The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-03-12
Morning Advertiser says:


government exhibit weakness, and the American
demands will rise until they touch every possession
OF the British crown in the west. Now is the time
to take our stand. at whatever cost, to resist the
willful misconstruction of a treaty, and attempts
upon the inalienable rights of Great Britain put
forward under color Of claims which in any ease
are inadmissible.
WoMAN's RIGHTS In ENGLAND.-A petition of
married and single women at Great Britain has
been laid before the British Parliament The pa
per asks for more liberal laws in regard to women
and says:
That In rendering the husband responsible for the
entire maintenance of his family the law expresses
the necessities of an age when the man the only
money getting agents but that since the custom OF the
country has greatly changed in this respect the posi-
ton of the female sex, the law of maintenance no
longer meets the whole That since modern CT
vilizaton in indefinitely extending the sphere of
cupation for women, has in some measure broken
down their pecuniary dependence upon men, it is
time that legal profession be thrown over thep produce
of their labor and that in entering the state of
nage they longer pass from freedom into the condi
ton of slave, all whose earnings belong to his
ter and not to himself.
Amongst the names signed to the document are
those of Miss Harriet Martineau, Charlotte Cush.
man, the actress, Hon. Julia Maynard, Barbara
Leigh Smith, Mary Hewitt and Anna Blackwell
THE STEAMER PAcIFIC.-Capt. Nye late of the
steamer Pacific, publishes letter in the New
York Courier, to contradict the impression that
the vessel was not In good order when he left her.
He says her machinery has just been repaired and
that she was in better condition for winter work
than ever before. When Capt Nye left her, tho
command was given to Capt. Asa Eldridge, by the
Messrs Brown, though Mr.. Collins and CaptiNye
both wished his brother, Oliver Edridge, to fill the
situation The change in command broke up the
organization of the ship. The Chief Engineer,
who assisted in the construction of the engines,
and entered the ship on her first voyage, could not
be prevailed on to remain, and the man who filed
his place, however competent he might have been,
was totally unacquainted with the ship and en-.
gines, and 1t was his first voyage as Chief Engi.
neer. Capt Nye makes some disparaging re.
marks about the management of the line. He
says:
1t was stated by Brown, Shipley e. Co., in their
great but unsuccessful contest with the shipping
merchants Of Liverpool In the winter of 53 and
"a that these were their own ships, and they
would do what they pleased with them. This
may appear plausible, and might be true, were
there not other parties who have 4 deep interest
in their success. The large amount appropriated
from Government, gives every American citizen
an indirect claim to their judicious managemeut-
Importers, Underwriters travellers and their
friends the wives and children of the crew too
often overlooked in our estimate of SUFFERING from
the loss OF snip nave deep stake. Every re-
verse in this line materially affects our whole
ocean steam marine, and lessons the confidence In
American ships, as have daily evidence and ia
q deep blow to our national pride. 1t is apparent.
from the fearful responsibility which rests on the
managers OF this line, that they should be men Of
Judgment, experience, and unprecedented minds
THE DEATH OF COMMODORE ABBoTT.-The
"Friend of China" of Dec. Is, in recording the
death of Commodore joel Abbott, of the U.
squadron in the Chinese seas, which took place
the day previous, says:
1T 10 now two months since we told of the ysrv
precarious state of his Exeelleney's health and