Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-12 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1857,

AMERICA.

Orleans. There discrepancies in prices are attributable
-chiefly to the disturbances in the rate of exchangebetween
the American cities named and Liverpool, and between
each other, growing hut of the unsettled state of the do-
medic currency. Many merchants have sent orders to
their correspondents in the country, where collections
were due, ra•her than pay the heavy premium on ex
change demanded to purchase produce at market rates,
and forward the same on their account. This movement,
of course, includes breadstuffs, cotton, naval stores, and
other articles. This charge in commercial routine wilt
tend to keep the money in New York usually sent into the
interior to purchase produce, while its arrival here will go
to liquidate large amounts of debt. The receipts of cotton
at the Sole hetn ports since the Ist of September show a
decrease of about 143 000 bales compared with the same
period last year. Flour was somewhat lees active
yesterday, while prices were without mange of moment
Wheat continued firm for good or choice lots, and the
lower grades steady, with a good demand for export. Corn
was firmer, with sales at 70c. to 723. Pork WAS quiet,
with small sales of mess at 20do's. 503. to 21dols. Sugars
were sold to the extent of about 400 Ads. to 500hhde., at
full prices. Coffee wa9 steady and sales light. Freight, to
English ports continued to rule at full previous rates, with
IL fair amount of engagement J.

()swim, Oct. 28, 1857.
Tha Ontario Bank in this city is to-day paying off
Luther Wrighi's Bank depsifors in current notes. There
is no rush or excitement whatever

BW- OEL3AN, Oct' 28, 187.

There is no change to note in financial afrAirs to-day.
Everything looks as gloomy 'As ever. Messrs. Miles,
Adams & Co., cotton factors, have failed.

THE AFRICAN MAIL,

PLY.IIt)UTII, WE ONESD

The African Royal mail steam-sip Ethiopr,
Captain George Corbett, •arrivel h:re last night.
Her dates are—Cameroons. Sept. 27; O!d Calabar,
Sept: -29-; Fernando Pe, o,3lobet 1 ; Bonny, 06,.
4; Lagos, Oct. 8; Accra, Oct. 1.0, Cape Coast
Castle, Oct. 11; Liberia, Oct. 15; Sierra. Leone,
Oct. 21;- Bathurst, Oct. 25; Teneriff3, -Oct. 31 ;
Madeira, November 3.

She brings a cargo 2,481 ounces of got' (1-st,
368 casks of naini 69 packages of ivory, 209
boxes of oranges, 70 bales of in 40 pipes of
wine, 22 bags of cochineal, and va7ious sundries
She brings also' 12 passengers, among whom are
Lieut. Ta)lor and Ensign. Thatnett, Gold Coast
Artily ry, from Cape C.:•ast.
At Fernando Po, was the Ale3to; at Lago3, the
neele, Hecate, Antelope.. and Bloodhound. Off
Whvdah, the Tetizer and Firefly

The.Ethinpe spoke the African m ail screw steamer
Gambia, 40 miles west of Monrovia, Oct. 16. At the.
Carne:oonF, the season was sitilCy ; several deaths
had occurred amongst the Europeana. The same
may he reported of Old Calabar.
The trade at B many had been stopped for 0
days, but was again resumed, and was proceeding
with tolerable activity. An agricultural exhibition
%via to take place this month at Liberia, when prizes
will be given for the best specimens of the produce
of the cotratry
Thn quarantine regulations are being strictly
naforaed, at Madeira, on vessels coming from
Lisbon, on account of the fever at that. place. •
The Susep9hana, Americart screw frigate, ar-
rived.at.Mideira, Nov. 3, from this port.
The squadron cn the coast were • well. The
cruisers seem to be hard at work; two slavers had
lately been taken at Sierra Letne, one ca?tured by
0.-:e•Alecto, which was the fourth prize this vessel
had tr k;n within a few m,-,nth3,

PIM CHI G AND PRACTICB.—A worthy eicrgyrnan in
this city, fo'lnwing the practice a his ministerid brs thren,
recently preached a very earnest (Fscouc.,e on the hard
times, enforcing the duty of re'ratchrnant and economy.
Imm,diatslv after church the cangugAtion tlok him at
word by holding a m-eting, at which his salary was
cnt dawn from 1,000 dollars to GOO dollars.—New York
lost.

MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF A GENTL, MAN FROM
MAR-nrs.—Mr.•Ed ward eligg, traveller for PiLeisrs James
.Tnonoson ani S rr, corn millers, Bradley Mill, Marsden,
left tome on his masters' busiLess by the 6 55 train from
Nelson tion of the Ease Lancashire Batiks, y, on the
incruing of F Hay, October 30th, and .ptoceer!el to Wi7.au
to transact bwii,igss as usual. ALcr cmcluting his labours.
he returned to TVigatt St tion in nanny whit his two
bitithcra, pamticl nod 011,,r1c, OLF,s. It boing ,ho f
and he being auxious, it is scid, to avoid rough company,
took a first elais ticket for Preston, b Ali the brothers being
witness .that he departed with the train le iving Wig m
abut nine o'clock p.m. Mr. Kellett, of the White Horse
Inn, Preston, expected him to stay at his house that night,
and in CT sequeuce sat up to a very late hour for hint, but
he di I not arrive. He has cot returne I home, nor his be
been heard of since. His dis-weararee is itie xplicab'e,
His brother Charles was informed at Prest.on, by one of rte
railwt.l ofLials there, that h's !mullet's ticket was collected
th, night in epees icn, it being +be eny first class ticket
from Wigan by that train. Mr. Clegg has g, ne the j
to Wigan arid nth.er places for tb ,ut four .eirs. Many
rumours are afloat cot eerairg hiw - one to the eff et that
le has been robbed and murdered —but all such speculations
are premature. Mr. Clegg is about 35 years of age. five
feet nine incise high, of a moderate size, with bi own h•iir
and silt lv whi ILrs. He has a wife and four children.
EMPL' YMENT OF C,NVICTS os THE PUBLIC WORKS AT
CHATHAM. —Dail g the p st wet k, several h undre I c .n-
-vic•s, separated into different gangs, have beet employed
in repai-in; the public roads at Gambit], under the control
of the Ordnance authorities. They appeared strong, well-
fed. and able-h died fellows, presenting a striking contrast
to the miserable er..aturei o•ae often sees crawling obotit
looking for employment. The appearenca of convicts at
work in the streets has caused some surplice, as some con-
sider it. an improper interfetenee with the labour matket,
more especially when there are hundreds out of e
ment, and to whom an, thing in the shape of work would
be a gnat boor. If the auttorities are at a lose to find
emloyment for the thousand cooriats now cot fined at
Cha7ham, let them direct their tot- 'llion to the enabankment
of the Med say, a subj et to which the att,otio, of Parita-
m nt has been called, and which, ere long, will become a f
eerio,s importance, if we wish to p e;erve in a fl ,urishing •
c re,lition the imp,rtant naval establishment at Chatham
Y are ego it w p;edieted that utile: s something were dirge
to arrest wearing away of the haul sof the Medway,
that river wuld soon be closed to ships of gnat draught,
an I etch year seems to add strength to that prediction. It
is to be hoped that th, attention of the. authotiti's may
aroused to the urgent nec•ssi'v of arresting the threatrntd
calamitY, and no more effectual means can be devise.' than

in employing the large b ily o' c givictt now living in
comp-wile ,Ole,ess at C iathem in emb taking, the river nn
both sid a from Chithato to Sheerness.—South Eas'ern
rzette.

