The Express.
London, England, 1857-11-10 00:00:00

UNITED STATES.

The New York Courier and Enquirer of the 28th
Nye:

TM demand for bills on Europa yesterday and to-day is
quite light. The rates are favourable enough to remitters,
but the extreme scarcity of money disables most persons ham
purchsaing. The indebtedness of our merchents to England,
France, and Germany is nseessarilydefened in large amounts,
and at the same time heavy remittances of gold from abroad
are anticipated at this port. Bankers' bills at 60 days on
London to-day are abundant at 105 to 106. Good commer-
cial bills from Southern cities, well-known dgnatures, are
freely offered at 100, equivalent to 9,1 discount. Some re-
lief is looked for in this market from the promised ship-
ment, of coin from England. It would be better for us to
rely upon our own domestic resources, and not add to the
diaterbanee which is feared in Western Europe. The
queetieu of the mapenalun of the Bank of England and
Bank of France is assessed freely in financial circles
here, and each an event is by some looked upon ea of
slight moment. We cannot, however, but consider such an
event as e public calamity--one that would work irreparable
injury to the commercial world, and do no possible good to
any parties whatever. It is for this reason that we hope
the beaks in England and Franca will be fully sustained,
and that the export of coin to the United States will be less
than is gala/rally mentioned. New York will be looked to
hereafter, a heretofore, as the pivot upon which redemption
will rod. A wise, conciliatory, concerted movement on the
part of the banks of this city will, it adopted, relieve our
merchants and strengthen the farmer. There were rumours
to-day of several additional failure*, but they were not
authenticated. Extension is the order of the day, and
one windy agrmd upon by creditors generally. There are
very few homes that have not found it necemary to ask and
to take time on their liabilities. The west and south in
turn exact the same indulgence from New York. The
former will be able to discharge their liebilities by means
of the largo crop of the year ; the south will realist lees
from the new crop of cotton than we. anticipated. It is con-
ceded that a heavy decline must occur in the market valued
throuehont Europe, and that manufacturers will requite a
more limited supply than heretofore. Gold was recently in
pressing demised, but hoe now become a mere drug, heavy in
the market. The brokers are paying one-half per cent. pre-
mium for limited sums, but this premium is nominal. Large
amounts are offered at the lame rate end rejected. In Phila-
delphia, exchange on New York ia quoted 3; to 4{, premium,
end drafts on Baltimore 3to 4 discount. There is no reason
for this discrepancy, than is no variation in the brokers' rates
for time Lilts ; unexceptionable paper at 2M 4 months is
freely offered at 2 to 3 per cent. per month, paper that would,
under ordinary circumstances be acceptable to the banks, and
which they could now take with advantage to themselves.
At laat the money comes out of the banks, for every bill dim-
eounted at the brokers lessens the bank depoeita. The Mock
=Abet to-day showed a decidedly buoyant feeling, and most
of the sales were nude at a Lege advance on the quotations of
the peat week and of yesterday.

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(From the New York Herald.

The knights of old were in the habit of wasting a
great deal of valuable time by defending at sword's point the
mutation of some particular damsel to whom they inclined.
Tbe Chevalier Cushing goes further, and enters the list to do
kettle for ell the lodise. He declares that they are not at all re-
asonable for the prevent financial revulsion; that their flounces
and furbelows are only a bagatelle in the question of rep rts
sad imports; that their crinoline did not stop the Erie
Railway ; that their silks did not break the Ohm Life and
Trust Company ; that their kid gloms and Lilliputian bon-
nets had nothing to do with the stoppage of the great dry
goods house. ; and, further, that their style of dress is quite
the correct thing in every way. And be, the said Chevalier,
ma►es public proclamation that be will defend thin issue after
the good old chivalric custom. Hear yo, all men : the Che-
valier, wined at all points, his vizor dOwn, his lance In rest,
await■ the combat. The Knight of Salamanca again is in
the fold,

Now, we do not yield to any man in devotion to the fair
rox, but we are bound to say that nearly all our country-
women who have money or credit, or could obtain either,
have been for several years shamefully extravagsat ; that
they are almost entirely impossible for the excessive im-
ports of articles of luxury, which imports hare drained oar
specie reserve and loaded down our warehoutas with articles
which are of no earthly use; and that they are even now
spending too much money for articles they do not need, but
which they buy simply on acootutt of a decline in price. Let
us wit) tho figure*
. . . .

