mont Cenis tunnel on the 3ist August was as follows:—During the month 68 metres 40c, (3 ft. 344in. each) had been executed from the south, and 58m. 25c, from the north, making @ total completed of 10,185m. 55c., and leaving 2,084m, 45c. still to be pierced. M,Ledra Roilia has writen a letter, which ap- Pears in the French papers, stating that directly after the amnesty was signed an order was sent to the outports to arrest him should he arrive from England. He was to be detained until his atleged accomplices were sent for from Cayenne to identify nim, Not liking the prospect of an indefinite con- finement within the walls of a prison, he thought it better to remain in exile, alvhough anxtous to return to France. The Sidcle, commenting upon the letter, gays the government is bound in honor to answer it, ‘The Paris journals continued to discuss at great length the speech of Prince Napoleon, The conser- vative papers, and particularly the Pubdiic and the Patrie, repudiate the Prince’s views as too ad- vanced, On the other hand those of the Tiers-partt Tange themselves generally on the side of his High- hess. The Presse and the Livert’, as well as the Opinion Nationale, are favorable to the ideas ex- pressed by the Emperor's cousin. As tothe Réveil it confines itself to saying that “M. Napoleon Bo- naparte has recommenced his anthems in favor of liberalism.”? The Zeraps, the ve and the Avenir are more moderate, but remain at variance with the Prince, . During the debate on the Senatrs Consultum in the French Senate on the 5th of September M. Bonjean asserted that ne had no need to say that the Senatus Consultum had no tirmer partisan then himself, and he would vote for it waether his amendment were adopted or not. ‘there were, however, danger- ous omissions in it, and which he proposed to fill up. * * © The Senate, ip lus opinion, already pos- seased the rigut of making ifs own internal regula- tions. The privilege of making interpellations was of uillity only to an opposition, and could in no way attenuate a conflict between the government and the legislative body; then the right of veto only provided for those situatious in which the intervention of the Senate was the least necessary, a3 the Cile! of the State had always the power of refusing his sanction 10 bills. Besides, of all the modes of interposition a veto was the most odious to those on whom tt was imposed and the most perilous to tose who exer- cised it. Louis FV, and President Jolnson, of tne United States, had experienced that truth, although in a diferent measure, In the French Senate, on the 4tn inst., an amend ment of M. Bonjean, giving the power of initiating Jaws to the Senate, as well as to the Emperor and the Corps Législatif, was rejected by an immense majority, as was also one bronght forward by Count de Sartiges, demanding that any difference between the Senate and the iegisiative body should be setuled byajoint committee. Another amendment, to the effect that the President of the legislative body shonld be elected for six years, subject to the ap- provaiof the Emperor, was also rejected, Serious dissensions are said to prevall in the Ttalian Cabinet. Lord Granard writes to advocate, a3 a solution of the Irish land question, the extension to the whole country of what is kown as Ulsier tenant right. This tenant right is not a matter of legal obligation, but consists in a “gracious custom,” as it is termed, by which an outgoing tenant is allowed to sell the good will of his farm to the highest bidder, the sum realized being sometimes more than the value of the land in fee simple. The Countess d’Alteyrac recently, as is known, appeared as plainti? in the Court of Queen's Bench, London, 1n an action to enforce a bond which was given to her by Lord Willoughby d’Eresby, with whom she had ved for many years as his wife. The expenses of this suit have led to her bankruptcy. Several meetings and appitcations have taken place in the bankruptcy court, but without any satisfac tory result. It now appears that tne Countess has offered to compromise with her creditors, and that she is in @ position to make them an ofer. An early day has been appointed for a meeting of the various parties Interested in the matter, ana all those who have come in and proved thetr debts will have the option of voting as to whether they consider the offer made by the countess an acceptable one. There is, it is satd, no doubt that there will be a unanimity of opinion in the matter, and that the o/fer will be satisfactory, which course wili end what has been for some ttme a popular English scandal. Ten or twelve hundred English volunteers wil) attend at the shooting f¢1es In Liege, An application involving a curions law question ‘was made at the Marlborough et police court, London. The proprietor of a grave, purchased of the Highgate Cemetery Company, was prohivited by tne company putting up a tombstone on which it ‘was stated that his child died from “the mortal effects of nation.” The purchase of the grave was subject to the stipulation that the tombstone should be “of a design to be approved by the com- pany.” Mr. Knox, to whorn the applicant came for advice, declined to discuss the question whether ‘this condition included the inscription; but he sug- gested that the difficulty mignt be tided over by add- ing the words “according. to the verdict of a coro- ner’s jury.” If not so settled the applicant must ‘test his right in a legal way. Police testimony was again discredited in the Worship street Police Court, London. The case was a charge of creating a disturbance in the Pavilion theatre and of assaulting the police. Three consta- Dies were engagea. After one of them had given evidence, two others, who had not been in court, gave such a description of what had taken place as to draw out @ sharp reproof from the sitting magis- trate. Mr. Ellison also entered on the charge sheet «that the case had been wilfully exaggerated’ by the policemen in question. Acomplaint against the sapertor of the Catholic Convent Schools, Clarendon square, London, was made at tné Clerkenwell Police Court. A man stated that his daughter, who was between eighteen and ninteen years of age, and wes recetved into the schools eight years ago, had been sent to America without his having been made acquainted with the fact that the journey wa tobe made. The magis- trate directed inquiries into the truth of the story $n ‘NEW YORK HERA as to the fate of Dr, Livingstone, and especially with Teference to Mrs. Burton's suggestion, in which her husband concurred, that the great traveller is pro- bably held tn captivity by the negro king of Ca- zembe, Sir Roderick is not despondent, He ad- heres to the theory which he lald down at the anni- versary of the British Geographical Soctety that the cutlets from Lake Tanganyika flow westward to the Atlantic, and that Livingst is following thelr course, The mighty Congo may be one of these out- lete, and Livingstone will, Sir Roderick believes, again emerge, as he did after his first great journey, ou the western shores of Africa, ne family of the late Earl of Rosse, the distin- guished astronomer, have erected to his memory in the parish church, Parsonstown, Ireland, a chaste cenotaph, with the following inscription chiselled In ecclesiastical text, with rubricated capitals:— In remembrance of Willlam, third Eari of Rosse, born June 17, 1800; died October 31, 1867, after