The Express.
London, England, 1864-08-16 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 16.

THE death of Miss CATHERINE SINCLAIR
happens at a juncture which may give to her
death something of the usefulness of her life. It
happens at • time when a Royal Commission is
about to inquire into the condition of middle-clam
education in England—into the education of girls
as well as of boys. It is probable that the Com-
missioners would have taken cognisance of the
fact that the history of their own country is so
ill-taught to girls, and constitutional history so
entirely neglected, that the mothers of the next
generation grow up in an insensibility
to public duty and patriotic obliga-
tion which would have scandalised the
country in the days of our grandmothers. With
all the manifestation of public beneficence in oer
day—a beneficence in which women take their full
share—there is found to be, practically, not only
a deficiency, but almost a total absence of that
sense of political and social obligation which was
strong in the mothers of the patriots of former
generations. The constant teat which proves at
all times what women are in this respect does not
at present yield a very flattering account of the
political conscience of Englishwomen. By the
general testimony of those who should know,
women of the middle-class, women who claim to
be accounted educated, are ready to accept all the
advantages of living in an organised society, under
the protection of the laws, without fulfilling the
conditions of such • privilege. The police are con-
tinually complaining that ladies will do nothing in
support of law and justice. If they are robbed
they expect aid and protection ; and when the
police have had all the trouble, and incurred all
the risks, and have found the property, and caught
the offenders, the ladies back out of the business,
and are utterly insensible to remonstrance. They
do not care about the laws, except to enjoy the
shelter of them, and the police openly express the
contempt for this selfishness which a good many
ether men must feel. In paying taxes again, the
reluctance and shabbiness of women is • settled
point among collectors. Men are bad enough ;
but they have more knowledge, and, therefore,
somewhat more public spirit. As for the women,
instead of paying their taxes with alacrity, and
even pleasure, as the condition of that social secu-
rity and ease by which women gain even more
than men, they think there is something
clever in getting off without paying a part
or the whole, and something businesslike in
giving the collector as much trouble as possible.
tip to the last hour of protection the women were
the great smugglers ; or, at least, they smuggled
whenever, and to the utmost extent that they
could. At this day it is a rare thing to find •
mistress of a household who has troubled herself
to learn what are the legal rights of her servants,
and what her legal powers in regard to them ; and
we hear of monstrous aggressions on the liberties
of domestics, and threats of illegal penalties which
it is truly astonishing to witness in England. The
fault lies with those who leave girls in ignorance of
the political theory and constitutional history and
social ethics of their country and time ; and the
few instances here and there of women who under-
stand that class of obligations, and manifest • true
public spirit, prove that there is no shadow of a
reason for objecting to this part of educational
training on account of any evil in-
fluence cn female manners and character.
Sir JOHN SINCLAIR made his daughter
CATHERINE his companion in her girlhood, and
he certainly imparted to her • very unusual know-
ledge of what she owed to law, government, and
society, in return for the benefits she derived from
them. Evidences of her public spirit—apart
from her benevolence—will remain for generations
to come ; and not the lees was she a successful
author, and • true woman in the character of her
mind and life. She had done some patriotic acts
before money was left her to be employed in bene-
ficenze. When her singularly popular works are
forgotten her drinking-fountain will be refreshing
the wayfarer ; her system of cheap dining-rooms
will be at work in Edinburgh, and be copied in
every other large town ; and it will be a tradition
in the Volunteer force that she equipped a hun-
dred young men in the critical hour when such an
act might go far to decide the speedy success of
the movement.
We need hardly say that we are not questioning
the devotedness of our countrywomen in cases
where their feelings are concerned. It is their
ignorance, and their consequent insensibility in •
department of duty, and not any hardness in
matters of kindly feeling, that we deplore. When
they perceive, they act on • large scale with all
the devotedness of Sisters of Charity. And when
they do patriotic deeds they meet with as much
admiration as we pay to the wives and mothers of
the heroes of the Great Rebellion, and of the
citizen soldiers and seamen who mustered to repel
the invaders brought by the Spanish Armada. In
OUT own day there has been a FLORENCE NIGHT-
INGALE, not only to nurse in our military hospitals