The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-20 00:00:00

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iu the throes of a rebellion such as the world never saw.
Gathered here in the centre of the nation, a handful of
women, intent on a single object, anxious only for the good
of the country, we appeal to the patriotism and intelligence
of our sister women throughout the length and breadth of
the land. Let it bG well understood, that every ounce of
gold that goes from the country detracts from the pay of
the soldier who is fighting for our salvation, and diminishes
the wages of our sister women, who toil for their bread into
a miserable pittance that scarcely suffices to keep them from
starvation, The precious metal that flows from this coun-
try to Europe for the luxuries we do not need increases the
price of gold here, depreciates the value of our national cur-
rency, and helps to sweep the necessaries of life beyond the
reach of the working man.

It is a painfu: truth, for which we shall yet learn to
blush, that the exportations of the most expensive goods
manufactured in Europe have been far greater during the
war than at any time in the history of our country. The
importations last week at the New York custom house alone
amounted to 5,000,000; and all that week—which will
yet find its ignoble record in history—the streets of Wash-
ington were blocked up with weary soldiers, marching
through mud, rain, or dust, down to the army of the Poto-
mac, which now lies with bated courage waiting for the
carnival of death which is almost flinging its crimson
shadow over us.

For the good of our country and the honour of our sex
let us redeem ourselves from this reproach of wanton ex-
travagance. Let us prove by cheerful retrenchment that
the women of the country are not so wedded to luxurious
self-indulgence that they cannot fill a glorious page in the
history of this war and yet retain all that is retiring and
beautiful in womanhood. In all humane works they
have proved themselves charitable, kind, and munificent.
Let these comprehend that self-abnegation will accomplish
more than works of charity, and they will not be less
earnost to sacrifice than they have been to act. It must
not be said of us that we have been willing to give up our
husbands, sons, and brothers to fight or die for the Union,
and yet refuse to renounce our laces, silks, velvets, and
diamonds. That thought would cover us with shame
before the nations of the earth. No; our women of the
Union only lack knowledge of the means by which they
can prove themselves true help-mates of the heroes who
are fighting our battles. Impress it upon them that in
discouraging excessive importations and adopting goods
manufactured at home they keep gold in the country, re-
duce the ratty of exchange, and establish confidence in
the Government, and they will prove how far patriotism
can rise above fonainine vanity in the hearts of American
women,

In order to invoke this spirit of self sacrifice it is impor.
tent that the great object of the covenant we have made
should be broadly circulated and thoroughly understood.
It discourages profligate expenditures of any kind, recom-
mends the use of domestic fabrics wherever they can be
substituted for those of foreign make, and advises simplicity
of attire both as a matter of policy and good taste. It asks
the great sisterhood of American women to aid in this reform
before it is too late.
Thank God I science has given us the means of reaching
thousands on thousands in a single hour. While me make
this covenant, the thought that thrills our hearts may
tremble in fire along the telegraph, and awake kindred in-
spiration throughout the entire land. By every means of
communication in our power, let us urge the necessity of
prompt action. In every town and village throughout the
Union, some woman who loves her country is implored to
establish an auxiliary society and forward the names of the
ladies invited to act for the State in which her duty lies.
We ask simultaneous action, earnest work, and generous
self-sacrifice at the hands of sister women. With their
ardent help, a work will be accomplished so important in its
results that the woman who shares in it may hereafter
leave the emblem of our object as the richest jewel that she
can leave to posterity.
BADGE OF THE COVENANT.
On motion of Mrs. Ann S. Stephens, it was resolved that
the badge of the National Covenant shall be a black bee,
with wings enamelled according to nature, worn with a
tricolour ribbon a little in front of the loft shoulder.
WHAT THEY ASK OF THE MEN.—On the motion of Mrs.
Ingersoll it was resolved, " That while, as the wives and
daughters and women of America, we are ready and deter-
mined to practice self-denial for the benefit of the country
and our sex, we earnestly request the men of America also
to abstain from the use of imported articles,especially wines,
liquors, and cigars."
THE WOMEN TO SPREAD THE WORK.—On the motion
of Mrs. Morris, it was resolved that the women in the
nation, sympathising with the great object of this society,
be and hereby are invited to copy the covenant, record their
names thereto, and obtaining as many signatures as pos-
sible, forward the number (not the names) so obtained to
the committee of their state.
THE FAIR COVENANTERS PHOTOGRAPHED.—At the
instance of Dr. Sunderland, who had made several interest
ing speeches, the meeting delayed adjournment till photo-
graphed, when, on motion, the meeting adjourned, after a
number signed the pledge contained in the constitution.

