The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-14 00:00:00

CLALTJS OF WOMEN.

A very interesting lecture was delivered by 11IieS
Emily Faithful at the llanover-square Rooms, a
few evenings ago, which attracted a very largo
audience. Miss Faithful has long endeavoured to
enforce the claims of women, and through her excl.'
dons numbersof females have obtained employment
in occupations from which they have hitherto been
excluded. The lecture was well delivered, and re'
peatedly called forth the loudest applause from the
audience.

Miss FAITHFUL began by observing that if the
real claims of women—stated without exaggeration
or ridicule—were most accurately understood, there
could be little difference of opinion respecting
them. When so large a proportion of the sex is
compelled to work for a living, it ought 9
be with a reasonable chance of success ; and
when the hardest and heaviest handiwork is
demanded from women, they should, in fair-
ness, be trained to undertake similar der art"
ments of headwork also. Without any for-
mal division of topics, the discourse resolved
itself into a consideration of the question in its
practical, social, political, and moral aspect. After
urging the importance of women of all grades being
taught a business or pursuit of some kind, by vii3leh
they might render themselves independent, th°
lecturer contributed a frequent objection by deny'
ing that their general employment would have the
effect of discouraging marriage, or of interfering
in any manner with their arrival at that state. 011
the contrary, Miss Faithful! thought that their
settlement in life would be expedited thereby ; and
in support of this view, she cited the case of the
poor, who all work, and mostly marry early ; and
she added, that a woman who is able to supPnrt
herself has the advantage of being able to Walt
until she finds the right object upon which to be'
stow herself, instead of being reduced to the de'
gradation of marrying for hunger. As to the home
duties having a prior claim, it was usually forgotten
by persons who urged this plea that a large Pr°4
portion of women have no home duties to pler'
form, and these at least should be excepted
from the objection. As for the publicity involved,
which is another cource of cavil, women CO
publicity on all sides. They are everywhere pronni;
nent in public places. They even do amateur Or
in the way of trade by keeping stalls at fancy fen
The objection to publicity, said Miss Faithful, seems
,
to apply to cases in which it can be made realu.
useful. And while touching upon the point ob;
instances the case of the Queen, who performs recira
public duties than any woman in the country, ed..
in her domestic life is a pattern to her sex. Ang
ing to the squeamishness of persons who talk about
woman not going out of " her sphere," Miss Faith,
full told a capital story of an old lady who, lit
hearing of the heroic woman who, when her lit';
band died, took his place and steered the ship rotill:
Cape Horn in safety, exclaimed, " And more sbeTo
to her"—the obvious inference being that t
" sphere" of the sex should have been adhered tot
and the ship and crew allowed to go to the botto!'
In the course of a wide range of argument the lef;
turer touched upon the delicate subject a tfai
franchise, and it need scarcely be said went 111
Mr. Mill. And among other supporters of het
views she instanced a great statesman of the cl''d
who had said that in a country which is geverpe
by a Queen, where there are peeresses in their Or'
:
right, and where women hold property, and ae a
cise many functions of importance, it is out a
s,
reason to deny them the right of voting. The the
tion of property, however, was one upon which t
lady bad a great;deal to say, and she drew a dismal
picture of the power exercised in this respect by
husbands over their wives. Emigration, as a mew'
of equalising the sexes, received her strong OP:
port, and she bestowed great praise upon Miss RY
for her exertions in the cause. Miss Nightingale'
Miss Parkes, and other devoted labourers 11'
the cause of their sex were also eulogised, but 111,.;
dividual efforts would not redress their uniTe
position unless by the aid of Parliament and The
means of making their claims heard there.
lecturer strongly deprecated the present sYsteof
of educating women, and urged the necessiusetifoi
training schools, which would render women
lip
and self-supporting, for they were both phiSiCa
ag
and mentally capable of supporting theniselveg,.ll3o
well as men if opportunities were given them. 00
concluding part of the lecture was occupied by po,
eloquent appeal for the better education of v70113"..i,
in order that they might take an independent Pc'
tion, and not only raise the character of the one see
but of the other. The vanity and frivolity of ,er
" girl-of-the-period"-ism generally received P
strong condemnation.
A large number of eminent persons interest og
the movement Miss Faithful has at heart, ineloi
Lady Franklin, Capt. B. Payne, and several
were present at the lecture.

