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      tages that would be otherwise obtained from seeiri ^ rind associating with persons in a , Superior position of life .

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      Men Milliners: The . Old Dispute Has "Be...

      MEN MILLINERS : The . old dispute has "been revived on the question whether . men should serve in drapers or baberdash era' shops . It is-easy to sn ggest "whai ; might be said on the' negative side . The ' employment is unmanly , keeps vromen bttfc of / vvorkj stints the army , and degrades a class of & ie young fellows who ; ought id be better employed than , in tbe smiling service of ladies , unrolling riband , and discussing tints , and tissues . There is a . good deal of reason in the complaint , the overpowering answer beings however , that ladies will have it so , and are not to be contradicted . If Ea . gi / e

      and Edoae dismiss their ydirag men , liadies will go ] to JIattok and TIttOn . Why ? Because , it js said , they like the Idea of "being waited , upon by smart , well-dressed , wellspoken , gallant assistants , Something resembling , in a distant , shadowy , intangible , unacknowledged way , flirtation is at the bottom of it . We beg pardon . ' We believe'it is no such thing . / Ladies long experienced in / shopping -will tell you that perigirce . d lii / shopping * -will tell you that

      the ycrirog men in drapers and silkniercers ' snopsL are , , aa a class , more patient , polite , and dmperturbably goodnatured than the young ladies behind the plate-glass of the milliners' palaces . The longer your pretty IiAttaiL will sit at the counter tossing- over shawls ^ robes , and laces , the pleasanter for the gentleman who his tb keep up an agreeable , thotigb . deferential , colloquy ; and it is saying nothing Jiarsh . of the ypuiag-lady assistant to

      observe that she 4 oes not see the thing quite in the same light . If she be meek and lowly by nature ; she may * suffer in silence ; but if she has spirit , and sees that her customer is not only trifling , " but ( if a beauty ) a ' natural enemy into the bargain , she may make a hostile sign , and snap at the dilatory lady . Whether this or something e ) se be the cause , we believe that ladies in general will not contradict us when we say that they find themselves more patiently and courteously served by men than by women .

      Then it is forgotten that service at a fashionable silkmercer's or draper ' s is heavy work . Take up a roll of long-cloth , or a bale of silk , spread out the pattern , return it to its place on- the shelf again , and do that for ten hours , keeping on your feet all the time ( with a brief interlude for dinner ) , a , nd ' . evejry now and then running up a , staircase or ladder , and pushing between counters ; and if you are LtrCY you will wish you were GrEOEGKE , while if you are George bo

      thankful you ave not Iojcy , weak of-limb and untrained to tlie incessant exertion . Sometimes , of course , your day ' s business maybe a light lounge ; but We d 6 not find that liii & ndrapers anjl haberdashers' assistants , gro ; Vv \ naturally hearty-upon their labour . Ask any lone of th ^ m ' who has had a regular day ' s work , and heV will tell | you that ndthing i ^' more ; 6 xhaust-J . £ - The number ofyoung , ' girlja , employed

      raaght be increased if a staff of . porters were employed to fetch and ctorry 3 but such a machinery would be difficult to manage , and would , mpreoyer , ^ bsorb the labour of a ( jlass from which recruita for tlie army might be expected much more reasonably than from among the ordinary shopmen . We do not meet many men in shops where lace , caps , and embroi ^ ry Torn * the prj > icjpa , l' stock ; , v , WKerover there > aro men , rely lipcm it there adman's work to do . 2 NTot entirety t musline

      and dilks Imveto be arranged so ati to flow d < Mri thq ^ watanf * forii ^ af | d e ^ liibiithen coquetries ,, i ^ j ^ ns ' , have tp ; bp !^ ur ^ ej ^ neiecy find flaky dainties of dress have to bo handled

      by Great Britons fit to fix bayonets ; but supposing you turn the young men out of Regent-street , whither will they go ? Not to the Horse guards ^^ You Lav e a , military system whichis the " horror of every class except the lowest , - ! That . must be reformed before any one will think it a degradation to be a silk-mercer ' s assistant , or an honour to be a private soldier . , . . .