H IiIISIIIPS OF RAILWAY TRAVIILLING.—At the 31 iecles-
ficid County C.urf, a few days si.•ce, Mr. William 01,
of Ntanecs e-, sued the North S affardshire Cimpany for
.£2 7, 61. damages, by teas in ef a train arril log at
Bortaa forty minutes later than the tire advertised ia the
time bit's. The pLiat-ff stated that he left Manch-at rat
two &el( ck on Saturday the :VI of September, intim ling
pr seed b) I eic s c-, and. arrived at Macclesfield five
minutes la•er ;I:an Cie regular time. He .hen re-booked fcr
Burton, and after she lapse of ; boat fifteen tainu'es, the
train star eel on the de endanfs' line, and did nit arrive at
Biotin till fifteen nfna es to s.x, or forty minutes later
than the time s Wed in the bills. He and several other
Gentlemen were. there ore, deprived of proceeding bf the
train which usually starts from Burton for Derby !non the
arrival of th a train from Macc'e fie a, and finding they
were too late, they forwarded a tel graphic message to
D rby, asking erte.h• r or pot they could not be taken by a
spechi engine, bat they received no rep'y t ) the message,
fur wnich they p aid 54. 61. The pl,iatiff said be did pet
arrive at Leic.s'er lid nearly eleven oelock, and was
cora' quently preventec friar; fulfilling an appointment be
had made at Leic•ster far seven o'clock the sarre evening ;
and, instead of leaving Leicester early on Nfl onday usornin,
did,not !ware till late in the day. not for any
Personal aggrandisement that he took the prevut proczed-
inas; it was for the public benefit; for he tloaght the
public ought not to be ever-Adder' by railway companies.
The judge 'appeared to favour plaintiff's case, until the
company placed a guard in the b .s, who Alter] that the
train did not retch Macclesfield until twenty minutes ',ain't
time. He said the trains were not all Acta to make up lost
time. The way h 11 of the company was produced ; and his
H.nour, in giving judgment for Cad defendant, said by the
plaintiff re-bee fing at Macclesfi,:id he h d waved his obj e-
tion to the late arrival of the train at its destination. He
tor ,k his ticket at Macclesfield, when tie train was latady
behind its time. It was perfectly well known that trains
sere not allowed to make up lost time, and if they were s ;
it wculd be a very largern:s pla.atee.—The attorney for
the urnpany thee asked for 24. 61 expenses for the guar I,
which his Reno:lr granted. The plaintiff in this c-se
represented a number of gentlemen Com Manchester who
had cap rienc•d the same annoyance on the evenia7 in
quept:op, and have, in c .mmon with passengers by the same
rue, frequntly been placed in the same unecnafertable
dilemma at, perhape,, De of the 031251 inconveuieut Valens
to be found in England.

CRUELTY Ot..i,BOAED AN AMERICAN SHIP:

At the Thames Mice Court, London? on Tuesday, a
seaman, who gave the name of Chary-s Yates, entered the-
witness-box and said- he pricularly wished to make a
sta'ement of the cruelty-exercised towardt, him on board
an American ship.
Mr. SICLFE : —At sea
The applicant :—Ye.,. Sir, on a voyage from New York
t, London.'

M. SEISE said .that he had no jurisdiction over offences
committed on board American ships at sea, and'if Engli.h
seamen would place themselves out of the protection of
their own flag, the law of this emntry would not apply to
thaw. If the apelicaut had. been strack in a British port,
he could obtain redress here.