a long suffertug, borne as a brave man and a true Chris- t Sprang from a Mstinguished race, eminently gifted both tn body and mind, his use of these bless- ings was worthy of him. In the university he won the highest honors; in the House of Commons, when he represented the Kings county, as afterwards in the House of Lords, he was conspicuous for his im- vegrity, judgment, great practical talent and devo- tion Co the best interests of his country. Admirable in al the relations of life, as a husband. a father and alandiord, He was renowned in the loftiest Tauge of science, and he revealed to mankind, by tue unrivaded creation of his genius, a Wider vision of the glory of God. ENGLAND. The Public Revenue—Sources of Income. {From the London Times, Sept, 7.1 The finance accounts just issued show tnat in the last financial year ending the 3ist of March, 1869, the duty on foreign spirits produced £4,390,860; on home-made spirits, £10,556,218; on foreign wine, £1,521,897; On malt, £6,527,708, All these items are Jarger than in the preceding year. The duty on tobacco and snuff produced £6,496,512, which is rather less than in the year before. Tea paid its tax of 9 , and sugar and molasses £5,504,068,, both soms smaller than those of the preceding year. Foreign corn paid £897,930, The railway passen- ger (aX, an ever Increasing item, reached £499,297, The duty on probates of wills and administrations, a varying source of taxation, deciined a little, viz., to £1,591, and the duty on legacies and successions 789,710; tms last item in the preceding year had reached £2,882,747, the largest amount ever col- lected under this head In any one year, and exceed- ing by nearly £400,000 the sum which, in 1867, was estiinated by the Comptrolier as the maximum that would be reacbed, Bill stamps in the year 1367-68 produced £695,438, and the inland revenue penny stamp on receipts, Graits, &c., advanced as usual, and brought in £567,455, The newspaper impressed stamp produced £111,513. The duty on armorial bearings advanced to £68,780, The inhabited house duty shows an increase as usual, and produced £1,131,348. The income tax, raised to six pence, brought in £8,623,507 within ‘the year. The woods, forests and lan ones of the Crown produced £300,000 for the Exchequer. Among the minor items: hair powder produced £: 97 Cards brought wore than £10,000 to the public purse. Aleced American Commercial Fraud. The London Star of the 6th of September contains the following police report:— Atthe Mansion Honse the American named W. W. ay was to have been brought up for further nation, before Alderman Gabriel, upon the charge of obtaming £1,009 from Messrs. Simpson & Mason, timber brokers, of St. Peter’s alley, Cornhill, by means of forged biils of lading, prrporting to re- jate to@ large quanuty of vatuavle timber which was represented to be on its way to England from Canada, Mr. Lewis again attended to prosecute, It will be remembered that it was proved on the former examination that the prisoner, by means of a rged letter of introduction, induced the prosecutors nt to advanced him the sam of £1,000 upon security of four bills of jading which he handed to them, and which turned oat to be forgeries in every respect. no such timber as was represented being on board the vessels named in the instruments. When the prisoner was appreliended nearly 500 sovereigns anda quantity of valuable jewelry, the produce of the money obtained by the fraud, were found in his possession. He was appretended — partaking of a champagne supper with his wile. When the Alderman had taken his seat, Mr. Lewis said that He had to ask for a rurther remand, as the prisoner Was too ill tu attend, Alderman Gabriel said that that being the case, the inguiry must of course be adjourned. Mr. Lewis then applied that the money found in the possession of the prisoner should be handed over to the prosecutors. It was clearly the produce of the check that had been obtained irom the prose- eutors. : e Alderman acceded to the application, but he declined at present making any order wita respect to the jewetry. ‘The inquiry was then adjourned. IRELAND. The Land Question Agitation In the Field. The London Star of the 6th of September pub- ished the following:— Mr. Gladstone has written to acknowledge the receipt of a memorial from Dublin in favor of an amnesty to the poiitical prisoners, The following is his lette ir. Gladstone Se .P. MoDEeRMort, Esq. :— GENTLEMEN — Mr. desires me to acknowledre the receipt of your letter enclosing a eopy of the resolutions paseed at the meeting of the North City Ward, Dubiin, in favor 1 prisoners in Ireland. sure you that he will not fall attention to'this important question. edient servant, W. RB. GURDON. lected that the Select Committee on the Valuation of Ireland agreed to report the evi- dence only, with a view to thetr reappointment next session. The following, however, is given as the No. 10 DOWNING STREET, Sepes te Theo.t P. TALTY, Eeq., and ¥ Treasury, Mr. Ayrton, was prepared to snbinit, and which may be supposed to represent the views of the government, subject, of course, to modification by farther evidence which may be produced next session:— 1. That the tenement valuation of Ireland has been of great ut has be irly conducted, and has given general ction to the and occupters of pro- cumstances ander tain provisions of it does not now sufficiently coincide with the true anual eof property in, Ireiani. % Tha it @ revaluation of edch tenement ble, the existing to the fol y th year, the probable anni r expenses, if any, neceatary to maintain nal state, and ail rates and taxes to occnpier may be liable being pald by the tenant. jent that the valuation should be so cost of repairay the same in Ite a a thi tire may be completed within @ that the valuation for each eounty 4 in succession by a body of experienced at the revaluation may be com- alned, ant continued in the jon, and the entire of Ireland may din avout sixteen years, 6. That the charge for jon should be borne in the same manner nof the valuations. 6, That some comp le respecting the removal of persona from the fice, bat they were Investigated and disposed of atthe time the ‘events occurred, and no sufficient crounds have heen shown for reopening th ect. 7. That the Valuation Office ay ° pecial purposes, for which made in the Valuation ‘acts, but the ent pense of the office, wi exception of super-charges, bas been bro ascertaining the contribution of the several SCOTLAND. of the original be revaln Queen Victoria in the TrossachsOpen Air Enjoyments. {From the London ‘times, Sept. 6.) On Saturday the Queen and the Princesses Louise and Beatrice, accompaniea by Lady Churchill and Colonel Ponsonby, visited Loch Lomond, The royal party left Invertrossachs about nine o’clock in the reached Loch Katrine. Here a special steamer w: in wating to convey her Majesty to Stronachiachar, nearthe other end of the lake, Arrived at this Highland hamiet the royal party again entered car- riages and proceeded to Inversnaid, on the east shore of Loch Lomond, about five miles from its northern yes The Queen and the Princesses, with ther attendants, at once went on board the Prince Consort, an elegant saloon steamer which had been chartered for the occasion. The tobe made by one or the warrant officers of the court. Very unsatisfactory accounts have been received from Saint Petersburg of the great August fair of Nijbnt