The Sun.
London, England, 1866-12-07 00:00:00

IL THE LOCK.

N. RAPIDITY OF FIRE.
itihs,aPable of firing at least 12 rounds per minute, without
01113 g, the cartridges being arranged on a table.
ACCURACY WHEN FIRED FROM A FIXED REST.
th he arm must give a mean figure of merit of not more
44 33:n. at 1,000 yards, 30in. at 800 yards, 12in. at 500,
rt 300.
T:te mean to be taken upon at least five targets of twenty
Shots each.

P. TRAJECTORY.
degeg. 3Not oto require at 500 yards an elevation of more than 1
m in.

Q. FOULING.
The shootin not to deteriorate 4t 1,000
yards after firing 250 rounls2more than 20 per cent.....

R. PENETRATION.
%Ile mean penetration of five shots not to be less than
at of the present service muzzle-loading Enfield Rifle—
Zl4, 2 half-inch elm planks, which have been soaked 48
(1.1,,:s in water.'
u-stance 30 yards.
s. LUBRICATION.
Wag on bullets is indispensable, but any other lubricant
oe Y be supemdded or applied to the cartridge, if thought
111.
cessary by the competitor.
Igo
Eipe arMS will be received without the usual proof marks.,
o_,9lfications, and drawings of the methods proposed,
rw`lag• the probable cost per arm, and accompanied by a
bi,Thed specimen arm, with 20 rounds of suitable ammu-
610n, should Os serer`, to the "Director of Ordnance, War
Pall-male," on o•• before the 30th March, 1867.
the b specifications an,l specimen arms will be considered
' '"e Ordnance St'ea Committee and its associate mem-
vv.l. 87 who will bs selected by the Secretary of State for
war, and who will. after firing the 20 preliminary rounds,
ksiect and recommend -;or further trial such of the systems
ee,,TaY appear to them sufficiently promising, rejecting all
as may not be considered to offer sufficient merits to
%rant their being included in the competition, the con-
...,erts of which are stated in this advertisement.
to''ach accepted competitor will then be required to furnish
to +ZlPeriment, at Woolwich, six arms . strict conformity
the specimen arm submitted, with 1,000 rounds of am-
141aMition per arm, within four months after date of de-
e, tid- Each competitor will be required to disclose to the
vlareittee the exact nature of the lubrication he may ern-
:Y. A sum o 2 .£3OO will be paid to each of the accepted
thillPetitors, 1-3 cover the expense of the six rifles, and of
(4,811, PlAy of Einmunition required.
fo.„'ae Secretary of State offers a reward of £l,OOO for the
13;"'„wbich, on combination of all qualities, is considered
ALas committee to be the best submitted.
t,.;",.:;Becond reward of £6OO for the arm which, while at-
la Z9g a satisfactory degree of excellence in other particu-
-p is selected for merit in respect to its breech mechanism.
P, third reward of £4OO for the best cartridge. The qua-
lities whici will principally taken into consideration in
of arding prize will be economy of manufacture, power
p.B.B,llstaining :ough usage, freedom from deterioration in
rt,l4°,lls climates, Lnd general serviceability.
~!Le shooting qualities of the cartridge must be fair; but
Ieli""Y may depend upon the rifling of the arm with which
cartridge is associated, they will not be so much con-
de‘red as those above-mentioned.
vii„" is clearlyto be understood that under no circumstances
"La competitor be entitled to more than one prize ; but
Prize will be irrespective of any reward which may be
dyen to the inventor of the arm finally adopted into the
-ervice.

IV-
MAGAZINE AND REPEATING ARMS.
ce•llagazine and Repeating,A.rms for Infantry will be re-
in";ed and examined in a manner similar to the Breech-
je-a`"ing Rifle& They must not bo less in length than 48
1,1,e8, including the stock.
el The limit of weight for these arms is fixed at 911 b. ex-
Illy° of the charges in the magazine.
is indispensable that the arms be made to take a
ba,3;otet.
74,-lho Secretary of State offers a reward of 300 for the best
~'„g,azine or IlepeatingArm produced that fulfils the above
cp,muitions ; and in the absence of experience does not at
t present define the standard of accuracy or other conditions
°,.nue fulfilled before such an arm tan be adopted.
6.'40140 Magazine orßepeatingArms, which are accepted
further trial, will be, paid for at the rate of £6O each.
nrra
Tills sum is to include 1,600 rounds of ammunition per

