The Express.
London, England, 1857-02-14 00:00:00

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THE Ent:CATION OP Res.—lnstead of educating
every girl as though she were born to he an independent,
self-supporting member of society. we edurate her to become
a mere dependent, a hanger-on, or as the law delicately
=we it. • chattel. In some respects, indeed, we err more
uely than these nations among whom a plurality
wives is permitted, and who regard women purely AS so mule
live stock ; for among Judi people women are, at all events,
provided with shelter, with food, and elettung—they
are " cenel " for as cattle are. There is a cow-
likteness in such a system. But among ourselves
, we treat women as cattle, without providing for them as
I cattle. We take the worst part of barbarism and the worst
part of eiviliettion, and work them into a heterogeneous
whole. We Ming up our women to be dependent, end then
leave these without any one to depend on. There is no one—
there is um Ling for them to lean upon ; and they fall to the
ground. Now, what every woman, no her than every man,
should have to depend upon, lo an ability, after some &ahem
or other, in turn labour into money. Site note or may not
be compelled to exerelee it, but everyone ought to posses it.
If she belong to the richer closets, she may have to exercise
R; if to the poorer, she assuredly
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dew (new member).
SCOTCH BALLADB.—The first thing which strikes
the reader of the ballads ie their direct and enpielsive life.
There is making cloaked or conceded. You look through
the iron cnrskt of the marauder, and see the tierce heart
heave beneath. None of the berme ever seem to feel that
hesitancy and palest of Mien which wide from the climb of
complex nod opposing motives. At once the moiled lead
executes the Repulse of the hot heart. There seem to have
been nn dented:dors in those days. If a man is a
mounded be speaks and acts as if he were perfectly
aware if the fact, and aware, ten, that the
whole eyelid knew it se well as himself. If a man is wronged
by another, be runs hire through the body with hie sword, or
cleaves him to the chin with his poleeue, and then Ikea,
pursued day and night, awake and asleep. in town and wil-
derness by a bloody ghost. If two lover., meet in the green-
wood, they forget church and holy prieq, and in cower of
time the heron in startled from his solitary haunt, and
shame and despair are at rest beneath the long weeds of the
pool, and a ghost with dripping hair glides into the chamber,
and with hand of ice awakes the horrified betrayer from
his first sleep on hie bridal night. And three men had their
rude reverences and devotions, termini of the solitary moune
tein-top, nud the mooniest, waste wandering fires of the
morass, spirits of the swollen stream: Edoet o' Gorden,
who burned a mother and her children in their own tower
with laughter and mockery, as if agony sere a jest, would
ere night mutter an Ave to Mary Mother, and cross himself
as devoutly as ever a saint in the calendar ; and the mom-
temper, who could impale an infant on his spear point, would
shiver at an omen whkh a schoolboy laughs el.—Edinburgh
Essay*.
ALFIERI'S TR&GEDTES.—Eaeh tragedy that he
wrote underwent three distinct operations before receiving
the last finishing touches. In the tint place, the subject
being conceived in his mind, he distributed it into lames,
axed the number of characters, and briefly wrote in prose the
summary of what they were to do and say, went by scene
this Ito called conceiving. Having done thus far,
he put the imperfect work made for some time,
and did not approach it until Lis mind wee en-
tirely free of the subject. If he did not then quite approve of
what he had written, and feel a strong desire to continue it,
he burnt the manuscript, or changed its plan ; the former fate
happened to a tragedy he had sketched upon the Nuttiest of
Revco and Joliet, and to one upon that of Oar:cal. If, on
the contrary, he approved his first sketch, he submitted it
to a second ptooaa, which he called development. Ile
took what he had previously written, wrote nut at
kngth in prose the scenes he bad merely indicated
in the first instance—wrote them with all the force of which
be was capable, without stopping to steeled a thought or
correct en expression. He then proceedd to versify at his
leisure the prose he had written, selecting with cure the
ideas he thought best, and rejecting those which he deemed
worthy
only of such treatment. Even then he did not
regard hie work as finished, but theedantly polished it verse
by verve. and made continual alterations a. he onsidered
them neceseery.—Aefloi sad Gordoni, by Edward Copping.
• EGYPTIAN SOCIETY.—One very usual subject on
the tombs is the reception of Facets at a piety ; and Egyptian
artiste, fully alive to caricature, have iennetitnee shown that
the little follies of gossip, display of finery, aced conceit, were
es cowmen in them diva as m later times. Herr, a man of
bethion driving in his eurriek long after the ether guestn are
rimembled, thinks to increase his consequerre by this sift-Gi-
llen, se well as by the number at his immediate and running
footmen • there, women e with the eyes of envy or
curiosity', the jierelka7 of a ' and the fusion at
ge*lrsad silver vales set we on the'
that
IT their utter nedessame on the menden, that love of
display steno procured them a Ore in the festive ehetaber.
