The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-05 00:00:00

him in rhetorical Billingsgate—and this at an
interval of ten years from each other—Mr. KING.
LAKE a few months since in his spiteful hashing-up
of old club gossip, called a " History of the

Crimean War"—his fraternal fellow-labourer of
more than ten years ago being that now almost for-
gotten " Englishman" (shame be his for so dese-
crating the name) that now virtually dead and gone
"Englishman" who was allowed so long to shriek
his revilings through the noble trumpet of
the Times newspaper. The French EMPEROR, by
his silence, his endurance, his calm and imperturb-
able maintenance—according to the fluctuations of
feeling here in England towards him during the
last fourteen or fifteen years of his power over
France and in Europc, through all the variations
of evil report and good report in iais regard—the
French EmPEßolt, we say, by his calm and imper-
turable maintenance, uninterruptedly to this hour,
of the Alliance with England, has had his revenge,
and a noble revenge it is, over a swarm of enemies.

The recent unfortunate occurrence in the county
of Galway has called forth an expression of feeling,
alike honourable to themselves and the Lord Lieu-

tenant, from the noblemen and gentlemen of that
part of Ireland. It was hardly to be expected that
so marked an affront to the representative of her
MAJESTY, as well as a direct personal insult to a
peer universally respected for the courteous and
gentlemanly manner in which he fills his distin-
guished office, would be altogether passed over by
the notabilities of the district which has been made
so unpleasantly conspienous by an act whose ab-
surdity almost equalled its insolence. It will be
remembered that the Earl of CARLISLE, while
travelling through Galway, had occasion to pass
by Maam, where he intended to remain a night at
the end of the stage. Unfortunately the owner
of the place is the Earl of LEITRIM, who, for some
fancied affront to his dignity, cherished a bitter ani-
mosity against the Government. Why he selected
the Lord Lieutenant as the victim of his wrath is
perplexing, as he could be scarcely be personally
answerable for the decisions of the other members
of the Executive. At all events, Lord LEITRIM
allowed his anger to hurry him to lengths that
would have disgraced an ignorant peasant, by offer-
ing a direct affront to the dignity of the QUEEN,
through her representative, and by so forgetting
the courtesy due from one gentleman to another,
as to put the Earl of CARLISLE in a most inconve-
nient and embarrassing position. Hearing of the
Lord Lieutenant's intended movements, he de-
despatched strict orders to the landlord of the only
inn in the place to fill the rooms with his
tenants, so as to refuse the Earl ad-
mittance on his arrival. The letter was
couched in the most stringent terms, and the
landlord had of course no choice but to obey. The
plan, which had in it something of a schoolboy's
silly trick, would have been carried out to the letter,
only fortunately some of the police authorities were
wise enough to hurry off an intimation of the state
of things to the Lord Lieutenant before he reached
Maam. The postboys agreed to make a further
effort to push on another stage, and accordingly the
Earl of LEITRIM must have had the satisfaction of
learning from his tenant that no application had
been made for the occupied rooms, It is to be hoped
he paid the bill with a good grace. So silly and
purposeless a trick would, of course, have been left
unnoticed, so far as the Earl of CARLISLE was per•
sonally concerned, but the Lord Lieutenant of Ire-
land could not in his offieial capacity pass over such
intentional disrespect to the highest aathority in
