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

TILE PRINCE I .3 VISIT TO AMERICA. (From the Speetial Correspondent of the Times.) BOSTON, OCT. 19. Vsoston has given the Prince of Wales a reception irderior only to New York in its magnitude. Its warm, cordial enthusiasm, 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 dreavr, between such heart-stirring ovations, I shordd 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 tho arrival at New York the people had been quiotly 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 Amer-- 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 goad 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 Prince came out upon the platform of his car and bowed his acknowledgments of the perfect storm of enthusiasm with which his arrival was welcomed. So, again, at 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 bad an appearance of much fatigue —an appearanoe 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 genera l suspens i on o f a ll b us i ness 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 Hi ghness set out for this an old veteran, Mr. Ralph F arnham, the only remaining surv i vor o f the battle of 1 : ker , s-hill, was presented to hi m . This venerable l u an is now in his 105th y ear , hav ing been born at the comm encemen t o f 1756 . T o this day he preee to " a mental and bodily vi gour which seldom f a l ls the lot of th ose w h o pass t h e allotted span of three eater part and ten. He serve d throughout the 'part of the War of Inde pendence, was in most of the th half skirmi s hi ng ac tions which distingui s h ed present when General at struggle, and was rg e d Burgoyne ca pitulated at Saratoga. lam sorry to be obliged to add to thi s record that the old veteran--thei f of the men • on either side who fought round the earth works in the midst of which the B unk e r's.h' ll Monu ment now stands here— f rom far - r° lll inde pendent in his old age. He is even g . seeking for subscriptions to enable him to eke out With comfort the few remaining days which can yet be vouch safed to him. What passed between his R oy a l Highness and this venerable relic of byg one d ays, I am not aware; but the fact of the interview u p. 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 Boston, and which, t hough called " the Common," is as picturesque and quite as well kept as St. James's. Here all Boston seemed to be as sembled ; in fact, I felt sure of this till I saw the return of his Royal Highness to the city. The troops wore 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 upon the ground in uniform. His suite also —At least, the military portion it—of ofr course, paid the same compliment to the occasion. The ttillltlitioun n of the people was boundless. It was a repetition of the night before—a repetition of the days in New York, yet withal so fresh, so spon taneous, so untiring, that every welcome seemed better than the last, till, as a spectator, y u almost wondered when and where this devotion ( f respect and hospitality was to end. And all his kindly feeling is but a reflex—almost a faint 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 imagihe them only volunteers. Conspicuous among the regiments were those companies which had come to Montreal to assist at the eclat of the splendid rsception 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, w as 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 avance 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 o f f ee li ng, w i t h suc h 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 ! 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 ! Lord, let War's tempest cease, Fold the whole earth in peace, Under Thy wings I Make all Thy nations one, All hearts beneath the sun, Till. Thou shalt reign alone, Great King of kings 1 the concert When hi s R oyal Highness at the conclusion of quitted the ball the young vocalists rose again, but this time their enth us i asm cou ld not b e restrained. One set the exampl e of a c h eer , an d in an i ns t ant it spiread from mouth to mouth, gra dually extending building,omwhere the little cho r ist ers sat, all th roug h the pttpier till it ech oe d w ith an outburst of l ong ent: —of affection, hos warm hearty blen ui pitality, and w e l come so g-- shouts of gladn ess t h at the ed in , could only look on w i t h pride and mute amazementtor at such a kindly tribute to his young Prince. Every day, every hour of this l ong tour has on]. winced me more and more of how little the R y i 1 dish c o n - people know of their brothers in Canada —how little the English and the Americans really know of each other. To most Englishmen Canada is a geographical Pxpression, and they are better ac quainted with the Hindoos than the real sterling, character of their great descendants and rivals—the 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 Reicharath, 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 count 3 of Csanad. 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 means 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. His Royal Highness and suite arrived at ten o'clock, and almost 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 ex p ec t e d t o v i s i t t h e super b 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. A YEAR'S EXPERIENCE IN WOMAN'S 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 : " 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 Illondes, 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. 