The Sun. — London, England, 1860-11-06 00:00:00

THE PRINCE'S VISIT TO AMERICA. (From the Speetal Correspondent of the Times.) BOSTON, OCT. 19. Boston has given the Prince of Wales a reception inferior only to New York in its magnitude. Its warm, cordialenthusiasm, its decorum, its immense outpouring of a people's welcome equalled that at the capital, and more than this it would be impos sible to say. It was, on a more confined scale, a re petition of the same grand scene which he wit nessed in the Broadway. If there could be a dis tinction drawn between such heart-stirring ovations, I should feel inclined to lean rather in favour of the enthusiasm of Boston, but this slight shade of difference, if any really did exist, may be more than accounted for by the fact that on the day of the arrival at New York the people had been quietly waiting in dense masses for eight hours, and it was so dark when the Prince got down the Broadway that one-half of the people saw nothing of him at all. Certainly, New York and Boston have as completely eclipsed all other cities in this tour, in the intense cordiality of their welcome, as Halifax surpassed every other place in its street decorations, or Montreal in its ball. Boston claims to be the modern Athens of the West, the Edinburgh of the Union, with the single difference between it and our own northern capital that the claims of Boston are so well founded that they are never denied here. Not only the greatest names, but nearly all the names eminent in Ameri can literature and science and art are those of Boston men. Boston is, in fact, always pointed to as the model city of the Union—the model city for the good order, intelligence, and quiet prosperity of its inhabitants—the model city for the jealous care with which the progress of public education is watched and fostered by the State. New Yorkers sulkily admit its superiority in these respects, but fairly enough point to the heterogeneous mass of emigrants who yearly inundate their streets as rea son why that city is less orderly and has made less intellectual progress ; so, with the exception of an occasional sneer at the rigid excellence of Boston, and now and then a bitter cut when they do detect a shortcoming among its people or rulers, the claims of the English city of America, as it is called, are as generally admitted as superior excellence ever is in this world. Boston, both in its general appear ance and in the houses and manners of its people, is certainly the most English city I have seen on this continent; its inhabitants, too, are not a little proud of this resemblance, which strikes the visitor at once, foi in no city in the United States is the feeling of affection towards what they term the mother country so strong and so kindly. Yet the hall is still standing where the harangues com menced which ended in the War of Independence, and a tall and rather ugly obelisk looms over the city marking the spot where was fought and won the victory of Bunker's-hill. Surrounded by such memorials and with others still more suggestive in the very streets where the first blood was shed, an anti-English feeling would not be surprising. But, as I have said, the reverse of all this is actually the case, and the name of England and the English not only admired here, but loved. There may have been some little misgiving on the part of Boston, when they heard of the grand decorum with which New York had received his Royal Highness, and even the most patriotic of Bostonians who witnessed that display admitted with reluctance that the model city could do no more than equal it. It has equalled it, however, and in saying this I think I give the highest praise that can be bestowed upon either city. At Albany, where the Prince remained on his arrival from West Point, there was nothing of inte rest. His hotel was in the upper part of the town, which certainly contrasts most favourably with the narrow and dirty streets which terminate at the edge of the river. On Wednesday the Royal party again resumed their journey, and came down to this city in a special train. All the stations along the route were crowded with eager visitors, who had been waiting for hours merely to see the train whirl by and to cheer with as much vehemence as it passed as if every one of the hundreds present had not only seen his Royal Highness but had been favoured with a personal interview. At Springfield Station, where a short stay was made, there were many thousands assembled, and the I'rince came out upon the platform of his car and bowed his acknowledgments of the perfect storm of enthusiasm ith which his arrival was welcomed. So, again, a 1 Worcester there was the same never-tiring cordial multitude shouting and waving hats and handker chiefs as if they were demented. At the little suburban station of Longwood, about three miles from this city, the train stopped. Mayor Lincoln was in waiting to receive his Royal Highness. With his worship were a few of the chief citizens of Boston, who were duly presented to the Prince, who had an appearance of much fatigue—an appearance which has shown itself unmistakeably in all the suite more or less during the last week or two. The party then entered the open carriages which had been provided specially in honour of the occasion, and a kind of half procession being then formed, escorted by Volunteer troops of Light Dragoons, the cortege proceeded to the city. The crowd was com paratively thin in the suburbs, but along the streets leading to the Revere-house they formed in such dense, impenetrable masses as almost surpassed the throngs at New York. Windows, roofs, and bal conies, too, were crowded in the same manner, and all were cheering and waving hats and handkerchiefs —the same as at the capital, the same concourse, the same fervonr of welcome, the same good order. In all its grandest and most touching details it was alike in both cities. Beyond their escorting him home to his hotel, however, nothing was done worthy of record on the night of the arrival, save that the streets were kept in a. pretty considerable uproar till an advanced hour by a grand torchlight demonstration of the Bell and Everett party in reply to the Republican fete of the same kind on the previous evening. Yesterday was made the great day of the recep tion, and in order that it might be observed with all festivity and honour the Mayor suggested to the inhabitants that it should be kept as a grand public holiday. The hint was no sooner given than adopted, a general suspension of all business was decreed, and every shop in Boston was closed yes terday as if it had been Sunday. The first event of the programme for the day was the inspection of the Militia on the Common. Before his Royal 11 , 1 Pihness set out for thi s an o ld ve t eran, M r. xvilph Farnham, the only remaining survivor of the battle of Bunker's-hill, was presented to him. This venerable man is now in his 105th year, hav ing been born this day he at the commencement o f 1756. T o preserves a mental and bodily v i gour w allotted fa l ls sp an of throughout : th ree score and ten. He served th e greater part of the War of Inde pendence, Was i n most o£ the half skirmishing ac tions which distinghiah. el that struggle, and was present when General'B urgoyne capitulated at Saratoga. lam sor ry to , b e record that the old Veteran obliged to add to this the last of the men on either side who faught round the earth works in the midst of which the .Banker's-hill Monu ment now stands here—is far from being inde . e.m th comfort g for pendent in his old age. He is eye , s e kin g subscriptions to enable him to eke Nin out the few remaining days which can y et be vouch safed to him. 