The total liilir of the imports for the firs] year ending
June 30, 1856, was 314,639,942 doh., of which, for articles
of luxury coneumed by women, se hare 'pent 43,624,558
dole. Forty-three millions of dollars. That is equal to the
whole product of the gold mines in California for one year,
I end that would have more than sufficed to save us from the
crais Of this sum 31,211,766 dub. were paid for silks end
manufacture. of air • 6,376,863 dots, for lace. and em.
briar's.; shawls, 2,529,771 dole. ; gloves, 1,344,660 dots. ;
fun, 861,731 dole.: jewelry, 844,630 dots. sad worsted
I piece good., 1,335,247 doh, We sapeaded two million.
more for silk then for sugar, and so on. We have omitted
many items which would tell against the women, as It may
be urged that men consume a portion of the articles above
enumerated. The articles omitted—byeerrir, artificial
Omen, Firth shoes end boots, friary article*, sad • thou-
sand and one fripperies that makeup that wonderful mystery,
a &Akashie woman'. attire—would more than belaaae the
amount. Thee is • little item of 42,000 dole. fire perfumed
soap, which is quite • good index to the whole thing. Again,
It must be resembered that these figures are taken from the
Treasury reports, and that the articles ere valued at soros-
I thing under the wholesele rate, while our fair countrywomen
are charged upon all such matters u lane at least 100 per
cent. profit. A set alarm which cost in Paris 20 dots. could
not be bought here in flush times for less than 60 dots. It
should further be remembered that 20,000 or 30,000 of oar
women either !ride abroad or go to Europe nearly every
summer. no amount of rich eats—silks, mains, velvets,
shawls, sad jewelry—which they ran through the Carrut-
hers his is something ettorroone—not lee. than 1,000,000
doh. s-year; sad ell luxuries dad the slightest ms to my-
body on the is of the meth. We Met ems ea hosed ass
ship • kagy enter so her mosonal hippo tweedy Lens
trunks. No princess la the world well Yates so eta.
The travelled Amnion' anima ha Is hem Mimi lin
morbid diabetics between the promenade dresses at our
women sad of those shard. The French sod English
women go oat to walk in plain, neat, nervictable dreamer",
while oars dreg their homy silks in the gutters. American
•MIND us guilty of *metal extravagant end bad taste in
moring forwalking dram robes which us made fur the
Yon or room
me might demi, for the subject is of the deepest
impertames; tint, st•tbdoelly, quite enough hes beset proved.
The went hot of all runnes to be stated. As ter es ths
peahen if add= goes—how a retie shall be sot, or the
met Eke of * hat, or the meseure of circerofermar to be
allowed to a mkt—that is no grist rotator. If women de-
sire to nuke themselves the target. of coarse jokes, it is
not for rto deny them that luxury. Bat we will pat
to the Chevalier Cashing and those who think with him
the piglet peasiositioa that, se the women of America us
pieced on a plena but a little below the angels, as they toil
not (we mem the women who are guilty of extravagances
such es we have steed) neither do they spin, the men have to
pay all the bills—whether so much money can be spent for
luxuries and be • awe lis in the question 0:7.
and imparts. We do not that crinoli an ne d kid oves
broke the Ohio Life sad Tract Company—pro y the
prerident end diners' op ea better. But the majority of OUT
women in good cireemeteaces ars dregs upon their huabands
instead of being helpmeets to tries. If one does her duty
simply it is trumpeted through all the paperer an example
of sar n virtue The Inference Wain that such exam-
ple. ars almost unprecedented. Women rarely throw away
their own mosey ; h one le more prudent and careful than
a woman who has a fortune is her own right ; but once her
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America. When we go abroad we are astonished by the
ample morning and promenade mammal of the daughters
of the English nobility men with rent rolls to which an
American fortune is a drop la the sea. A French Count"
with a fixed income of 100,0001. • year, will not rpm
half so much on her dyer Si the wife of a New York
merchant whose business may give him a profit of 10,000
dollars a year, and may bring him in debt to double
that amount. Let not the Chevali, Cushing took a the
vulgar display made at Saratoga, Newport, or C.7414:4
and compare it with the modest attire of the
at Baden, Brighton, or Biarritz. The fact Is. our women
take French !orate fashions at second hand, and were they a
attired in a European city they would be taken for what they
seem to be rather than what they are.
We trust that both the women of America and their
champion will think seriously of the., things, for they are the
truth, and just now we must drink the cup, however bitter
it may be. We do not believe that there is anything radi-
cally wrong In oar women ; we are willing to behove, with
the sage of Newleauport, that any one of them, were she
wordy instructed, would be " as prompt to pleas by fru-
, gahty as by luxury, and proud to make any sacrifice of
on at the voice of duty and love." We believe that
many women in the land will make this sacrifice cheer-
fully, f:r°:lhe sex is quick enough in perveption and prompt
enough in action. We hope they will all remember the
lesson they are now learning but we cannot sincerely say
that we believe in the working of any such miracle. The
eleventh satire of Juvenal is as true now as it was eighteen
centuries ago.