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 danadian 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. AUSTIIIA AND II UNGARY. THE SUN, LONDON, lITESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 6 1860. ( belong to tradesmen's families, and teach in the same. Others again are quite younz, and, living with their parents, can afford to go out and teach for any sum they fancy pays I them, and at a much cheaper rate, than they could do if they actually supported themselves on their earnings. Others, again, are inferior in education, and so are driven down to offer their services at a low rate from being desti tute of accomplishments. Custom does not shield the governess as it shields the phy: ician, 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 none 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 a 0 a 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 de 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 these 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 eare 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 several institutions under lay or church influence. But, as to placing educated women to act as officials in chari table, industrial, penal, or reformatory establishments, I really think I may say that nothing is done or doing. NV e keep reiterating the need of them in each and all ; but I do not see that we are nearer the realisation of our wish than VIENNA, OCT. 31.—The Wiener Zeitung of this date contains a 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 Hevesoh " in perpetuity " (perpetui supremi Comites). Prince Paul Esterhazy, Count Leopold Nadasky (not the ex-Minister of Justice), Baron von Re vay, and Count Ladislaus Czaky are the here ditary Obergespane of the Edenburg, Comorn, Thurocz, and Zips counties. Count George Festetics and M, von Eazinczy 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 Pal ffy 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 (31agnaten-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, (intimmtum) to the county authorities, a general congregation is convoked, and the injunction of the Government officially taken into consideration. If found to lee in accordance with the Hungarian law, it is at once obeyed, but if not, it is respectfully set aside' (mit Achtung beseitigt). If the Stadthalterei-Rath is not satisfied with the decision of the general con gregation, he 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 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 I there deposes or arrests the leading members of the I Opposition. You may, perhaps, conclude that after matters have gone such a length the county i 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 hew ♦ery 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 en the country. In 1822,t however, the Government re solved to raise recruits in Hungary without de• mending 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 very 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 " Judex Curie" 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 FIX " 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. teT, h ,, e fr y o e m ar t i he n i w r h w ic ea h ri A ng us s tr a i n a d s al en s, t an army to Naples. seemea The petty n o bl es i n Hungary are calle d " b oes k oro As Protestant who was imprisoned for a time at Caachau. "My title to again introduce this topic to the notice of i this association is simple and direct—that of having experi- 1 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 of 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• tals, 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 net otherwise advertised, nor was any publicity then sought for it. But when the whole question started into life, the ad vertisements 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 wore so in definite—the ladies did not want to be governesses, they wanted to be something else, and we wore to advise thorn. In this way I have conversed with ladies of ages and con ditions, with young 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 wall-trained nor picked, outnumbering any deaaand 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 draughted 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 these model experiments could be expected to be seized by the commer- I 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 fiend, and printed long slips for distribution, containing, besides the addresses of the Victoria Press and Law-Copying Class (in case any vacancy might 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 theneeds 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, the dress, and the countless moral and material associations of the rank to which they were born. A good and a refined education is e. 