The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-29 00:00:00

OBJECTIONS TO FEMALE PRINTERS,.

Female printers have now had a long and fair
trial in the United States, and it is at last generally
confessed that they are a failure. Their practice of
the art does not extend_ There is no reason in the
world why women should not bt compositors, it they
had not men to compete with. They can set up
types as quickly and correctly as men, but the mis-
chief is that, with few exceptions, when they become.
proficient in their art, they get married, and when
the woman is married the compositor is as good as
shot, There could never be much profit in training
men for compositors, and as soon as they grew skil-
ful drafting them from " the case" into the army or
navy. Yet a transformation as thorough And as
wasteful takes place when the compositor becomes
a wife and a mother. This dan gage of the entire 0611
of a long apprenticeship being lost would always of
itself operate as a high differential duty'in favour at
male over female labour. But in the work itself tl,n
tenacity and strength of the man gives him other
advantages over the woman. For instance, a corn-.
positor works with more ease and rapidity standing
than sitting, but a woman cannot stand and work
through a whole day as a man does. The physical
endurance demanded of compositors in many news-
paper offices altogether exceeds the strength of a
woman's organisation. We know compositors who
once a week, and unavoidably, work from the morn-
ing of one day through the night into the morning
of the next. Such a strain is very exhausting, and.
CIS A eu,posltor remarked to us, "we never feel
right afterwards until we have been twice through
the sheets," or, in other words, have been twice in
bed. Now, a compositor who is able to exert him-
self in this way at a pinch will always have the
preference over 31118 who cannot. There might be
room for women as printers if male labour were
scarce, but in America, where such labour is much
scarcer than here, women do not find that they can
compete with men ; and certainly in England,w here
there is a superabundance of the better article, there
is little providence in bringing the inferior into the
market. The experiment in London which is going
forward under Miss Emily Faithful's management
is not one, for these and various other reasons,which
we regard with any expectation. We are not in
the least surprised that the Victoria Press should
turn out a well printed volume; there is nothing
to hinder. But we see no chance for the women as
printers alongside men. The Victoria Press is a
philanthropic speculation which will never bear ex-
tension on economical or commercial grounds. Those
who wisely help women will educate them for oc-
cupations in which they need as little fear the com-
petition of men as men need fear theirs in the
printing-office.—Literary Budget.

EXTENSION OF THE MONEY ORDER
SYSTEM 10 SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

1. On the Ist October, and thenceforward, money
orders will be issued by all money-order offices in
the United Kingdom on the undermentioned places
in South Australia, at a charge of ls. for any sum
not exceeding £2 ; 2s. for any sum above £2 and
not exceeding £5; 3s. for any sum above £5 and
not exceeding ; and 4s. for any sum above £7
and not exceeding £10; beyond which latter sum
no single money order will be issued. From the
above date money orders will also be issued for any
sum not exceeding £lO at the undermentioned
places in South Australia on any money-order office
in the United Kingdom.
2. The issue of money orders under this arrange-
ment will be in all respects on the same conditions
as those which regulate their issue by one office on
another office in the United Kingdom, except that,
in consequence of the distance between the United
Kingdom and South Australia an interval of six
instead of two months will be allowed after the issue
of an order in one country payable in the other, be-
fore such order will become lapsed.
3. For the renewal in the United Kingdom of a
lapsed order, for the issue there of a duplicate order,
or for the stoppage there of payment of an order, ap-
plication must be made to the controller of the metro-
politan office of that part of the kingdom (England,
Ireland, or Scotland) in which such order is payable.
In the case of lapsed orders, an additional inland rate
of
commission
newd
o order,
er a
will
nd thelapsed order
b e deducted from
mast thes
tamount of
thebe
trans.
mitted with the application for renewal. In the
other cases an additional inland commission must
application. If transfer of
office in the United
accompany the applicapayment
required, application
Kingdom be req should be made
from one office to
to the money order office at which the order is pay-
able, being forwarded •
the order another
with such appli-
cation. The additional inland commission in this
will be deducted from
casethe new order.
4. For repayment of the amount of a money
order, or for the correction
of any error respecting
the name of the pa,
ee or remitter, application,
accompanied with an additional inland rate of com-
mission, must be made to the controller of the me-
tropolitan office of
the country in which the order
was issued.

.5. As all advices of colonial money orders must
pass through the metropolitan offices of this coun-
try and of the colony
or have to be paid, in which the orders are issued
unavoidable delay in payment •
most in some instances arise, since such advices may
Occasionally arrive in the United Kingdom or in
the colony one post after the orders have reached
their destination.