Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-24 00:00:00

LOOK ON THIS PICTURE,

It is impossible to deny—and we need not say that we
are not r.fl eting upon a particular Gloss here, but only
upon the systern that produe=s it—that in a whole
range of shops men are regularly and systematically used
far doing what women could do just as well, if not very
much better. What is there in the whol process of
showing 41 a piece of silk or muslin, or nerolling a round
of riband, which requires a men ? A woman could do it
every bit as wcll. She is fully equal in body al(' mind
to it; she could Ha the article from the shelf, she could
hmdle it and wave it up and do vn, and she could explain
everything about it. Then, why employ men ? Such a
misapplication of labour has two miseMeveus results,—it
takes' at en away from their work, and it takes women
away from theirs. It deprive society of its due amount
of strength, part of which is here carried off and misae-
propriated, and thus leaves undertaking; and employ-
ments which require men's strength with a der, etive
supply of it, while at the same time it makes a certai
proportion of the female sea superfluous, without work to
do, and therefore an exe-escence upon society, instead of
a.useful pertion of the whole. It throws them, in lack of
proper employmeet. 11703 the most wretc?:ed means of
subsistence. * * * On the continent, though
we sea women often doing men's work, employed in a
tears; kind of field labour not Pui'able to women, yet, as
a compensation for this, they are not deprived of their
own proper work so much as they are ie this country.
The Pais ladies' shops d indee,i, employ raen to same
extent, but not to such an ex ent as w 3 do ; and at f ,reign
rei Gay stations women are often ticke'-keepeis. Women
in Frv.el act as espying-clerks, an 1 srrve in all shops
where becks, prints, and light goods are retailed. lu
Switzerland they are watelemekers. In America they
are compositors is printing-offices. Our sysnera is who:ly
in the direction of depriving women of all work, and
tucking them supetfluoes, and we see the co-sequences of
it. We caez:ot think fore a moment that English ladies,
once fairly realizing the effect of this system, viii allow a
few trifling aqvantaees to outweigh the greet and terrible
cask which res olt from a vi,l.tion ( f the proper atjus!-
orient anal apportionment of labour. The truth is, they do
not think of these thins or connect causes and effects.
When Os y real:` connect them they will take the only
proper course. Ttsy will extend their patronage to the
obnoxious class of shopwamen. They will overlook a few
irreralent airs an I graces. They gill not be t e severe
eves upon those highly ottje;tioalble and inexcusable
things—flirtations live they n ve. in their ()Aa sub-
lime sphero been guilty of suc'a thing; ? It is, indeed,
wrong that anything should be done vulgarly which eon
be done in the way and manner in which they can do it ;
bet they will allow a lit le vent, nsverthe:ess, to female
nature, and admit of a little jar to their refine.
meat for the sake of a solid advantage to society.— limes

AND ON THIS.
Th : Times, assuming that Ensign P:utne and Sergeant
Kite a-e not succeeding quite as well as could be deli ed
ie their efforts to induc the patriotic hob-nails an I strick•
frocks to take the . Q seen's shilling, rec mmends an
imm di s'e, urcmipremelag, and comprelocnsive swoop
upon ,he unfortunate assistants is the linen-drapers,' shops
of Regent-street and Piccadilly, anl other fashionable
thoroughfares. The r .crui log sergeant—he might surely
have sonic bowels of comps?sion for haberda-hery, bedi
veiled as he is with ribbons—is to "lay his hand on a fine,
well dressed pod), and say, Coma along with me, I will
give you something better to do than that.' fhe reply is.
as in the other slop, but if I go, some other
young n must come in troy place,' but tae sergeant has
now a rrj dnd,r, and an effective one—"No, my good
fellow, you need not be concerned about that, a young
woman will do just as well." We humbly beg the pardon
of the Times. A young woman will not do just as 'well, or
anything like as well. A young woman is no more fi; for
the hard labour of a fashionable draper's or haberd Nimes,
for the tramping aid retramping backwards and forwards
for twelve mortal hoirs, far haulieg and pulling at heavy
bales of gcolg; fur straining her weak muscles in the
manipulation of a yard measure, for sprawling over
counter., for running up ladders, and reaching t
lofty shelves, than she won't' be fit to put on jack-b sots
and leathers, bestride a rneelisnne charger en cavalier,
and, a helmet on her head and a sabre in her hand, mount
guard in one of the cuckoo-clock alcoves at the R yal
Horse Guard. In every large lieendrapery establishment
there is al ways a Sql ill corps of young lady assistants to
atie ad to its light• r exigencies ; in shops where the more
tr:fling re In iqice wares, are solely vend •d, as milliners and
lace- varehouscs, the service of the pace is performed
exclasively, an i very properly so, by young women ;
but to the end cf the chapter, it will be found
that the harder work—the reel serving labour of a
shop—must ever be done by men, even if they
have to waste their martial energies in showing off
a piece *1 silk or mes;in, or unrolling a round of ribbon.
The arduous rcuiretnents of a large_liueedraper's shop
are as much heyoad the ph)sical capacity of young women
as the diTensieg of medicine would ba beyond their
mental powers. 0 ir c temp airy has much that is
wron;-headed and much that is absurd respecting
the employment of women in this country—the
avocations from which they are debarred and to which
they are preferred. It is true that we do not make our
young women theatrical box-openers, check and money-
takers, booking clerk's, or attendants at places of
public resort, as in France.; watchmakers, as in
Switzerland ; street-sweepers, as in Russia ; or com-
positors, as in America. Bar, on the other hand, we do
not make them guide the plough, haw wood and draw
water, or drag pissengers' luggage in trucks, Ike beasts of
burden, and we cannot think that in this respect they
" manage things better in France," Our cotemporary
speaks of the " importance of the great fundamental lam,
that men should de men's work, and woman should
do women'i,"—another gem of elegance in 0-imposi-
tion ; but it is because we recognise the importance
of this fundamental law that we would rather
not see the adoption of the oontinental system
among ns; that we object to Madame posting
up the ledger or rating the shop-bey (mhy not shop-g'rl ?
the boy -should be a-drumming at the wars, at least
according to the Times) while Monsieur is taking the
baby out for an airing, or pattering away his time mad his