Novgorod, According to the Exchange Ga- wette the only goods that have found a favorable Gale are fashionable wares and articles de luxe of foreign manufacture, while native produce les on hand, there being absolutely no demand for it, “The supply of cotton is deficient and the sale of furs had pot commenced. At date, August 21, about 12,000 @hests of tea had been disposed of st 117 roubles for superior, and 105 roubles for second qualities, Later advices say that the supply of Asiatic cotton is considerably less than that of last year, in consequence of which the price has risen nd transactions have taken piace at the rate of fourteen roubles the pood of thirty-six pounds, prince Karageorgewicz; who starids charged with somplicity in the murder of Prince Michsei of Servia, has been admitted to ball. (ir Roderick Murebison’s opinion bas been asked royal party sailed down the east side of Loch Lo- mond, in the direction of Balloch, as far as Inch Murrio, the most distant of @ group of charming isievs which lend great beauty to the lake. Turnin; at this point, the steamer proceeded up to the head of Loch Lomond, this time keeping close to the western shore, and afterwards steamed again for Inversnaid, Whence her Majesty and the Princesses returned to Invertrossachs by the same route which bad been followed 1n the morning. The Weather in the morning was dull, and rather ‘unpromising, but as the day wore on the aun broke forth, and although the haze never altogether Cleared away from the lilitops the sublime scenery of the lake was seen to considerable advaniage, On the Prince Consort, Colonel Ponsonby pointed out to the Queen and tne Princesses tne various places of interest, the gallant Colonel sup- lementing his own information on the subject by Inquiries which he addressed to Mr, A, Smollett, late M. P, for Dumbartonshire, who was on board, along with a number of gentiemen representing the direc. tors of the Loch Lomond Steamboat Company. Tne most lively Shed in the scenery, ring, d the Princess Louise were en; in ment mt sketches. Before leaving the Prince Gensort her Majesty expressed to the directors of the steam- boat compan, Tapa the attention which had been shown a ‘At the various landing stages small Kote of aDeo- draft report which the Financial Secretary to the | morning, and after a short and pleasant drive . —_— tatora had congregated, but as it was évident that the royal ere ‘was desirous of privacy and quiet, anything like demonstrative welcome was avoided. FRANCE. Chovalier on the Senatuy Consultum. At the sitting of the French Senate on Septem- ber 1, the order of the day being the adjourned de- bate on the Senatus Consultum, M, Michel Cheva- ler delivered an eloquent speech, of which the fol- lowing is a brief résumé. He said:— As we are unanimous on one point, namety, in our desire to tind the fittest means for passing with- out too great a shock irom the authoritative to the liberal empire, so 1 should be ungrateful were | not to say that we are all of one mind in paying homage to tue Sagacity of Napoleon Lil. im perceiving that tue iroment Was Come to modify our constitutional organization. <A certain crisis, similar to those which periodically agitate this country, seemed to be approaching; the Emperor has dispelied the dancer, and this great act will not stand for the oue of least value in the estimation of posterity. Gentic- men, there is @ man who has spread a prodigious justre not only on France, but on the whole world— Lmean Napoleon I. We who are no longer young have been able to converse with men of the end of the last centary and the beginuing of the prese and thus are enabled to form an idea of the violence of the passions then raging, necessitating a system of compression, without which, society would have torn itseif to pieces. Here the honorable member gave a rapid sketch of the constitution of An VHI., recognising the exist- ence of three great bodies—the Senate, the Legisla- tive Body, and the Council of State—and went on to show that the régime of the second empire was bor- rowed from the other, although now about to be modified by the Senatus Consultum, He con- tinued: — But there is another system, adopted in all constitutional countries except France—that of two Chambers equally endowed with the con- stituent and legisiative faculues and haying tn- mense privileges, even to the power of life and death over citizens, which. however, they seldom use, The most remarkabie appication of the systew is found in England and the United States, In both these countries the two Chambers stand on equaity in point of rights, Here, however, tt 1s evi- dent that the government clings to the tira system emanating from the constitution of An VIII, The new Senatus Consuiium hus the character of that régime, and you will un- doubtedly vote it, England took 600 years to realize the system of government under which she exists. She conquered 1. by dewrees, by the sweat of ner brow—by her money, as well as by her blood! The Normans had founded in England an absolute gov- ernment. ‘fwo hundred years later, im 1215, the barons forced the Magna Charta from John— a@ bad man, @ man whose word could not be relied on, But im spite of this great Charta, Eneland, before she enjoyed her present pre- rogatives, had to go through riots, civil war, the Wars of the Roses, aud the republic—which was glorious, but which was not peacetully establish: On the contrary it was marked by icredible abuses, by the scatioid, by the tribunals presided over by Jettreys, a sort of royalist Fouquler Tinvilie, a rascal and a coward, as despicable as was Fouquier Tinvilie. Even tn 1697 liberty Was by no means guaranteed. in 1714 a member of the House was expelled from it, a3 Was Manuel from ours, and that for having published a pamphiet entitied “rhe Crisis.” Such are some of the trials which Engiand had to undergo before she enjoyed her present position, Do uot, thereiore, let us be discouraged. We should not ve men, but angels, were we to arrive suddenly at a periect political and soctal organization. AFRICA. Where is Livingstone? The London Zelegraph contains the following communication: I think Sir Roderick Murchison’s faith i the safety of Dr, Livingstone is, upon the whole, weil founded. 1 do not believe that he has been killed by the natives, for the Africans, unless they be Mo- hammedans, are not in the habit of Killing travellers; but as he is nota young man, and the last letters recetved from him informed us that he had lost his medicine chest.1 think that it {8 within the bounds of probability thatfhe may have succusabed to some vio- lent attack of fever or dysentery. But supposing, as 1 most ardently hope to be the case, that’ he ig in the land of the living, then I think that Mrs, Burton's theory that he 1s in some sense @ prisoner at Cazembe or elsewhere, has great propability in it, From ail that we know of them it would seem that the people of the lake regions tréquently detain travellers as long as they can, not, perhaps, from iil will, or with the view of plundering them—although is quite Natural that they should wish to aequire a3 much as they can of the stranger's wealth—but because they are noi ina position to forward, with- out danger to ihemselves, ine traveller on his way. ‘The whoie system of African policy is based upon the ee oe of avoiding responsibility. The fear of nourring responsibility enters into