ciate upon their recent terms; there was no revival | course which he was driven, or believed himself of their former amity; it seemed to have vanished driven, to adopt; and this desertion only conduced forever. to increased dissatisfaction. In retaliation, Lady Matilda resumed, as a wife, with seemingly an augmented zest, those habits of flirtation which had rendered her so notorious as a maiden. to this conduct, Mr. Byron very naturally thought proper to oppose his veto; and tenfold were the altercations which consequently ensued.

But

But why then not separate? Why plunge madly into a union in which there appeared not the least prospect of happiness? I know not. Perhaps their vanity interposed. All the world had heard of their betrothment; and consequently perhaps both equally feared that all the world might say of each that his or her particular self had subsequently been repudiated by the other. Or, perhaps, their dormant affection was still superior both to their present unnatural state of estrangement, and to their apprehensions of future discords. I repeat, I know not. In either case, their conduct was rash and foolish. But one must not attempt to analyze, or explain the dissensions of lovers, or measure them by the rules of reason, or even by those of the very commonest common sense; for if we did, we should only too often be most discourteously tempted to pronounce that the performers in them are more frequently asinine than rational. The self-delusions and obliquities of passion may be considered to be a most danger- "And is it come to this!" she exclaimed ; ously democratic influence; for, with an even" that I should live to hear him say to me that more than American insanity for equalization, they remorselessly reduce the intellectual autocrat to the level of mental bondage.

They had existed in this state of connubial infelicity for more that a twelvemonth, when their final quarrel occurred. Harsher and more reproachful language had been interchanged, in the progress of their mutual exasperation, than had ever been previously uttered by either. At last, their dissension arrived at such a height that it was only terminated by Byron quitting the room, solemnly protesting that he would never again return to a house in which he had experienced so much misery. Until his departure, anger was the predominant passion which Lady Matilda had manifested. But as soon as the door had closed upon his retreating form, she burst into tears.

we must separate! Yet, for this result I believe I ought to reproach myself, far more than him. Still, I sometimes fondly fancy that we are mutually beloved; at least, God only knows how truly my heart is devoted to him. That we misunderstand each other, my conscience often assures me; but the habit of quarrelling, and of division, has been so long commenced and matured, that Heaven alone can tell how it is ever to be termi

However, in the present instance, a word may be offered in defence of the course of my hero and heroine; for in the inmost breast of either, existed a latent and criminating consciousness, which, in spite of all self-advocacy and sophistry, convicted each of having often wronged the other. The natural result of this severe self-upbraiding was, an in-nated! No longer do I look to the future with hope. voluntarily mitigated condemnation of the conduct of the other. Consequently, both may have entertained, in spite of all their petty piques and caprices, such an opinion of each other's character, as to justify a probability of their future happiness.

They were married. And Mrs. Colquhoun was present at the ceremonial, and at the nuptial dejeuner.

Hope! the sentiment is up-rooted from my nature. I believe he is right-I believe he would be happier if I were divided from him—at least, for a time. Poor, dear Fitz-Roy! your peevish wife shall not be a bar to your entrance to your own house. It is but executing now the plan which I have so long meditated, and to which, sooner or later, I feel I shall be compelled to resort. Yes, Weeks, months elapsed, but neither time nor this very day, this very hour, will I repair to my matrimony increased their mutual understanding. father's, and reside with him, until my absence If ever the French phrase, fausse position, was shall have restored to us both, our former feelthoroughly applicable to a position, it was to theirs.ings. God, who sees into my heart, knows, that Loving each other most dearly, yet was each, in not from my own unhappiness, but from the conthe avenging consciousness of past deceptions and sciousness of his, I derive the fortitude to undergo levities, eternally tormented by the apprehension this temporary misery!" of the indifference of the other. They had eyes, but they could not see; they had ears, but they could not understand. Dearly, then, did they atone for their former frailties! Though they could not always be so obstinately blind as not to obtain occasional glimpses of the truth, yet they may be said to have lived in an almost ceaseless fear of their mutual insincerity.