energies over dominoes and coffee in the nearest cafe. We
think it would be infinitely preferable if Monsieur would
take care of the book-keeping by double entry, and
Madame take care of the baby—if Monsieur would stay
t home and mind his own affairs, and Madame mind
here, too, in the way of me: ding her stockings.
A great deal of nonsense ,has been said, and is
being said, about the avocations for which woman are
eminently qualified, but from which men, in their selfish
tyranny, exclude them. We have thrown professions opt n
to therm, but they fail, save in rare instances, to distin-
guish themselves in those profession.. II)ve few female
artists—save in music—attain celebrity ! How few female
writers, compared with the huge multitude of male
authors! There was vast pother some years since
of the new cba::nel " opened up" for women in the
art of woo 1-engreving. Ask any wood-engraver now.
how many females he has in his employ, and hew
many applications he has fur employment from females.
He will tell you that the work is generally unsatisfactory
and the competilon scanty. There ate exceptions in this,
of course, as well as in everything else ; bul the exceptions
are a Jean de D'Arc in courage, a Juliana Berners in
sportswemanship, a Madame Dacier in erudition, a Char-
lotte Corday in patriotism, a Miss Edgworth in fiction, a
Mrs. Somerville in science. And if any one thing should tend
towards discountenanc ng the promotion of women to mas-
culine employments, it is t he incalculable injury we do to both
sexes in breaking up homes, in destroyi g domesticlty, in
weakenirg affection, in subverting authority, in changing a
state of society in which we have loving wives, dear sisters,
and tender sweethearts, into ore which would be beta dreary
waste of wrangling sleeping partners, discontented f male
clerks, and precise corespondents, who would endorse
Lye 1. tters as though they were bills of lading, and allude
to matrimonial proposals as "your favour of the 11l
instant." An evil day will bo it fury England
when Lesbie's eye can only beam on " bide re-
ceivable," and Nora Creina goes on 'Change, and
is to-day a Bull" and to-mo-row a " Bear." One word
with r. spent to the much-suff.rring linendrapers' shop men,
of whom the nines pr looses to make soldiers Willy
Wny are they to be singled oat more than the g °cora'
shoprnen, the great army of hotel and coffee-hot 33 waiters,
and, above all, the migh y lesion of re 1, blue, and yellow
plashed, black-whiskered, and plethoric-calved dc-nothings,
the flunkeys of England ? Why are they not to be
hailed at once into t e Forty-seventh F. ot, and initiated
in the mysteries of the goose-step ? Our cetem-
pore ry, again, seems to have omitted one small
but very significant trobablity—the scornful refusal of
any young man who has attained even the social status of
a linendraper's shopman to en'er her Majesty's service at
all. " No, thank yen," we think we hear one of the well-
dressed youths reply ; I den'c see it. I have been respec-
tably trained and educated, and don't care about having
me eyes anethem sti,e,l by en ensign of sixteen, whom
I could thrash wi h head or with hand, hut who has
just the better ef tue by four hundred and fifty
poun:s. I want someth'ng better than forty
shillings bounty to get drunk upon, sevenpence a
d Iv, ration be f and ration rum, the chance
of being shut, and— he very remote commission of a
quarter-nester lo mine in the distance. I am ob i;ted to
you, but I much prefer rolling out ribbon to entering a
service where efforts the most astounding and danger m st
awful are reunited by wages and treatment such as would
be icorned by the poorest mechanic. You pay a eividan
in a blue coat a pound a week to prevent people breaking .
one another's heals, but you won't pay a sillier in a red
colt a quarter of the sum to save the Queen's crown from
b i smashed to pieces altogether. I wish ye..o a very
good morning sergeant."—Dailey Telegraph.,