all their traus- actions, and especially with strangers, Take te following case, drawn from my own experience in Africa, as an iinstration of what | mean: A traveller arrives at the chief eg of a tribe, syuchronous with his arrival a disease breaks out in the village, an accident happens to the chief or some of his family, or any other casualty occurs, The traveller is regarded 28 in some Way the cause of this misfortune, but those who sent himgon, rather than he, are heid to be responsible for the Ul effects of his visit, and if they have not by previous negotiaviong secured themseives against the consequences of any possible disasier they are compelled to compensate the sofferers for the damage they had sustained. Unaware of this many @ traveller ascribes to other than the trae cause his detention at some place from whtch he pants to escape. Now, if friendly intercourse between the tribes through whose terriiory the traveiler wishes to pass be in anv way sospended downright fear of consequences luclines those he may be with to keep him until they can without risk to themselves bid him depart in peace. to some such detention, from some such cause, I cannot but think Dr. Livingstone’s long silence is owing. If it be so 1 have no fear but that we shall soon hear of his safety, for African political complt- cations do not last very long. SEPTEMBER 6, Y ROWLEY, INCIDENTS OF THE LATE GALE. [From the Cape Cod Gazette.] On the afternoon of the gale two young men of West sandwich, named Gibbs, went out in the pay ng in adory. The gale comihg upon them car- thelr sali and upset their boat, they the Ww One of them, who could ted him of his boots, look an oar ck out for the shore, which Was about @ mile distant, telling tie other, who Could not swim, to cling ‘to tue wreck. and he would s him, After reaching the shore he construc raft, composed of several rails, wich he secured With his pants, by vg them into strips for the purpose, launched 16 and starced to the rescue of his companion, When witnm @ few rods of him the Taft wasdashed to pieces. He clung to one of tae . told his companion to hang on to the boat, and struck ont for the shore. He then constructed another launch with boarda, wmeh he secured by tearmg hig drawers into strips and a tew nails. With this he started for the wrecg, and when wit a short distance of the boat molished by the waves, 1 cut the a r nd drifted a re tue boat was righted and bailed out. They then divided clothes and started for home. [From the Pawcrucket Gazette and Chronicle.) Four young ladies of Attleboro started in a carryan on Weduesday of last week to attend acamp meet. ing, and while on their way home were overtaken by the gale. The wind lifted the body and rear Wheels of their carriage and themselves into the alr, and deposited them in not the gentlest manner in the highway. The horse went of with the forward Wheels and sought shelter in & stable. One of the young ladies pursued him and approached the stable in asad plight, She had nothing on ner head but her hair, and this, which was of great length, was spread by the’ wind horizontally. She was without @ shawl, and o! course wringing wet, and altogether she presented a singular appearance. Approacting the stable and seeing the fugitive horse she claimed the animal. A man in charge of the premises asked her if she wanted to take him then. She repiied in the affirmative, and on being asked where she was going said she was “going home.’ And thereupon she took the reins, mounted the forward axietree and drove of while the storin was raging in its greatest fury. What became of RE - her companions or the carryali we have not eard, MONUMENT TO THE LATE HIDAM WOODRUFF. [From the New York Spirit of the Times. By the laudable exertions of Mr. George U. Hall, of Brooklyn, seconded by the ald of many other gentle- men, a suitable monument has Ji been erected over the grave of the lamented and well remem- Hiram Woodrafl. It 1s chaste, substantial and valuable, like the fame and character of the man whose memory it has been erected to commemorate, and it bears the following inscription:— Te RE, T To THE MEMORY OF H HIRAM WASHINGTON WOODRUFF Born February 22, 1817, Died March 16,1467, 3 Aorp Firty YRai Tare MowUMENT wat ERKOTED By mia Frinwns. 3 or nese period of forty and driving the ing horse of America, he was alike conspleuous for ua, bis unawerving integrity aiid his kindness of b rm ! ‘widow, Sarah Anne Woodruff, joins in thi na entan thee - ph Be is simple: OOLTOOSIOLPLOLOGE-LOLEDETE DES ICLOLE DEDEDE DOLE HE In after rears, when all those who knew him int). mately will have long passed away, Hiram’s mem. ory endure. Many visitors to the lofty heights ot the cemetery where his ashes lie intered, while gazing Wy) the pleasant Jand and the distant sea, ‘will ask for the hsgeed ‘ the Knight of Oreiti Wyre arte ats nt rook on the slope of Helvellyn, of @ you tree, ‘was pleasant to hear, though ‘the winter alone— in aa grown! rust— rit io he sais fo uml * LD, SUNDAY, SEPTE CUBA. Increasing Discontent Against De Rodas’ Administration. : The Atrocities of the Volunteers to be Investigated. ‘The steamship Mariposa, Captafy Campbell, from Havana the 12th inst., arrived here yesterday. she brings news of interest up to date of sailing, Opposition of the Spanish Residents to Inter- vention—Their Suspicions of the Regency Circular of the Spanish Clubs—Grumblings Against Rodas—The American Squadren— The Fight at Tunas—Interesting Details Recruiting—Destruction of Estates—The Next Crop—Politicn! Prisoners—Sequestra- tionsSpanish Reports. HAVANA, Sept. 11, 1869, The Spanish residents of Cuba are loyal to the monarchy and patriotic, but they seem to have no great liking forthe Regency. Indeed, they suspect it, and most of them, still believing that the insur- rection can be put down, are shaping their oppo- sition to any project which it may entertain for the sale or relinquisninent of the island. This oppo- sition manifested itself more particularly in the Spantzh Club, Casino Espafiol, and your rather startling propositions have been most favorably received within its walls and beneath the mask of social intercourse, As for example:—The establish- ment of an independent government, to remain in entire harmony with the people of Spain, monarchs, because successful revolutionists, until the election of a king or some other event which shall happily terminate Serrano’s reign. Acircular addressed to all the volunteers of the island proposing the establishment of club organ- isations throughout the island, to be in relation with tho Havana Club has been sent out. It is antici- puted that the Captain General will endeavor to put a stop to political discussions in this and other clubs, and then come what may, perhaps a trip to Spain tor his Excellency—da la Dulce. The recent trip of Rodas to Matanzas 1s now said to have had some connection with this matter, and he was ad- vised by the Governor there and other leading ofM- clais that in case of any proposition for the sale of the island or the recoguition of belligerent rights to tne Oubans, there would bo great and uncontroiiabie disorders among the volun- teers. To prevent theso or to suppress them it was proposed to arm ail professediy loyal persons, whether Cuban or Spaniard, but it ‘Was not accepted, as being too dificult and too dan- eerous, That his Exceliency is thoughtfully alive to the gravity of