'What passed between his R o y al Highness and this venerable relic of bygone days, I am not aware; but the fact of the interview ap . pears to have given much satisfaction to the kind. hearted people of this city, who have so completely buried their animosities as to look on England with a feeling of hearty affection, such as one does not often see equalled, even in our most loyal colonies. The review took place in the pretty little park in the centre of B os t on , an d which, though called "the Common," is as picturesque and quite as well kept as St. James's. Here all Boston seemed to be as Eatable('; in fact, I felt sure of this till I saw the return of his Royal Highness to the city. The troops were drawn up in the centre, looking at a distance amid the mass of people like a bright coloured picture set in a dark, sombre framework. To the delight of all, his Royal Highness came non the ground in uniform. His suite also —at least, the military portion of it—of course, paid the same compliment to the occasion. The hearty enthusiasm of the people was boundless. It was a repetition of the night before—a repetition of the days in New Yrk, yet withal so fresh, so spon taneous, so untiring, that every welcome seemed better than the last, till, as a spectator, you almost wondered when and where this devotion of respect and hospitality was to end. And all this kindly' feeling is but a reflex—almost a faint i eflex of the chivalrous sentiment of respect and love with which the name of her Majesty is reverenced throughout the length and breadth of this great country. If the Queen ever does visit the United States, her re ception will mark such an epoch in the welcome of sovereigns as the world never saw before. The troops on the ground gave the usual Royal salute, presenting arms and lowering colours as his Royal Highness rode along the ranks. The evolutions of marching, &c., then commenced. As at New York, their manoeuvres were executed with a steady solid precision which would have done honour to some of the best regiments in our service. There were pro bably not more than 2,500 or 3,000 men on the ground ; no very great number certainly, though great enough when the reader reflects that these corps were only a part of the Militia of Boston, and only types of those that may be found more or less numerously in every town or city of the United States. The number, therefore, was sufficient to serve as a test of efficiency for volunteer corps. Keenly as each company was scrutinised as it passed, it was impossible to detect a flaw of irregularity in its movements. There was an ease and evenness about all they did which made it difficult to imagine them only volunteers. Conspicuous among the regiments were those companies which had come to Montreal to assist at the eclat of the splendid reception in that fine old city. They were greatly admired at the Canadian capital, but here they were no better than others—the drill of all, in fact, was perfect. So conservative is Boston in all its traditions of the old country, that some of their volunteer companies actually still wear the mili tary costume of the infantry of the early days of George 111., old and quaint-looking as the soldiers in the picture of the victories of Wolfe. The in spection occupied some time. When it was over a military procession was formed, with the cortege of the royal party in the centre, and with these honours his Royal Highness was escorted back to the old State House, in the centre of this city. It is quite impossible to describe the ovation which the Prince met with in this progress. It would be but repeating what I have endeavoured to write of the reception at New York. Every street was lite rally choked full with thousands of spectators, and long tiers of ladies and gentlemen, storey above storey, clustered over the front of every building. In New York there were only a few police to keep the side streets clear ; here there were none. The people were their own police, or rather I may say none were needed. The masses swayed heavily up and down the roads in slow undulations, but though almost crushed by their own weight there was no attempt to encroach on the broad space which they themselves allowed for the passage of the procession. Along such streets, and amid such demonstrations of welcome as really can only be imagined, the Prince journeyed slowly, now and then removing his cocked hat as he passed under some unusually long balcony of ladies more than ordinarily demon strative, or neared a street corner where the throng and enthusiasm demanded special notice even amid such a scene. The party stopped to lunch, at the State House. It is the very building and looking into the very street where the first attack was made by English troops on the then colonists of Boston, where, from the blood then shed in State-street, arose the War of Independence and the empire of the United States. In these events, and in all that relate to that war, the Americans have indeed much which they need strive to forget, and the English much which they would endeavour to conceal. Lunch over, his Royal Highness returned to his hotel, still passing between the same crowds, still meeting with the same enthusiasm. At 5 o'clock there was a grand musical festival in the Music-hall, The hall itself is a magnificent building, noble and lofty in all its proportions, ex quisitely chaste and simple in its decorations. It realises one's idea of what the House of Representa tives at Washington ought to be, instead of what it is., For this occasion, however, the interior was spe cially decorated with almost regal magnificence in honour of the Prince. The first balcony facing the orchestra was draped with crimson velvet and gold the upper galleries with blue velvet and gold, while all around and above were entertwined the flags of England and America. The effect thus produced was very brilliant and dazzling, and when crowded, as it was, with a richly-dressed audience, the whole hall presented a rich, luxurious, and magnificent effect. At the back of the hall was built alarge orchestra, capable of containing, tier above tier to the height of 50 feet, 1,200 juvenile choristers. This was filled from base to summit with a perfect bouquet of children. They were mostly young girls. All were dressed in white, looking, in the distance, on a co lossal scale, like those soft, snowy banks of azaleas one sees at flower shows. Every other available nook and corner of the spacious hall was crowded with all the rank and fashion of Boston, their rich varie gated dresses setting off to the utmost perfection the great white altar of little singers which rose in the midst. It was altogether one of the most beau tiful scenes which the Prince has witnessed in this country. The instant the royal party entered the hall, the orchestra—if I may so call them—of young people rose en masse. They had been rightly tu tored not to cheer, but they seemed to restrain themselves only by a very great effort, as was plainly visible in the rapid manner in which they waved their pocket-handkerchiefs, lashing them about with an enthusiastic vehemence that was delightful to behold. The performance equalled all the ex pectations which were raised of the preparations by the appearance of the audience and the building. It was second to the yearly festival at St. Paul's only. in the number of its young performers. A new version of •' God save the Queen" had been composed for the occasion. Nothing I may say is allowed prominence in these receptions of the Prince unless it has been prepared en avanee as an honour and a tribute to the Royal guest. This anthem so fairly represents the feeling of the Ame rican people during this remarkable visit that I cannot refrain from giving it now in extenso. It was sung with such a depth of feeling, with such a welcome in every tone, with such a kindly reve rence and warmth as can never be expressed in mere dry words. It was as follows : God bless our Fathers' land, Keep her in heart and hand One with our own From all her foes defend, Be her brave People's Friend, On all her realms descend, Protect her throne I Father, with loving care Guard Thou her kingdom's Heir, Guide all his ways ; Thine arm his shelter be, From him by land and sea Bid storm and danger flee, Prolong his days I Lord, let War's tempest cease, Fold the whole earth in peace, Under Thy wings ! Make all Thy nations one, All hearts beneath the sun, Till Thou shalt reign alone, Great King of Kings 1 When his Royal Highness at the conclusion of the concert quitted the hall the young vocalists rose again, but this time their enthusiasm could not be restrained. One set the exampl?, of a cheer, and in an instant it spread from mouth to mouth, gra dually extending from where the little choristers sat, all through the building, till it echoed with an outburst of long pent-up feeling —of affection, hos pitality, and welcome so, blended in warm hearty shouts of gladness that the English spectator could only look on with pride and mute amazement at such a kindly tribute to his young Prince. Every day, every hour of this long tour has only con vinced me more and more of how little the English now of their brothe rs ,i n C anada —how peo ple 1- n little the English and the Americans really know of each other. TomostEonngdlisthhey are menC better anadais ge ographical expression,. ac quainted With the limbos than the real sterling , character of their great descendants and rivals—the Americans. In the evening, after the musical festival, there was a grand ball. It was given in the beautiful Opera-house, which was decorated and lit up with the most charming good taste. The whole of the spacious building was very full, though not by any ratans too crowded for the