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      OiSl'XXiAiiiJvn . « i / j ipv-t * THE ACCIDENT ON THE BUCKINGHAMSHIRE RAILWAY-TEBMINATIOlf OP THE 0 QDEST . . , .

      IhB inguest terminated an Monday morning , ^ en the coroner recapitulated the facto , and the i remained in deliberation about an hour and a ialf . On the re-opening of the court , the Fore man of the jury said :- ¦ " We find that the deceased JJer sons died from ' accidental causes ; ' but the jury desire to attache to that finding some special observations , whiclnl will now read : — . " lie fury consider , that , in cloBing tbeir invea-{ jtration a 3 to the causa - of the melancholy catastrophe which has been attended with such fatal resalt 3 , they are called upon , as well in regard to the distressed feeliDgs of the relatives : of the deceaBed as of those unfortunate sufferers who have survived the accident , and also , in justice to the public at large , to record aomespeeial observations trith reference to the events preceding the- occurrence and attendant upon it , but farther with reference to the future traffic of the Bucks railway .

      " The jury find that the railway upon which the lam entable event occurred is a branch , line from the Xondon and Sorth-Western Bailway , diverging at fl letchley , to Oxford , through Bieester , and that from Steeple Claydon to Oxford is a single line only * . ... . » The jury find that the train to which the accident occurred was not only an excursion train advertised by public notice for passengers to leave London on Saturday , and to return on the following Monday , but it also formed a return excursion train for passengers who had left Oxford for London on the previous Monday , as well a 3 for -those who had left Oxford and Biceeter on the previous . Tuesday . " The jury find that the notices to the public of these excursion trains were imperfeetly and raenelv

      drawn , for , whilst the company ' s officers at Bicester . construed them to mean that the Saturday excursion train from . London to Oxford was to call at Bieester the officers at Bletchley construed them to mean that they should not stop at Bletchley , but go throngh to Oxford ; and the jury consider that both ef those constructions might be fairly adopted without the imputation of any neglect of duty on tbeir part as arising from such cause . " The jury find that the company ' s servants at Bieester vrere prepared for . the train to slop there for the Bicester passengers to alight ; but that the eaginenian In charge of the train acted upon the belief that he was to go through to Oxford without stopping at Biees ' ter , and that such a

      misunderstanding iiaa a tendency to produce confusion in tbe arrangements , and required more than ordinary vigilance to be paid to the points and signals ; and the jury consider that there was a want of adequate instruction to the guards from their superior officers as to the stoppages of the train to be consistent with the public safety . " The jury find that , although" there is much discrepancy id the evidence adduced before them as to the speed at which the train was travelling when it reached the junction point at Bicester , yet tbe enginemari admits that be was going at a greater speed than he would have done had he known that he was to stop at Bicester . It appears , therefore , that , in the absence of a dear understanding the officers

      among as to stopping at Bicester or not , the only guides they had to direct them were the Bignals provided by the company , with directions for their use . That , in the present case , the signal nan had used the necessary signal of caution at the auxiliary signal post , and of danger and stop at the points . That the engineman and guards had observed the caution signal at the auxiliary post , and had slackened speed accordingly , but that the driver and his guards were misled by some optical illusion as to tbe whitoligbt , or ' go on' signal , at the principal signal post of the station . " The jury find that the white light was not turned to the approaching train , yet they , see no reason to'doubt'that the engineman and guards were , from some unexplained cause , misled by the appearance of a real or reflected light , which they believed to have been the white light signal for ' go on , ' and that being deluded by this supposed white

      lignt , tney fluinot observe the danger signal at the points until they had approached so near to them as to be unable to stop or to reverse the engine . " The jury find that if the points had been fairly 6 pen for tie teain to pass down either the straight line or the siding , and had been in perfect condition at the ' time , it is icore than probable that the train would have passed to the station . " The jury find that there was nothing observed by the pointsman at the time the train reached him to indicate any defect whatever in the points . But they find also that after the train bad passed the pointsman , and before any other train had goneover the points , it was discovered that the tie-rod , which j 3 shown to have been partially broken before , and which connects the two point rails , bad been broken asunder near the screw pint , and that the heel chair was also broken , and the point rail attached to it bent .