Time progressed; and with it, the increase of their dissensions. Who, at one period, could have conjectured that Byron should ever have been compelled to resort to Tattersall's, or to seek a refuge in his clubs, from the domestic bickerings of Lady Matilda Morden? Yet such was the

In this resolution, she immediately ordered her carriage; and then repaired to her chamber, to make the necessary arrangements. In a brief while they were completed; and she prepared to depart. But in this intention, she had no sooner opened the door of her apartment, than a strange and confused murmur struck sadly upon her ear. She gazed inquiringly at her attendant; and her attendant responded by a look of expressive surprise. But neither of them spoke; for there was something in the nature of the disturbance which riveted their attention to it alone. Lady Matilda descended, with some anxiety, a few of the stairs; while the sounds of many steps, and many muf

head lay droopingly on his face, and their abundant tears copiously mingled, they dislodged a heavy burthen from their hearts, and expiated all their mutual follies. Like those rivers which are called into existence by some fierce terrestrial con

fled voices, evidently approached. She listened affection which they then manifested. While her intently. There was a noise, and a bustle; but there was a solemn stillness in them, which at last succeeded in awakening in her a profound, though still a vague alarm. Rapidly she then again descended, until she met, borne by four men, on a rude litter, the body of her husband, disfig-vulsion, their dormant and deeply latent virtues ured by blood and mire!

Senselessly, on the hard stone, without a groan, or a sound, instantly sank the unhappy Matilda.

required a grave crisis to arouse them into a permanent being. But the earthquake shock had occurred; a knell had sounded that had vibrated to When she recovered, she found herself in her their very souls; and they were morally saved. own room, extended on her own bed, and attended For weeks Byron languished on his bed of by her own domestics and a physician. For a mo- | pain, gradually growing more feeble. At last, the ment she looked wildly around; but in the next, physicians thought themselves bound to inform him the recollection of the horrible incident she had that if he had still any testamentary provisions to just witnessed, returned to her, and she uttered make, he should immediately commence them. the words, "My husband!" The physician first The unfortunate man submissively received their attempted to impress upon her the necessity of tran- decree; and giving a key to his disconsolate wife, quillity, and then to address to her phrases of am-requested her to repair to his library, thence to biguous consolation. But, arising suddenly, and obtain certain necessary documents, which he degazing sternly on the humane equivocator, with a scribed to her. masculine vehemence, which no human being could once have supposed this feminine being to have possessed, she almost insanely demanded to be acquainted with the worst.

In the conviction that any further opposition or attempt at delusion would only be productive of evil, the physician acquainted her that Byron had been run over by a cabriolet; had been much bruised, and his leg dangerously broken; but that he still lived, and might recover.

No power could then prevent her from immediately repairing to the chamber of her husband. Oh, how fearfully did her heart reproach her, when her eyes encountered the piteous spectacle which there presented itself! He whom she had left in all the vigor of life and health, he whom she now found that she adored, lay crushed and mutilated before her, a helpless, senseless object. And if aught could be found to increase the agony of such a sight as this, it existed in the dreadful consciousness that she might regard herself as the cause of this terrible catastrophe ; for, even in that moment of torture, she felt, that but for her peevish provocations, he might never have quitted his home, and consequently have been still a hale and happy man. But if this thought pained her then, what words can describe the remorse, the curse, that it afterwards became to her!

On the outside of almost all the papers was some brief indication of their contents. At last, however, she observed one, that was folded as a letter, but unsealed, and without a superscription. She opened it, and discovered a small heap of rose-leaves, and the withered stem which had once sustained and confined them in the form of the most beautiful flowers. On the interior of the envelope were written these words: “The gift of Matilda Morden, now my beloved wife. May God ever protect and prosper her! and ultimately incite her to return the affection of her fond, and true, yet most unhappy husband."