Tho applicant said he lied been etru k and very shame-
fully used on board an American ship at Liverio-12.
Mr. I:3ltr.vz said he had no jurisliction over offsnees com-
mitted at Liverpool, whether they were on board Foglish
or American ships. The applicant ought to have waited
on Mr Mtnsfield the stipenuiary magis-rate at Liverpool,
who would have lis'ened to his statement, and if necesQary,
granted a summons or warrant.. He had repeatedly to
listen to statements of illusage on board American ships
on the h;gh seas, and he b heisted that great tyranny had
been too tf en practise I on bard the vessels of that
country, both to Amari( an awl other seaman of all nations
The applicant said that he wished to coition his
counttymen against joining American ships, for the laws of
this country, it smiled, 11,d no.jurisdictim over them if
off.nc:es were ecnamit ed on the high sets, and it was in--
p )ss;ble to obtain any re 1.-e a if the party injured were in
any port cf the United States. Her isbed the magistrates
to read a statement of the bvi tr,atment he had received
on board the Arne lean ship Orient, a New York packet-
shin, on her voyage from New York to Liverpool.
Mr. Sale sad he really had no time to do so, and the
seaman, who said he wa3 a native of Erg'and, handed a
written statement to cur reporter. It wee to the falowing
eftiet

"On the 25th of September I shipped on board the Orient,
after being robbed by the shipping maser of my advance.
The crimps in New York have a practice of getting the
advances into their own hands, and not giving the sailor,
whom they ship, a copper of it. soon aer I pot on
hoard the first act of cruelty was c immittel 03 a Dutch-
man for s.ene trifling offence. Me Taylor, the third mate,
knocked him down on the (leek like a hullo, k, then
` booted ' him. es it is termed— that is, kicked him eb tut
body,the the face, nose, and eyes, so that the skin was
cote pletely.knet keil off the man's ftce, and on the follow.
ing day he could not Fee out of his (3; es, and the deck
where h 3 was 'eying .was cove el with blood. A few dale
of er that, w'.ile at sea. the third mete caught about half-
a-dozen of us togethee about 6 o'clock in the evening, and
cut our hair short close off, and we oceasienally got
a blow or two in the course of the night. A. day or
two after that I was coming from the main hatchway, and
the third meta took a strap, at least fll_ inches thick, and
ge.ve, me so severe a out with it across my bock and chest
that I could not draw my breath or move for some time;
I reasoned with him the next day on his cruelty, and he
only weed the worse, for on every eucceedeig day he
either kicke3, knocked, or cut us about with handspikes,
hammers, his fleece rcpet, or any hing ha c.Juld lay his
hands on. One dsy the third, mate struck four or five of.
us wi h a piece of wood as thick and as long as a police-
man's staff. Ile struck us on our heads. Charles Evans,
one of the men who was struck, bled bk., a pig. Ile Camel
a large nal to be driven in the seat of the waterclaset, and
made us draw it out with our teeth ,under threat of some
kind of torture if we refused On two or three occasions,
when shortening sail, and while coming off the yerds,
third mate stood in the quartet. of the yard and
kicked us as we came down the rigging.
Charles Evans was all but gone overboard. I
managsl t 3 es ape that time by catching a rope
and 5 sir ging myself into the rigging ; but be saw me, and
cried out You . I'll Oa) it you whan you came
down ;' and he, was as good as his ward, for be knocked
me down like a bullock_ then kicked me in the face and
eyed ; in fact, all t.te time I was is the ship, I was never
vii bout a black eee era bruised face. Otis day the second
Mete ordered Me to get a broom. and because I coul I not
find one, he took a bcOom out of another man's hand, and
struck me with it across the arm four or five time's causing
me to dreg my atm, and I could not use it moil some days
after I left the ship lhe third mate was going t 3 repeat
his ttranny, when a gentleman passenger loo';ed at him
and interfered, and I got out of his way. Toe third ma'e
ace to say be should take a delight in knocking out our
brains ki king us overboard, or petting us to some death
or other. The boatswain and two of the crew, named
Devine and Denearee Jack, were as g tea' tyrants as he
second mate, ter they would commit the lame cruelties. Not
msny niehts before we got into Liverpool, these barbarians
caused a Jocose to be made in one of the ropes from the
mainmast, and made us put our legs in the uocse, and
the ship being on a wind it got a lurch. They
mates] us crawl up to KtudAat &Loy pulL.g ctie red et
the noose at the same time ; then when as close up into
the ship's eide as we could get, they would let us g
which caused us to swing round and round like a car, and
when we stooped our heads they would came in contact,
rnd infliet tremendous bl ,WA, which took our senses away
for some time. 0 her torturing operations were practised,
which would take me too long to describe. On the night
we came into the Liverpool docks the boatswain, without
any can es whatever, took up a piece of wood or tome in- '
strume t, and commenced striking f nor or five of us over
the heal When he came to me ho gave me a violent
blow across my mom h, which laid both my lips open, and
at the same time made a remark, You—, I'll take care
you shall not la eve the ship without a broken heal.'