V.
boThae Secretary of State will take care that no ingenious
141'6°7 produced in answer to this advertisement shall be
._pted into the service without proper acknowledgment,
that the name of the individual with whom it origi-
a" shall be recorded in connection with it.
the rifle to which the first prize is awarded is adopted
'to the service it will bear the inventor's name.
J. ST. GEORGE, Major-General, Director
of Ordnance.
War Officel Oct. 22,1866.:;

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Archbishop MANNING in opening the proceedings
explained that this was the second meeting of the
confraternity, and that it was purely a diocesan
meeting. He then said that as on previous occasions
he had had the happiness of expressing his opinions
of the great conflict in which the Sovereign Pontiff
was engaged, he should now confine himself to
another point. He did so only for the purpose
of caution, and for the purpose of putting on
record befOre public opinion the real issue at
stake. They had not met to-make demonstrations
about temporal possessions as matters of intrinsic
worth, as things to be contended for, as acres, pro-
vinces, or land, cities towns, revenues or treasu-
ries. These earthly things were'of the earth earthy,
and had their importance only by their relations to
higher and greater things. There was nothing that
had been more assiduously laboured for by those
who were adversaries to the temporal power of the
sovereign Pontiff than to represent that Catholics
made the spiritual office of the church dependent
upon the temporal or secular, and that they were
engaged in a worldly contest about worldly ambition
and avarice. He hoped to put on record a protest
against both of those errors, and that not so much in
his own words as in the words of the sovereign Pon-
tiff himself, in his late allocution. His Holiness
there said that when the Roman empire was over-
thrown and divided into many kingdoms, it was de-
creed the Roman Pontiff should possess a civil
princedom, whereby he, being subject to no other
civil power, should exercise in all freedom his su-
preme authority and jurisdiction over the universal
Church, in eider that the faithful, in all tranquillity
of conscience, might obey the decrees of the Pontiff,
without fear of the will or influence of any civil
power : that in the present state of the world this
civil power was necessary for the full protection and
vindication of the liberty of the Roman Pontiff in
feeding the universal flock, which liberty was abso-
lutely bound up with the liberty of the whole Church
(loud cheering)—and that though they might be
deprived of almost all human hope, yet fully aware
of their duty, and altogether confiding in the help of
God Almighty, they were ready to contend without
fear for the cause of the Church divinely committed
to them by Christ, even to the risk of life itself,
and, if needful, to go forth to any part of the world
where they might better exercise the apostolic office.
(Loud cheers.) He (Archbishop Manning) learnt
from that allocution that in the judgment of the
sovereign Pontiff, the temporal power, as it
was called, was of great price as a protection to
the liberty of the Church ; that the liberty
of the Church was a condition of its purity ;
and that Divine Providence had secured the purity
of the church in doctrine, in discipline, and in juris-
diction, by liberating its head from subjection to ail
civil powers. (Loud cheers.) There never was a
time when the sovereign Poiltiffs were 'subjeet
any civil superior. The sovereign Pontiff was
clothed with his prerogatives when the pagan world
ceased and the Christian world came into existence,
and there never had boon Christian prince who had
ventured to call the Vicar of Jesus Christ his sub-
ject. (Enthusiastic cheering.) There had been
pagan emperors, and heretical emperors, and schii-
matical emperors, and infidel princes, who had ven-
tured to claim the superiority of a sovereign over
the Vicar of Jesus Christ; but a Christian prince
(meaning a Catholic prince) never in the history of
the Christian world. The Pontiffs protected this
liberty in the early ages by martyrdom, and Divine
Providence had protected it in later ages by a dis-
position of Divine wisdom which no legislator or
statesman could improve. He begged once again
to repeat that the temporal power consisted in the
liberation of the person of the sovereign" Pontiff
from all civil subjection; in the absolute freedom
with which he exercised his supreme control over all
powers that were subject to the Christian law; and
that the purity of the church depended upon that
liberty. For proof of this let any one contrast the
purity and perpetuity of the Roman Church, in its
doctrine and discipline, with' the Church in Con-
stantinople that became schismatical and heretical,
and was in the end given over to the bondage of the
Mahommedan antichrist. He might come nearer
home, and say that 300 years ago the experiment of
exchanging the sovereign Pontiff for a royal head
was made, with a result we knew well. (Cheers.)
The real question of the temporal power was—
should the head over the universal Church on earth
be a temporal prince,
or should he be the Vicar of
Jesus Christ ? (Loud cheers.) Cast out the Sove-
reign Pontiff and they had a universal royal supre-
macy. He, therefore, appealed to every man in
Scotland, and to every
man whose ancestors threw
off the royal supremacy three hundred years ago,
that they might establish a headship of Christ
—he appealed doubly to the Free Kirk, that threw
over the Erastianism of the Establishment that had
no royal supremacy—he appleaded to the Dissenters
of England, who were one-half of the population of
this country—he appealed to the Church Establish-
ment itself, penetrated as it was with the sense that
its bondage was the royal supremacy—(cheers)—
he appealed to the hundreds and thousands of edu-
cated clergymen and laymen of the Established
Church, who, jealous of its purity, rejected the su-
premacy of a civil power in matters of religion—he
said to all these, " You are bound to sympathise
with us when we say we shall never become the
subject of a civil power." (Loud cheers.) He mar-
velled day by day when he read, in the newspapers
of a country more jealous in its boast of the liberty
of conscience and the liberty of religion than any
other, the scorn, contempt, and preternatural ani-
mosity that was poured out upon the head of the
sovereign Pontiff. After all these years of conflict,
there was now on the one side the power of the
world, armed men, armed legions, the sympathy of
nations, and all that the world could collect either
of might or menace, and on the other side an old
m
During all these years there had not
been one who had ever called down a benediction
withless.
on him, or spoken one word of sympathy at his ma-
jestic attitude of inflexible. courage. (Loud and
defenceless. ce a silvery head, unarmed, isolated, and
long cheering.) Pius IX. recalled to him words an
Englishman should never forget :-._
No man cried God bless him,
No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home ;
But dust was thrown upon his sacred head;
Which with such gentle sorrow he shook off,
His face still combating with tears and smiles,
The badges of his grief and patience,
That had not God for some strong purpose steel'd
The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted,
And barbarism itself have pitied him.
(Loud cheers.) But let them remember the next
words:— _ _