the situation, in view of the possible action of the United States, there is no doubt. Whether he will be able to meet it or no is problem. atical. The Spaniards look with dread upon the extensive operations going on tn the North for fitting out the squadron designed for these waters, Last year American war vessels here excited their laughter; and well (hey might, as they compared the insizuificant gunboats with the magulficent frigates of Spain, England and France. But they have ceased. The north wind brings down the sound of ammers, and they say it presages a hurricane, Meanwhile they prepare to meet it. may be anticl- pate it. So the action of the United States should be at (east cotemporary with the arrival of her squad: ron, Wf at all inimical to Spanish domination on this island. The great fight at Las Tunas—as described in my correspondence of the 9th—-continues the subject of conversation, and, though no further information has been received, in the mouths of Cubans and Spaniards the story 4akes a thousand curious shapes. That a number o} prigoners were burned when the prison butiding was fired to prevent 1ta falling into the hands of the insurgents there 1s no doubt. The Captain General is naturally very indignant at this, A Spanish officer present at the battle says the Cubans approacied the intrenchments witn great bravery, but rather like a mobthan an army, with- out any pretensions to line of battle. Before day- light on the morning of the attack a body of Spaniards, dressed precisely like the msurgent with the lone star in tin upon their hats, wen! out, and, coming upon the Cuban encampment, commenced shouting, “Viva Cuba Libre!” “Viva Tidependencia t'! “Viva Cespedes 1” mingled among the men, and with their knives stabbed to the heart mauy of them when sieepmg or unsuspictous of the presence of a foe. They were not discovered until the gray of the morning, when they Sed, hotly pur- sued, to their intrenchmenta, The sergeant, as he rode behind the wors, gaily exclaimed, “They smelt me !* pnd he was much applauded: Happily truth and poetical justice go hand in hand in furnishing a sexjuel to the story; he Was Killed during the day. ‘There is no doubt that great ruin and desolation have come upon Tunas and its inhabitants, Many of the latter, driven from their homes, are wandering about the country destitute, and in danger from both Cubans and Spaniards, Some were trying to Mauke their way to Puerto Padre. Recruiting tor the battalion intended for tne field and Known as Guias de Rodas goes on very slowly, Some 4% men have been raised in Havana and Matanzas, and over places some 200 mo: in Nuevitas recruiting 1s going on among the biacks, and eighty had been enlisted at last accounts General Puello, commanding in ferto Principe, nad but small satistaction of his black allies, who joined him soon after his arrival, and on account of his being @ negro, as they soon afterwards fled, taking with them a considerable number originally in the Spanish ranks. From the Quatro Villas, Sancti Spiritus, Moron, Puerto Principe and other points, eacounters are officially reported, all with the same character and a (he same result; that ia, favorable to the Span- lards. ‘Yhe Diario has information from Mapzaniilo to the effect that a column, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Juan Lopez del Campiilo, composed of troops and volunteers, attacked tae insurgent chief Modesto Diaz im his formidable intrenchments near the River Yara, wok them and routed the redeis, killing fourteen, The pursuit continued for some days and until they took refuge in the Sierra. ‘The destruction of estaies continues. The insar- gents lave burned severat belonging to the Ysnages, hear Trinidad, They have given large suis to sup- port the volunteers and forces employed in guarding estates. ‘Ihe insurgen's recently came to the estate of Mr. Terry, near Cleufnegos, and carried off twenty-six negroes. twenty-turee Chinamen, the overseer and other i rcure for the North, and under ration, Seflor Soldama obtained permission to keep some twenty five or thirty armed inen on his estates near Matanzas, These recently endeavored to excite the negroes to rise, and tie thing coming to the ear of the Chief of the Guardia Civil he went to the estates and killed nine ol them. ‘They were ica canary Islanders, ‘The planters of Colon and Jaguey Grande believe that it will be Impossibie to make the next year’s crop of sugar, as all the negroes jeave the estates as soon as the insurgentd appear in namobera enough to protect them. To prevent su| plies falling: into the hands of the msurgen a decree has been issued forbidding the transporta- tion of any box or bale, containing arms or ammuni- tion, salt, medicines and certain other articles, without a permit from the Governor or Lieutenant Governor of the jurisdiction. The sale of machetes 1s prohibited, except Lo proprietors of estates, under certain restrictions, The station masters on the rail- road are required to examine all boxes coming to their respective places, and report to the Adminis- trator of the road, Shippers are made responsibie and required to place their names on the boxes, Orders have been issued to the employers of the railroad to pay particular respect to such of their number as are volunteers, AS most of them are Cu- bans, this is likely fo cause mach dissatisfaction. The property of the following named gentiemen, ofCardenas, has been conditionaliy embargoed: Jian Gai jalva, Ricardo Mathin, Juan Perez del Castillo, Rafael de Zayas Ochoa and Manuel Diaz Gonzales. That of the lollowing gentleman has been released :—Santiago Laurence, etafio Pascual, ‘The Superior Polttical Government has made dis- position of political prisoners a8 follows:—To be sub- jected to council of war—José B. Coloma, To be exiled to Ceuta—Carios Diaz Molina, Andres de ia Torre, Exiled to Meilila— Antonio Flunack y Gariol. To be sent to the Peninsula and placed at the dispo- sition of the general a re a Acosta, Pantaleon Alfonso, Manuel Alfonso and Antonio aloma. To change his residence—Isidro Rivero, Insurgents in Fi Arriba—Organtzation of Vol- unteers—Reported Defoatjot Jordan a Ca- nard—Wonnding of the Spanish Commander Reported Disaffection of Marmol—Legul Proceedings Against Valmnaseda and Pala- ciosRobberies by Spanish Officers. SANTIAGO DB CUBA, Sept. 4, 1860. Through the emigrants who have arrived here from the Fi Arriba district we learn that the insur- gents in large numbers are in possession of aald die- trict, They also report having heard on the let and 2d instant salutes with cannon by the insurgents in honor of news favorable to their cause received from the United States, There is also @ current report here of the death of the two brothers called Marcano, who as chiefs served in the ranks of the insurgents. It te aaid they were assassinated by six of their Gubordinates, who, having presented themselves &nd proposed to the Spanist Captain Ampudis, Provided be spaggd tygir Uves, vo Kill the Arat two MBER 19, 1869.