" CHARLES YA,R3 one of the crew from Now
York to Liverpool:'

THE CANAIYAN WINTFR —This morning arow fell very
f; st lart very }lentifull,, at d the streets price ted q ti'e a
wintry.leokirg acpea,aue ; and !he rt tio. ph .re hart goi'e
a wintry feelinkr for morning pedestrians, bringing en inrnl-
un'a y tear to the eye, no douht of regret at the
departu e of the g beams of satnryte,-, wid giving a hint
at the smote that th Fconer our reeders make themselves
eerriaintrd with their winter rot-Tent.; the ktter it will be
for tkmselve,..—Quebec Gazette, Oe'. 2'.

. .
I NCROR FOR TOR LEVIATIIAN• - Tll- experiments in
order to test the anchors selected by Mr. Benne' for the
Leviathan' ste:tn-ship have been e trried on for several
days, at the 1.4,1tai1;.c Pronf-houss, Wte Istich Dockyard,
in the presence of rap'ain ttrison, th' eemmantier op the
vessel ; Arr. Atherton, chief eneneer of the f tc:ory depart-
ment ; and Mr. Tr ,tman, the patentee of the anehlts now
rased for the It ,cal Navy. The result has proved that the
at chore s .lecte-d ware c tpahle f sus`eining a strain much
abnie the ordinary proor. The 11. st anchor • broke at a
strain of 94 tons in csrseqn-tnee of defective workmar-
ship ; but the srclnd anchor, weighing 4 tons, sustairmi
a strain of 101 tens, when it broke frera the power of the
press re, whtth vt a- 90 per a=nt. over proof.
ANIRKICANS AND FPANIARDB —Ths Madrid Gazette of
the 14th reAls•-ea a copy ,f a deSp%teh horn Minl:ster
of Fo ei..zn Affairs at. Washington to the Mioister of the
United States ,t 311.161, txp-essi g tt.e thanks of the
IT•ti eel S aces Give nment for assistanca rendered on the
23 4 August last, by two Spanish war steamers to two
Uoti.ed States stebtners, the Illinois an 1 the Empire City,
which were in ding,r of lying wrec'ted near H tvannah.
e despa'ch says ;—" Sea acts of inte-naisnal cour•esv
are Fey Hri`"e.able, and tend to efface all souvenirs of dif-
ferences which, may have existed between the United Mates
and .Spain," (these words are in i!altes in the Gazette)
"netions wt ich, if their future or their plst he cmsidored,
have reasons co draw e-oser the ties of friendship. It is
ineont•stable the fro of a noble gene osi•y and the
ehiva!rous humanity so charac'erintin of eh it ancestors
still burn in Ills hearts of the Spa• iards of these dares.
No other conduct than that obstlvel on the occasion
refeered to could hove he,n expected from the effictis
of her Catholic Majesty. Such is the character of the
Siv,niards"