010 CHINESE DIFFICULTY.—There is evidently nothing
in the views of the Chinese which should prevent us from
obtaining all we desire. In the first place, the chief
interests of the two countries are identical. We want to
buy tea—the Chinese want to sell it. This trade must be
the first object of their lives, and one of the main supports
of the population. We find accordingly that nothing can
interrupt it—no rebellion in the interior, no hostilities on
the coast. Whatever else may be going on, a Chinaman
will certainly bring his wares fir sale, and the mere
occurrence of hostilities is an incident of such secondary
importance, that whether the war is continue] or sus-
pend?d, signifies very little to the paramou st operations
of commerce. But this very cheapness of war ren lees it
also likely to be undertaken, ac 1 the Chinese, though
certain enough to sell us their tea or anything else for
which we are willing to pay, would naturally be
more ready than other nations to fall to blows at
the same time. Indeed, it is hard to see what
should keep a people from fightin3 who do not
value their lives, and who have no idea that the quarrel
should disturb what they do value—their trade. The
Celestial Court itself has doubtless imbibed mere cautious
principles, but its information and its authority arc prO-
bab:y both very imperfect, and the Cantonese can follow
the bent of their owe minis without, much interventi n
from the Suprem-' Governmee. This appears at present
to be the point of difficulty. The disorder is not consti-
tutional, but local. We are at war with the populace of
Canton, not the people of China ; but that turbulent city
has so paraded its insolence and proclaimed its ferocity
that our only security for the future must lie in the
abatement of its pretensions. We must enforce this con-
dition, for we have been tied to it by the Cult-ones° them-
selves; but if satisfaction can be obtained without blood•
shed, the result will be not only gratifying in itself, but
more in accord with the sentiments which the accommo-
dating civility of our enemies is calculated to excite. It
will really be hard to fight in such very cold blood. When
a duel elan be suspended for six months it ought not to
come off at all, and both Chinese and Englishmen may as
well put both hands to trade, instead of striking with one
and chaffering with the other.—Times of yesterday.

INDIA.—The Debvs addresses the following scornful
reproof to that insignificant minority of the Paris jour-
nals which exults, more or less openly, at the recent
deplorable events in India, ani which at no time loses an
opportunity of testifying its hatred of England :—" We
have been so indiscreet as to inquire of the journals
which appear to found so many hopes on th events in
India what would, in their opinion, be the best manner
to take advantage of the lade,. We have not as yet
received any reply worthy the attention of the public.
The Ualvers has produced its plan, which, it is known,
consists in reconquering India for the English, who would
give up their Mediterranean possessions as the price
of this assistaucc.. The Union has replied that, since it
has been called upon to explain, it prefers remaining
silent. This represents the opinions hell by that
journal on Indian affairs. The Gazette de France may
claim the merit of having triumphed over its
rivals, and of having discovered the best plans of
drawing profit from the Indian insurrection; this is, to
invite the Emperor of Russia to invade India, and to cast
aside all chivalrous sentiments, in order not to lose so
capital an opportunity. The heroic manner of threatening
England would inspire jealousy in M. de Pourceaugnac,
who, in the play, exclaims so boldly, while pointing to
Sbrigani, Whoever insults hoe will have to render account
to that gentleman !' But none of the above journals pub-
lish their secret thoughts on the matter. They are well
aware that, after all, the only way to distract the atten-
tion of Eng'and from India would be to recall all her
attention and strength to the affairs of Europe, and par.
ticularly to France. At heart, this violent measure would
not be repugnant to their ideas, and those great defenders
of morality and of the rights of nations would confirm the
apprehensions bf the Morning Advertiser this very day.
were it in their power. Bat it is inconvenient to confide
these ideas to the public, and rather than express them
appeals are addressed to all the saints, to cholera, and
finally to the Emperor of Russia, to prevent the English
from recorquering India."