THE BIRKENHEAD LIBERALS AND CA- of
OSBORN, R.N.—We understand that the Liberal peel -1,,
Birkenhead are contemplating the advisability of entego
taming Captain Sherard Osborn, R.N., their candidat°h. t
e
the recent election, at a public banquet. It is felt 1',03
the gallant captain fully merits some such complinietilt,
consideration of the pluck and talent he displayed ill ",,,re
ing the Liberal battle. In order to be prepared for 1117,4
emergencies the Birkenhead Liberals are also
active stops for the formation of a thoroughly efficient
gistration association.
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Bra
men, AFFRAYS.—On Thursday two .7 118 0
men, the sons of a market gardener in Susseic, Itat
charged before the magistrates of East Sussex, sitting, of
Cuckfield, with night poaching on the lands of the Bar ",j,
Sheffield. The prisoners and another man, who eSe'lSht
were detected by the keepers, and a hand-to-hand
It
ensued. The poachers escaped, but the prisoners
ilf
identified, and with the aid of the police were al2o„ik
after taken into custody. They were committed for "
egr
A similar affray took place at Hayward's-heath, I,ls
Brighton, on Saturday night last, but the poachers, "de
fired on the keepers, fortunately without taking life,l°

their escape.
CORNISH MINING.—A large and influential countl
meeting was held at Redruth on Thursday, Mr. T. S•
litho in the chair, to consider the importance of some
Pit,
sure being promptly adopted for obtaining an Act of .•
liament to amend the existing stannary laws, the chief fe°ol
jects being to enable shareholders to sell forfeited eini'ket
to provide pursers of mines with a simpler and clgitcio;
process for the enforcing of calls, and to give the wer-01
miner priority over other creditors on the asenta:ijelt
mine. Resolutions were carried to the effect the' "be
law required amendment ; that a committee
formed for the purpose of ascertaining the
ape'
tails which required amendment, to report to a .ri°
t)--
ral meeting as early as possible, with a
to introduce a bill to Parliament in the ensuing en 66,i-:1 lot
and that the vice-warden, registrar, and other ofen67 to
the stannaries of Devon and Cornwall be requests - A
co-operato with the committee in the object in vi°f.„ f
letter was read from the vice-warden, Mr. Smtrkiel Ite
mising to promote the object of the committee, air
bring the subject before the Lord Warden and the Pr'llee
Council.
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DISCOVERY OF STONE IMPLEMENTS NEAR ttit°
—Recently, in removing a sand bank contiguous t°
Avd
Ouse,
a few miles north of York, a deposit of stem feet
flint axes, knives, flakes, &c., was found at about 10 't
j
deep in undisturbed sand, and beneath several unt'i,-81 110
layers of loamy clay. The Rev. J. L. Rowe, of 1,11211
well-known Yorkshire geologist, has examined the P- ri,
and pronounces the sandbed to be one marking:eta'
shoe of the pre-historic Ouse, and analogous to the 11' io
gravels which have yielded human-made implereentlya,
other parts of the country. The implements, 11°W° of
are polished, and agree in all respects with thli:o9.
the surface soil, and as such differ entirely froll itf
hitherto found in gravel beds. On Thursday a 1:41,
of archmologists, among whom were Canon Ore° Ad
of Durham, the Rev. J. Robertson of
Mr. George Slater, of Mallon, visited the place atudo °WI
a thorough examination. From that survey and 'r-rafrOo
evidence collected the implements seem to have collie 001
beneath several feet of apparently undisturbed geof fee
sand, but were generally thought not to be of the igt4
ola
age as the sandbeds. The thing is a puzzle for g
andardoologiste both. Appletee,
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