—-TRIPLE SHEET. referred to. Captain Ampudia accéded fo thetr request, and @ few hours after they retarned with the news that they had consummated the assassina- tion, This news, however, 1s not positive, although the volunteers hold it to be a fact which 18 proved. Omeially nothing is known, though the death of Donato Marmol has several times been announced, We, however, see him tn new engagements, to the dissatisfaction of the Spaniards, who believed him to be dead. On the evening of the ist inst. two prisoners, one. white and the other colored, arrived here, brought by two of the mobilized, They were taken to the Government House, and it was quite a novelty to hear the opinions and the delight of tne Catalan volunteers, who believed they would be shot the next morning. Some were of opinion that they should be immedfately shot and dragged along the atreets; but great was fhetr dissatisfaction when they learned that they were not prisoners of a politi- {cal character and would be released the next day, A new company of volunteers is now to be organ- ized here, to be denominated “Flankers of the bat- talion of order." The commander of the same will be Mr. Eloy de la Sierra, administrator of the customs of this city. On Sunday, 5th mstant, at 5 A. M., they will have a campaign mass on the boulevard of this place, and will proceed a‘terwards to the Cobre, where they are to partake of @ dinner at the sole expense of Mr. Eloy de la Sierra, It is unnecessary to add that the volunteers of this new corps are the me that composed the other baitalions, and who have abandoned their ranks to enlist in the pew company, attracted by the noveity, Our Governor, Mr. Simon de la Torre, also thinks of going to Cobre so pass @ season there, which is to begin the sth of this month, on “Caridad” day, the patron saint of that village. “It is supposed there will be great feast- ings and amusements, on which occaston the prest- dent of the village has been authorized to givea salute with cannon, The Governor of this city will be accompanied by the “Guias of Generat La Torre.’ On the 3d inst. 1t was reported here that there had been an engagement between the volunteers of Mt- ee Perez, of Guantanamo, and General Jordan, that rez had been seriously wounded and had routed Jordan, killing seventy of his men and taking sixty jsoners. This affair, 1¢ 19 sald, took place at ‘oguas, distant some ten leagues from the city. ‘With such a plausible motive the volunteers paraded our streets with a band of music, crying hurrah and other magic cries or exclamations. ‘‘'o-day the veil ‘under which the truta lay has been removed, and, to the great pain of the volunteers, it turns out that thero is no such thing. The oniy point of truth in the whole statement was the wounding of Perez, caused by a volley from the insurgents concealed in ambush. It ls aiso reported that the insurgent Colonel Edu- ardo del Marmol desires to pass over to the Spanish government with 300 of his subordinates, The truth of this is not known; but it ts supposed it will turn out @ hoax, like the engagement of Perez, Colonel Lopez Camara leaves this evening in the steamer Clenfuego* for Manzanillo. He will proceed to Bavamo and Jiguant to institute a legal process against Colonel Palacios and Valmaseda, on account of the assassinations committed on bacld had respect- able persons of this city. Satd Colonel Cémara rans a great risk in this miaston, for the assassins spare no means of escaping from the punishment of their crimes. The news of this butchery has caused a tremendous’ sensation In this city, and many of the few young men who still remained in it have taken to the fleid to unite themselves to their brothers to ficht for the independence of their country and to heip to drive away the tyrants who desolate tt. About a week since some fifty young men, relatives of the murdered victims, lef on an expedition, Another 1s being organized, and soon hope to evade He 7isuenle of the guards posted on the outskirts of the city. The captain of the mobilized volunteers, Campillo, 13 also being tried for robberies and for abuses com- mitted by himself and the body under bis command. Many tobacco planters ana yr farmers are pre- senting themselves, complaining and claiming to- bacco and other products which Campillo caused them to surrender under the penalty of being shot. The government has taken ion of several stores aid warehouses where Campiilo had stored and deposited the eifects he had robbed in the vari- ous districts where he operated with the mobilized volunteers. Some 300 bales of tobacco atone have been found. Notwithstanding this the government has not vroken Campilio from the service and has only moved himgto another district. He is now in Jaraguica, where he will doubtless again practise his robberies. Valmasena ts expected here on the 8th Inst. It is said he brings a lst of all the Freemasons of this city, to pursue them and attribute crimes to them that they may be judged and shot. It is some time since this General has been pursuing Freemasons, of whom he ii deadfy enemy, and which he has proved to many who have fallen into his hands, It is also reported here that the insurgents will attack the village called Cobre during the feast which the Spaniards propose to celebrate there; the aay nts are concentrating all their By or the plan will meet with su the Gov- ernor and all his followers always attend these feasts and will as usual be found intoxicated. Our first authority is also always to be found at the balls given on Sunday evening at the theatre, called Co- mercio, These bails are Of @ most immoral charac- ter, and only the low colored women and volunteers attend them, Many attest having scen the Governor dancing with one of these women—he seeming very much pleased at it. The insurgents, with a know- ledge of the foregoing facts, have chosen @ most o} tune moment to show the authorities that while hey dance there are many who are wide awake to the patriotic defence of the country. THE STOWE-BYRON CASE. Defence of Lord Byron—Lady Anne Barnard aud Lady Byron’s Statements—Sir Walter Scott’s Opinion. To THE EDITOR OF THR LONDON TIMES :— I have waited in expectation of a categorical dental of the horrible charge brought by Mrs. Beecher Stowe against Lord Byron and his sister, on the alleged authority of the late Lady Byron, Such denial has been only indirectly given by the letter of Messra. Wharton and Fords In your impres- sion of Serge ‘That letter 1s suiicient to prove that Lady Byron never contemplated the use made of her name, and that her descendants and representatives disclaim any countenance of Mrs. B. Stowe’s article; but it does not specifically meet Mrs. Stowe’s allegation that Lady Byron in conversing with her thirteen years ago affirmed the charge now before us. It remains open, therefore, to a scandal loving world to credit the calumny through the advantage of this flaw, involuntary, L believe, in the answer paged ones against tt. My ob- ject in addressing you is to supply that deficiency by Proving that what is now stated oo Lady Byron's supposed authority is at variance in all respects with what she stated immediately after tie separa- tion, when everything was fresh in her memory in relation to the time during which, according to Mrs. B. Stowe, she believed that Byron and nis sister were living together tn guilt. I publish this evidence with reluctance, but in obedience to that higher obliga- tion of Justice to the voiceless and defenceless dead, which bids me to break througi @ reserve that other. wise I should have held sacred. Tne Lady Byron of 1818 would, I am certain, have sanctioned my doing so had she foreseen the present unparalleied occa- gion, and the bar that the conditions of her will present (as I infer from Messrs. Wharton