Back to the couch of Byron, with this packet, and this alone, tottered the forlorn and consciencestricken wife; trembling beneath its light weight, as though she sustained an oppressive burthen. Before his eyes she exhibited its contents; then, reposing her head on his breast, unrestrainedly abandoned herself to her grief, and again bedewed him with a torrent of the bitter tears of mingled affection and regret.

From that day a change occurred in Byron's condition; and gradually he recovered his strength, until all his former health and vigor were restored to him.

It were vain to attempt to depict the joy of Lady Matilda Byron. The extent of it may be best inferred from the description of the change which occurred in her subsequent conduct; for she became, and has ever since remained, the truest, the fondest, and the most exemplary of wives. Her husband fully responds to her affections and to her virtues; and a happier or more united pair do not exist.

I will not loiter in the chamber of sickness, or wiredraw a painful description of the physical sufferings of the husband, or the moral anguish of the fond and contrite wife. The moments that followed his final restoration to his senses were painfully touching. The agony which he had endured, and the peril in which he stood, had also purified him from the leaven of his petty infirmi- And thus did the Two Flirts suffer until they ties; the little frailties which were on the sur- had expiated the crimes of their youth; for harsh face had been surmounted and replaced by the as the assertion may appear to the thoughtless, deeper and more solid qualities of his nature; and and pompously didactic as it may be deemed by strong, fervent, and untinctured by alloy, was the the flippant, I do aver that flirtation is a crime.

From the Examiner, 14th July. SHOULD HUNGARY BE RECOGNIZED ?

the throne of Hungary should be crowned with the crown of St. Stephen, according to the ancient forms and ceremonies, within the realm of HunTHE Hungarian nation is taking steps to claim gary itself, and should at his coronation take a a recognition of its independence by the great pow- solemn oath to preserve inviolate the ancient libers of Western Europe. The grounds on which erties of the Hungarians. This was done by the this claim rests are unassailable. Not only in a legal view is the Hungarian cause strictly just, father; and having complied with all the requisite ex-Emperor Ferdinand during the lifetime of his (its bitterest enemies not daring to impugn it in legal formalities, he was beyond all doubt the lethat respect,) but, notwithstanding all confident assertions to the contrary, the national government the throne of Austria in November last, he progitimate King of Hungary. When he abdicated of Hungary is strong. It not merely commands fessed to abdicate also the throne of Hungary; a the obedience, but receives the enthusiastic sup-step which he was as little empowered to take withport, of the great majority of the Hungarian pop-out the consent of the nation, as to change the diulation. The existing struggle is not against Austria, but against Russia. The Austrians would long since have been driven from the Hungarian soil, had they not called in a foreign auxiliary to crush the nation they could not cope with themselves. The Austrian forces, which at present occupy a small corner of Hungary, are quite insignificant in comparison with the Russian masses. Henceforward, at least, the war must be considered as a war of defence against a foreign invasion. The subjoined intimation is from the Paris cor

respondent of the Times:

rect order of succession. The present Emperor to the throne of Hungary. His father, not he, is of Austria, Francis Joseph, has no claims whatever the direct heir; and if this flaw could be overnot to accept the crown of Hungary on the ancient looked, he has sufficiently declared his resolution and constitutional terms, by the promulgation of that celebrated charte octroyée of March 7, 1849, which is totally opposed to the very essence of the for a long period, adhered to their legitimate monHungarian constitution. The Hungarian nation, arch, Ferdinand; but, considering his notorious Count Teleki has left Paris for London. The incapacity for government, they ultimately acquicount has for some time past been most anxious to esced in his act of abdication, while at the same visit England, with the object, I believe, of not only time, moved by the perfidy and cruelty displayed an interview with Lord Palmerston, but also of con- by the present representatives of the house of ferring with some of your principal statesmen on the affairs of his native country. He has been pre-assembled on the 14th of April of this year, solHabsburg, the Hungarian Lords and Commons, vented from doing so earlier by his manifold occupations and his delicate health. He believes that he will be able to throw much light on Hungarian affairs and prospects, and add considerably to the knowledge of those matters in England. It is well known that Kossuth would be most desirous of establishing intimate and friendly relations with the English nation. All who know Count Teleki describe him as a person of superior talents, high honor, pure patriotism, and of moderation in his political opinions. He belongs, I believe, to one of the most ancient and distinguished noble houses of Hungary; and persons who heard him speak in the diet concur in stating that he was one of the most effective orators of that assembly.