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 mero pittance. "Now, the semi-mechanical occupation of the telegraph —and I believe it will be found to be the same with all s3mi-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. I am quite aware that there are daily governesses whe go out for less than £5O 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 we were five years ago. "Now, why is this ? I can supply one part of the answer from our own experience of the last year ; because the - ,vomen who from natural ability might be disposed and com petent to undertake such posts with advantage to them selves and others do not ask for them, have little idea of the kind of work and little desire for it, and would probably fail in doing it if they tried ; because they have had no training. " Although I have seen many highly educated and refined women in want of employment during the last year, I have not seen half a dozen who were competent, by their own conviction, to take the responsibility of management on a large scale ; the matronship of female emigrant ships, the control of a wild troop of reformatory girls, the overseership of female factory operatives, or the female wards of a work house. "Now, Sisters of Charity abroad do all these things. The popular notion of a Sister of Charity in England is, that she is always nursing the sick, or searching on a field of battle for wounded men with a vestige of life in them, or visiting the poor at their own houses—poetical and somewhat sha dowy Evangelines, with baskets on their arms. But in good truth these are but a small part of their multifarious duties. They get through in separate divisions nearly all the work performed (or unperformed) in our workhouses— they take, feed, clothe, and teach orphan and destitute chil dren, and bring up the girls for service ; they take bodily possesion of the old people and the cripples and tend them in ether establishments—they distribute medicines and ma nage most of the casual relief funds of foreign cities. They also—and let me particularly draw your attention to this point—undertake the care of criminal and vagrant chil dren. I saw in the month of April last the great refor matory in the Rue de Vanguard, in Paris, where 100 girls of the lowest class—the majority actually prisoners and consigned there by Government—are under the care of the sisters of Marie-Joseph. This establishment was founded partly in consequence of the exertions of Madame de Lamartine, and it was shown to me by Madame Leche valier, who actually holds the salaried post of Government inspectress of the female prisons of France. Why have not we also an inspectress for our female prisons? Madame Lechevalier has often knocked up a prison at 11 o'clock at night when she suspected anything wrong; and I saw enough of her power of character, even during the few hours I spent with her, to convince me that she was a woman to hold a legion of female prisoners in awe. " Sisters of Charity are also now in France trying to make head against the evils of the factory system. I had not time when in Lyons last year, to travel 40 miles by railway to see M. Bonnart's factory. where they superintend the fe male workers ; but in the Revue des deux Mendes for last February is to be found a very interesting account of three establishments where the young girls are engaged in ma nufactures under the care of sisters—one at Jujurieux, for taffetas ; another at Tatare, for plush ; and the third at La Seauve, for ribands. Young girls on entering sign an en gagement for three years, and a month's trial is also re quired. Workwomen are also received, who enter into an engagement for 18 months. " But all these duties require something more for their wise fulfilment than love and patience; they require energy, foresight, prudence, economy, and the habit of working in concert and subordination; and, accordingly, we find the women who are to fulfil them subj-eted to a severe and me thodical training. The .4faison Mere of the Sisters of Cha rity of St. Vincent de Paul, in Rue do Bac at Paris, sends out 500 trained women every year to all parts of the world. " And we, if we wish to employ women successfully in works of benevolence and social economy, must find some way of training them for their duties, or we shall never achieve our wished for results. Here and there we may find one specially gifted, to whom order and activity come by right divine; but if you take the few women who are even now filling marked positions of public importance, you will generally find they have received regular training in some way. Every one knows the severity of Miss Nightingale's preliminary studies, and the ordeal she passed through in hospitals abroad. Miss Carpenter had concluded a long and honoured career as a teacher before she devoted herself to criminal children. Elizabeth Blackwell is hardly a case in point, as her possession of a degree involved her career as a student ; and (I believe) Miss Dix and Mrs. Fry forced their way by unusual energy, graduated themselves, so to speak; but all the institutions for nurses presupposed preliminary training. Miss Dence, the mistress of one of the best private asylums in England, was regularly educated under the leading physician who had devoted himself to ameliorating the condition of the insane ; and there are now several establishments under the direct sanction of the Church of England, in which ladies are conducting refuges for their own sex, each undergoing a certain probationary discipline. " Thus we find in every department of benevolent