Litchfield enquirer., 1859-03-24
QUEEN CRINoLINE.

QUEEN CRINOLINE. z=----, Her Majesty Queen Crnoline, if not Rsgia
 Coeli may be recognised as Rsg;na Tsrsasy and more stil--the Empress of Fashion. welding a most powerful sceptre, over mora. loyal subjects, than Victoria or Eugenie. We, l do not know that any census of Christendom has ever given US the numerics of it's Empsrs du Jupoa, or of it's female population. 1t matters not. Queen Crinoliae sways her scep- Ire not only over the better half, but the rougher half of civilized creation. Red Re. publics and Black Republics, Monarcbies of all types Religions of all creeds, Christian, Mahommedan, Pagan and Semi-Pagan, Roy2 alty, Nobility, Gentry and Commonalty, Spaii- ish and Swede, Californian and Siberian, Oa- nadlan and Australian Irish aud Egyptian,
 Norwegian and New Zcalandcr, Yankee and Yucatanese, Hoosier and Hessian, bow in uu- l nlurmuring homage to this great Empress of Fashion. We never had aught but a meagre conception of the extent of her realm, until we visited Bristol, Ct., the other day. There were we astonished at it's revelations Thera we saw the secret of her power. There we saw the great forge of it's letters There we saw the immense elaboration of those bonds of steel in which it puts it's millions of votarips. What the volcanic smtby of Vulcan was to the earth-riving thunderbolts, is Bristol to these fashion-bonds of the female creation. s.,
 Just think of it Weigh it Moasure Hl small village of three story factories for the MANUFACTURE OF CAST STEEL sKflF sPRrxcsi
 We went over the establishment and talked with the propretors-the Cabinet Ministers of Queen Crinone--Messrs.D Dunbar X Barnes. They employed 100 hands in the business. Last year, they used 275 tons of the finest cast steel, all from Sheffield, England rolled for the express purpose. When the fashion first came into rage, rush and rustic, they went to New York and engaged to take all the skirt steel that should be brought to that port for six months. But that amount would not supply the demand nor could all the steel rollers of Sheffield meet the orders that came pouring in upon them from the most dis tant countries of Europe, even from Asia, Africa, and Australia Douglass & Sherwood, of New York, bought 100 tons last season Of this Bristol establishment, at the cost of Sl00,000. That house works up 50,000 yards, or about 25 miles of looping day l--- enough to hoop skirt for "the great Globe itself" in a year, if nature should ever incline to come out in the ruling fashion.
 Mcssrs. Dunbar X Barnes have new 200 machines, running night and day, for webbing the springs with kind of braided tape. One machine will braid or web 300 yards in 24 hours the whole number turing out GO, 900 yards in that space of time. They have full faith that Queen Crinoline is to reign longer than any other living sovereign in Europe, and that the business is to increase with the spread of civilization and the augmentation of the human race. Looking at it in pure business view, this new fashion has established prodi- gious manufacturing and industrial interest," If 300 tons of cold cast steel from England arc worked up in the United States yearly, the whole amount demanded for the markets of the world cannot be less than IHree Moa- sand tons
 We are not going to indulge in any disloyal or ungallant reflections upon Her Imperial Majesty, but we would defferentially observe that the high and mighty Crinoline has little of Nebnchadnezzar's vein of autocracy. Like that illustrous predecessor, whom she will she sets up, and whom she will she puts down--in the way of business at least. With the breath of single word, she took the starch out of all the starch factories in America, and they collapsed like soaked rag, fiat upon the earth For instance, how that immense es- talishment at Oswego, which turned out a mountain of skirt stiffening yearly, and felt
 that it's mountain stood strong-unfortuuat credulity-nelted and flowed away like split milk, into the Ontario and was seen no morel o, Crinoline thou art a woman as well as Queen and why shouldst thou smile only in cue direction for an age For many year it was thy will to set up Storeh now it is thy mind to put down that old Mistress of the Robes and set up Stesl. It is all the same, to the world at large in the way of business though individuals may be ruined by the change. Doubtless the Protectionists will complain little in their hearts, that English steel should supplant American corn starch at the Imperial Court of Fashion but they must remember that they have had their day. and been treated fairly in the race Of favor. Ne1r Britain Jouya,nL