proper enjoyment of such a festivity. All the arrangements of the fete were, in short, very good, so it was a decided suc cess. Still, as with all the other balls that have been given on this tour, none even at their brightest have approached either for splendour or good taste the magnificence of the great fete at Montreal. Highness Hi s and suite arrived at ten' o'clock, and dalmost immediately afterwards opened the ball with Mrs. Lincoln, the wife of the Mayor. Dancing then became general all over the spacious floor, and as usual was kept up till an advanced hour in the morning. To-day his Royal Highness h a s gone to visit Harvard University at Cambridge, the foremost seat of learning in America, and which number among its professors men of world wide reputation in literature and science. On his return the Prince is expected to visit the superb library of the city, the only one conducted on such , liberal principles that I ever heard of. This fine building contains upwards of 200,000 volumes. Anyone, no matter whom, on registering his name and place of abode, can borrow books from it. Only one work or volume is lent at a time, and only allowed to be retained for 14 days. These rules, however, are relaxed if good reasons are given, and always in the case of habitual readers. Between 2,000 and 3,000 volumes are thus lent out weekly, and not £lO worth are injured or missing at the end of the year. In fact, during the last two or three years, the losses sustained by the library have been merely nominal, and in nearly all cases arise from unavoidable accident. It speaks , well, indeed, for the Boston people to have founded such a system, and to work it with such complete success. This evening the Royal party remain quiet. To morrow they start for Portland, where they are expected to arrive by 2 o'clock. One hour will be devoted to wishing farewell to Canadian and Ame rican friends, and at 3 his Royal Highness goes on board the Hero. At 4 the squadron will be under way for England. AUSTRIA AND 11UNGARE VIENNA, OCT. 31.—The Wiener Zeitung of this date contains v. list of the persons who were yes terday appointed by the Emperor to be " Ober gespane" (Lords-Lieutenant) of the 39 counties into which Hungary Proper is divided.* Several of the Imperial nominees are persons of great note in Austria as well as in the kingdom of Hungary, but the names of others have rarely been heard on this side of the Leitha (a small river which forms a part of the frontier between the province of Lower Austria and Hungary). The Cardinal-Primate of Hungary and the Archbishop of Erlau are Ober gespane of the counties of Gran and Hevesch " in perpetuity " (perpetui supremi Conzites). Prince Paul Esterhazy, Count Leopold Nadasky (not the ex-Minister of Justice), Baron von Re a-ay, and Count Ladislaus Czaky are the here ditary Obergespane of the cEdenburg, Comorn, Thurocz, and Zips counties. Count George Festetics and M. von Kazinczy are to act as " administrators" for Counts Fidel Palffy and Philip Battthyani (the hereditary Obergespane of the Eisenburg and Beregh counties), who are too advanced in years to be able to attend to public business. Count Joseph Palffy will "administrate" for Count Schonborn, the hereditary Obergespan for the Presburg county, he being a minor. Several of the new Obergespane are very able men, but too many of them belong to the " Old Conservative" or Government party, which never enjoyed much popularity in Hungary. The attributes of the Obergespan of an Hungarian county are as follows :-1. He is a member of the Upper House (211agnaten-Tafel), even if not a high noble. 2. At the elections of the various county employes he has the right to propose three persons, one of whom must be chosen. 3. He is the President of the General Congregation of the county. The Hungarian counties have great privileges, as will be seen by the subjoined summary of an article which is contained in one of the Vienna papers : " If the Stadthalterei-Rath (the head of the Stadt holderate at Buda) sends an order, (intimatum) to the county authorities, a general congregation is convoked, and the injunction of the Government officially taken into consideration. If found to be in accordance with the Hungarian law, it is at once obeyed, but if not, it is 'respectfully set aside' (mit Aehtung beseitigt). If the Stadthalterei-Rath is not satisfied with the decision of the general con gregation, ho can appeal to the Court Chancellor, who, if he approve what has been done by the Buda official, orders the county authorities, in the name of his Majesty,' to obey. As a matter of I course, the order of the Chancellor is taken into consideration by the general congregation, and if that assembly be of opinion that it is illegal, it makes a humble representation' to the King. If the Monarch thinks his Chancellor is right, he issues a decree' on the subject. It has now and then happened that one or other of the county con gregations has paid no attention to the Royal decree, but in such cases the Government has in variably had recourse to forcible measures. The Hungarian county authorities know two kinds of Imperial commissaries. The one commissary en deavours to accommodate matters; the other enters the county-hall, with his " Kalpag" on his head and his sabre at his side, and then and there deposes or arrests the leading members of the Opposition. You may, perhaps, conclude that after matters have gone such a length the county authorities are content to yield ; but such is not always the case, for it has happened that they have made known their griefs (gravamina) to the Diet. The following anecdote will serve to show how very tenacious the Hungarians are of their rights and pri vileges. From 1811 to 1822 no Diet was held in Hungary, and no new burdens were imposed on the country. In 1822,f however, the Government re solved to raise recruits in Hungary without de manding and obtaining the consent of the Diet. What happened ? The county authorities openly refused to obey the orders of the Stadthalterei- Rath, and of the Court Chancellor, and offered pas sive resistance to the decree of the King. Royal commissaries made their appearance, a Vice-Gespan was publicly arrested in one of the county-halls, and cast, with many other patriotic men, into pri son. The soldiers required were at last raised, but when the Diet met in 1825 the late Emperor Francis thought fit to declare that what had happened ' had greatly pained his paternal heart.' " A German, who has just returned from Hungary, says that everything is being turned " topsy-turvy" in that country. Some of the Imperial institutions have already been done away with, but their Hun garian substitutes have not yet been introduced, so that great confusion prevails. The Chancellor has issued orders that the Hungarian language shall be employed in all the public offices; but for the moment the thing is impossible, as very many of Baron Bach's proteges only know Bohemian and German. "The more intelligent classes,"said my informant, " have given a passably good reception to the Imperial ordinances, because they feel that a great deal can be made of them; but hardly one Hungarian in a hundred considers them perfectly satisfactory. The 'sandal' noblest and peasants are likely to prove vary difficult to manage, as they have been taught by revolutionary agents to believe that Hungary will not be responsible for any part of the national debt if she is altogether separated from Austria." M. George von Mailath, who was one of the most eloquent of the Hungarian members of the Reichsrath, has been appointed " Tavernicus," or Chief of the Finance Department of Hungary. The office of "Judea Curia" has been left vacant, as a hope is still entertained that M. von Deak will allow himself to be persuaded to ac cept it. Baron Sennyey, whose antecedents * Formerly there were 49 counties and six " separate districts" in the kingdom of Hungary, of which the Banat and Servian Voivodina formed an integral part. There are three counties in Croatia, and the same number in Slavonia, t The year in which Austria sent an army to Naples. The petty nobles in Hungary are called "boeskoros nerves," from their wearing sandals, § Tho Protestant who was imprisoned for a time at Casella.