exer tion the want of efficient machinery for teaching those who are to help others. And this knowledge is necessarily of two kinds—intellectual and practical. Books alone will not give it, nor will books and oral instruction combined suffice Not only must the mind of the worker be furnished with all necessary knowledge, but the habits of the worker must be trained in activity, prudence, and control. Such worker can only be trained in the works they are eventually to per form, just as the swimmer can only be taught in water. In religious communities this is effected by receiving beginners into the life of community ; among us it can only be effected by receiving female pupil teachers, as it were, into all our institutions ; and this can only be done by the con sent and co-operation, in many cases of Government, in all cases of the men who control all our institutions in England. " The pressure may come from without;' it has come from without, and it only needs to give it a right direction. Moreover, almost all the best men who are working in philanthropic reform say that they want female help to carry out their purposes properly; but it will be of little good to ourselves, or to them, or to the poor, the ignorant, the sick, or the criminal objects of their solicitude, if it is desultory and untrained. We must appeal to men to give us the necessary opportunity of learning—in fact, to help us to help them. " On one mere subject I desire to suggest attention. "In enumerating women who have achieved useful careers Mrs. Chisholm must not be forgotten ; and in that connexion she is doubly to be remembered. While endea vouring to relieve the strain of female necessities, we must not forget that our colonies are eminently in want of women of every rank, and that they are the natural destination of the great surplus which exists in England. If it were pos • Bible to plant those who are suffering and struggling at home —with problems which at the best aro very hard for most women to solve practically—in useful independence or happy marriage over the broad fields of Australia and New Zealand, who among us but would say that it was by far the best solution of our difaculty ? " But before educated women would emigrate in any num ber the way must be made safe and respectable. They must find shelter and assistance on the other side of the ocean ; a regular organisation must be created, and competent female officials appointed to the emi grant ships in which they are to sail, and others be ready to receive them on landing. We have tried this year to induce several ladies to take advantage of the assisted passages granted to Canterbury, in New Zealand, the only place to which assisted passages are granted for educated women; but we foUnd none willing to start, even of those who would otherwise have liked to emigrate, because of th• vague uncertainty which awaited them on the other side; no committee to put them int* decent lodgings, end wild It is to be regretted that the fire which broke out in the extensive pianoforte manufactory belonging to Messrs. T. Chappell and Co., of 18, Phcenix street, Soho, on Monday morning, as reported in this journal of yesterday, has been attended with more disastrous consequences than was at first anti cipated. Unfortunately the loss of property has been greater than even the firemen at first believed, and, to add to the misfortune, a loss of life has already taken place, and some 18 or 20 other per sons have been more or less, and it is feared that two or three have been fataly, injured. This seems a most remarkable fact, for even the firemen who were on duty at the time knew nothing, until hours after the fire was extinguished, of the melan choly accident. In order to render the account intelligible, it is necessary to show how the fearful occurrence took place. Messrs. Chappell, who are well known as music publishers to the Queen, &c., had warerooms at 49 and 50, New Bond-street, and 13, George street, Hanover-square. The building in Phoenix street belonged to the same firm, but the manufac turing portion of the works belonged to Mr. Smith, and as fast as he could finish the instruments they were taken by Messrs. Chappell and Co., and were sold to the public by that firm. The factory was five floors, or four storeys high, was formed of 14- inch brickwork ; it was 44 feet long at one side, but being on the skew it was only 35 feet towards the end. Mr. Smith, well knowing the danger that invariably existed where open fires were used for heating the glue or drying the veneers, had each floor fitted up with iron pipes about six or seven inches in circumference. In order to afford a still greater protection to the building, he had a small circular tube inserted through the larger range of piping, so as to avoid the danger of the outer piping becoming so heated as to set fire to the timbers in proximity with the steam apparatus. As a double se curity these pipes were held by iron stays to keep the pipes from either touching the flooring or ceil ings. For years these precautionary measures had worked most admirably, and what was considered a still greater prevention against the outbreak of fire, each chimney was supplied with hot steam pipes for the purpose of heating the kettles of glue used in the business. Although