tesGospel, not unto death
But heaven bath a hand in these events ;
ta hn ed c ao
nvisible
hand there
but that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.
He would read a passage, which came before him
ereadoifien lvlai. This conflict was like
the other day, in the confidential correspondence
of the First Napoleon. It was a letter written from
Paris by the President of the Executive Directory.
It was dated, after the manner of that unpitying
barbarism, " 15 Pluviose, sth year," which to our
untutored Christian ears must be translated the 3d
of February, 1797. The letter was addressed to

the General-iu-Chief Buonaparte, from Reubell,
President of the Directory, and it said
In directing its attention to the obstacles which oppose
the consolidation of the French Constitution, the Executive
Directory believes that the Roman religion (le culte Romain)
is that of which the enemies of liberty may for a long time
make the most dangerous use. You, Citizen-General, are
too much accustomed to reflection not to have perceived
as well as we that the Roman religion will always b 3 the
irreconcilable enemy of the Republic, inthe first place by
its essence, and, in the second' place, because its partizans
and its Ministers will never forgive the Republic the blows
it has struck at the fortune and the credit of the former
and the prejudices and habits of the others. There are,
doubtless, means which maybe used within itself to destroy
• insensibly its influence, whether by legislative acts, or in-
stitutions which would efface the ancient impressions and
substitute now more in harmony with the actual order of
things, and more conformed to reason and to sound mo-
rality. It is for the Government to discover these means ;
but one point not less essential for arriving at the end de-
sired would be to destroy, if possible, the centre of Roman
unity; and it is foryou who hitherto have known how to unite
the most distinguished qualities of &general to those of an
enlightened politician, to realise this desire, if you judge it
to be practicable. The Executive Directory, therefore, in-
vites you to do all that shall seem to be possible (without
in any way compromising the safety of your army, or de-
priving yourself of the resources you may obtain for its
maintenance and for the service of the Republic, and with-
out rekindling, instead of extinguishing, in Italy the torch
of fanaticism) to destroy the Government of the Pope
whether by placing Rome under another Power, or, which
would be still better, byestablishing there a form of internal
Government which should render contemptible and odious
the government of priests, so that the Pope and the Sacred
College could not any longer cherish the hope of residing
in Rome, and should be obliged to go and seek asylum in
Some place, be it where it may, where, at least, it would
no longer have any temporal power."
A fable it was then, and a fable it would be to
the end of the world. But the republic of
1848 made reparation for the republic of '97.
It was republican France, in the fullest
liberty of its expression, that through one of
its most illustrious philosophic statesmen drew the
despatch by which she acted in her ancient mission
as protector of the Holy See. There was before them
the same conflict now ; the antagonists differed only
in name. One who was in close contact with those
who held high office in this country once told him
that a Prime Minister of England had said, " De-
stroy the temporal power, and the spiritual power
will soon go." (Laughter.) The gentleman an-
swered, " Not so fast; if there were left but three
Capuchin monks in the world, two of them would
elect the third for Pope." (Loud cheers.) He could
perfectly understand why the temporal power of the
Pope was assailed. It was for the same reason that
a skilful general attacked first the outworks of the
fortress. These assaults were made with the inten-.
tion of reaching the centre of Roman unity. Net
48 hours had passed since the vault of the hall in
which they were assembled had echoed with sounds
of volcanoes, and lava, and sulphurous smoke, and
upheavings—(laughter).—and there was not a coun-
try in Europe which was not at this momentsthreat-
ened more or less by intestine movements that
might easily become revolutionary. (Cheers.) The
revolution on which men had so long complacently
and superciliously looked in Italy, which they had
fostered, and fanned, and encouraged, like thestorms
that wheeled upon a pivot, might in its circuit en-
close those who watched it, and react upon them-
selCes. And what he wished to say was that this was
not the time for men to be cutting asunder the tie-
beams of Christian civilisation, still less for them
to pull up the root-tree of Christendom. (Cheers.)