GEOGRAPHICAL DISCOFERY....-At the annivert
sary meeting of the Royal Geographical Society,
to be held at Burlington House, on Monday, May 23, the
the patron's or Victoria gold medal will be presented to
Captain Grant for his journey from Zanzibar across Eastern
Equitorial Africa to Egypt, in company with Capt. Spoke,
and for his contributions to the work of that explorer.
The founder's gold medal will be given to Baron C. von
der Decken, for his two surveys of the lofty mountains of
Kilimanjaro, which he determined to be capped with snow,
and to have an altitude of not less than 20,000 ft. A testi-
monial will be also awarded to the Rev. Gifford Palgrave
for his adventurous journey across Arabia.
BUSHRANGERS OF NEW SOUTH WALES,—The
formidable gang of bushrangers which for so long a
period infested the western districts which may now be con-
sidered as almost exterminated. Gardiner, their original
founder and captain, was captured, together with his para-
mour, Mrs. Brown, on the 3d inst., at Apis Creek, in the
northern part of Queensland, and is now safely
lodged in
Sydney gaol. Of Gilbert, who seems to have become the
ringleader when Gardiner disappeared from thescene,
nothing certain is known. It is said that he met his death
by accident and was buried in the bush by bisc°nPanions.
But this statement, although generally beliova, has, per,
e th
haps, been put into circulation to facilitate e
his escape.
Ben Hall, one of the most prominent and daring members
of the gang from the very first, seems to be the only one
now remaining at large. According to the statements of
those who have been robbed by him, ho has always
been remarkable for
his great coolness, freedom from
the flashness and bravado which characterised the
others, and civility, and even politeness, to those
he taken, and particularly when women
were present. whose property
The impunity which they so long enjoyed
was owing perhaps in a considerable degree to the fact that
on all occasions this notorious gang have treated females
with remarkable consideration and respect ; and as this
course of conduct on their part was supposed to be due to
the example and influence of Hall, he seems to be regarded
by the inhabitants of the western districts with more kindly
feelings than were extended to the others. This will perhaps
account for his being at large after most of his party Lave
been shot or captured. He had a remarkable escape a week
or two since. A hut in which he was known to have entered,
while suffering from a wound in his feet, was surrounded
by five policemen under Inspector Shadforth. A dog which
the police had brought, as for the purpose of giving Hall the
alarm, commenced barking, when the bushranger rushed
out, and, lame as he was, mounted his hoist) in the face
of the valiant officials, and rode through them without re.
ceiving a scratch—the black tracker who accompanied the
party being the only
man who attempted to prevent him.
The most remarkable bushranging crime of the month
was a daring and successful attack on the Bathurst mail,
at Lapstone Hill, near Nenrith, on the night of the 11th
inst. There were eight persons on the coach at the time,
including the driver. Ono was an armed policeman ; one
man, said to be a digger; two women, and three China-
men. Neither the policeman, the driver, nor anybody else
made the slightest resistance when the coach was ordered
to atop by three men. The Chinamen had large amounts cf
gold duet and money in their possession. Upwards of £7OO
was taken from them, and altogether the robbers must have
secured considerably over £l,OOO in cash, besides the China.
men's gold. The mails were, of course, cut open ; the
letters were scattered about the road, and the horses cut
loose and driven into the bush--Sydney Empire, March 21,

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or a widow wh-se husband lies buried so deeply among t
masses of slain heroes, that she will never learn to seek for
his grave ?
When the wife of a great prince whose husband was
absent at the siege of Troy was urged by her friends to put
on her royal robes and be cheerful, she answered—" My
husband is under the walls of Troy ; shall I adorn my hair
while he wears a helmet? Shall I dress in new robes:while
he carries arms? No ! my raiment shall be like his hard
labours, and in sadness while I pass the time of this
mournful war." Patriotism is beautiful in all eyes, and
wa.3 draretl alike by the lady of classic story end the
mother of the resolution, clad in her home-spun dress and
steadily performing more than household duties. Com-
pare the spirit Of these women with the reckless extra-
vagance which has marked the duration of this terrible
struggle for the Uuieu, and the contrast is indeed humiliat-
ing. Still the women of America are not unworthy of their
ancestors. Thoughtless they may be, and luxuriantly ex-
travagant from long habits of prosperity, but cruel and un-
just never. Appeal to their reason and gentle feelings, fuel
the women of this day will prove themselves as capable of
as noble deeds as ever marked the struggles of the revolu-
tion. Convince them of the evils their thoughtlessness is
producing, and the remedy is certain.
It has not been sufficiently impressed upon them that that
encouragement of extravagant importations is injurious to
the public good. To impress this vital truth upon the
women of the Union, we have entered into this solemn
covenant, not only holding ourselves to a general system
of economy in our persons, but holding it as a duty to im-
press upon others how unwomanly it is to make outward
display a paramount sulject of thought, when the nation is

THE DERBY.—RACE GLASSES ( the best),
at CALL AG HAN '.14, VA, New Bond-street, W., corner
of Conduit-street. N.B.—Sole agent to Voigtlan( Ler, V ienua.