the kingdom. Accordingly the Earl of LEITRIM has
fresh cause for complaint in the deprivation of his
Lord Lieutenancy of the county ; and probably,
should the Earl of CARLISLE trust himself again
within his reach, he will devise some still more
ingeniously annoying reception. The incident
which has brought this affair again forward is the
presentation of an address to the Lord Lieutenant,
signed by seven peers, 20 deputy-lieutenants, and
9S magistrates of the county of Galway, expressing
in the most decided and unmistakeable terms their
regret and indignation at the recent occurrence.
The address was transmitted to his Excellency by
Lord CLANRICARDE, who assured him at the same
time that if such proof of unanimity had been re-
quired, it would have been signed by every land-
owner in the county. The address, brief as it is, leaves
nothing to be desired. It remireis the Lord Lieu tenant
that the inhabitants of that country have never
been wanting in loyalty to their SOVEREIGN, and
that whatever may be their personal or party
feelings, they have never been suffered to influ-
ence the respect shown to the representative of
the QUEEN. It adds that nothing in the acts of
the present occupier of the office has afforded the
slightest pretext for departing from this rule—a
tribute eminently deserved by the Earl of CAR
LISLE, whom all creeds and parties have united
in admitting to be one of the most affable and
moderate holders of a responsible and somewhat
invidious post. The answer of the noble earl to
this address is worthy of him. He expresses the
gratification which he could not fail to feel at so
public a testimony of the esteem in which he is
held, and then he says in words which will at
once pain and gratify every Irishman, that a want
of hospitality was the very last contingency he
had expected to encounter on Irish soil. It is to
be hoped that the nobleman whose churlish con-
flict has given rise to this address will accept
the reproof so pointedly conveyed, for having so
far fallen short of the generous open-handed cha-
racter of his countrymen, whose faults, whatever
they may be, have never been lack of ready kind-
ness and courtesy. The popular idea of an Irish-
man at home is the very essence of hearty
tind genial welcome, and one would feel more
!tire of a hospitable reception if entering un-
invited to share a dinner of potatoes in
an
colder, if
cabin than in intruding into many
courtesyl to
man
is wealthierhis abodes. That an Irish-
man fail in respect to his QUEEN,
be set down an
we are not sue
certainly
superior, and hospitality to a tra-
vellersome years' resideua,
warm -hearted people, an'ing
Y a combination that deserves to
cipurigetdhewonders of the day; and
that Lord CARLISLE, after
that quick-witted,
etiquette, marked
nddi ssehoouurltde shye.
Should express astonishment
as his chief feeling at _
He cannot at all events include the rest of the
this breach 1'
8:a: :heat gtuheestlaonfdsloormdes
Yecaineion again to visit that part
havecoun country
of the coun-
try,
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gentleman
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the position of the party insulted, and so great
yarolbsoefrveLs
an affront to authority could have nowhere been
in worse taste than in Ireland, where the Earl of
LEITRIM should have remembered the dangerous
example he was setting to disaffected persons.
How can we expect the lower orders to obey the
laws, and conduct themselves decently and respec•
tably under English rule, when they see a noble-
man of high rank and distinguished position offer-
ing them an example to do the very contrary ?
We are glad to see the long list of notable names
appended to the address, a fact which the Earl of
Calua6LA may take as evidence o the esteem in

