The Express.
London, England, 1868-10-10 00:00:00

" EMINENT WOMEN."

THE Westminster Review for the current quarter
contains an essay entitled " The Suppressed Sox,"
the writer believing the term to be fairly de-
scriptive of woman and her condition. In
America, he must allow, the sex has its duo
bare of expansion. A publishing firm at Con-
necticut has just brought out a volume called
" Eminent Women of the Age; being narratives
" of the Lives and Deeds of the most Prominent
" Women of the Present Generation ;" and if this
is not appreciative, some women will never be
pleased. The female contributors completely dis-
prove an old slander, for they hurl praises on every
aide, and half bury particular friends under heaps of
eulogy. Grum GREENWOOD pelts FANNY LIMN
with the richest exotics of the language of Battery,
while FANNY FERN has her revenge ia equally
luxurious treatment of " GArr. liaxarors." Gaecff
GREENWOOD in turn looks for justice to Mr.
LYMAN, who is equal to the call. She is described
as a CORINNE in her youth, but " rising up to the
" full summit level of her time," and " with
" faculties polished by long and diligent culture ;
" a heart throbbing with every fine sensibility and
" every generous emotion ; a large, warm,
" exuberant nature; a ripe and glorious woman-
" hood ;" sure of worthy achievement and lasting
fame in " such a wondrous mother age." Mr.
TILTON Sets himself to pourtray Mrs. Swerox,
" a radiant and sparkling woman, full of wit,
" mason and fancy, and in conversation a second
" Madame de STAEL." Mrs. STANTON, the new
Madame do STAEL, herself writes of the champions
of the woman's rights movement, and says all sorts
of generous things of many who are now with-
drawn from public) life. She mentions the " rare
" gifts as orators" displayed by ANGELINA
GRIMM and ABBY KELLEY; "the terse and
" finished writing, the vigorous thought, and high
" moral principle of gentle, refined, unobtrusive
" MARY GREW ; the beauty of Mrs. PHILLIPS;
" the modest grace and winning sweetness of
" lanY Hurcmiesos ; the magnetic eloquence of
" LL7CY STONE, and the heroic work of Mrs. Mort"
Mrs. STANTON also writes the story of ANNA
DICKINSON'S labours and triumphs--" the won-
" derful story of the beautiful and proud girl who
" at twenty saw the nation at her feet ; who was
" called by despairing Republicans to save the
" country from wreck; who swept through the
" land withering her enemies with her burning
" wrath ; and, gathering up reluctant. States,
" threw them, as her woman's offering, into the
" Republican scale, and saved us !" These ladies
are not " suppressed " by any means. They are
directly before the public eye, and mean to re-
main there.

Yesterday afternoon the captain and crew, 15
in number, of the ship Disraeli, were landed at Dover,
from a Deal lugger. In the late gales the ship sprung
a leak and became waterlogged. The crew were picked
np by a Prussian barque and trenefecred to a Deal lugger,
from which they were landed at Dover and received at
the Sailors' Home, where every pmeible attention was
paid to their wants.

Captain Semmes has made arrangameeta with a
Baltimore Sim for the publication of his narrative of his
cruises in the Sumter and Alabama. The volume will
contain about 760 pages, and will be illustrated with pic-
tures of American sips destroyed by him.

THE Duxz or Ei+ritovoon TN WlNowa FORM'.
Yesterday morning, him Royal Highness the Duke of
Edinburgh, attended by Lieutenant Haigh, left the
Waterloo tannin= of the Loudon and South Western
Railway, and proceeded by the 8 o'clock down train for

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Windeor, for the purpose of having • day's
Wshftilsoria;h; Great Part. H royal higbnem arrived at at
9.5 Lei., sad was received by Ur. Cheessisan. thestation-
master. The diar,e left tha station in • shooting break
and four, and drove to the Great Park. After
aver the royal °ordain and enjoying sorlqr:st-eirate sport
*wag the weltearattc w aborin,d, with
eliCts, ham and Was drove to
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tot at 4.64 p.m. Him royal hips** wore I&
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