      Hqtt To Melt Eearls. A. Bomait Governor ...

      HQTT TO MELT EEARLS . A . BomaiT Governor killed himself because he could not supply his daughter with jewels . Perhaps Miss CiAitKE , .. step-daughter of Colonel Watjgh , might have driven a stronger Roman to despair . That is to say , unless she be a type of her graceful , class—the class which clothes itself in soft raiment from Bond-street , and sometimes does not pay the bill . Really , however , the ninth statue in the Arabian palace would he unreasonable if it

      could not walk or ride without parasols at eighteen guineas each , or smile in chandelier light without a wreath of golden roses . Supposing the Mart in . question to be a lily , what would be the cost of painting it , -for a morning at Court ? A lace chemisette ( we suppose ) , 51 . ; a white glace dress , with gold and white lace train and gold brocade , 551 . 10 s . ; a headdress , with gold wreath and feathers , 51 . 5 s . ; ten buttons , 51 . ; a pair' of Mechlin lace sleeves , 8 ? . 8 s . For one afternoon , possibly , this may be considered liberal ; bufc what if the

      p & rated lily require a fresh coating ten times during the season , upon a similar scale ? Well , we will waive that . If necessary , let Ma . b , Y wear real turquoise buttons , green and white Court dresses rich with pearls , pointlace parasols , lighter than Indian canopies , shell buttons , silver azaleas , sapphire wreaths , rose point bonnets , crystallized silks , and all the houri draperies and decorations ' which bedecked the elegance of Ma . hi , daughter of Mrs . AVA . UGH ; but there is an item which cannot be pardoned : "Dressing"four' dolls , 12 ? . 12 s . " Whose dolls ? Are dolls ever

      dressed in this way ? "Of course , "Miss Mam says . Then say nothing more of African idols , for if you bedizen a block of wood , or a mass of wax , linen , and sawdust , with exquisite tissues and jewelling , you are not less mad or idolatrous than the worshipper of Mumbo-Jumbo . The costume of a wedding party , in the Waugh family , seems to have cost 1200 Z . And a great horror is excited . Stay a moment : you saw the bridemaids come out of church ; you admired and envied -them . You flattered the young Cjjeox'atra with her wreath of silver and diamonds . You never

      thought then that this would come to bankruptcy . After all , however , bankruptcy is the end of it , and we may think of that when we next see a lady whom it has cost a thousand pounds sterling to conceal her relationship to the Greek ideal . Perhaps , however , tliere is a Greek precedent . The sculptor pui a robe of gold on his ivory statue ; and , in like manner , English living ivory is covered with gold and pearls which have been melted in a West-end crucible . ' ¦ ¦ ' ' -

      Expected Murder At Dublin. If Spoi/Ltsn ...

      EXPECTED MURDER AT DUBLIN . If Spoi / ltsn be an inhdeehtinan , we , advise the Dublin police to loqlc we ^ after the movements of a . person who has published , a rhyme on the Indian mutiny . He may not have been the same ruffian who * ^ aaliod out < Mr . IjiT'ixe ' s brains with a hamnrter , but wb should say , that ho has all the ) Qualities iof a murderer . Possibly , lib wantsthei courage to commit homicide ; , but , if tlmt be < i security ; it ia the onl y oi ) e , wo ha ' vp ., Or is hp a " maniac ? That appears , about , thq moat ftVthewtjc , sujgge ^ ionr ; atjall events , ho . is one for tho criminal ward . Unless ho bo traced

      there-, may . be , ; an ; assassination in the dark ; we counsel ' ¦ tilie -people of Dublin to look to themselves . He would certainly use the knife , if he dared—this parodist of tragedy who grins at the slaughter of wom en ^ nd gloats over the mutilation , of children . "\\ re shall , perhaps , pain our readers by quoting a few lines of the detestable doggerel , but * shall carefully omit whatever is indecent , although we cannot select a verse without

      reprinting a brutality : — R ! I see the swarthy figger of the wonst so douching nigger Has E pulls the vengeful trigger witch lays is master low ; , Hand I ear is yell of slorter , as E swears to give no quarter , And E thinks of wife and dorter made the minions of is foe , And a thousand madning memries nerve ia blow !

