OF

LORD BYRON:

NOW FIRST PUBLISHED

FROM HIS

LETTERS, JOURNALS, AND OTHER MANUSCRIPTS,

IN THE POSSESSION OF HIS SON,

MAJOR GEORGE GORDON BYRON.

W" He is the Poet of all times, of all climes, of all feelings, and of all stages

VHAT Lord Byron said of Pope may with more justice be said of himself :

of existence. A thousand years will roll away before such another can be hoped for in our Literature:-HE HIMSELF IS A LITERATURE." Throwing aside the trammels of conventional life, in his hatred and disgust at the cant and hypocrisy which sought to annihilate him on account of his youthful irregularities and indiscretions; and relying solely on the vast power of his own mighty genius, he contemned and defied both the World's censure and praise. But for the very faults of his early education, the misfortunes of his youth, and the disappointments which awaited him as he merged into manhood;-but for the natural moodiness of his spirit, and the possession of affections, that longed for something around which to entwine;-but for the want of a mother's love, and the loss of a wife's affections;-but for a combination of evils, which would have prostrated another, but for all these, the genius of Byron might have slumbered, and been lost to us and to posterity. "The light that leads astray is the light that shines from Heaven," and this glorious light which sheds its effulgence over every page of his writings, will be sought for in vain in the effusions of his most gifted contemporaries. It is this lightning-flash of genius, uncontrolled and uncontrollable, that will cause posterity to speak of the nineteenth century as THE AGE of Byron. With Shakspere, Milton, Dryden, and Pope, the name of Byron will in future ages mark a brilliant period in the development of English Poesy, and the generations yet to come will treasure the smallest relic of the Master-mind.

The valuable unpublished materials, which the editor has been enabled to amass, in tracking the footsteps of Lord Byron through all his pilgrimages, consist of about ONE THOUSAND LETTERS; THE RAVENNA JOURNAL OF THE YEAR 1822, enriched with copious notes by the late Sir Walter Scott; NUMEROUS UNPUBLISHED POEMS, including the suppressed portions of his printed works; and a mass of ANECDOTES AND REMINISCENCES OF LORD BYRON by the Countess Guiccioli, Mrs. Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Miss Bristowe; by Archdeacon Spensér, Sir Humphrey Davy, Messrs. Horace Smith, John Taylor, Trelawney, Gordon, Captain Boldero, and others. To these he is kindly permitted to add NUMEROUS LETTERS ADDRESSED TO LORD BYRON by his most familiar friends.

A quarter of a century has passed away since the death of Lord Byron, and twenty years have elapsed since Mr. Moore's admirable Notices of the Poet appeared. During that period death has been busy with those, out of regard to whom Mr. Moore was induced to omit passages in the published correspondence,

THE attention of bank officers, and other holders of negotiable paper, and notaries, is desired to the late and important cases reported and published in the BANKERS' MAGAZINE; cases which affect the business of all monied institutions. The cases reported are upon the following subjects:

I-NOTARIAL NOTICES OF PROTEST.

IL-TRANSFER OF STOCK BY EXECUTORS.
IIL-GRACE ON SIGHT BILLS.

L-OF NOTARIAL NOTICES.

By recent decisions in the highest courts of England, confirmed by cases in the Supreme Court of New-York, and the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, it will be found that many of the notarial notices of protest at present in use in NewYork, Maryland, and other States, ARE INFORMAL AND VOID, as against endorsers. It will be found by numerous banking institutions throughout the country, that their securities (so far as their endorsers are concerned) are of little value. The omission of important words in notices of protest, exposes holders of negotiable paper to great and unnecessary risks, which could be obviated with a little care.

II. TRANSFERS BY EXECUTORS.

An equally important topic to all incorporated companies is the view taken by Judge TANEY (Chief Justice Supreme Court U. S.) of the liability of corporations for stock improperly transferred by executors. This opinion was delivered by Judge T. in the Circuit Court of the United States, July, 1848, in the important case of Lowry vs. The Commercial and Farmers' Bank of Baltimore, the publication of which in the Bankers' Magazine has already changed the usage of several banks in regard to transfers by executors. In this case the bank (confessedly one of the best managed institutions in the country, and its stock above par for years past) permitted the tranfer of two hundred and eighty-two shares of its stock by the executor of a deceased stockholder, without such an examination of the Will as would have forbidden the transfer. The bank is equally chargeable for the neglect or omission of duty by the officer to whom it had committed the superintendence of the trausfers of stock, as it is.for the neglect or omissions of its president-and such officer is equally chargeable with implied notice of the Will.

The bank was bound to take notice of the Will of the testator when this tranfer was proposed to be made by one of the executors. It was negligence in the bank not to examine it: and if it was ignorant of its contents, and of the specific bequest of this stock, it was its own fault.

'Although it may not have had actual notice of the contents of the Will, yet as it was dealing with an executor in his character as such, the law implies notice.'

III-GRACE ON SIGHT BILLS.

The late decisions contained in this Magazine have induced many banks to be extremely cautious in their dealings with their correspondents, in reference to grace on Sight Bills.

A cashier of one of the Boston banks writes us as follows:

'I am aware that a different usage has prevailed with the banks of New-York and other cities, bat I have always considered that they assumed a great responsibility, as it is well known that our courts never allow usage to take the place of an established principle of law, or to be pleaded as an excuse for its infraction.'

The following articles in this Magazine are published in no other periodical in this country, and claim the attention of all bank officers:

1. Chief Justice Taney, Supreme Court United States, on Transfers of Stock by Executors, Vol. III. 2. Chancellor Johnson of Maryland, on Transfers of Bank Stock,

3. The Law of Grace on Sight Bills,

66 IV.

4. Late cases in the highest Courts of England, and in the Supreme Court of New-York and Massachusetts, as to Notice of Protest,

64 IV.

6. Opinions of Joshua Bates, Adam Hodgson, Horsley Palmer, and Messrs. Tooke. Gurney,
Turner, Morris and Pease, upou the Commercial Crises and the Bank of England,
7. Tables of Foreign Exchange for each month since 1822,

5. Baron Humboldt's last Essay on the Production and Supply of Precious Metals, (translared for this work)

8. Historical Sketches of the Merchants' Bank in New-York, the Manhattan Bank, Bank of North America,

9. Treatise on Banking; by A. B. Johnson, Esq. of Utica,

10. List of all the Banks in England, Ireland and Scotland, and the Circulation of each, 11. Improvements in Bank Note Paper, for the prevention of forgery,

66

III.

12. Weights and Measures of all Nations, as compared with those of the United States, Complete copies on hand of volume III., price $3, comprising twelve Nos., from July. 1848, to June, 1849, inclusive, 772 pages. The volume can be transmitted per mail to any distance within the United States-postage fifty cents.

All Orders to be addressed to the Editor, at Baltimore. Md. Copies delivered monthly without expense of postage to subscribers, in Boston, New-York, Philadelphia, Rochester, Buffalo, Providence, Washington, D. C., Hartford, Conn., New-Haven, Conn.

J. SMITH HOMANS, Editor Bankers' Magazine, Baltimore, Md.

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