It has been said that the Popes did not hold
Rome by any claim of sovereignty ace,Vel by the
Roman people, and not by any custom. How then
had they held it? For 300 years they held it by
martyrdom, for 600 years by conflict and confessor-
ship, and for the last 900 years they had held it as
sovereigns. Almighty God, by a singular act of his
own Providence, had so disposed it- that, unarmed
as the Pontiffs had been, with no power whatsoever
to cope with the dynasties around, utterly and en-
tirely unable to resist armed invasion, they bai con-
tinued their career independent of all and vassal to
none ; but, respected by the sense of justice of the
Christian church, protected by the public law_of
Christendom and by the veneration in which Chris-
tian men held the vicar of our Divine Redeemer—
this had been their title to the see, and no man could
take it from them without violating the Providence
of God. (Loud cheers.) The members of the Ca-
tholic Church were engaged in a great conflict, and
might for a time be at a disadvantage, but the issue
was sure, come what might. If the Sovereign Pon-
tiff left the city of Rome, he did not make a leap in
the dark in the wide world ; 45 Pontiffs had been
driven out of Rome, or had never set their foot in
it, and if it happened to the 46th they-would neither
be amazed nor afraid. To shift the centre of Chris-
tendom from the centre of Roman unity would carry
disorder into every Christian land. If there were
Christian statesmen in Europe, or if without being
Christian there were enlightened statesmen, they
would never suffer that calamity to reach their own
homes. The cause in which they were engaged then
was one the justice of which was a luminous cer-
tainty excluding all doubt, and the Divine promises
of success were such that when the empires and
kingdoms now in conflict with the Vicar of Christ
were swept away, there was no room for fear that,
in whatever state he might be of poverty or perse-
cution, peace and veneration would still reign calm
and supreme, and he would triumph over the ene-
mies of Him against whom the gates of hell could
not prevail. (Loud cheers.)
Lord DENBIGH moved the first resolution, which,
he said, embodied the best instincts of his heart :
" That filial attachment and fidelity to the person
and office of the Sovereign Pontiff Pius IX. is a
duty of every member of the Catholic Church, and
an obligation arising from the first principles of the
faith." How, his lordship asked, could it be other- I
wise when every dutiful son felt the desire to draw
near to his father in the hour of his adversity ?
However serious the position of the Pope might be,
there was no need for fear ; the Holy Pontiff knew
who was his Master, and he would be ready like his
prototype to face every difficulty, and, if required,
to walk upon the waters of the troubled sea. He
urged those Catholics to beware who, like birds
fouling their own nest, for the sake of fleeting
popularity, and a temporary name for Liberalism,
joined in, or heard unopposed, the cuckoo cry,
"Down with the temporal power of the Pope."
Every true Catholic should determine to cleave to
the Holy Father through evil and good report, and
not to be afraid of what the world would say, for
the Holy Father was the servant of One who said,
" I have overcome the world." Let it not be said
this was a time of humiliation for the Holy Pontiff.
Never had holy Pontiff been in a grander position.
Though surrounded by friends, and amidst dangers
of every kind, he stood like a beacon, pointing out
to others the danger in which they stood. The
Pope never stood in a prouder position than when
last year in the face of all his troubles and obstacles
he issued that grand encyclical condemning his
enemies. (Loud cheers.)
Mr. H. MATTHEWS seconded the motion, and, in
the course of a lengthy speech, spoke of Garibaldi
as " an adventurer in a red shirt, who was treated
as a hero, instead of a•high misdemeanant," and re-
ferred to the Emperor of the French as a modern
Tiberius, a wearer of a crown, who did not hesi-
tate to write anonymous pamphlets, a man of O.:l_l'k
designs, the most skilful conspirator in the world,
and a man who was likely to go down to posterity
' as the Pontius Pilate of the Papacy.
Lord ARUNDEL of WARDOUR spoke in supporter
the motion, and said he was quite sure of the barque
of St. Peter, but he was not so certain of the crew.
In dwelling upon the many predictions of the fall
of the Pope coming true, he said the present aspect
of affairs might end in what would be like another
fall of Babylon, in which case " we shall look back
from the dead level of democracy and misery upon
the glories of the past."
The resolution was carried with acclamation, the

