The Sun.
London, England, 1828-02-07 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

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SlR—Among the various measures that have
from time to time been adopted in this country, for
the benefit of the lower classes, I am surprsed tl;at
no associations have been formed among the hezds
of families for the better government of female ser-
vants; lam convinced that were 50:11 associations
to be entered into, a real and lasting bc.-ofit would
thereby be conferred on the servants themselves, on
.heir employers, and on the efeninunity at large,
end that we should soon see a great falling off in the
ranks of those unfortunate females who prowl about
our streets, and fill our gaols and convict ships, and
the greater number of whom once belonged to the
class alluded to. These associations might be
established in every part of the kingdom, and might
be useful in various ways, but more partieula by
discountenancing the inordinate love of dress, which
fo ow
female
unfortunatelydomes t
cps! natandd w
e almost
them directly or indirectly to sharrke,infnmy, wretch-
edness, and crime. It is clear that.this of dress is
hich letandes wholea nb e brs('d of
on f
tuite inconsistent and incompatible with their rate of
wages, and consequently, as vet' y few of them has e pri-
vate funds to draw apoti, must be maintained,. her by
-lishonesty; or the sacrifice of their virtue. By pur-
',eing the latter course they not only lose their own
characters, but are the means of ruining numbers of
young men in all the diticrent branches of business,
'vho, in order temporaidy to gain their affections,
and to flatter the vanity caused, or at all events en-
ereased ten-fold, by this wretched passion for finery,
defraud their employers, aed frequently finish their
career on the scaffold. lam aware that it would be
very difficult, if not impossible, radically to cure an
evil, which has attained to such a height ; and that,
if it were possible to do so, vice w0,;.1,1 still prevail ;
but I am confident, if the heads of families were to
unite and make an unalterable rule, that at the time
of engaging servants they would hire none i.eL!. such
as would agree to dress in a manner suitable to ti2eir
station, that the rage for dress in this class would
receive a decided check, and the greatest strong
hold vice possesses among them (though this be a
bold expression) would be shaken to its • foundation.
There are many ways besides this in which such as-
sociations as I have alluded to might do much good,
but there is none by which they could, in my opinion,
be of such effectual service to themselves and to their
female servants (than whom a more useful class no-
where exists, or one more deserving every care and at-
tention that can be bestowed on them). I have often
considered this subject,but my attentiOn has been very
forcibly drawn to it by reading in your excellent
paper of the 25th January, an extract from the
Poems of Mr. Gent, painting, in very feeling terms,
the extremity of misery endured by the daughters of
error and misfortune. I should feel great pleasure
if, by inserting the foregoing remarks, or any other
more forcible ones of your own in your paper, you
would be the means of interesting the public, and
more especially the female part of it, on this subject.
I am, Sir, Q.

EDUCATION.—MEETING AT KILDARE-.
PLACE.-On Saturday a most numerous and highly re-
spectable meeting of the frier +!s of the Soqiety took place
in Kildare-place.—Dublin Evening Mail.
SHEEN.—The mother of WILLIAM SHEEN,
who is now in the House of Correction, applied to the
r-
Magistrates of Lambeth-street Office, last night, to know
whether the Magistrates would consent to receive her
husband as one of the bail for her son. She added that a.
respectable housekeeper was willing to join her busban4 as
surety for her son's good behaviour. 31r. limanwicl: said
he most certainly objected to it, and would have none other
than unexceptionable bail for her son's good conduct.
AN Inisii PRESENT.—Among
the nu nee
cue applicants for relief, at the house of the overseer of the
parish of High Wycombe, on Sunday last, was one of the
fair sex from the sister kingdom. She was enceinte ; and
her tattered habiliments and deeply fetched groans, al,.
&elm:mg that if he did not soon come
1 nounced that she was in deep The overseer, Mr.
WHITE, being absent, she said she W3S determined to stay,
returned home, and having listened
distress.
to try his liberality,
and relieve her she ,4‘yould be after making him a present.
of her brogue and rapid utterance, bid her
The worthy overseer
with kind attention CO her tale, which he scarcely under-
stood on account
had been as good as her word; she had given
birth
wait a few mina" while he went and fetched his cash.
When he came back to the room in tv;,ch he left her, he
tu
_Bucks Gazette.
LrVERBOGL, FEB. 4.—Yesterday evening a
dreadful
nl./ explosion took place, between seven and eight
°c o nd
it she,i fine
boy.
z Messrs. Do a and Sons' cordage warehouse,
in;teiC:cv.kh,P iel.street. On examining the premises immediately
,
::7ds, it seas found some thieves had entered through
a window on the third floor into a water closet by meats!
of a ladder obtained from a new warei.ause building at the
hack, thence descended the staircase, and cut a hole through
-he partition into the lower room, and thence into the
counting-house. After ransacking the desk drawers, where
rhey obtained 101. or 121. of petty cash, they pi oceeded to
;et into the iron bookcase, which they effectually shattered
o pieces by gunpowder being put into the key-le,le. It
.vould appear they had put too much into it ; the explosion
.vas so great, that the whale of the 'windows, front and
,ack, were shattered to pieces, and the interior of the count-
ng-house much injured. It is supposed they had made
their retreat through the back door, by wrenching off the
ock previous to lighting the match, for the alarm was so
;Teat and instantaneous, that the villains did not return to
;et what they expected to find in the book-case. A lighted
:andle and a crow-bar were found in the warehouse ; the
i latter may prove to be the means of discovering the rogues.