and Fords’ letter) against any fuller communica- tion. Caiumnies such as the present sink deep and with rapidity into the public mind, and are not easily eradicated. Tue fame of one of our greatest poets, and that of the kindest, and truest, and most constant friend that Byron ever had, is at stake; and tt will not do to wait for revelations frot the fountain-head, which are not promised, and possibly may never reach us. The late Lady Anne Barnard, who died in 1825, ® contemporary and friend of Barke, Windham, Dundas and a host of the wise id good of that generation, and remembered in ietters ag the authoress of “Auld Robin Gray.” had known the late Lady Byron from infancy, and took a warm mterest in her, holding Lord Byron in correspond- ing repugnance, not to say prejudice, in conse- quence of what she believed to be lis harsh and cruel treatment of her young friend. I transcribe the LA J passages and a letter from Lady Byron herself (written in 1818) from ricordt, or pri- vate family memoirs, in Lady Anne’s autograph, now before me. 1 include the letter because, although treating only in general terms of the mat- ter and the causes of the separation, it affords col- lateral evidence the cyarge non upon the point of the credibility of the charge now tn question: LADY ANNE BARNARD'S LETTER. ‘The separation of Lord and Lady Byron astonished the world, which belteved him a reformed man as to bis habits and a becalmed man as to his remorses, He had written nothing after his marriage till the famous «Fare thee well,” which had the power of compelling those to pity the writer who were not well awure that he was not the unhappy person he affected to be. Lady Byron’s misery was whispel goon after her marriage and his ili-usage; but ho word transpired, no sign escaped from her. She gave birth shortly to @ daughter, and when she went as soon as she Was recovered on a visit to her father’s taking her little Ada with her, no one knew that tt ‘was to return to her lord no more, At that pertod @ severe fit of tilness had confined me to bed lor two months. 1 heard of Lady Byron’s distress; of the pains he took to uve & harsh impression of her chi acter to the world. I wrote wo her, and entreated her to come and let me see and near her, if abe con- ceived my co, or counsel coald be any co! fort to her. She came; but what a tale was unfolded by this interesting young creature who had so fondly hoped to have made & young man of genius and romance (as she pare happy. They had not been an hour in the which con- into @ malignant you have been to your imagination. or &@ woman of your sense could form the wild Sat Ss ee 1 Many are the tears you will re to ahed ere that plan is accompllane Itis enough for me that you are my wife for me to hal you; rou were the wife of any other man I own you might have charms,” &c. 1, who listened, was ‘aston! “How could you go on after this,” said I, “my dear? Why did not return to your “Because I had not @ conception he was io earnest; feat, and tot te A pen bad Rut Braet ain Re would Et find me fide, “He jauged want bed pageed a routpaber — Neve he was pleaged with me, too, for a little while. Tauppose tt bad escaped his memory that | was his ” But she described the happiness they en- joved to have been unequal and perturbed. Her Situation in a short ume might have entitled her to some tenderness, but she made no claim on him forany. He sometimes reproached her for the mo- tives tnat had induced her to marry him—all was “vanity, the Vanity of Miss Milbanke carrying the pant of refarming Lord Byron! He always knew er inducements; her pride shut her eyos to kis; he wished to build up hig Character and his fortunes; both were somewhat deranged; she had a hivh name and would have a fortune worth his attenttion—let her look to that for his motives 1’? “0, Byron, Byron,” she said, “how you desolate me!’ Ho would then accuse himself of being mad, and throw himself on the ground in a frenzy, which © believed was affected to conceal the coldness and malignity of his heart—an affectation which at that time never failed to meet with the tendezest commiseration, I could find by some implications, not followed up by me lest she might have con- demned herself afterwards for her involuntary dis- closures, that he soon actempted to corrupt her prin- ciples both with respect to her own conduct and her latitude for his, She saw the precipice on which * she stood, and eps hia sister with her as much as possible. He returned in the evenings irom the haunts of vice, where he made her understand ne had been, with manners so profane? “O, the wretcn!” said J, “and had he no moments of remorse?” ‘Sometimes he appeared to have them, One night, coming home from one of his lawless parties, he saw me so indignantly collected, and bearing all with such a determined calinness, that a rush of remorse seemed to come over him; he called himseif a monster, though bis sister was presen’ aud threw himself in agony at my feet. I coul not—no—I could not give such injuries, He had lost me forever!’ Astonished at the return of irtue, my tears, I believe, vi flowed over his face, and I sad, “Byron, all is for- gotten; never, never shall you hear of it morel” He started up, and, folding his arms while he looked at me, burst into langhter. “What do you mean?” said I. “Only a philosophical experiment, i) all,” said he; “I wished to ascertain the value of your resolutions.’” I need not say more of this prince of duplicity, except that varied were his methods of rendering her wretched, even to the last. When her lovely littie child was born, and it was laid beside its mother on the bed, and he was informed “he might see his daughter,’ after ing at i¢ with an omulting: smile, this was the ejaculation that broke from him, “Oh!” what an implement of torture have I acquired in you)? Such he rendered it by bis eyes and manner,e keeping her in a perpetual alarm for its safety when in his presence. All this reads madder than I believe he was; but she had not then made ue her mind to disbelieve his pretended insanity, and conceived it best to intrust her secret wita the excellent Dr. Balt- lie, telling him all that seemed to regard the state of her husband’s mind, ana letting his advice regulate fer conduct, Baie doubted of his derangement, but, as he did not reckon his own opinion infallib} he wished her to take precautions as it her husban was so, He recommended her gomg to the country, but to give him no suspicion of her intentions of re- maining there, aod for a short time to show no coldness in her Jetters tll she could better ascer- tain his state. She went—regrotting, as she told mej too wear auy semblance but the trath. A shorts time disclosed the story to the word. He acted the part of aman driven to despair by her inflexible resentment, and by the arts of a governess (once a servant in the family) who hated him. “I will give ‘ou,”? proceeded Lady Anne, “a few paragraphs Yranseribed from one of Lady Byron’s own letters to me. Itis sorrowiul to think that in very little time this young and amtabie creature, wise, patient and feeling, will have her character mistaken by every one who reads Byron’s works. To rescue her from this { preserved her letters, and when she after- wards expressed a fear that anything of her writing should ever fall tnto hands to injure him (i suppose she meant by pubtication) I safely assured her that ivnever should. But