whole audience rising, waving hats and handker
h ae a
upleasure
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tlie i n
hearts moving h
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Mr. JOHN CASHEL HOEY, as an Irish Catholic;
d g t
resolu-
tion :--" That this obligation, powerful and con-
straining p
the world at all times, when our Holy Father, after
a pontificate of 20 years, in perpetual and inflexible
conflict with anti-social and anti-Christian revolu-
tion, stands alone without human aid in the midst
of those who, by violence and intrigue, are labour-
ing to destroy the temporal sovereignty, by which
the liberty and the safety of his person and of his
office have been, by the evident providence of God,
secured for the welfare of the Universal Church."
He believed that at the moment when all help
seemed to fail the Pope he would be protected by
Him whose arm never failed. In Italy we had a
State which had recently contributed to history the
defeats of Custozza and Lissa, which could not ne-
gotiate a loan, and which had its prisons full of
political prisoners—conditions on which men of
the world did not build their notions of the stability
of States. It was an ordinary incident in the
history of the Church to find a Pope gone into
exile, and avo Catholic could be thereby discomfited
in the sense the word supposed. It was said that
in the vicinity of this city an aged man lay sick unto
death. He could only hope that Joseph Alazzini
might live to repent of his ways. _ His writings
showed that the great object of the revolution in
desiring Rome was to establish a new religion,
which showed that it was the spiritual power of the
Pope which was aimed at. The temporal power had
been a mere pretext through which to strike at the
religious union of Christendom. (Applause.)
The Rev. Father GALWAY, in seconding the re-
solution, said that they firmly believed that the
Pope would come triumphant out of the storm—
(loud cheers)—and this confidence was a source of
danger. He stated that strained efforts were being
made to make the Catholics of Italy immoral be-
cause it was necessary to make a Catholic a bad
man before you could detach him from the Holy
Father. The Pope was suffering for each indivi-
dual Catholic. He was the leader of the sacred
band of Christian paupers, reduced to his present
position for' the edification of the Church. He was
suffering for the unity and the entirety of their
faith. The present division of Protestants in Eng-
land showed what were the consequences of separa-
tion from unity. Recently at the door of a High
Church a gentleman asked the sexton how things
were going on. The reply was, "We are in the
midst of a great struggle; we have got white vest-
ments and red, and we hope soon to have green
ones." (Laughter.) None felt more than the
Anglicans the value of the Papacy. They were in
the position of the man who had a present of a
pound of tea, with directions for its preparation,
and who poured the boiling water upon it, and then
ate the leaves. He had only the written text ; he
had no living voice. (Loud_chcers and laughter.)
Imagine a Puseyite clergyman having a present of
vestments, he would not know what to do with them
but for the Papacy. Accordingly those clergymen
went into the nearest Catholic chapel, studied the
matter, and then copied what they saw as far as
they dare in their own churches. Catholics must
make haste, or they would be outrun in the race by
the Anglicans. They had churches, vestments, and
devotions like those of the Catholics—almost every-
thing but the confraternity of St. Peter, which alone
did and must distinguish the Catholics. (Cheers.)