Would the Austrian government have any just ground of complaint, if Hungary were recognized by the great constitutional powers? We think we are entitled to answer this question by a decided negative. The Austrian dynasty has wilfully thrown away all claims to the Hungarian crown. The Hungarian crown was indeed hereditary in the house of Habsburg-Lorraine, but hereditary only under certain conditions, which had been originally laid down and repeatedly confirmed (particularly in 1687, 1722, and 1790) by solemn compacts between that family on the one part, and the Hungarian nation on the other. These conditions have not been adhered to by the house of Habsburg-Lorraine, and the legitimate deduction is, that it has forfeited all claims to the throne of Hungary.

emnly declared, without one dissentient voice, that that house had forfeited all claims to the throne of Hungary.

This is a plain statement which it is not within the power of any one to refute; and we are happy to receive new proof, while we write, that the real question disputed in this great struggle is recognized by writers of the highest authority.

While the Austrian government could have no ground of complaint if Hungary were recognized as an independent state by the Court of St. James', the advantages resulting to England from such a step can hardly be estimated too highly. A market, hitherto closed by the restrictive policy of Austria, would at once be opened to us. We are given to understand that an envoy, duly accredited by the national Hungarian government to the Court of St. James', is now in London, with full powers to conclude a treaty of commerce on exceedingly favorable terms. This market contains no less than fourteen millions of customers in Hungary itself, abounding in raw produce of all kinds wherewith to pay for our manufactured goods; and it would put us into communication with five or six millions more in the adjacent Turkish provinces.

Among the various markets of the world in which British industry and capital find employment and remuneration, none is equal to that of the United States. The English statesman who The conditions were, that the person claiming should secure to us such another market would

be hailed as the benefactor of his country. Such | and material civilization are alike threatened with a market is now offered to us. We have but to destruction by the inroad of the Cossack hordes. will it, and it is ours.

Hungary, with its annexes, contains, as we have stated, a population of not less than fourteen millions; and of these a great proportion of all classes, from the peer to the peasant, is wealthy, fond of comforts, and strongly prepossessed in favor of English manufactures. Their soil is the most productive in Europe. The great central plain has been computed to contain one thousand German square miles, or about fourteen millions of English acres. If we deduct (far too high a proportion) one third for the sandy districts, many of which, however, are by no means valueless, as they furnish soda in great quantities, there remain upwards of nine millions of acres of the richest black garden soil, from five to seven feet in depth. The smaller western plain is hardly inferior in fertility; and those hills that do not abound in mineral treasures, offer in their slopes the most favorable aspect for the production of the wines for which, before restriction supplanted free trade, Hungary was celebrated. We may loosely estimate that Hungary could produce sufficient for the maintenance of all her inhabitants without touching upon the great central plain; so that all the produce to be raised in this vast and fertile district is so much surplus, ready to be exchanged for foreign luxuries.

Hungary must take its wares from others. The question is whether an impoverished Hungary shall be compelled to depend upon Austria for coarse Bohemian manufactures at an exorbitant price, in return for a scanty surplus produce; or whether a wealthy and flourishing Hungary shall seek, in the market of the world, the superior workmanship of Birmingham, Leeds, and Manchester, in exchange for its ever increasing stores of iron, wool, wheat, maize, rapeseed, hemp, tobacco, &c. &c. In such a country, under such a climate, production under free institutions would increase with unparalleled rapidity. And after a few years of free and independent government, there is no reason why Hungary should not be as good a customer to England as the United States.