Way To Putirtsn (ea FlizetiEe—The scene t-t
Peshawar was awfully imeocing elt tempo, European
and native, armed and disarmed, ;fly tl andedis ft.ucted, were
drawn up on parade, fo g 'knee sides of a sqnsre, and
drawl rely curt fully, von may be 50re,,.0, th:t at.y attempt
on the rat of the dispff-e'ed to resell) the d .orned pr'soners
welsh' have been etts'!y checked. Feeminte the fourth side
of the sq lure, were draws up the guns (9 pounders), 'eh "
in flambe-, which were to be used for the ex. cution. The
prisoners, under a strong Ear plan gird, were then
marched itt:o the square, the it aed sentences read
aloud to them, and et the head of each :eimente They
were then marched up into the squ re, and up to the gang.
The first ten were pick,d out, tie it ry.-s were bandag d,
and they were bound to the guns, b cks leaning against
the mi ziese. and teeir arms fasvned to the wheels. The
port fires were lighted, and, at a sign:l from the Artille v
mrj the gns were fired. It was a hor;il sight that
Yen met the eye—a regular show r of hunaae fragments
of heads, of arm., of leg', appea-ed in the air thraugh the
smite, and when that cleared away, these fragments lying
in he ground—fistements of Hinio, s and fragments of
iitossidinans, all mixed tegether—wera all that remained
of those ten mutineers. Teree times mere was this scene
repeated ; but so great is the disgust we al feet. for the
atrocities caardred by the ,ehels, that we had ree nom for
any fee keg of city. Petfeet callousness was depicted on
t vet y E.ropeah'eface; a look of grim serisfaction could
eve n be seen in the couutenanots of the runners serving at
the guns. But fer different was the t ffect on the native
portion of the sp ctators. Taeir 1)Iva fact=s grew ghastly
1 pale as they e: zed b-eathlents it the awful spectacle.—
Blackwood's Magazine.

THE LADIES OF AMERICA. AND. THE FINANCIAI,

REVULSION.

. .
• The knights of old were in the habit of wasting a great
deal of valuable time by defending at sword's point the
reputation of some particular damsel to whom they
inclined. The Chevalier Cusiti, g goes further, and enters
the lists to do battle fir all the belies. He dectaees that
they are not at all respensibla for the present financial
revulsion; that their flounces and furbelows are only a
bagatelle in the question of exports and imports; that
their crinoline did not step the Erie Railway ; that their
silks did not break the Ohio Life and Trust Company ;
that their kid gloves and Lilliputian boa nets had nothing
to do with the stoppage of the great dry goods houses;
and, further, that their style of dress is quite the correct
thing in' every way. And he, the s- id Chevalier, makes
public proclamation that he will defend this issue after the
good old chivalric custom. Hear ye, all men ! the Cheva-
lier, armed at all points, his viz or down, his lance in rest.
awaits the combat. The Knight of Salamanca sgain is in
the field. Now. we do not yield to any man in devotion
to the fair sex but we are bound to say that nearly all our
countrywomen who have money or credit or could obtain
either, have been foe( eceral years shainefelly extravagant;
that they are almost entirely resprhsible for the exceasive
imports of articles of luxury, which imports have drained
one pecie reserve and 1 aded down isur warehouses with
articles that are of no earthly use; and that they are
even now spending too much for articles they do not
need, but which they buy simply on, account of
a decline in price. Let us see the figures :
Tee total va'ue of the itenerte for the ravel Near endirg
June 39, 1856, was 314,630,942 dole., of whieh..f it articles
of lnx try cons s mei by womee, we have spent 43 624,558
dole. Forty-4hree millions of dollars. That is equal to
the A hole prodect of the gold mines in California far one
year, and that would have more than eufficed to save us
from the ciais. Of this sum 31,211,766 dole were paid
for silks and menttfactures of silks; 6 376 853 doll. for
laces and embrodieries ' • shawls. 2,520 771 dole ; glow o,
1,311 550 dots. ; fairs, 864,731 dole ; jewellery,. 811,630
do's. ; silk and wte-sted paece gaols, 1.335 .247-d As, We
,epeude t two millions more for si,k then for auger, and
so on. We haee omitted many item) which would tell
against the women as it may be urged ,hat men consume
a portion of t:e articles eh ire e iurneratsd. The articles
ornitte bijouterie, erti6ciel flowere, French shoes and
b ots. fanny articles, aad a thousand aid one fripperies
that make up that wonderful mystery, a feshionable
womans attire - would more than balance the account.
There is e.litthe item of 41 000 dole. for perfumed slap,
which' pi e a good index so the whole thing. Again, it
non. 4 be remembered that these figures are.taken from the
Treasury reports, and that the ar idles are valued :it some
thing under the wholesale rote, while our fair
countrywomen are charged upon all such matters as laces
at least 100 por cent. profit. A set of laces which coat
in Peril 20 dols, could rot be boug'st hers in flesh
times for less than 60 dole It should further be
rememberei that 29,005 or 39,000 of our women either
reside abroad or g o Europe nearly evai-yr summer. The
amount of rich wears—silk?, swine, velvets, shawls, and
-jewellery— which they ru s through the Custotn.hense free
is eetnethirg enormous—not less than 1,000;000 dole a
year ; and all luseries of not the slightes-, use to anybody
on the face of ,he earth. We have seen on beard one ship
a lady inter as her personal baggage tw-mty large trunks.
No princess in the world would have- so much The
travelled American cannot fail to have noticed the marked
distiecti ,n between the promenade ere:siva of our women
and of those abroad. TIIO French and Englishwomen go
cut to walk in plain, neat seivicesb'e dresses while ours
dreg their heavy silk's in the Butt-rs. American wont m
are guilty of shameful extravagance and bad taste in
wearivg for walking dresses, te bee which are made for the
carriage or the driaw:noaroom More W 3 might adage,
fo • 'ha subject is of the deepest iusport•in?, ; but statistic.
ally, quite enough has been proved. The worst fact of all
remains to be stated. As far as she cristion ef fashion
g +—how a robe shall be cut, or the exact s:za of a hat
or the measure of circumference to be allowed to a skirt

