The Sun.
London, England, 1830-01-06 00:00:00

CAPABILITIES OF WOMEN.

Women, we fear, cannot do everything, nor
even everything they attempt. But what they
can do, they do, for the most part, excellently,
and much more frequently with an absolute and
perfect success than the aspirants of our rougher
and more ambitious sex. They cannot, we
think, represent naturally the fierce and sullen
passions of men—nor their courser vices—nor
even scenes of actual business or contention,
and the mixed motives, and strong and faulty
characters, by which affairs of moment arc usu-
ally conducted on the great theatre of the world.
For much of this they are disqualified by the
delicacy of their training and habits, and the
still more disabling delicacy which pervades their
conceptions and feelings; and from much they
are excluded by their actual inexperience of the
realities they might wish to describe by their
substantial and incurable ignorance of business,
of the way in which serious affairs are actually
managed, and the true nature of the agents and
impulses that give movement and direction to
the stronger currents of ordinary life. Perhaps
they are also incapable of long moral or political
investigations, where many complex and inter-
minate elements are to be taken into account,
and a variety of opposite probabilities to be
weighed before coming to a conclusion. They
are generally too impatient to get at the ultimate
results, to go well through with such discussion,
and either stop short at some imperfect view of
the truth, or turn aside to repose in the shadow
of some plausible error. This, however, we
we persuaded, arises entirely from their being
seldom set on such tedious tasks. Their proper
and natural business is the practical regulation of
private life, in all its bearings, affections, and
concerns ; and the questions with whiclithey have
to deal in that most important department, though
often of the utmost difficulty and nicety, in-
volve, for the most part, but few elements, and
may generally be bolter described as delicate
than intricate, requiring fbr their solution
rather a quick tact and fine perception than a
patient and laborious examination. - For the
same reason the) rarely succeed in long works,
even on subjects the best suited to their genius,
their natural training rendering them equally
averse to loag doubt and long labour. For all
other intellectual efforts, however, either of the
understanding or the fancy, and requiring a
thorough knowledge either of man's strength or
his weakness, we apprehend them to be, in all
respects, as well qualified as their brethren of
the stronger sex ; while, in their perceptions of
grace, propriety, ridicule, their power of detect-
ing artifice, hypocrisy, and affectation, the force
and promptitude of their sympathy, and their
capacity of noble and devoted attachment, and
of the efforts and sacrifices it may require, they
are, beyond all doubt, our superiors. Their
business being, as we have said, with actual or
social life, and the colours it receives from the
conduct and dispositions of individuals, they
unconsciously acquire, at a very early age, the
finest perception of character and manners, and
are almost as soon instinctively schooled in the
deep and dangerous learning of feeling and emo-
tion ; while the very minuteness with whigh they
make and meditate on these interesting observa-
tions, and the finer shades and variations of sen-
timent which are thus treasured and recorded,
train their whole faculties to a nicety and pre-
cision of operation, which often discloses itself
to advantage in their application to studies of a
very different character. When women, ac-
cordingly, have turned their minds, as they have
done but too seldom, to the exposition or ar-
rangement of any branch of knowledge, they
have commonly .exhibited, we think, a more
beautiful accuracy, and a more uniform and
complete justness of thinking, than their less
discriminating brethren. There is a finish and
completeness about every thing
.they put out of
their hands, which indicates not only an inherent
taste for elegance and neatness, but a habit of
nice observation, and singular exactness ofjudg-
men t.—Edittituroh Review.

BIRTH EXTRAORDINARY.—LateIy, aS the
excise riding officers of this district were on a survey in the
parish of Daviot, they discovered marks of recent distilla-
tion, which induced them to make a strict search in the
neighbourhood. The dwelling and out-houses were exa-
mined without effect, and a second attempt made with the
same result, when at length suspicion fell on a female who
had retained her seat in the kitchen, enveloped in blankets,
notwithstanding their request to have her removed to faci-
litate their search. She begged to be permitted to sit
still, as she was, she said, far gone in the family way.—
One of the excisemen, however, lifted up the dame in his
arms, when out rolled a couple of ankers of genuine
smuggled whisky,—/nverness Courier.

;mil', Jan. 1
10 ' P.
33 0 28 8
14 0 13 0
16 tl 1.5 0
14 0 11
441 i
21 (0) I 11 a

DUBLIN MARKET NI

TE.—I
From
512 Wheat, per barrel 20 stone 21 0
147 Bete l7 stone 12 0
105 Harley— l6 stone 11 0
611 Oats l2 stone 8 0
8,610 Cwt. 9 stone 6 0
907 Oatmeal 8 stone 9 6
Sold to Baker only.
7,607 Cwt. Flour 18 0 I 21 0 I 18 41,4
. Average price of Wheat and Flour 16.5. 8,1. per sack.
Receipts of Flour 5,3Q•11 'irsts'
-- front 2(4%141. to 2-Is.
Sales of Do. 9,610 . • Seconds, from 13.5. 0.1. to los. 0.1.
from 6s. Od. t 3,125. 0.1.

PRICE OF ZREA D.

Quartern Loaf, 41b. soz. , S%d. I lialf-quartern, 91n. 20z.....,„4!4d

GLASGOW MAItKET3.
(From the Glasgow'LcialJ of Monday.)

The transactions in Raw SUGARS have been very limited
this week. The sales are only 72 hlids of brown Deme-
raras, at 465. 9J. to 48s. No sales in West India Molasses.
Refined Sugars are dull, and rather lower.
British MoLAssas have been in fair demand, and sales
made at 18s. 6d. to 19s.

The sales made in Corr are SO bags of ordinary and
broken Bethke, at 285., and 11 tierces Jamaica, ordinary
and broken, at 255., and ordinary 30s.
Nothing done in PIMENTO or GINGER.

The transactions in Rum are limited to a few puns. of
Jamaica.,, that were sold at 2s. Bd. for 16 0. P. Nominal
price of Leewar.4s, I9d. to 20d.
For Gain WnISKEY there has been a better demand, and
some speculative and other purchases made at. 2s 9,1., and
and small parcels have brought 2s. 10,1., which the holders
are now generally demanding. Malt Whiskey is selling
steadily at Ss. 7d. to 4s. 2d. 25 0. I'. in bond.
The transactioms in Corrost have been rather extensive
this month, the sales amount to 6900 packages, and
prices have improved id. to 11., and on some descrip-
tions nearly per -Ib. The particulars are 44. Sea
Islands, at 121.1. to 141,1. ; 69 Stained, 61d. to Rd. ; 2A
Bowed do. G d. ; 2665 13oweds, 61.1. to 7 d. ; 1621 Or-
6d. to ; 108 Mobile, 61d. to ; 100 Per-
nants, 80. to sad. ; 150 Maranhums, 7d. to ; 988
Egyptians, qd.• to Sid. ; 191 Demerara,. 6.p.•t0 ;