these precautionary measures proved all that were expected of them in protecting the premises from the ravages of the flames, yet when the fire commenced and had ob tained a strong hold the apparatus proved to be of a most deadly character, and it seems a perfect miracle that the loss of life had not been far greater than it has unfortunately been. As might be ex pected when the fire was at its height rising so high into the air as it did, would naturally cause an im mense multitude of persons to assemble near the scene of conflagration, which unfortunately proved to be the case, and those who could not stand in the open thoroughfares took shelter in the various courts and by-streets near the place. One of those narrow alleys called Lloyd's-court, running at the back of the factory, where a good view of the raging of the flames could be seen, was densely crowded with human beings, including men, women. and children, some of very tender age, while each house in the court had its windows filled with the occu piers of the several houses—being something like 35 or 40 feet from the burning property ; many very naturally supposed that even if the walls should topple they would be out of the way of dan ger; but judge of the consternation of the occu pants of the court, when all of a sudden, whilst eight or nine engines were in full play, and the men who were hired to work the engines were sing ing some lively airs, suck as " Up she rises early in the morning," and cries were reverberating from the labourers of " Beer, oh ! beer, oh !" which nearly drowned the voices of the officers of the brigade, an explosion of a terrible character took place, which may be thus briefly described : At No. 5, Lloyd's-court lived several families, and out of the number two females, named Ann Crow and Bridget Regan, were standing look ing out of the centre window of the centre floor, watching the progress of the flames. This window, it should be stated, consisted of three compartments, and well it was that each place was not filled with occupants, for it is impossible to tell what might have been the extent of life lost. All of a sudden the persons in court heard a kind of rumbling noise, and in an instant after wards a fearful explosion took place, when a piece of the steam-piping, weighing about 56 lbs., was projected horizontally from the factory ; the pon derous piece of machinery, after knocking away a portion of the arch of the side window broke off and stripped about 2-4- feet of the iron work below into the court, whilst the remainder entered the window, tore away a portion of the ceiling, perfo rated the partition, and fell upon a bed in which a man was asleep, and actually fired the sheets of the bed. The heated piping was pulled off the man, and he was rescued, much injured, but not fatally. The other portion of the iron piping, as before stated, fell into the court amongst several scores of persons. Lie first person it struck was a woman named Pitt, whose husband worked in an adjoining shop, and hearing of the fire, they hastened to see whether their own work was endangered, but find ing such was not the case, they remained watching the spread of the flames. With such force was she struck that she was prostrated, and upon .being picked up by her husba n d wa s found, in his ou opinion, conveyance, to be mortally injured. He got her _ crowd the best way he could, had her placed in a her to the thr i h ni t o h n e conveyance, but whilst accompanying hospital his worst fears were verified , as she died in o d n children likea his presence before reaching the institution. The force of the explosion was E Q str on g that p iec es of r the piping were projectedienalo women, , cat shower of grape shot, and ran, w were struck down in the court where the explosion seemed to have spent itself. A bo y nam ed Matthews had his head cut open, and was conveyed to Ki ng ' s College Hospital with the _ blood runni n g from the wounds down his face. He was att en d ed to by the officers of that institution, but was allowed to leave for his home last -night, consequently nothing fatal in his case need be a pp rehende d. A woma n n ame d Mary nd oysters ab ou t th e neighbourhood, had both her shoulders been confined thre e d ays, was obliged t h h a Sdi1 lioulders laid open, sister of the unfo r t unate lad, Matthews, who used to sell only who h h o e u r s i e n o fa f nt a i n n e t i h g e hb c o o u ld r. . The b e y e p w u e l r l e e d out removed bedt withthe Some 18 or 20 other.persons were also struck down and more or less injured some returned to their own houses, havin g cut _heads, a n d others serious, but it is underst oo d not fatal, injuries. Mr. Crumber, th e surveyor to the Phennix Fire of&e, visited th e ruins yesterday, and along with Mr. Fogo, the chief officer of the fire brigade of the B division, and quiry a s t o t h e cause manager o f th e worksbif" engine er Fl ynn , ma d e a str i c t in all the fi res i n and properly ex_thethedisastrous event.officers that, furnaces us h e d raked out, was closed at s i x o ' b before beenth e factory clock on Saturday night. There were 40 g as . b, Irners on the premises, but he believed the gas was turn e d o ff from them. This is unques tionably the fact, as not the least appearance