The resolution was carried with the most enthu-
siastic demonstrations.
Sir. G. BOWYER moved the third resolution as
follows :---" That the confraternity of St. Peter,
having for its object to diffuse sound principles in
respect to the rights and prerogatives of the Vicar
of our Lord, to promote prayers for his safety, and
finally to make offerings for the maintenance of his
person and dignity, has an imperative claim on the
zealous and efficient co-operation of all Catholics."
Ile denounced as worthless the book favourably
reviewed in the Times that morning, ridiculed the
pretensions that reforms were required in Rome,
and declared upon his own authority that Rome was
well governed. Justice was cheaply and well ad-
ministered. Sir John Holt had publicly testified to
the learning of the Roman lawyers. Some of Sir
Robert Peel's financial reforms were copied from
Rome. Its Government was cheap; its Prime
Minister had £5OO a year ; the whole court cost
£1,500 a year. 'The Roman Government would
stand a comparison with any other Government of
the world. If it had a fault it was that it was too
mild. The people were not interfered with. The
poor bad more individual liberty than they had in
London ; and the security was as great as that of
London. Alurders and serious crimes were rare.
Yet such stories as the correspondent of the Times
being robbed of his watch were told as evidence of
insecurity. Without the Pope Rome would be like
Windsor without the Castle. The Holy See was
under the protection of God ; it could not be over-
thrown ; the Pope .would remain at Rome, and his
enemies would be defeated'; but human means must
not be neglected by any.one

The resolution was seconded by Father KERRY,
and also carried by acclamation.
A vote of thanks to the Archbishop terminated
the proceedings about 11 o'clock.

FLOGGING GAROTTERS.—In accordance with the
sentence passed upon them at the last sessions of the Cen-
tral Criminal Court, several members of the garottiug fra-
ternity underwent the discipline of the cat-o'-nine-tails
yesterday at Newgato in the presence of the sheriffs, the
under-sheriffs, the governor, and other officials. Mr. Gib-
son, the surgeon, was also in attendance. The first who
were brought were Henry Wilson and Charles Everett,
who were convicted of a robbery, with other persons, ac-
companied by violence, in the neighbourhood of Gray's
Inn-lane. Those prisoners also conducted theinsol vessll.th
into
great violence towards the police when they were taken
custody, and the sentence passed' upon them
penal servitude and to receive twenty lashes, and
years'
n7the latter
portion of the punishment was
now inflicted upon
who was
them.
The next prisoner was one named Michael Mack,
lashes,
sentenced to seven years' penal servitudeand t
for a like robbery in the neiglbbourhood i
of the Gray's Inn-
road. The next prisoner was Daviddßeenan to receive jamin, who was son-
d
tenced to seven years' penal servi
thirty-
five lashes, for a brutal robberY,_;%u'ith violence, in Cannon-
street, City. George Main and William White were the last
two who "suffered ;" they
werneamSwallow, residing at
Peterborough, in the
convicted of robbing and
brutally ill-using a gentleman
ed
neighbourhood of the Great Northern
Railway, King's-cross, and sentenced to receive twenty-five
lashes each. The punishment was inflicted by Calcraft
most effectua:ly, andtisto be hoped that it will be at-
tended with salutary results.
THE PETTICOAT QUESTION.—
cc How I didwish
DR• WAL"-R ON
-that I could wear a short dress !"
said Dr. Walker,
in the course of a retrospective view of
her medical career at the Lyceum where she took her de-:
And this fervent aspiration was continuallyre-
gree•
peated as she a dvanced from stage to stage-in her profes-
sional course. The long skirts were for ever in her way.
Flow could she operate, how dissect, how wick iu and out
of the inevitable brougham and rush round the corner to
a patient in a hurry, with a crinoline and train impeding
the freedom of her movements ? When she was a little
girl, under 14 years of age, she wore short petticoats, and
was happy. Mon wore no petticoats at all, and ware happy.
Dr. Walker was very strong' indeed upon this petticoat
question. She said in qp .many words :. "Long dresses are
killing women :" she did not say..how ; but she asserted
the fact, and a chilling silence followed the remark. Per-
haps the difforent members of the audienc.Y4,lra spcTulat-
inc, as to how the :extra breadths did their fulV s‘V\Stin,
in what manner the coup de grace was finally inflicted..
Perhaps they were summing up iu their minds the number
of octogenarian spinsters of their acquaintance, on whom
the noxious influences of voluminous drapery had failed
hitherto to take effect. There seemed to be a general feel-
ing that seine explanation was desirable, but nano was
forthcoming. The lecturer was busy with -the practical
side of her subject. Bile discoursed on the various lengths,
or rather shortnosses,of skirt which were reconcilable with
the principles of physiology and hygiene, and went into
many abstruse speculations as to the fitness or unfitness of
white pantalettes forlemale medical wear.—Dickens's " All
the Yeal'-gotindr