The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-28 00:00:00

BLOOMERISM.

We have been favoured with so elegant and gen-
tlemanlike an effusion by an anonymous champion of
those female creatures whose proceedings we com-
mented upon in an article in The Sun of Thursday
last, that we cannot withhold from our readers the
perusal of the epistle of the He-Bloomer, on whose
advocacy we beg leave to offer the " cutty sacks"
our cordial congratulations. It is a pity that the
amiable and talented writer has not favoured us with
his name, for we should feel the utmost pleasure in
giving it all the publicity in our power. However,
as the evident modesty of his nature has induced
him, in that particular, to hide his light under a
bushel, it remains but to present, without the
slightest curtailment, addition, or alteration, the
handsome communication for which we are his
dehtors, and in s hich it is difficult to pronounce
whether refinement of phraseology or acuteness of
observation be the more prominent characteristic.
There is a felicity in the concluding sentence espe-
cially which cannot but be duly appreciated by the
members in general of the Fourth Estate.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—Your attack on " Bloomerism " is one of the
moat cowardly, unmanly, and ungentlemanlike arti-
cles that has ever appeared in the press of this country ;
and although I have little hope of your being made to
feel the dastardly act of which you have been guilty
in thus attacking unoffending females, who are
doubtless actuated by pure motives, I still feel it ne-
cessary to let you know there is at least one person
who disapproves of your cowardly vulgarity. I
presume you are paid for this brutal act by some
Court milliners and, as you must live, even by in-
famy, it does form some excuse for a hireling press.
AN ENGLISHMAN.
Pall-mall, Oct. 27, 1851.

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FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF TIIE LIVERPOOL COR-
PORATIOK.—The annual financial statement of the treasurer
to the Liverpool Corporation has been issued. It appears that
there has been a considerable increase in the ordinary in-
come, and that the surplus income, over obligatory and other
expenses, has been nearly doubled, compared with the ac-
counts of last year. The ordinary income last year was
139,152/. This year the amount is 169,7041., or an increase
of 27,552/. The surplus income, the only available resource
for many useful public purposes, has increased from 25,477/.
to 50,3111. The town dues this year yielded 100,802/ ,
against 89,5771. The fines in lieu of ground-rents, which
last year amounted only to 8,7171., have this year produced
23,014/. The churches are still a heavy charge on the cor-
porate funds, the expenditure for the five " establishments"
exceeding the receipts by upwards of three thousand pounds
per annum. The accounts for the baths and washhouses are
very satisfactory. Paul-street baths have yielded a profit of
661., and the establishment at Cornwallis-street 230/. The
e3x,sp6e4nts,easoodf,tahfefeßi r
deductingrkenhead ferry and estate are
thoreoefpts,thefeispaut down at
aotf
2,oea2ri6en /s. t flaeests
yfoeranmaignistfrhae expensestes' el
wa erk amount
tohuentt police f0rce04,839l
hasl, been a reduction of more than 3,063/. The net ex-
penditure under this head last year 19
TlohBe/ .
there
,341., h
the cost hss been 16,1341. The bond debt of2f
the
corporatetis
estate is 983,644/. ; the value of the estate itself is roughly
roughlyestimated at 4,000,000!.
year
THE MERCHANT AND NAVAL SERVICE.--A very
useful Act of Parliament was passed in the late session to
extend the benefits of certain provisions cf the General Mer-
chant Seamen's Act relating to apprentices bound to the sea
service by boards of guardians of the poor in Ireland, and to
enable such guardians to l
p ace out boys in the naval service.
By this Act boys chargeable to unions may be apprenticed,
and their outfits provided, and boys in the receipt of parish
relief, who are desirous, may be placed out by the guardians
in the naval service of her Majesty, and their outfit provided
by the funds of the union.

VEGETABLE WONDER.-Mr. Milestone, fishmonger,
of Swallow-place, Hanover-square, is said to have now in his
possession the largest mammoth gourd, or pumpkin, ever
grown in the open air in England. This vegetable mon-
atrocity, which was grown by Richard Landon, Esq., of
Britannia-house, Worcester, measures 6 feet 2 inches in cir-
cumference, and weighs lIP lea than 1201bo.