of the smell of gas could be detected by the firemen during the raging of the fire. The explosion, Ais believed, was caused i n thi s manner :—The fires in the fur naces haying been extingniahed, the Amu in the them in looking out for situations such as are described by residents as actually vacant ; nobody to whom to apply in 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 wornC.n trained in all the necessary knowledge, are sent out from Eu gland, with a small fund and the best introductions to our chief colonial ports, and there instructed how to form local committees and apeets 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 he 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 pt.rental 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 die 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 all 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." FIRE AT IVES. R. 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 or excitement to prevail than the prelim one. Information of the occuirence hes 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 valua l olo instrumeuts have been consumed. tOUNTRY MARKETS. COLCHESTER—Nov. 3. A large supply of wheat to-day, and prices at former rites 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 against the buyer. , Wheat, white 6os to 72s Beans, Mazagan.. 40s to 42s red 41s to 64s ! Middle & small 44s to 509 Barley 4os to 50s White peas 4Bs to 524 I Oats 22s to 28s Grey, . 4- to 48s CHELAISFOIty—Nov. 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 teas, Partridge ..43s to 444 red 578 to 65s I White 43s to 466 Barley 356 to 414 i Boiling 43s to 47s Chevalier ....36s to 41e 1 Dun 39s to 42s Grinding 32s to 36s Beans, Tick ....40s to 46s Malt 61s to 67s.Harrow' Ticks 41s to 49s Chevalier 6is to 69s , Mazagan.„... 3B s to 43$ Oats 26s to 31s I NORTHAMPTON—NoT. 3. At this corn-market to-day wheat was in tolerable sup ply, with a fair demand, prices ranging 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 38s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 52s to 565; peas, 44s to 52s Rye, 37s to 42s ; malt, 688 to 725; flour, 33s to 37s per sack, KIRKALDY—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 18 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 Oats First.... 62s Od 30s Od 26s Od Second.. 68s Od 403 Od 29s Od Third .. —s Od 43s Od 31s Od COAL MARKET—Nov. 6 feces of Coal per Ton at the clone of the market. a. d. I Walla End. Davison's West Hart ley l7 0 Lambert's West Hart ley l6 9 Holywell 17 0 Howard's West Hart ley 17 0 Wylam l7 0 Walls End. Acorn Close ..21 6 Ships at marker rt. i. South Hartlepool 2 2 0 Franivratigate 21 6 Kelloe •••• .22 6 Lyon's Stone l9 6 Thorpe .. ..28 9 Eden Main l9 6 Musgrave.. 19 6 Russel's Hetton 20 3 ;, 60; sold, 55, THE MAILS. MAILS DUE. Australia, Ceylon, and Mauritius (via South ampton) .. Nov. 18.. Do. (via Marseilles) Nov. 12. Brazil and Cape Verds Dec. 5. Buenos Ayres, Mbnte 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) Nev. 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. .. Nov. 11. Lisbon Cuba and Mexic) Nov. 28. Malta, Egypt, and Aden (via Southampton) .. Overdue. Do. (via Marseilles) Nov. —. Vigo, and Oporto .. Nov. United States, California, &c. Nov. 8. Western Coast of Atrica, Madeira, Teneriffe .. Nov. 10. West Indies and Pacific, Carthagena, Cuba, &o. 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, M.P., with Miss Dial, surviving child of A. Great Mistake, Fleet-street. The bride had long been in a delicate state of health owing to her having been unfortunately submitted to empirical treatment, and at one time had scarcely been expected to linger through another week, but it is hoped that the happy alliance now made will give her a new lease of life. Her husband, though not very well educated, and though at times in clined to be coarse, has a manly English character, and Miss Dial, though brought up as a rigid dissenter, has already seen the folly of fanaticism, and has accompanied her new lord to most of the theatres, to Newmarket races, and other scenes of which she was lately in the habit of speaking with the shyness of ignorance. We take much interest in the fortunes of the wedded pair, and trust that they will be blest with a large issue.—Punch. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—The following extraordinary cures without medicine of indigestion (dyspepsia), flatulency, constipation, nervous, bilious and liver complaints, cough , asthma, consumption, and debility, effected by Du Barry's delicious health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, are not the least remarkable :—Case No. 54,816. From the Rev. James T. 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JERNINGRAM.—On the 2d inst., at 43, Rutland-gate, Ed- Esq., aged 56. house. s ß e o . bert Sal mu.n T .—On the 31st ult., at Southsea Willi am SILKE d L E n j :7: n f i 0 7 t t li h hi le e n NA ' Ist u., i d n oi ft s ! co . , offis a he t ea C , m a s : o: d g e ee n rds - e t 3 o t9. wlkiirLeliDdidr,,ey, M.D., , Wallace 14°14DON : prin ted and Publitilied by MURDO YOUN(4, o £ No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Alice, No, 112, st ra nd, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the musty of uoiday, liouraber 6, 1860., )11• 16 .