The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-19 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

TEA.—The public sales have continued to proceed
very slowly, at about previous rates.

SUGAR.—The market has been very dull, and late prices
are with difficulty maintained. In the refined market
common lumps and titlers are quoted 41s 6d to 42s per
cwt.

COFFEE.—A moderate amount of business has been done
in Ceylon descriptions, and superior qualitie's have de-
clined about 6d per cwt.
RlCE.—There has been a better demand, and an advance
of 3d to 4d per cwt. has taken place in cleaned descrip-
tions.

TALLow.—Business has remained very quiet, and quo-
tations for both present and forward delivery remain
without alteration.

Dr. Mary Walker, the Lady Graduate.

The correspondent of the Edinburgh Courant gives
the following minute description of the personal
appearance and dress of Dr. Mary Walker, the
American lady physician, who is now attending the
meeting of the Social Science Association at Man-
chester :

A word more about the lady graduate, whom the writer
has now had the chance of seeing, and of whom ho can speak
no longer from uncertain hearsay. She is a person of very
slight figure, under five feet, and quite slender. She is
habited in a black surtout, fitting neatly to the body, and
showing the width of waist, which is not merely of the
orthodox pattern for young ladies, but "of the straitest
sect." The skirt of the surcoat, in which is a side pocket,
from which a white handkerchief peeps, falls considerably
below the knee, and expanding from the waist in extin-
guisher fashion, it is close buttoned throughout. The "con-
tinuations" are also of black, pretty full at the lower hem—
in fact, quite the opposite of peg-top fashion ; and a neat
little pair of feet, which would be not quite unaristocratic
in China, are fitted into an unexceptionable pair of boots.
The collar resembles, if not composed, in fact, of white
japanned steel, with a clearer sheen than Glenfield starch,
ending in a quasi tie, and forms a kind of slight cope to the
dress, which fits close to the throat. The hair, in regard to
which the lady graduate has not denuded herself of the
" ornament of woman," is tied close up behind, and is shed
in proper feminine division from crown to forehead. A very
little black straw hat completes the attire, and which in the
reception-room she carried in the hand., She was there the
object of intense attraction to a numerous group, chiefly com-
posed of ladies, and of which she formed the centre ; and she
was engaged in conversation with a Frenchman, who had so
far forgotten the gallantry of his nation as to put her on the
defensive on the subject of her attire. But before speakingof
her defence, a word must be said as to her looks, which were
then sharpened and animated. Her features are thin and
small, and she is yet young, although showing a few of
those lines which years always deepen. She is not pretty—
not at least to admirers of plump and rosy faces—but in
her manner she is engaging, especially to the curious. She
spoke for herself with modesty, yet with confidence, and
with much ready wit. She was telling the French gen-
tleman that at least a thousand women in the States now
wore her costume, and that if the modistes of Paris did not
look out at once, or rather if they did not forthwith adopt
the costume of Dr. Mary Walker, their lead in fashions
was at an end. America would take the place of France
and dictate the costumes of the world. The lady auditors
of Dr. Mary were intensely amused ; it is impossible to
guess how far they were converted. There is literally no
defence of crinoline, and here the lady reformer completely
vanquished all opposition. She told the story of a general's
wife who had appeared at some grand ball in New York
with a hundred (or was it a thousand ?) japonicas fastened
to her dress, and remarking that though at balls
ladies
"were not expected to show any common sense whatever,"
she rejoiced in these extreme cases, seeing they helped so
strongly her case against the prevailing form of femininewes
costume. It was, she acknowledged, the medium that
her difficulty, as it is indeed the difficulty of all reformers;
but (as she not illogically remarked), whenladies gapeto pevail
to the extreme of absurdity, then she may
with her arguments as to the physiological thionpsueitahtilleitireeo!
the attire adopted by her sex. After her pretty lit
ture, given with ever so slight a Yankeeaccent,
etfhaelllaedby.
graduate moved on through the hall—observed
by the
servers—watched curiously by
.the men, intentlyln
women. It seems sho has received ever so many
-1 quite
eyieirnvita-
tions, and her singular garb and cleveret;ilkevenk.
g parties.
the lion (I can hardly say
She will not break many healri°tsn,hebsdns?bsehrewmitabyeteunrtnensdoimnge
heads. Her sex apparently regar
emotions of envy and pity, and, on. theprisnlceiwple of liking
gentlemen
the unlike, it is little wonder even
should behold with admiration a laseh is so very, very
fast. As to her political opinions,
.ould upset every-
thing here, both domestic and political, and indeed there
is room for ladies of her masculine tendencies only in Re-
publican societies.
On breast she wears a kind of de-
coration, which may be
htea ken for her academical insignia,
oilrat3 now been
badge of her profession, in which see states she
been engaged for about seven years.