here tits letter shail be placed, sacred record in her favor, unknown to herself:— LADY BYRON’S LETTER, lama very incompetent judge of the Impression which the last canto of “Childe Harold’? may pro- duce on tne minds of Indifferent readers.g:t contains the usual trace of @ conscience restlessly awake, thongh his object has been too long to aygravate its burden, as if it could thus be oppressed into eternal stupor. I will hope, as you do, that it survives for his ultimate good. It was the acuteness of nis re- morse, tmpenitence of his character, which so long seemed to demand from) my com- passion to spare every semblance of reproach, every look of grief, which might have said to his conscience, “You have made me wretched.” Tam decidedly of opinion that he is responsible, He has wished to be thought partially deranged, or on the brink of it, to perplex observers and prevent them from tracing effects to their real causes through all the intricacies of his conduct, I was, as I told yon, at one time the dupe of his acted insanity, and clung to the former delusions in regard to the motives that concerned me personally ti!l the whole system was lald bare. He is the absolute monarch of words, and uses them as Buonaparte did lives for con- quest, without more regard to their intrinsic value, considering them only as ciphers which must derive ail their import from the situation in which he places them and the ends to which he adapts them ‘with such consummate skill. Woy, then, you will say, does he not employ them to give a better color to his own character? Because he 1s too good an actor to over-act, or to assume a moral garb which 1t would be easy to strip off. In regard to his poetry egotism ig the vital principle of his imagination, which i isjdifficutt for him to kindle on any subject with which his own character and ‘Interests are not identified; but by the introduction of fictitious inct- dents, by change of scene or time, he has enveloped his poetical disclosures in & system impenetrable except to a very few, and his constant desire of creating a sensation makes him not averse to be the object of wonder and curiosity, even though accompanied by some dark and vague sus- picion. Nothing has contributed more to the mts- understanding of his real character than the lonety grandeur in which he shrouds it, and his affectation of being above mankind, when he exists almost in their volce. The romance of his sentiments is an- other feature of this mask of staic. 1 know no one more habitually destitute of that enthusiasm he so beautifully expresses, and to which he can work up his fancy chiefy by contagion. 1 bad heard he was the best of brothers, the most generous of friends, and I thought sucn feelings only required to be warmed and cherished into more, diffusive be- nevolence. Though these opinions are eradica' and could never return but with the decay of my memory, you will not wonder if there are still mo- ments When the association of feelings which arose trom them soften and sadden my thoughts. but I have not thanked you, dearest Lady Anne, for your kindness in regard to a principal object—that of rectifying false impressions. I trust you under- stand my wishes, which never were to injure Lord Byron in any way; for though he would not suffer me to remain his wife, he cannot prevent me from continuing his friend; and it was from considering myself as such that I silenced the accu- sations by which my own conduct might have beea more fully justified. It 1s not necessary to speak il of hig heart in general; 1t 18 suMcient that to me it was hard and impenetrable—shat my owh must have been broken before hia could have been touched, [ would rather represent this as my mis- fortune than as his guilt; but, surely, that misfor- tune 1s not to be made my crime! Such are my feelings; you will judge how to act. His allusions to me in “Childe Harold” are croel and cold, but with such a semblance as to make me appear 50, and to attract all sympathy to himself. It is said in this poet that hatred of him wiil be taught as a leason to his child, I might ap- peal to all who have ever neard me speak of him, and still more to my own heart, to witness that there bas been no moment when I have remembered injury otherwise than affectionately and sorrowtuliy. It 1s not my duty to give way to hopeless and wholly unrequited affection; but, so long as I live, my chief struggle will probably be not to remember bim too kindly, I do not seek the sympathy of the world, but [wish to be known by tiose whose opinion is valuable and whose kindness 1s dear to me. Amoag such, my dear Lady Anoe, you will ever be remembered by your truiy affectionate A. BYRON. CONCLUSIONS. It Is the province of your readers (of the London Times) and of the world at large to judge between the two testimonies now before them—Lady Byron’s in 1816 and 1813, anc that put forward in 1869 by Mrs. B. Stowe, a8 communicated by Lady Byron thirteen years ago. In the face of the evidence now given, Rey negative and circumstantial, there can be but two alternatives m the case—etther Mrs. B. Stowe must have entirely misunderstood Lady Byron and been thus led into error and misstate- Ment, or we must conclude that, under the pressure of a lifelong and secret sorrow, Lady Byron’s mind had become clouded” with a hallucination in respect of the particular ig in question, The reader will admire the noble but severe character displayed in Lady Byron’s letter; but those who keep In view what her frat \apresasions were, aa above recorded, may probably place @ more lenient interpretation than hers upon some of the incidents alleged to Byron's discredit. I shall conclude with some remarks Cir his character, written shortly after his death by a wise, virtuous and charitaple judge, the late SIR WALTER SCOTT, likewise in a letter to Lady Anne Barnard:— Fletcher's ount of poor Byron is extremely Interesting. had always a attachment (o that unfortunate, though most richly gifted man, because I thought I saw that his virtues (and he had Many) were his own, and wis eccentricities the result of an irritable temperament, which some- times approached nearly to mental disease. Those who are et ‘with strong nerves, & regular temper and habitual -command are not perhaps aware how much of what they think virtue they owe to constitution; and such are but too severe judges of men like Byron, whose min like @ day of alternate storm and sunshine, is all dark shades and sti leams of light, instead of the twilight gray which tiuminates Ld though Jess distinguished mortals. I always thought that ‘When & moral proposition was placed plainiy before Lord Byron his mind yielded a pleased and willing assent to it; but if there was any side viow given in the way of railiery or otherwise he was wiil- ing enough to evade conviction, * * #* It @ugurs i for the cause of Greece that is master spirit should nave been withdrawn from their assistance just as he was ob- taining a complete ascendency over ti counsels, I have seen several letters from the, Ionian Island all of which unite in speaking in the highest rales Of the wisdom and temperance of his counsels and the ascendency he was obtaining over the turbulent and ferocious chiefs of the insurgents. I have some verses written by him on his Isst birthday. They rit wards and a breathe a of lon tor desire of dying in battle, which seems Vike All an- tae ee DuNRoHT, Sopt, & "