SAM COWELL.—This celebrated comic singer is at pre-
sent in Liverpool. He gave his first concert (second
series) at the Freemasons hall, Lime-street, last
night. The hall was well filled, the gallery being
crammed. Mr. Cowell, on making his appearance, was
rapturously applauded. His first performance was that
known as " Alonzi the B-ave and the Fair Imogene,' and
his personation of the ghost seems to have given the
utmost satisfaction to all portions of the audience.
The " Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" followed, but
the great hit was in the " Cork Leg." His pantomimic
powers are very good, and the manner in which he kept
his right leg moving during the whole of the song was
rather surprising. The " Rat Catchers Daughter" was
sung in a style that we never heard before, and to witness
Mr. Cowell in this, by itself, is well worth the money paid
for admittance to the whole entertainment. Ridiculous
though the words and air may be. his rendering of them
was what we heard one of the audience term—glorious.
Mr. Bridgeman played several solos on the concertina,
but we regret to say they did not take, though they were
beautifully executed. Miss Wright sings with some
sweetness, but she wants volume. As Sam Cowell
does not stay long in Liverpool, the public should
not lose the opportunity of hearing the greatest combo
singer of the day,

TELEGRAPHIC NEO

(By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph

FRANCE.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING'
The Emperor left the camp at Chalons
rro.nig'
day at two o'clock for Germany.
at
he will remain at Luneville, to_morrovf
Strasbourg, and will reach Stutter

Friday.
till
The Three Per Cent. Rentes c 1•00"A o'd
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at 67f. 25c., being an advance 0' 4
cent.

THE BELFAST RIOTS.

NINTH DAY.

Icy British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph•

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.

BELFAST, WEDNESDAY 5161 r;
The Commission sat to-day, at eleven o'clock•.
lot
chief witnesses examined vera those who gave eilde

concerning individual cases of assault.
100
John Hockel, the chairman of the " Gun Club'
examined.
Daring the cross examination of one of the svitnoe*
he stated that a summons had been served on him. j,
Mr. Purcell, counsel for the Orange body of Pei°
asked to see the summons.
The document was signed by the Clerk of the C,O,
from whose office it had been procured blank, and
wards filled up. The justices were erased at the top' as
the wordsßy her Majesty's Commissioners" intiertea
inste..d. -

The Commissioners mid that, they gave no ore se
rity to issue a smmmons in their name, nor had tile'
issued any.
Mr. Clerk, solicitor for the Mman CatholiePerdli;
said : He had merely put the words "By her Me.jelt
Commissione s," in order to show what court these r;
sons were required at ; and the Clerk of the Crown's °II°
had been to them in blank.

Mr. Purcell said it it'aq a most improper act.
tbB.
Mr. Palmer said he was not prepared to say, butperson wh 3 took such mean of procuring witnesses, e°
in
bs proceeded against under some of the cAm of Cri°llll

Law.
The Commission said they would hear evidence for bt
Protes'ant party to morrow (Thursday.)
The court then adjourned.

• The Royal Larcashire Militia Artillery has been er.erednio,
to assemble at the Islington Barracks on the sth pr°s,el
The Right Rm. M. T. B lines, M.P.. has con'ri°4,
£lOO towards the central fund for the relief of the 51:1"
ers from the mutiny in India.
A dig
It is intendei (says the Leeds Mercury) to expend
sun of £1,500 the ornament itioe of the suite of
to be erected in the Peepl,'s Park at Halifax, h t7l
The W, st York Rifles are to ba embodied on the 6:
October at the .lep,t, Pontefract, from which place it it
expec eel the regiment will be sent on to Ireland, where
seuel formonths durin; te te war. kco
"In Public house 3 in the Choulanty Tipperary, it 04
unusual occurrence for the farmers to assemble "so
toast the Sepays, drinking sn a7ss to their cause.'. ,
writes a 'ripperary correspondent—Limerick Chronicle •4.
IMPALEMENT OF A Youso MAN.—On Tuesday morn t 0
as a young man, namel William Allen, of Duke-str.eeon
Illackfritrs, was cleaning windows, he fell on the'uf,(l
spikes below end was literally impaled. Whets (xtricis-t,
from his frightful position he was co veyed to Gag -
Hospital.
PEssroNEas —Government has sanctioned the inl°le;
diate employment in Ireland of 160 pensioners, who bob,s
been discharged from the cavalry and artillery, io 1b
c
groomi ig of the, cavalry houses of the regimen's W Ind
i ,
have boon dismounted on emb.rkation for service in In":,e
DEATH (I.M. regretMANN.—We to announce
death of M. Minis, the heroic defender of Venice one °
the most single-minded. devoted, and resolute men wboll
the great struggle of 1843 called forth as a champion °nl
Italy against Austria. He died iu Paris yesterday
hypertrophy of the heart.
The Magistrates of Waterford have clechied thegrocers who have spirit counters on their premises are
not bound to ke, p thoir shops closed until nine ololoclt
Monday ra.;rnings, provided the sale of spirits is strictly
prohibited. This is contrary to the opinion of the 114
advisers of the Ciown, and an appeal is lodged_—.Liincr''
Chroreicle.