% are not known to me, has been appointed " Royal Hungarian Stadthalterei-Rath." Count Francis Zichy, who is a member of several industrial " Boards," is to be Grand Usher ; Count George Andrassy, Grand Cupbearer ; and Count J. Barkoczy, the Boanergies of the Reichsrath, Lord Steward. Count George Carolyi and Baron von Pronay are to be Keepers of the " Sacred" Hun garian Crown ad interim. M. von Zsedenyi,§ Bishop Korizmics, and Messrs. von Rohonczy, von Privitzer, von Beke, and von Balogh are to be Aulic Counsellors in the Hungarian Chancery. In order that the principle of perfect equality of rights might be maintained in Hungary, M. Zsivoka, a plebeian, has been made Obergespan of the county of Csanad. A YEAR'S EXPERIENCE IN Tromps WORK. The following paper on the subject of female industry was read by Miss Bessie Parkes at the meeting of the Associa tion for the Promotion of Social Science, Glasgow, 1860 :- 4, Nearly a year has now passed since, through the means of the last meeting of the Association for the Promotion of Social Science, public attention in England was largely drawn to the subject of female industry. Nor was it in England alone that this vexed question came under discus sion ; France also contributed her thoughts ; and two elabo rate articles in the Revue des Deux Aiondes, and other papers in less important periodicals, testified that our difficulties are also felt, although under somewhat modified conditions, on the other side of the Channel. " My title to again introduce this topic to the notice of this association is simple and direct—that of having experi ence to communicate in regard to remedial measures under taken against the evils which were deplored last year—ex- , periments limited, it is true, to one circle of people, and, in the main, to one centre of action ; yet none the less valu able, because they afford us certain definite lessons which a less concentrated sphere might less clearly bestow. " In November, 1859, the English Woman's Journal had already been dealing with the various questions of woman's industry for not quite two years. The Society for Promoting the Employment of Women was as yet inchoate, but matur ing its plans, and asking for affiliation to this association. A reading-room for ladies, and a register for noting appli cations for the more intellectual and responsible depart ments of female labour, had just been broaght into exist ence. Such was the beginning of our present organisation a year ago. Last winter every department received a great accession or funds and of activity. The journal greatly in creased in'circulation ; the society was absorbed into one created by and independent on this association, with a com mittee of 12 ladies and 12 gentlemen, which immediately began to consider the formation of model industrial classes ; the reading-room was removed to large and excellent pre mises in a central situation ; and, as a natural consequence of these improvements, to which a wide publicity was given by the press, the register was literally deluged with appli cants. It is not my province here to give an account of these separate departments of exertion towards bettering the condition of women. The report of the society will be read in due time and place, and details regarding the suc cessful establishment of a law-copying business will be given therein, the Victoria Press will tell its own story of the introduction of women into the printing trade. That of which I de sire to speak to you here is the action of the re gister, to which I alluded above, not so much of the little it has been able to effect, as of the much it has taught us regarding the real supply of educated labour in England. " When first this register was opened it was merely in tended to act in a limited way among the ladies at that time subscribing to the _English Woman's Journal, who, in those days of its infancy, numbered a few hundreds. Many of these ladies were actively concerned in charity, and had founded, or supported, or visited, industrial schools and small hospi• tale, homes for invalids, and refuges of different kinds— institutions, in fact, requiring female officers. We thought that by opening a register which should act merely among our subscribers we might occasionally find opportunities of putting the right woman into the right place; that Mrs. A. might recommend an excellent matron or school teacher, and Mrs. B. hear of her through our simple plan, combining an entry in a register book and an advertisement in the journal for the current month. If in this way we got two really good and well-trained officials placed in a month, it would com pensate for the little extra trouble. Being thus, as it were, a plan private to the circulation of the journal, it was not otherwise advertised, nor was any publicity then sought for it. But when the whole question started into life, the ad vertizements put forth by the societyappear to have aroused the attention of women in all parts of the country ; and as the society and the journal now had contiguous offices in the same house, no practical distinction could be made,. and the secretaries of either were literally deluged with applications for employment. We had no sooner ex plained to the ladies who came on Thursday that the formation by the society of model classes or businesses for a select number did not imply an ability on our part to find remunerative work for indiscriminate applicants, than the same task had to' be gone over again on Friday. Indeed, I remember one Friday, in the month of March, when 20 women applied at our counter for work whereby they could gain a livelihood—all of them more or less educated—all of them with some claim to the title of lady. "Although not professing ]personally to enter into these applications, the replies to which devolved on the secretaries, I was very constantly in the office of the journal when they were made, and entered into conversation with the ladies; in many cases, indeed, they came with notes of introduction to me or my co-editor, and I had to ask them what kind of work they wanted, and, indeed, a more important question —for what kind of work they were fitted. In this way we may certainly lay claim to have heard more of women's wants during the last year than any other people in the kingdom ; and that just because the demands were so in definite—the ladies did not want to be governesses, they wanted to be something else, and we were to advise them. In this way I have conversed with ladies of all ages and con ditions, with yourig girls of 17 finding it necessary to start in life, with single women who found teaching unendurable as life advanced, with married ladies whose husbands were invalided or not forthcoming, with widows who had chil dren to support, with tradesmen's daughters, and with people of condition fallen into low estate. " To find them work through the journal register was a sheer impossibility. Not only were they far more numerous than one had ever contemplated, but they were of a diffe rent class. I had hoped to hear of and to supply a few well trained picked women to places of trust among our sub scribers ; but here were literally hundreds of women,neither well-trained nor picked, outnumbering any demand by 99 per cent. The Victoria Press and the Law-Copying Class got into work, and employed from 10 to 20 girls and women each, but it stands to reason that more could not be draugl.ted into either establishment during the first year of its exist ence without ruining the enterprise ; while some time must be allowed to elapse before the idea involved in those model experiments could be expected to be seized by the commer cial public, and an entrance be effected by women into either trade at large. " Since, therefore, we possessed but small power to aid numbers through the medium of our own organisation, it remained to be seen whether we could form a link between our register and, firstly, the semi-mechanical occupations to which women have acquired, or might acquire, a title; and, secondly, the benevolent institutions of the country ; so as to supply workers to the one, and matron and female offi cials to the other. " To this end we adopted an idea struck out by a friend, and printed long slips for distribution, containing, besides the addresses of the Victoria Press and Law-Copying Class (in case any vacancymight occur, or more hands be wanted) the addresses of the two chief offices of the Electric Tele graph in London, in both of which women are largely employed ; and also the address of the two chief institu tions for training and employing nurses; also of Mrs. Lushington's cooking school, &c., intending to add to the list whenever we heard of any'new institutions which would be regarded as centres of women's work. At the bottom of this list we notified that we ourselves kept a limited re gister for really competent matrons, clerks, and secretaries. " Now, in regard to what I have termed semi-mechanical occupations, I will dismiss them with a few remarks, to which I earnestly request your consideration. lam in this paper considering the needs of educated women—the women who have been born and bred ladies ; it is a real distinction, from