that is no geeet matter. L' women desire to mske .hem-
selves the tat gets of coarse j keg, it is not for Us to deny
them that luxury. Bat we will put to the Chevalier
Cushing, and those who think with him. the plain propo-
sitila that, as the women of America are p aced on a
pedestal bit a little below the angels, as they, toil not (we
mean the icemen who are gnil:y of extravagances Fuoll as
we have noted) neither do they spin, the men have to pay
all the bil s—whe her so much money can be spent for
luxuries clad be a mere bap.elle in the qu,stion of ex-
ports and imports. We do nos: know that crinoline and
kid gloves broke the Ohio Life and Trust Campanv
probebly the president and der eters can tell better. Bat
the msj wiry of our W 0.7133 in good circumstances are
drag, upon their huebands instead of b ing holp•
mares to then If one does her duty simply
it is trumpeted throegh all the papers as an example
of Spartan virtue. The inference is plain that such exam-
ples are ta.uivst, uupreed.;euttea. Women. ritually throw
away their own money ; no one is more prudent and care
fel than a woman wh s han a fortune in her own right; but
once her t; per &gars close on an other's elle-pie-book the
erase of Hercules could not uulo Ise them. The Chevalier
Cu-hing ask., "Di l the women b-o lc the dry goods
howes ' Yes The women, is the flash times of
'54-'55, spent tries as much money as they ought ; they
were capricious and diffi 'o please —they de meaded new
styles—the mvasins cf Paris and the manufactories of
Lyons end Valencleetes and Brussels were ransacked for
them. Tne imp ortaions were double who: tem, should have
been. Thee was nothing to pay for them with. The crisis
came. The houses broke, and their counters gro :n with
s uffe for which there is no market. Nowhere in V: e world
are the women dressed so badly and so expensively as in
America: When we go abroe lwe are as onieshed b 7 the
simple morning and promentde eestumes of the daughters
of the Iteglish nobility—men with rent rolls to which an
American f rtures is a drop in the sea A French
Counted, with a fietel income of 1.10) 000 a year, will not
spend half so much on her dress as the wife of a New York
merchant wh tee business may gye him a. profit of 10 000
dollars a year, and rosy bring him in debt to double that
amount. Let not the Chevalier Cashing look at the vulgar
display meds at Saratoga. Newport, or Cape Msy, and
compare it with the modest attire of the aristocracy at
Baden, Brighton, or Biarritz The fact is, oar women
take French lorette fat hloes at second, hand, and were they
so attired in a Eernpean city they woull be taken for
what they seem to be reeler than what, they are. Wa
trust that bele the women of Anißr'ea and their charn•
pion will thi'.k seriously of these things, for they are the
truth, and just now we mast drink the cup, however bitter
it may 1)e. We do not believe that there is anything
radically wrong in our wom‘n; we we willing to believe
with the sage of Neebusy port, that any one of them, were
she propee!y instructed. would b: as prompt to please
by fengali'y as well as luxury, red proud to make any
sec ifice of fashion at the voice of duty and love." We
believe that many g sod W3IDZU in the land will make this
sacrifice cheerfully, for the sex 'is quick enough in pereap-
ti-et and prompt enough in a-tion We hone they will all
remenbec the lesson they a -e now learning. bat we cannot
sincerely say that we believe in the working of any emit
miracle. The eleventh. entire of Javenel is as true now. as
it W s eighteen centariea ag ).—New York Hered.