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA,
Covent-garden.
From this time until the end of the season there will be four
Opera nights in each week, viz., every Monday, Ts.:Asday.
Thursday, and aatsrday.
}ldll3. Battu—Sig. Graziani—Herr Schmid—Sig. Wachtel.
TO-MORROW (SATURDAY), May 21, wit be performed
Rossini's grand opera, GUGLIELMO TELL. Manlde,
Mdile. Marie Battu ; Guglielmo Tell, Signor Graziani ;
Jemmy, Madame Rudersdorff; Mel thtl, Signor Polonini ;
Walter. Herr Schmid; Leutoldo, Signor Fallar ; Ge.sler,
Signor TagliafiCo ; Un Pescatore, Signor Neri- araldi ; Ro-
doLpho, Signor Rossi; and Arnoldo, Signor Wachtel.
Conductor, Mr. Costa.
La Tyrollenne will be danced by 3ldlle. Salvioai, 3ldlle.
Carmine, and Mdile. Navarre.
Commence at half past Eight.

Pit tickets, 7s. ; amphitheatre ,ta Is, 108. 6(.1., 75., ard ss. ;
amphitheatre. 2s. 6d. Boxes, stalls, and tickets may be had
et th, box-offic- under the portico of the theatre, which is
eVII from ten to live, and at the principal rausicsellers' and
li hrarie.ns

THEATRE ROYAL DRUR Y-L NE.
Managers, Messrs. Edmond Falconer and

le. B. Chatterton.

THIS EVENING, AN APRIL FOOL. Mr. G. Belmore.
Atter which, Shakspere's HENRY TUE FOURTH.
Mr. PHELPS. Mr. Walter Montgomery, Mr. Walter
Lacy, Mr. A ddisoi, Mr. Ryder, Mr. Robert Itoxby, Mr.
Barrett, Mr. E Phelps, Mr. Rayner, Mr. H. Vandenhoff, Mr.
a", Belmore, Mr. Ellerton, Mr. Fitzjames, Mr. Neville ; Miss
Edith Wynne, M es Rose Lederer', .nd Mrs. Edmund Fat-
zoner, supported by all the Members of the Drury-lane Com-
pany.
Concluding with MY HEART'S IN THE HIGHLANDS.

THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.—
Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, THE BALANCE OF COMFORT.
Rowe and Miss L. Angel.
After which, DAVID GARRICK. Messrs. Sothern,
Chippendale, Buckstone. Rogers, Clark, Weathersby, &c. ;
Mesokmes Snowden, :telly Moore, Fitzwilliam.
After which, the new Easter piece, entitled VENUS AND
ADONIS. Messrs. Compton, Wm. Farren, Coe. &c. ; Mes-
dames Louise Keeley, Snowden, Nellyi"ower, Hill, Wright,
Aogers, &c.
To conclude with MRS. WHITE. Mr. Compton.
Commence at 7.

'ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter.
r Mr. FECHTER will perform HAMLEP TO-MORROW
34.VENING. Claudius, Mr. Emery; Polonius, Mr. John
Brougham; Ghost, Mr. G. Jordan Laertes, Mr. C. Vanden-
11,ff ; Hoiatio, Mr. J. G. Shore ; First Gravedigger, Mr. H.
Widdicomb ; Osric, Mr. F. Charles ; Messrs. % 31`Intyre,
F. Morton, Raymond, Moreland, Clifford, Edmonds,iWall-
bank, Collett; Ophelia, Miss Kate Terry ; Actress, Jlisc 31.
Henr ade ; and Gertrule, Miss Elsworthy.
The Scenery painted by Mr. W. Telbin.
Notice.—The doors open athalf-past 7, and Hamlet com-
mences at S.

The whole profits of the evenincr will be dif'ded between
the National Shakspere Committee and the Dramatic Col-
lege school Fund.
Box Office open daily from Eleven o'clock till Five.

All Tickets issued for May 14th will be available on Satur-
day, the 2 et.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Sole Lesee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining.
THIS EVENING, 'THE OLD STORY. Mr. Dominick
Murray.
After which, Shakspere's ROMEO AND JULIET. Ro-
meo, Mr. J. Nelson ; Mercutio, Mr. Vining ; Nurse, Mrs. H.
Marston ; Juliet, Mdlle. Stella Colas.

EW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHL-
-I_ll sole Proortstor and Manager. Mr. B. Wobster.
Last Week but three of he Great Tragediene, Miss Bateman,

in the character of L'EAti.

THIS EV ENING,an apropos Sketch, SHAKE iPEARE'S
.MOUSE: Messrs. J. L. Toole, R. Phillips, Stephenson.
Af er which, at 8, LEAH : Miss Bateman, supported by
:Messrs. A. Stirling, R. Phillips, Billingtun, Stuart, Eburne,
Stephenson; Mrs. Bitlington.
To e•tnclude with Tin; AREA BELLE : Messrs. J. L. Toole,
p. Bedford, tt. Romer, Miss Woolgar, and Mrs. H. Lewis,