which, even in America, the most earnest democrats cannot escape, and which in England, however much the strict edges of the line ofdemarcation between class and class may be rubbing off, still exists in full force. Looking at it from one point of view, we are sometimes tempted to regret the false notions of gentility which prevent women working bravely at whatever comes nearest to hand ; but, in con sidering a whole class at large, an honest observer must feel that there is something noble—something beyond a mere effort after ' gentility', in the struggle to preserve the habits, tho dress, and the countless moral and material associations of the rank to which they were born. A good and a refined education his a very valuable thing, and if educated women are to work at all for money—and I see no escape for a certain number being obliged in our country to do so—that educa tion ought to secure them something more than a mere pittance. "Now, the semi-mechanical occupation of the telegraph —and I believe it will be found to bo the same with all 53mi-mechanical occupations—does not (except in the de partment of overseers) supply the needs of an educated woman, unless she be quite alone in the world, having neither parent nor child to support ; and even then 'the wages hardly allow her to ' look like a lady,' much less to live like one. Say that a woman in such a business earns a pound, or possibly, though I imagine rarely, 30s. a week —in the one case £5O, in the other £75 a year—such a salary may keep a young, single, and perfectly unencum bered woman of the rank of a lady in food, and decent dress, and lodging; but it does not constitute a sufficiency for an older woman, for one who may have claims upon her, or who feels she must begin to lay by for old age. lam quite aware that there are daily governesses who go out for less Ulan £6O a year ; their proportion is roughly estimated by the matron of the Governesses' Benevolent Institution as about one-third of the whole number of daily governesses. But many of these are not what we mean by ladies they belong to tradesmen's families, and teach in the same. Others again are quite young, and, living with their parents, can afford to go out and teach for any sum they fancy pays them, and at a much cheaper rate than they could do if they actually supported themselves on their earnin gs . Others, again, are inferior in education, and so km driven down to offer their services at a low rate from being desti tute of accomplishments. Custom doss not shield the governess as it shields the physicio:n, with his definite standard of acquirement guaranteed by his diploma, and his one guinea as a fixed recognition thereof ; and therefore women will be found classed under the general head of ' daily governesses' who are very unequal in their qualifi cations, and in the amount of salary they require and receive. " But it is nbne the less true that really educated women, possessed of a certain skill in music, drawing, and in modern languages—ladies such as teach ladies in the profes sional and merchant classes—ask and get more than £5O a &year as a general rule. The conclusion, therefore, to which I have come is, that it is chiefly for young people living at home with their parents, and for single women not possess ing a high stamp of education, and having only themselves to support, that the semi -mechanical arts—such as that of working the telegraph, printing, law-copying, managing sewing-machines, &c.—are profitable, and will supply with bread and meat and clothes; and that it is hardly desirable to extend and encourage such occupation in every way, taking great care in the formation of model classes, or new businesses, to harmonise them as much as possible with the physical and moral conditions of female workers. The Society for Promoting the Employment of Women devotes its energies to increasing this kind of occupation, and del serves the active support of the public for its exertions, so that it may gradually be enabled to extend them in new di rections, and offer fresh examples for the introduction of women into hitherto unaccustomed businesses and trades. " But for older and for highly-educated women—for those to whom the keeping up of a social position has become a moral necessity, and for those who have others dependent on them—we surely ought to seek some employment which will secure them a fair income, and not consign them to simple trades, which, let them be ever so extended over numbers, cannot be parallel to the professions which gen tlemen require, or to the commercial enterprise which they carry on on a large scale. " Now, there is work which really clever and energetic women are wanted to perform, and which people are every where beginning to say they ought to perform; all work in volving moral superintendence over women and physical care of the sick and infirm of both sexes. Mrs. Jameson dwelt constantly of late years on this whole subject in her writings and in her private conversation ; and Miss Night ingale has begun to organise the training of women for the latter purpose, and nurses are also educated at It is to be regretted that the fire which broke out several institutions under lay or church influence. But, in the extensive pianoforte manufactory belonging as t• placing educated women to act as officials in chari- to Messrs. T. Chappell and Co., of 18, Phoenix table, industrial, penal, or reformatory establishments, street, Soho, on Monday morning, as reported in I really think I may say that nothing is done or doing. V e this journal of yesterday, has been attended with keep reiterating the need of them in each and all; but I do more disastrous consequences than was at first anti not see that we are nearer the realisation of our wish than cipated. Unfortunately the loss of property has we were five years ago. been greater than even the firemen at first believed, "Now, why is this ? I can supply one part of the answer and, to add to the t'hisfortnne, a loss of life has from our own experience of the last year ; because the already taken place, and some 18 or 20 other per women who from natural ability might be disposed and com- sons have been more or less, and it is feared that potent to undertake such posts with advantage to them- two or thre'e have been fata . .ly, injured. This selves and others do not ask for them, have little idea of seems a n",ost remarkable fact, for even the firemen the kind of work and little desire for it, and would probably who were on duty at the time knew nothing, until fail in doing it if they tried ; because they have had no host :•s after the fire was extinguished, of the melan training. e,'.aoly accident. "Although I have seen many highly educated and refined In order to render the account intelligible, it is women in want of employment during the last year, I have necessary to show how the fearful occurrence took not seen half a dozen who were competent, by their own place. Messrs. Chappell, who are well known as conviction, to take the responsibility of management on a music publishers to the Queen, &c., had warerooms large scale ; the matronship of female emigrant ships, the at 49 and 50, New Bond-street, and 13, George control of a wild troop of reformatory girls, the overseership street, Hanover-square. The building in Phcenix of female factory operatives, or the female wards of a work- street belonged to the same firm, but the manufae - house. turing portion of the works belonged to Mr. Smith, "Now, Sisters of Charity abroad do all these things. The and as fast as he could finish the instruments they popular notion of a Sister of Charity in England is, that she were taken by Messrs. Chappell and Co., and were is always nursing the sick, or searching on a field of battle sold to the public by that firm. The factory was for wounded men with a vestige of life in them, or visiting five floors, or four storeys high, was formed of 14- the poor at their own houses—poetical and somewhat sha- inch brickwork; it was 44 feet. long at one side, dowy Evangelines, with baskets on their arms. But in but being on the skew it was only 35 feet towards good truth these are but a small part of their multifarious the end. Mr. Smith, well knowing the danger that duties. They get through in separate divisions nearly all invariably existed where open fires were used for the work performed (or unperformed) in our workhouses— heating the glue or drying the veneers, had each they take, feed, clothe, and teach orphan and destitute chil- floor fitted up with iron pipes about six or seven dren, and bring up the girls for service ; they take bodily inches in circumference. In order to afford a still possesion of the old people and the cripples and tend