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Ans ter Nees. Berceerree.—.lt the C b-ince, at
IT ye. the magistrates m.ra engaged for a- om,ilerable
Ii Ile In iovestigatinz 7 &large of arson against an old wo—
man, aged 71, named Lucy Lich-r, the wife of a man who.
it in the ere p'oy lirork and Ca., at Preiton, awl
living ie 3 cottage near the Preston real, held of Mr.
Brooke near to which stood a s ac'.{ of straw worth £4O or
£5O, wAt'ch ha; been entirely deslro-tel, and to which, as
welt es the cottega, the prisoner was charged with setting
fire oft Stturday afteen, on, By the evidence of several
witnesaes it appeacsd that the prisoner w)s sen, at about
t c, o'clock on Saturl;l, b fore the stook was
olea reed to hi en fire. •ri g t from the stack to the c Ataee
were s'et lived. i a a tember of 'persons were en-
gaged in endevrenrieg to eviegnish the fire,.prisoner was
seen to luve 'en holse, woich is o?poiite the Strawb,rry
Gardens, stna nut twenty or thirty yards kiln the stick,
walk towarile Preston, locking her door, an I p•ssiog the
stank en. her. way. Two or three minutes afterwards the
cottaee, which is thatched, wag a'so disc,Yered to be on
fire; and on the door being br ken open, the th itch was
foie)/ to have be, n set on fire from the inside. The fire
was ,xeinenishtd, and a piece of paper was afterwards
found in the tha'eh over the dnorw.iy at the back cf the
cotteee. Previously to her leaving the c stage, pris
hid been seen by a lad, who is in the employ of &I:.
Weeks, and who wren ail g at the time, strikin r a match
on a match box at the b ek door, and on his return a short
time after ends, be p t d (Av. the pieta of pap rin the
thatch ti Mr. Brock, which was found to be singed, but
not ignited. Ar.o her pitta of piper, which was not
singed, but from which it had evitlealy teen torn, Wes
fount on the floor in the shape-- ouch of the cottage. Mr.
Brook, in his evidence, s'a'ed that he teoaglet prisoner's
mind was diFetabel from
PTets of an accident shoat
nice or.ten months ago, b, which her head was injure',
especially when site had a little te, drink, which he was
afraid' was sore what too ofter. There wes nt misudere
standing or ill feeling that he was aware or be' we-en either
p (toner or her husb aid and hirnse'e. The bench cone-
. 'flitted the prisoner for trial at the acixes.—Brighton
Examiner.