APil
rczrron OF CHIOROF3R.M TO BEES.—Last,weak
,te
successful apple ttion of this powerful agency was oiat'e
by Dr. Sinclair to a hive of bees which were aLoatoe
swarm at the garden of Barrogill I,oa
process was very simple aid effecti,e. It was accomplisuo
by merely ph &lag a handkerchief snrinklel with chlorofera
on the hive, when in a short time the whole swarm drolleo
tnto the new scape, leaving behind them no less than 5? d
of h .ney. We beli.v,r the process is not new, as it 005
been triad in the southern part of this county before, be
is Oa• c ace the dose was too strong, and mos: of the. b`3
were destroyrd.—John o' Groat Journal.
the
SIAP 'ESI' Gana ROP stm•day be./6
first hop fair in the county, after the picking, there wag
large attendance of g °avers, hop merchants, and brewer:s
agen s, and very large supplies of samples of new hare
were exhib:ted. Notwithstanding; that there w:ro soldei
splendid samples of old hops and yearlings, the trade rt!.l4if
dull and prices nominal. In new hops there was a! e•
demand, and several (rensive sales were effected at prio
vatying from £5 4s. to 8 guineas per cwt.; fine silt°•
were held at higher rater, the demand for Ditch ts
parce"ii
however inactive. The duty is estimated at nest
4200,000.
FOUND Drt )wNE D.-0 1 Tuesday, in a pit at Fi.zakerl,ll;
there was found the body of a fenral. The following r•
a descrption:—About twenty-two or twenq-three Yea
of ago, dark hair, round, full face, stout, and short stator;
wi h small round earrings in her ears ; dre sed in a 4(4%.
woollen jacket, with large horn butt. ns, dark stuff drew
white cotton stockings, black cloth blots, laced up at
sides, and white chip bonnet, with trine ribbons, and had
tt e folio sing property in her possession—1.. in silver. afro.
80. in copper, two Hop, an I a small basket contaibtah.
;
two cotton night dresser. An inq lest wfll be, held on rmn
body at half-past one this day, at the Railway lan, F 3
kerl-y, near Liverpool.
Ma. BRIGHT AND THE BERMINGHAM CONSTITUINC.,he
Mr. Bright is already beginning to experience s.rme of tot.
troubles, a few of the cares, and several cf the annoYrdifor
of representing a popular er nstituency. The calls
tici
patronage of all sor's, for contributions to charities, sod,
challe-tges to polinical discussion, have, we are inforajor
been incessant since his eleelon. The apnea's re'
charitable donations and subscriptions to other- objects bt
never ending in Birmingham as elsewhere, and Mr. Brigso
has been favoured with several of them. A gentle 01,,
connected with a bazaar for the Pr shyterian G iLcio
thought that, as the occurrence of the eleati( n on the
when the sale was ta open at the Town Hall, had in' be
fere I with the probable profits, Mr. Bright might..oso
induce t, from that circumstance, to aid their funds, °ler
to him to that effect. This was the somewhat charlibo
istic answer am sorry if the occurrence of but
election should have madp your bazaar 1-ss pr. duezive; 00,
if it has done ea, I can hardly be hell ih any way reap lie
sable for if. I. cannot undertake to subscribe to !lies'
objects in 7Birraingham on sec. tut of my Pilot
conneo:ion with it. Since I, have been in Parliaraeco.
have always abstained from subscriptions for objects
tefld
nected with the constituency I represenfeei, and I iAa
lead
to continue that course. A. contrary course *foul" with
me into an expenditure which I could not consent to ora
any prudence, aril might lead to an endeavour to sec
public) favour by means which I cannot pracrbi e
approve. I hope, therefore, you will excuse me if i willmyself unable to add to your funds, and that tbio
rightly interpret the grounds upon which I act jam 0
mattet.—l am, very respectfully, JOHN Barone oaf
sort of set-off, on the other side of the account, we WS
state that the committee conducting the election 00
definitively resolved that the return of the hon....geDt.„oo.
shall cost him nothing. They are to bear the whole e'''e
the melt! eq.— ?he Globe.

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