them greater protection to the building, he had a small in ether establishments—they distribute medicines and ma- circular tube inserted through the larger range of nage most of the casua l re li e f funds of foreign cities. They piping, so as to avoid the dang er o f th e ou t er p i p i ng also—and let me particularly draw your attention to this becoming so heated as to set fire to the timbers in point—undertake the care of c r i m i na l an d vagrant ch i l- proximity with the steam app ara t us . A s a d ou bl e se dren. I saw i n th e mont h of April last the great refer- curity these pipes were held by i ron stays to k eep watery in the Ru e d e V anguar d , i n Paris, where 100 girls the pipes from either touchi ng th e fl oor i ng or ceil 'of the lowest c l ass —th e ma j ority actually prisoners and ings. For years these p recau ti onary measures had consigned there by G overnmen t— are under the care of fia still greater prevention against worked most admirably, and nst the outbreak of what was considered the sisters of M ar i e -J osep h . This establishment was , h chimney wa s sup plied with hot steam do Lamarti ne , an d i t was shown to me by Madame Leche founded partly i n consequence of the exertions of Madame ): e' eac h pipes c for the purpose of h eating the kettles of glue valier, who act ua ll y h o ld s the sa'aried post of Government used in the business. Altho ug h th ese precautionary inspectress of th e fe ma l e ' prisons of France. Why have not measures proved all that w ere expec t e d o f t h em i n we also an i ns p ec t ress for our female prisons? Madame protecting the p rem i ses f rom t h e ravages of the Leehevalier h as o ft en k nocked up a prison at 11 o'clock at flames a most deadly cha rac t er , and proved to be of it seems a perfect night when sh e suspecte d anything wrong ; and I saw tained a y strong hold the appara tus et when the fi re commence d an d had ob enough of her p ower o f c h aracter, even during the few miracle that the los s o f lif e h a d not b een far greater hours I spent with h er, to convince me that she was a might be ex- P b een, ly As mie woman to hold a l eg i on o f f ema l e prisoners in awe. than it has unfortunat e " petted when the fir e was a t i ts h e i g h t r i sing so high Sisters of Charity are a l so now i n Franco trying to make jute the air as it did, wou ld na t ura ll y cause an im head against the ev il s o f t h e f actory system. I had not time mense multitude of person s t o assem bl e near t h e when in Lyon s l as t year, to travel 40 miles by railway to scene of conflagration, w hi c h un f ortunate l y pierc e see M. Bon nar t' s f actory , where they superintend the fe- to be the case, and th ose w h o cou ld not stand in male worke rs ; b u t i n the Revue des deux Measles for last February the open thoroughfa res t oo k s h e l ter i n t h e var i ous i s t o b e f oun d a very interesting account of three courts and by -streets nea r th e p l ace. O ne o f t h ose establishment s w h ere th e young girls are engaged in ma- narrow alleys called Lloyd' s - cour t , runn i ng at t h e nufactures under th e care o f s i sters—one at Jujurieu.x, for back of the factory, wh ere , a goo d v i ew of the raging taffetas ; another a t T atars, f or plush ; and the third at La of the flames could be seen, was densely crowded Seauve, for ribands. Young girls on entering sign an en- with human beings, including men, women, and gagement for three years, and a month's trial is also re- children, some of very tender age, while each house quired. Workwomen are also received, who enter into an in the court had its windows filled with the occu engagement for 18 months. piers of the se - veral houses—being something like " But all these duties require something more for their 35 or 40 fee'c from the burning property ; many wise fulfilment than love and patience; they require energy, very natweally supposed that even if the walls foresight, prudence, economy, and the habit of working in should tc,pple they would be out of the way of dan concert and subordinatio n ; and, accordingly, we find the ger ; hut judge of the consternatio n o f th e occu women who are to fulfil them subj ec t e d t o a severe and me- pants of the court, w h en a ll o f a su dd en, wh i lst thodical traini ng . The Haim. Mere of the Si s t ers o f Cha- eight or nine engi nes were i n f u ll p l ay, and the city of St.iVincent d e P au l, in Rue de Bac at P ar i s , sends men who were hired to work the engines were sing out 500 trained wom en every year to all parts of the world. ing some lively airs, such as " Up she rises early in " And we, if we wish to employ women successfully in the morning," and cries were reverberating from works of benevolence and social economy, must find some the labourers of " Beer, oh ! beer, oh !" which nearly way of training them for their duties, or we shall never drowned the voices of the officers of the brigade, an achieve our wished for results. Here and there we may explosion of a terrible character took place, which find one specially gifted, to whom order and activity come may be thus briefly described : by right divine; but if you take the few women who are At No. 5, Lloyd's -court lived several families, even now filling marked positions of public importance, and out of the number two females, named Ann you will generally find they have received regular training Crow and Bridget Regan, were stan ding look in some way. Every one knows the severity of Miss ing out of the centre window of the centre Nightingale's preliminary studies, and the ordeal she passed floor, watching the progress of the flames. through in hospitals abroad. Miss Carpenter had concluded This window, it should be stated, consisted of a long and honoured career as a teacher before she devoted three compartments, and well it was that each place herself to criminal children. Elizabeth Blackwell is hardly was not filled with occupants, for it is impossible to a case in point, as her possession of a degree involved h er tell what might have been the extent of life lost. career as a student ; and (I believe) Miss Dix and Mrs. Fry All of a sudden the persons in court heard a forced their way by unu sua l energy, graduated themselves, kind of rumbling noise, and in an instant after so to speak ; but all the institutions for nurses presupposed wards a fearful explosion took place, when a piece preliminary training. Miss Donee, the mistress of one of of the steam-piping, weighing about 56 lbs., was the best private asylums in England, was regularly educated projected horizontally from the factory ; the pon under the leading physician who had devoted himself to derous piece of machinery, after knocking away a ameliorating the condition of the insane ; and there are now portion of the arch of the side window broke off several establishments under the direct sanction of the and stripped about 2 feet of the iron work below Church of England, in which ladies are conducting refuges into the court, whilst the rerkiainder entered the for their own sex, each undergoing a certain probationary window, tore away a p or ti on o f th e ce ili ng, perfo discipline. rated the partition, and fell upon a bed in which a " Thus we find in every department of benevolent exer- man was asleep, and actually fired the sheets of the tion the want of efficient machinery for teaching those who bed. The heated piping was pulled off the man, are to help others. And this knowledge is necessarily of two and he was rescued, much injured, but not fatally. kinds-eintelleetual and practical. Books alone will not give The other portion of the iron piping, as before it, nor will b oo k s an d oral instruction combined suffice, stated, fell into the cour t amongst several scores of Not only must th e m i n d o f the worker be furnished with persons. Tile first p erson it struc k was a woman all necessary kn ow l e d ge , b ut the habits of the worker must named Pitt, whose husb an d wor k e d i n an a dj o i n i ng be trained in acti v ity, pru d ence, and control. Such worker shop, and heari ng o f th e fi re, t h ey h astened to see can only be tr a i ne d , in the work s th ey are eventually to per- whether their o wn wor k was en d angered, b ut find form, just as th e sw i mmer can only be taught in water. In ing such was not th e case, th ey rema i ned watching religious communities this i s e ff ec t e d b y receiving beginners the spread of th e fl ames. Wi t h such force wa s into the life of commun i ty ; among us it can only be struck that she w as pros t ra t e d , . an d upon be i ng s effected by receivin g f ema l e pup i l teachers, as it were, into picked up by h er h us b an d was