The Hungarians have always been the consistent advocates of free trade. Diet after diet, both in the present century and the last, has demanded, though in vain, this boon from the government. The separate counties, in their corporate capacity, have done the same. As a last resource, they determined rather to deprive themselves of Austrian manufactures than to submit to be excluded from foreign markets. When a responsible ministry was conceded in April, 1848, by the Austrian cabinet, with a resolution to retract that concession at the first opportunity, one of the first measures to which this ministry directed its attention was the introduction of a most liberal tariff; and the present national Hungarian government is animated by the same views.

Even if the recognition of Hungary as an independent state were not dictated by the higher considerations of justice, humanity, and political expediency-our manufacturing population, now struggling to emerge from the depression of late

But this surplus produce will never be raised if Hungary is condemned to be the slave of a slave, a province of Austria, which itself is in turn a province of the czar. Freedom is the soul of commerce, of agriculture, of material progress of all sorts. What an activity of production in Belgium, as compared with Austria or Russia! What a disproportionate consumption of foreign articles per head! Not merely are the inhabitants of the two great empires deterred from producing, by the restrictions imposed on the free in-years, would have a right to demand that the Hunterchange of the articles they could produce; not merely are they checked, when they do attempt to produce, by false systems of taxation and absurd regulations of all sorts; but there is wanting that indescribable something which distinguishes the intelligent man from the passive instrument, which enables him to associate for the completion of works of public utility, such as in their turn react upon the welfare of the individual, and furnish him with the means of increased production in a still ascending ratio.

garian market, of which a glimpse is now opened to them, shall not be closed again forever under the leaden rule of Austria or the iron despotism of Russia.

But above all, and even beyond these considerations, weighty as they are, Hungary would be a firm and faithful ally, united to us by moral and political as well as by material ties. Hungary is the representative of rational constitutional liberty and progress in the East of Europe, as England is in the West. It is, further, the surest and strongHungary can never become a manufacturing est barrier against the designs of Russia, which country. Her statesmen are well aware that it threaten not merely the existence of Turkey but is far more remunerative, as well as congenial to all progress of civilization in those regions. Austhe habits of her people, to increase the amount tria has been found inadequate to fulfil that office. of the raw produce in which she abounds, and they The Austrian empire is now, from the centrifuexert themselves wholly in that direction. With gal tendencies of its component parts, undergoing a view to this, improvements in agriculture have a process of disintegration. In order to be anybeen introduced, internal communications amelior-thing more than a virtual province of Russia, it ated, and above all, the antiquated laws which in-will have to be reconstructed upon an entirely new juriously affected the tenure of land have been abrogated. And it is now, when the fruits of all these reforms were beginning to be felt, that liberty

basis, of which Hungary must be the centre. But failing this, Hungary alone, if a very few years of peaceful existence are secured to her, will be

From the Examiner, 14th Juy.
CORRESPONDENT OF THE

more than sufficiently strong to act as guardian of the cool assertion that both at Vienna and Innorder and peace in Eastern Europe. spruck the emperor was compelled, by the Hungarians that surrounded him, to publish those ordinances, and sanction those acts of the diet, which gave the force of law to the reforms of 1848. By this fiction he hopes, perhaps, to cast a veil over the infamous duplicity of the Austrian court. But the ingenious apologist forgets that a physical compulsion, lasting continuously from the 15th of May till the 3d of October, is a difficult thing

THE HUNGARIAN

TIMES."