      Hall in vain the widespred wastings of Dallousy , Clive , and Aystings ; Hall in vain the Hinjan ' s tastings of the Briton ' s crewill lors ; Hall in vain the guns of Lorrence , 00 as made us an aborrence By the blood E spilt in torrence ; liexacutious without kors , For witch E got so many fools' aplors . This scavenger ' s howl——of a piece with the Irish sarcasm which speaks of the English

      as the countrymen of Dove and Pai / Meb . 'wants a . glossary to render the points intelligible . - 'EV there stands for * ah , ' ' E' for * he , ' and ' Hinjan' for ' Indian . ' We submit , that the ruffianly writer of such a ditty deserves twelve months at the crank if he be sane , and if he be insane , ought to be chained among frenzied lunatics . At any rate , if the Irish detectives do not run him down , some mean and cowardly crime will probably be committed before long in Dublin .

      The Edinburgh Castle Rock.—The Following...

      The Edinburgh Castle Rock . —The following letter from Mr . Ruskin appears in the Witness : —~ " Duabar , September 14 , 1857 . —As I was leaving Edinburgh this morning , I heard a report which gave me more concern than 1 can easily express , atid very sufficiently spoilt the pleasure of my drive ' here . It was said to be the architect ' intention to cut down into the brow of the Castle Rock , in order to afford secure foundation for some new "building . Kow , the Castle Hock of Edinburgh is , as far as 1 know , simply the noblest in Scotland , conveniently approachable by any creatures but seagulls or peewits . Ailsa and the Bass are of course more wonderful , and I suppose in the West Highlands

      there are masses of crag more wild and fantastic ; but people only go to see these once or twice in their lives , while the Castle Rock has a daily influence in forming the taste or kindling the imagination of every promising youth in Edinburgh . Even irrespectively of its position , it is a mass of singular importance among the rocks of Scotland . It is not easy to find nmong your mountains a ' craig' of so definite a form and on so magnificent a scale . Among the central hills of Scotland , from the Ben Wyvis to tho Lammermuirs , I know of none comparable to it ; while , besides being bold and vast , its bars , of basalt arc so nobly arranged , and form a series of curves at once so majestic and harmonious

      from the turf at their base to tho roots of the bastions , that as Jong as your artists have that crag to study I do not see that they need casts from Michael Angelo , or any one else , to teach them tho laws of composition or tho sources of sublimity . But if once you cut into tho brow of it all 13 over . Disturb , in any single point , the simple lines in which the walls now advance and recede upon tho tufted grass of its summit , and you way as wejl make a quarry of it at once , and blast away rock , castle , and all . " : AbsTiiAUA . —Melbourne has been for a long time occupied with the , Ministerial Land Dill . Tlio Government has a strong majority in the House , but out of doors tho bill is very unpopular . " Besides ' the constitutional right of petition , ' ' * says the Times

      correspondent , " another mode of external pressure has been adopted in consequence of tho obnoxious bill . A ' convention of delegates' from nil parts of the cotmtry , consisting of about seventy ijiembers , i 8 now sitting in Melbourne to discuss this -vital question . A great deal o « small wit is expended , of course , on this 4 mock parliamont' of ' fltump orators , ' and so forth ; but its proceedings , arc conducted , wiUi regularity and good eonse , and the newspapers , nt nil cventa , think Ha debates of sufficient importance to ,, bo , regularly reported . That seventy men can bo found to leave their homos to discuss ttiia question in the metropolis is in itself evidence of tho intensity of public opinion on the question . It w » U probably end in a dethaiia for Parliamentary reform , ana a dissolution . "

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 26, 1857, page 16, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_26091857/page/16/