found, in h i s o pinion , hte all our instituti ons ; an d th i s can only bo done by the con- to be mortally inj ure d . H e got her throu g h sent and co-ope ra ti on , i n many cases of Government, in all to the crowd the best way h e cou ld , h a d h er place d in a cases of the men who c on t ro l a ll our institutions in England. fi. ens " Tho pressure m a y ' come from without ;' it has come . hospital his w ors t f ears were vericonveyance, but whilst tdi her a tution. The his presence before reaching the e accompanying a s she died in from without, and it on l y needs to give it a right direction , pieces o f Moreover, almost all the best men ) who are working in force of the explosion was so strong t hat philanthropic reform say that they want female help to s t h h o e w p e ip r in f g were project ed otd in all directions like a grape sh ot , men, women, and children carry out their purposes properly; but it will be of little were struck o thean court where the explosion good to ourselves, or to them, or to the poor, the ignorant, the sick, or the criminal objects of their solicitude, if it is seemed to have spent itself. A boy named Matthews desultory and untr a i ne d. W e must appeal to men to give had his head cut open, and was conveyed to Ri ng ' s us the necessary opportunity of learning —in fact, to help College Hosp ital with the blood running from th e us to help them. wounds down his face. He was attended t o b y the "On one m ore su bj ec t I d es i re to suggest"ln attention. for his home last night, consequently n o thi ng fatal achieved useful in his case need be apprehended. A w oman named careers Mrs. Chisholm m us t no t b e forgotten; and in that Mary Sullivan, who used to sell oyste rs a b out the connexion she is do u bly t o b e remembered. While ended- neighbourhood, had both her should ers l aid open, Touring to relieve the s t ra i n o f f emale necessities, we must and the sister of the unfortunate l a d , Matthews, not forget that our c o l on i es are em i nently in want of women who had only been confined thre e d ays, was obliged of every rank, and th a t th ey are the natural destination of to be pulled out of bed with he r i n f ant in the cold. the great surplus w hi c h ex i sts i n England. If it were pos • They were removed to the h ouse of a neighbour. Bible to plant th ose w h o are suffering and struggling at home Some 18 or 20 other persons were also struck down —with problems which at the best- are very hard for most and more or less injured ; some returned to their women to solve practically—in useful independence or o wn houses, having cut heads, and others serious, happy marriage over the broad fields of Australia and New but it is understood not fatal, injuries. Zealand, who among u s b u t would say th at it was b y f ar AlevisCriutd th e m e ber,th ru e in su s r y v e e s y t o e r rd t a o y th a e n P d h a ep lo n i ; i Fire the best soluti on o f our diffi cu l ty? offi c e, "But before educated women would emigrate in any num- Mr. Fogo, the chief officer of the fire brigade of the ber the way must be ma d e safe and respectable. Th ey !13 division, and engineer Flynn, made a strict in must find shelter and ass i s t ance on the other s id e o f quirt' as to the cause of the disastrous event. The tho ocean ; a regular organ i sat i on must b„ rea t e d, i manager of the works informed those officers that and competent femal e officials appo i nted to th e emis i all the fires in the furnaces bad been raked out, extinguished, before the factory was grant ships in which they are to sail, and others be and properly ready to receive them on landing. W e h ave t r i e d this closed at six o'clock on Saturday night. There were year to induce several ladies to take advantage of the assisted 40 gas-burners on the premises, but he believed the passages granted to Canterbury, in New Zealand, the only gas was turned off from them- This is unques place to which assisted passages are granted for educated tenably the fact, as not the least appearance of the women; but we found none willing to start, even of thole smell of gas could be detected by the firemen during of the fire. The explosion, it is believed, who would otherwise have liked ~o emigrate, becausooftthe raging on the other side; Was caused in this manner :—The fires in the fur vague uncertainty which awaited there and assist , m t ees h av i ng no committee to put them iiete deeteat lodgings, been extinguished, the steam in the them in looking out for situations such as are described by residents as actually vacant; nobody to whom to apply in I case of illness; nobody to do what Mrs. Chisholm did when she made herself the mother of the female emigrants of a lower class. In fact, no progress will be made in this most necessary exodus until a few carefully selected women, trained in all the necessary knowledge, are sent out from England, with a small fund and the best introductions to our chief colonial ports, and there instructed how to form local committees and apeots for the reception of governesses, or any other educuted ladies who desire to try the fortunes of a new world. If such a plan were carefully inaugurated, I believe that a few years would see a very sensible diminu tion of the strain at home ; and I believe that the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women might very wisely lay the foundation of such a plan by selecting, in structing, and sending out the first officers if the necessary funds could be provided for that purpose. "I will sum up, in a few words, thus, the meaning of this paper, and the results of the past year's experience as it has affected my mind. All the semi-mechanical arts are eminently suited for young people, and it greatly behoves fathers to train their daughters to the possession of some such means of gaining independent bread in the morning of life, while health and spirits are, or ought to be, strong, so that while living under the parental roof they may secure themselves against a rainy day, when it may no longer shelter them. But there are many, many women to whom, by reason of age, health, or social responsibilities, the semi mechanical arts are not applicable ; women also whose ca pacities deserve and require a wider field of intellectual and moral exertion than the compositor's case or the law copy ist's desk can afford ; and seeing, as I do daily, how great is the comparative delicacy both in brain and in the bodily frames of women of the middle and upper classes—of the bad effect upon many of them of long hours of sedentary toil, and the supreme difficulty of introducing them in great numbers into the fields of competitive employment, the more anxious I become to see the immense surplus of the sex in England lightened by judicious, well-conducted, and morally guarded emigration to our colonies, where the dis proportion is equally enormous and where they are wanted in every social capacity ; and to see a large number of those that remain, the single or otherwise self-dependent women, who must exist in every highly civilised and thickly popu lated country like ours, well and carefully trained in ell those functions of administrative benevolence which are in fact but a development of household qualities ; the larger, the more generous, and equally distinctive part of: women's work in the world." TUB FIRE. AT .211ESNRS. CHAPPELL AND CO.'S PIANOFORTE FACTORY. boiler and the pipes had turned to water, and when the heat of the fire became so intense, the water suddenly generated steam so fast and in such quan tities, and the pipes being red with heat, gave way by the pressure of steam, and hence the cause of the melancholy catastrophe that ensued. No event that has taken place in the neighbour hood for some time past has caused a more painfu degree of excitement to prevail than the presen one. Information of the occurrence has been forwarded to the coroner, but the day for holding the inquest has not yet been fixed. Independent of the large loss of veneers and other goods, upwards of 100 valuable instruments have been consumed. COUNTRY DIARKRTS. COLCHESTER—Nov. 3. A large supply of wheat to-day, and prices at former rates for good dry samples ; inferior samples at very irregu lar rates. Fine malting barley in good demand, and sold at high prices ; other sorts not dearer. Beans and peas were both the turn agai . ust the buyer. Wheat, white 6os to 72s Beans Mazagan..4os to 42s • red 4'.s to 64s I Diiddle & small 44s to 50s Barley ..40s to 50s I White peas 4Bs to 62s Oats 22s to 28s I Grey,. 