FOR Some days past the Viennese papers have been full of bitter complaints that the foreign, and more especially the English journals, show no sympathy for Austria; and they have formally to believe in. It is perfectly true that on the 15th called upon the Austrian ministry to take steps, by means of the press, to diminish the general sympathy entertained in Europe for the Hungarian

cause.

of May, when the Emperor Ferdinand recognized the principle of the Hungarian laws of 1848, there was a good deal of popular agitation at Vienna, But it is equally true that all the details of those Looking out with some curiosity for the com- laws were discussed and debated in the most permencement of this Austrian paper war, this new fect peace, for three weeks together, in the Vienimperial campaign, we found it in Tuesday's na cabinet and in the Hungarian diet; and that Times. It occurs in the shape of a long letter they were finally reduced to form, and passed in from a person who calls himself a Hungarian, and the strictly constitutional and parliamentary way. who has the effrontery to assert that neither in On the 10th of April the emperor, accompanied by Hungary nor in Transylvania have the Austrian his whole family, including the present Emperor forces lost a single pitched battle since the com- of Austria, went to Presburg, and on the 11th he mencement of the war. The assertion shows gave his solemn sanction and consent to the acts of either a singular capacity for saying the thing the diet. On the 10th of June he was in Intwhich is not, or a most extraordinary ignorance. spruck, and there proclaimed Jellachich a traitor. By way of refreshing this person's memory, we At this time there was not a Hungarian in the beg to tell him that the Austrians fought and lost place except Prince Esterhazy, Count Batthyany, pitched battles at Pisky, Herrmansstadt, Szolnok, and Privy-councillor Zsedényi; and it is merely Tapio-Bieskö, Isaszegh, Gedölö, Waitzen, Nagy- puerile to talk of any compulsion, physical or moral, Sarlo, and Tomasowatz; that every one of their having been exerted over him by the Hungarians. generals has in turn fled before the victorious Hun- On the 2d of July the Archduke Stephen, specialgarians, and none more frequently than that mag-ly authorized thereunto by an autograph letter of nificent swaggerer, Jellachich; and lastly, that the emperor, declared, in a speech from the throne the presence of Cossacks in Hungary is a pretty at Pesth, in the name, with the knowledge, and by plain proof of the condition and prospects of these consent of the sovereign, "that the treasonable unconquered Austrians. On the other hand, our practices of Jellachich and the Servians were looked writer forgets, or perhaps does not venture to de- upon with great dissatisfaction, not only by the fend, the burning of Bö-Sárkány, the bombard- emperor, but by all the members of his family." ment of Pesth, the attempt to destroy the noble On the 9th of September, in a public audience at chain-bridge over the Danube, the burning of the Schönbrun, the Emperor Ferdinand again openly Jewish communities, the decimation of the Hun-repeated the solemn assurance that he would nevgarian hussars, the shooting and hanging officers, er violate the laws which he had sanctioned, and prisoners of war, and peaceful clergymen, the the promises which he had made. flogging of noble ladies, and all those other acts same day Jellachich, at the head of an army of of heroism which will give the Austrian generals 65,000 men, paid, clothed, provisioned, and armed an imperishable memory in Hungary. by the Vienna ministry, crossed the Drave; in the name of the emperor proclaimed the unity of the Austrian monarchy; and entered his armed protest against the acts of the 11th of April, which had been signed by his sovereign as King of Hungary, which had been accepted by the nation, and for five months had had the full force of law.

The correspondent of the Times denies that the flower of the Hungarian nobility is serving in the national ranks. A sufficient answer to this stale invention has nevertheless been given, by a published list of forty officers, all belonging to the families of magnates, who hold command under the national flag. The correspondent of the Morning Chronicle, who furnishes this list, has further challenged the Times' correspondent to publish a counter list of the magnates who serve in the Austrian army against Hungary. We look with some curiosity to see whether this fair and open challenge will be accepted. For our own part, we do not believe that it will.

On the very

If the Times and its correspondent doubt the accuracy of these assertions, we can refer them for proof to the official pages of the Vienna Gazette itself. They may choose to call these events compulsion on the part of the Hungarians; we choose to call them unparalleled treachery and duplicity on the part of the court.

The "Hungarian" finishes by a jesuitical fling at Kossuth's private character. He will refrain,

The "Hungarian" proceeds to record his total ignorance of the transactions in question, by he says, from reviving the past events of Kossuth's