Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-07
IN THE LORDS.

preston and apologize.
IN THE LORDS.
Earl Cowper, former lord-lieutenant of
Ireland, said in the House of Lords that he
had been so astonished at the telegram or
dering the release of the suspects, that he at
first hesitated to credit it. He believed the
opinion of the educated classes was against
the release, as the sudden manner in which
it was effected gave the matter the appear
ancs OF complete surrender to disorder
DAvITT's SPEECH.
Davitt made a spsech in Liverpool to-
night and was loudly cheered. He con-
demned the land act and the repression BILL
especially the abolition of trial by jury fea-
ture of the latter.
RELIEF FOR RUSSIAN JEWS.
The Mansion House Committee for the
relief of Russian Jews have collected Esq.,
ass, OF which e25,0Oo remain. The Com
mission OF Gothamburg superintend the de-
parture of emigrsnts.
PETROLEUM SHIPMENTS TO INDIA.
In relation to the news from Calcutta
about shipments Of petroleum, the Marquis
of Harrington explains that the Indian gov.
eminent refused to admit four csrgoes of
petroleum, although the shippers had taken
every precaution. Samples OF these cargoes
had been tested in England, and found sat
isfsctory. Their failure in India was due
apparently to climate. He had asked the
Indian government to reconsider the subject.
Meanwhile, TO meet this specially hard case,
the Indian government would pass to-mor-
row a temporary measure accepting the re-
suit of inspection in New York.
SMOKING PARTIES ALL THE RAGE NOW IN
FASHIONABLE SOCIETY IN LONDON.
The correspondent of the New York
Tribune writes: There is springing up in
this country fashion which is hardly likely
to take root in the United States. do not
believe, from all know of American ladies,
that they would endure the introduction of
such an institution" for au instant. -Iu this
country the smoking concerts introduced by
Lord Duumore, of blockade-running celeb
ritv, were made palatable to the unfair sex
by giving alternate LADIES' concerts. Lovely
woman allowed herself to be propitiated
What is the consequence of this culpable
weakness? 1t is becoming fashionable for
married men to give regular smoking par
ties, from which ladies are rigidly excluded.
There is no chance of breaking such
orgies up by surprise parties of damsels,
for if the mistress of the house ac-
quiesces, what dame shall dare to call her to
account? Ii the Domino gives up her draw
iDg-room to be smoked in by eighty or
hundred men, 50 that her curtains are satu-
rated with cigar smoke and her carpet burnt
into holes by the butt-end of cigarettes, what
other lady shall undertake to awaken her to
a sense OF her crushed condition? For my
own part, should like to see the attempt
made, for there would be scene. Nathaniel
Hawthorne saw the entity described by him
as "the female Bull" under a dissgreeable
aspect, but he only did justice to her out
ward aspect. He never experienced the
downright. insolence and arrogance of an
English lady "born and bred - when her
mighty "back" is really sup" American
cleverness snd bitter raillery, German dumb
hzughtiness, and French persif age, are mere
gossamer to the panoply of brass and triple
steel in which the "Iady in her own right"
steps into the arena. ! make the distinc-