spired by his personal qualities and conduct, no
less than as a tribute of respect to his office, and
through that to her Majesty the QUEEN.

It is always an advantage to find social questions
f putrom forwardaff' e affectation
at i own and clear common
.sense,Thu a
Thus
the
epafpreere
read by Miss Faithful! at Edinburgh furnishes us
with a detailed account of the " unfit employments
in Which Women are engaged." It is absurd to con-
tradict the statements and satirise the proposals of
would-be reformers when the case is clearly against
them in point of argument. A favourite assertion is
that women are better at home, and that their duties
ought to be confined to their families. It is not the
question if they may work, but that they must, and
how are they to do so as profitably as possible.
Great numbers have no homes to shelter them, no
families to engage them, and of those who have they
are compelled to contribute to the support and
maintenance of their families. As affairs are at
present arranged it results that thousands of females
pursue kinds of business totally unsuitable for them,
and which can but prove demoralising and degrad-
ing to their characters. Again, in what are consi-
dered the legitimate spheres of toil for women of
the middle or upper-lower classes, what injury is
inflicted on their health ! The close hours, the
crowded rooms, and :the scanty rest, all tell
fearfully against the health. It seems, then, a con-
tradition in terms for really well-m,eaning persons
to declaim against the notion of females engaging
in arduous and active:employments, when we are
informed, on competent authority, that "striking
examples are to be found among the occupations
of women, many of which, though sanctioned
by custom, are destructive alike to their
physical and moral constitution." It is well to take
note occasionally of some of these anomalies in our
social system ; and it cannot be entirely. delusive to
believe that there are within our realm Christian,
wise, and kindly men to take up the subject in a
right spirit, and to institute some reforms into a
system that is now so deleterious to the health of
the body and to the welfare of the mind.
The facts here adduced by Miss FAITUFULL
are enough to rouse indignation and awaken
horror in the minds of all capable of appre-
ciating their importance and influence. For in-
stance, very lately, in Brecon, some complaints
were made that the railway company furnished the
coal very small, and the reply was that the cause
proceeded from " women filling the trucks," but
that men were in future to assist in lifting the
larger lumps. There must be many employments
more suited to feminine strength, and more con-
sistent with womanly dignity, and yet those unfor-
tunate beings are doubtless very glad to have
recourse to this hard and wearying life to obtain
the necessities of existence. In the district near
Wigan, women are found working the canal boats,
and even with the "boat-line across their shoulders
drawing the boats." It is no longer a question of
morbid sentimentality, nor of Utopian projects,
when the civilisation of the nineteenth century can
subject its women to such toil and drudgery. All
these evils result from the plan of leaving things
to take their chance. Instead of denying facts, the
wise ones of our generation had better have acknow-
ledged them and provided for the emergency.
If women are to toil for their daily bread,
to endure exertion, and to undergo sacri-
fices for their maintenance, the claims
of humanity, the voice of justice, and the
decencies of society demand that the work should
be such that the enlightened and considerate can
honestly aver, in the sight of GOD and man, to be
meet, right, and fitting. This vexed ques-
tion had better be simply resolved into the
simple query of right or wrong ? If the exist-
ing state of things is not in accordance with right,
it should be altered immediately. No comfort, ex-
pense, or expediency should be suffered to stand in
the way of the reforms of radical evils and the rec-
tifying of social abuses. It cannot be impossible to
find something for females to do that they may en-
gage in with ail their powers, without interfering
unduly with work that they are not fit for, men-
tally or physically, and without being brutalised
by tasks that disgrace themselves and degrade those
who employ them. In the higher positions of
society much might be effected to impart to females
a more useful, and hence a more happy, existence;
but that is not of such vital consequence in compa-
rison with the urgent claims of the poorer classes.
Mies FAITIIFULL truly states that the habit of
treating women as " mere machines" has created
many of the existing evils. It is not the custom to
apprentice girls to any trade but millinery, hence
they are confined, per force, to the coarsest and
roughest branches. Let this subject at once engagewcehoare
the attention of all qualified to judge, and
capable of rendering practical service in the cause.
In the first place, instead of disputing as to whether
women ought to work, let them decide in what
manner they shall work. It was a divine command
that bade man to toil, till he returned to the dust
from whence he was taken ; but human readings
of the command have necessitated that the burden
should often bo shared, if not entirely borne, by
women in many cases. Work that is suitable for
the sex, rank, and capacity of the worker, is one
of the greatest benefits and highest blessings that
can be bestowed upon humanity, and the happiest
and liveliest method of rendering this sad and
stormy life in any way peaceable or praiseworthy.
But, then, moderation must be employed, and it
will not do for those who rule the events of the
day, and sanction the customs of society, to fold
their hands and take their reat, when their verdict
has sent forth women to do the work of beasts that
perish, while men arc idling away in effeminate

pursuits. Nor yet can they lay claim to immunity
when, in really feminine pursuits, health, life, and
reputation are wantonly sacrificed. There must be

some remedy for all these abuses and anomalies,
and it is their duty, as it should be their pleasure,

to seek it out, and apply it profitably when disco-
vered. So shall they meet the best reward that

can crown all endeavours in minds at peace, and

render a satisfactory account of their work and

its issue to their country now, and to their GOD

hereafter.

THE PORTRAIT OF PRINCE ARTHUR (by Jan de
Mabuse, A.D. 1501), son of Henry VII. and Eliza-
beth, daughter of Edward IV., has been recently discovered,
and is now in that Prince's native city of 'Winchester.
From pictorial history we find that Mabuso became one of
the most famous portraitists of his time, and having assidu-
ously cultivated his rare talents by studying in Italy, was
thereby enabled to first teach the Flemish masters how to
delicately treat in their compositions historical and allegori-
cal subjects. lie gained great reputation from the portraits
which ho painted while in England, by command of Henry
VII. He was also highly esteemed by the Emperor Charles
V., and in fineness of colouring and graceful delineation of
roe tainthasi
e costume he surpassed all his contemporaries, and his pictures
areas highly finished as those of Gerhard Don iv and Minis.
This portrait of Arthur is painted on a gold ground, and the
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