In another piece, the consequence of the master end mistress
of the house is indicated by the submissive obeisance made
to them by the deems and musicians hired to entertain
the company ; and as the principal people who gave these
entertaiunients were of the priestly eke", we learn, that
however they inigh.t lecture the people on the prepriety of
considering this life • mere mange to a future date, and of
mortifyieg their appetites fur pleasure, they were themselves
by no means avenue to the good things of this world, tend
enjoyed their comforts like the rest of the community.— The
trita..otour c tote of the Pharaohs. By Sir J. Gardner
THE QtEEN IN lIER CHlLDlTOoll.—Claremont is
• charming place, and I enjoyed myself extremely. . . .
I must not forget the little Pricked a Vietni.. She it. what
you would call a very dear and loveable child, with manners
me ladylike and superior, that you would know her. at once,
M be nunething more than an ordinary girl, and yet posse*.
deg all the innocent playfulness and simplicity of a child.
fibs and her mother sat down quietly to the piano yeeterday,
After breakfast, and sang with remerkable ',cremes. and
taste, some beautiful German duets and some Tyrolese airs,
which I hod not heard befure.—Xemoies of Njar 440.iral
Sir Eduard Parry.
A NAPIER ItESIINISCENCE.—Anniversory of Bu-
saw, in which I was shot through the stem and Ge rye
through the stern that was burning the family candle at
both ends. 1 was on horseback, and the shot stunned me I,
black dead' we came armee my eyes, my eight went, I meted
in the saddle, and fell ; my cousin Charles picked me up, and
then blood trusteed from where the ball had entered ; it was
segposed to have lodged in my brain, and that I was a slain
mien. I could not see or speak, but heard—" Par NOr:Cri,
after all hie wounds he is gone at list." I felt obliged by this
regret, but hoped they would not bury me, Icing still dive
and bent upon living. The observation meek the uneasy
though for when a fellow shows no life they are sometimes
on • field of battle over quick in burying him; so with is
slight tent I intimated, dive but not merry.—Life of Gnu: al
hie Gloolte Napier.
THE Ttltg.—The doors of the grand stand at
Lincoln will be once more unlocked on Wednesday and
Thursday next, and the racing of the 1857 season inaugu-
rated under Mr. Johnson's auspice. The cross-country
work comes off on the first day, a sport to which Tueeday
and Wednesday will be duly devoted in Canuarthenshire.
So far there bee been but little belting on the great spring
handicaps. Skirmisher—who is, be it remembered, a
savage and tenenitable horse for any lad to ride (a thing
many betting wiseacres eckleta stop to think about)—
has been backed for the Northamptonshire, and mentioned
for the Great Northern ; Minos ie also tint favourite among
the " janipers," fur the (Rend National (l) at Liverpool,
where Mr. Topham's handicaps do not range higher than
est. 71h. ; Leamingten Mande at the head of themloCf.hltehttat,,,,,,elD.Ler,Clnri
eider for which Mincepie, the miller, is quite out of laved •
am.riand.BlbirAt744lio.hundotyjd.u,,set.cf‘omnartrised-esiueppotveekr3rtmompnethuseafttl
Newmarket victory last yens that they were to pay no
credence to the attempts to " bonnet" that horse for the
Derby, as hie make and slovenly style of wilding
that race palpably proved he could never get a
Derby dietanee; and we believe that the public
are now beginning to coincide with us in the &trod
we exceeded of Blink Bonny, owing to temper and lade
of winter development, some six week. ago. Vl' tether-
Int has gene down to Eady Abbey, where Coiled died. and
Rirdeateber first won his stud Lune. Hungerford and King
of Trump, have retired in the iipeness of their age to the
stud, after very hard working and chequered careers. A.
little brother to Schiedam has arrived at the line-cliff, pad-
docks, where the Dutelmeen "is full ;" and Colonist and
Tasmania show much more vendee than any three-jeas-
,,,, ode at Mallon.—lllustrand hews.
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BICSINE,s OF TIIE QUEEN'S BliNelf.—.l.lt hough.
the court has sat during four whole days since term, there
still remain many capes in the several papers. In the new
Trial Paper, twenty-two caws have been disposed of, and
seventeen remain; in the majority of which the
rules were greeted during the last ten). In the
Special Paper, twenty-two eases have been argued,
end there remain eight. In the Crown Paper nine
have been disposed of, and three remain. Twelre eases Wand
over fir judgment, the day appointed for giving which is
Tueedey, the 24th inetant. .AII the causes entered for trial
st the mil inge in term have been disposed of. The entry foe
the linings in Loudon after to- ----- •
showing seventeen remenets,
of which thirty-eight arc
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THE FRUITS OF a.
ball on Monday morning,
waited upon the magi+trates
ebown by those gentlemen
to them in miming a fund by
the streets of Leicester, and I
sac They had all been taug
in the Baltic, sod rine° then
hada month's' furlough.
treated \ivy favourably
The Mayor gave them
crown each was given to'
Mercury.

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