428 to 48s CHELMSFORD—Noy. 2. A thin supply of saleable wheat was brought into market to-day, with a dull trade, and prices were•at about former currencies for best samples; damp sorts rather lower, but very little changed hands. Spring corn firm, at last day's prices. Wheat, white 48s to 67s I Peas, Partridge ..438 to 44s red 57s to 65s I White 43s to 46s Barley 35s to 41s ; Boiling 43s to 47s Chevalier ....36s to 41s i Dun 39s to 42s Grinding 32s to 36s 1 Beans, Tick ....40s to 46s Malt 61s to 67s Harrow Ticks 41s to 49s Chevalier 64s to 69s ; Mazagan 38s to 43. Oats 26s to 31s I NORTHAMPTON—Noy. 3. At this corn -market to-day wheat was in tolerable sup ply, with a fair demand, prices tanging from 64s to 68s for white, and 48s to 64s for red. In barley a good business, malting 38s to 435, grinding 33s to 36s per qr. Oats in small supply, and prices stationary—quoted at 32s to 385 per 24 stone. Beans, old, 52s to 56s ; peas, 44s to 525 Rye, 37s to 425; malt, 68s to 72s ; flour, 33s to 37s per sack. KrRKALDY—Noy. 3. We had large supplies of barley to-day, and fine quali ties brought fully the prices of last week ; indifferent parcels were sold at is to is 6d lower. Oats in fair supply, but no cheaper. Old and new wheats in small supply, at about an advance of Is to 2s on late rates, owing to a demand for seed. Wheat Barley 1 Oats First.... 62s Od 30s Od 1 26s Od Second.. 68s Od 40s Od I 29s Od Third .. —s Od 43s Od 31s Od COAL MARKET—Nov. 5. (Prices of Coal per Ton at the close of the market. s. d. Walls End. Davison's West Hart ley ...17 0, Lambert's West Hart ley 16 9 Holywell 17 0 Howard's West Hart ley 17 0 Wylam l7 0 s. South Hartlepool...... 22 0 Franiwwlgate 2l 6 Kelloe Lyon's Stone l9 6 Thorpe .. ..28 9 'don Main ...19 6 Musgrave 19 fi Russel's Hetton „20 3 Walls End. Acorn Close 21 6 Ships at market 60; said, 55. THE 111A1 LS. MAILS DUE. Australia, Ceylon, and Mauritius (via South ampton) .. .. • • • . Nov. 18 . Do. (via Marseilles) Nov. 12. Brazil and Cape Verds Dec. 5. Buenos Ayres, Monte Video, &c. Nov. —. Bahamas and Havana (via New York) Nov. 22. Canada, &c. (via Galway) .. Nov. —. Cape of Good Hope, &c. Dec. 2. China, Penang, and Singapore (via S'ampton) Overdue. Do. (via Marseilles) Nov. 12. Gibraltar (via Southampton) .. Overdue. India (Calcutta), Ceylon, &c. (via Southampton) Overdue. Do. (via Marseilles) Nov. 12. India (Bombay), (via Southampton) .. Nov. 10. Do. (via Marseilles) .. Nov. —. Lisbon .. Nov. 11. Cuba and Mexico .. .. Nov. 28, Malta, Egypt, and Aden (via Southampton) .. Overdue. Do. (via Marseilles) .. Nov. —. Vigo, and Oporto .. Nov. 11. United States, California, &c. Nov. 8. Western Coast of Africa, Madeira, Teneriffe Nov. 10. West Indies and Pacific, Carthagena, Cuba, Nov. 13. THE PENNY WEDDING.--We are happy to state that a marriage which has been for a considerable time on the sawdust has at length taken place. On Monday, the 22d ult., was solemnised in the Chapel, Fetter- lane, the union of Morning Star, Esq., adopted child of John Bright, Esq., of Birmingham, with Miss Dial, surviving child of A. Great Mist:a.'ke, Fleet-street. The bride had long been in a delicate state of health owing to her having been unfortunately subre itted to empirical treatment, and at one time had scarcely been expected to linger through another week, but it is ?moped that the happy alliance now made will give her a new lease of life. 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Campbell, Syderstone Rectory, near Fakenham, Norfolk : " Gentl Simon, I have long known and appreciated the virtues of Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food. In all cases of indigestioli, and particularly when the liver is affected, I consider it the 'b est of all remedies. JAS. T. CAMPBELL." Avoid Pills and Medicines : they invariably aggravate and perpetuate disc tses ; their annoyance, disappointment, and expense ma:, be avoided by using Du Barry's Food which, at a few pence per day, saves 50 times its cost in other remedies, removing effectually, without purging, constipation, indigestion (dyspepsia) nervous, bilious and liver complaint s and all their consequences. Certificate No. 36,418. W e find it the safest remedy. Andrew 'Ore, MD., F.R.S., 1)r Harvey, Dr. Wurzer, Dr. Shorland, Dr. Campell. Let invalids avoid the fearful dangers of spu rious and injurious imitations offered under a variety of false pretences. Nevill's imitations are prohibited by the high Court of Chancery under a penalty of £5,000 against Alfred H"oper Nevill and his agents ; and the pretences that Nevill hM3 a patent for Arabica, Food and that Du Barry's are connected with such patent are utterly false. No canister is genuine without the name Barry Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, in full, ontheseal and wrappier. Shopkeepers who attempt imposition in one article must expect to be distrusted in all others. Packed in tins 11b. 2s. 9d.; 21b. 4a, 6d. ; 51b. lls. ; 121 b. 225. ; 241 b. 40s. The 121 b. and 241 b, canisters are sent carriage free on receipt of Post-office order by Barry Du Barry and Co., 77, Re' gent-street, London; Fortnum Mason, and Co.; Abbia, 60, fracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 63 and 150, Oa bard-street; 330 and 451, Strand ; 49 and 60, Bishopsgate street ; Batty, 16, Finsbstry Pavement; Phillips and Co, tea-dealers; Petty, Wood, and Co., Sing William-street City ; at 127, High Ho] and all grocers [ADVERTISEMENT.]-7flolloway' B Pills.—Bilious affec tions induced by atmospheric changes or too liberal diet, should be checked at om ie or serious consequences may en.- sue. When anyone fin ids his ideas less clear than usual, his eyesight dimmed, a nd his head dizzy, which indispose he may be quite coolingmediciner. surehlm f t o h r a a t l h l e ex i e s r i t n io i n m , m ph , wi y i s a i t c o al n o e r ed m of en so t m al e , Let him send at once for a box of Holloway's Pills, which will at once free him from his sufferings, and which will speedily renew his usr tal healthful feelings, If the bowels be irritable, Holloway"s Ointment should be rubbed over the stomach and liver every night and morning. It will wonderfully augment the corrective power of the Pills. [ADVNICTINEMENT.] Pills and medicine invariably ag gravate and perpetuatpsdile may be and ghealt h ven their annoyance, dis appointment, e pp indifferentoin E be avoided by persons sending only their address to E. S. Barr y , 77, egent-street, W., London, and they will receive gratis anal free by post the " IsyAt.ms' Owlf me nt ' s GUIDE," or Natural Restorer, without medicine or ex p-nise, of perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, and refreshing sleep, t o the dysentery, most enfeebled, insuring the removal of indigestion (dyspepsia), constipation, liver complaints. nausea, epil epsy, paralysis, debility, nervousness, palpitatior , cough, asth ma, consu.mption, dropsy, flatulency, diarrhoea,. y, biliousness s, fevers, sore throats, catarrhs, colds, noises in the ears, rl teumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, ivritability, sleeplessness, avidity, palpi tation, heartburn, ht tadache, despondency, orainps, spasms , sinking, fits, bronchil is "Unquestionably the Pied Guide to health." BIRTHS. Pox.---On the sth imst., at Park-hill House, ci a pham, the Hon. Mrs. Augu. st us Lane Fox, of a son. RUSSELL.—On th e I s t i ns t., a t th e Vi cara ge, Wines borough, Kent, the wife of the Rev. Sydenbam F. RllB - of a son. SWAIRRY.—On the 4th inst., at 45, Oxford-terrace, Hyde. park, the wifo of Frederick Swabey, E s q., of a son. 'MARRIAGES. SMITH—PELLY.— On the 2d inst , at Beaumaris, Stephen Henry Smith, Esq., Annesbrook, county of Meath, to Georgina Barbara, only daughter of the late Col. Polly, C. 8., 16th Lan, ors. Twemlow, Capt a i n i n Twramow—TwmfLow.—On the 3 d inst. , at All Soul' s Church, Langhaan-place, G. H. the 16th Regt., an d e ld es t so n of Major-General Twem low, to Georgina Hamilton, daughter of the Rev. W. H. Twemlow, M DEATHS. GOLDSMID.—On. the 3d inst., at 8, Cave a:ouslis e l: ne Aaron Abram G o hismid, Esq., aged 76. l lIENDERSON.—On the 4th inst., at D Beatrice, the infant daughter of Rear-Admiral Eleanor arl,y.. l Thomas Henderson. H m o :A i t ß h i : Tv rn o n . H t h e e w 3 a o r l ; u E I t a . q , . , a t ag H e a d r B t 16e.37 i JELN a rN d ajiecAnis,ira.-00analt,hEes2qd.,iangset.d, 56 43, Rutl and - gate, Ed- SALKELD.—On the Ist inst., at Cavaden-town, Robert Sal keld, Esq., of the Audit-office, Somerset -house. WILDEY.—On the 31st ult., at Southsea, William Wallace Wildey, M.D., R.N., of Ooshani, aged 39, LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG of No. 112, Strand, Printer, a t T he , Stan Jffi ce, No. 112, s tran d, ihe Precinct of the Savoy, in the o cau ty o f fitiddleaex, Tueeday, November 6, 1860. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, TctOVEIVIBER7 6, 1860. I