      " The jury find that these injuries to the tie-rod , tbe chair , and point rail , were occasioned at the momentary transit of the engine or tender over the points , by coming in contact with' the too of the point rail , but whether they were so occasioned by sand , gravel , ' or any other material having prevented the points falling into their proper position , or whether by any indecision on the part of the pointsman as to which line of rails he was to send the train down by , or whether any slip of the handle of the points-lever , or by any other cause ; yet the jury find that from some such cause the engine went over the " points on to the straight line , whilst the rest of the train took tbe siding , and resulted in that awful loss of life , serious injury to persons ,

      and great destruction of property which is now so painfully deplored . "That whilst tbe jury find that there was not that measure of culpability in the conduct of any of the company's servants as to" warrant the finding of an adverse verdict against any of them , yet they feel that it is due to the public safety that some greater means of protection to life and property than now exists should be resorted to by the company , and that in the monopoly which railways save achieved in travelling , the lives of passengers should not be jeopardised at the shrine of interest and dividends . " The jury find tbafc a single line of railway necessarily involves more danger to passengers than a double one , by reason of the trains having to pas 3 over junction points in the one case ' which

      would not be required in the other . They also find that trains are occasionally delayed at the stations to prevent ' collisions with other trains , and hence that the enginemen on duty are superinduced to travel at a greater speed than is consistent with safety on a single line of railway , in order to observe the times appointed for their arrival at stations . TheBe and other matters of more minute detail impose upon the company ' s servants a degree of watchfulness and care on a single line of railway almost superhuman ; and that the pointsman in the discharge of his duties is liable , from a mere accidental Blip or fall , or from want of nerve or essential in

      that presence of mind which is so cases of difficulty and danger , to be the innocent or-accidental cause of destruction to life and property . " The jury therefore earnestly urge npon the directors of the company , as they value human life and deplore the sacrifice of it , that they will cause a second line of rails to be laid down without delay ; as a means of preventing the recurrence of such a dire calamity as that which has now formed the subject of their very anxious inquiry and most painful deliberation . " At the suggestion of the coroner 3 recommendation wa 3 added that all the trains should stop at Bicester station .

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      CouBi-MiBiui os Captain Watson . —On Monday a Parliamentary document was issued containin" some papers relating to the court-martial held on Captain Watson . In February , 1850 , Captain TFatson , of the Ceylon Rifle Regiment , was examined before a committee of the Bouse of Commons , on the aflairsof Ceylon , and denied that certain documents sent to persons at Ceylon , stating that they would be killed and their property confiscated unless they gave up some property belonging to other parties , therein mentioned , were in his handwriting . Captain' Watson declared that the signatures to four doouments were forgeries . It was subsequently alleged that and courtmartial

      they -were in his handwriting , a - was held at Colombo on the Stb April last , when lie ¦ was according to the letter of Lord Fitzroy Somerset , « most fully and most honourably acqmtted . oi the charge preferred against him , a T nd . the , «> ur m " stances contained init , " &c . The Judge-Advocate General , in transmitting to the Horse Guards the result of the Court-martial , declared that the signatures to the documents in question were forgeries , and that tbe statements made by Captain Watson before the Houeeof Commons , with regard to the 8 aid signatures , were tree and not false ; The finding of the court was confirmed by Jlajar-General Smelt , commanding Her Majesty ' s forces in the island of Ceylon . .

      Ths Tkst . —A Spaniard having stolen' a tone from an Indian , the latter convicted him ofthe offence by a very ingenious plan . He complained to a jud"e , who had the Spaniard , with the horse , brought before Mm . The prisoner swore that the animal belonged to him , and that he had always had it , so that the judge did not find himself in a position to convict . He was even abont to return the ¦ h orse to him , when the Indian said , "If you will allow me , rwill prove thai the animal belongs to me . " Immediatel y he pulled" off his cloak , and , covering the horse ' s head , asked tbe Spaniard of which eye it was blind ? The robber was much embarrassed at the question , ont nevertheless , not to dday the coart , he replied at hazard that it was the light eye . The Indian uncovering the head exclaimed , " The horse is not blind either of the right eje or the left . " The judge immediately decided Ibttib animal Trasta . ^ Mcfarfocifn

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      MONTHLY RECORD OF THB SOCIETY Of THE FRIENDS OF ITALY . No . l . —Sbpibmbbb , 1851 . . 1 . Progmt of the Society . Formation and Objects of the Society .-The Society ofthe Friends of Italy was formed in the month of May in the present year ; it did not fairly commence its operations , however , till the beginning of July . The objects of the Society , as agreed to at its first regular meeting , are as follows : — " 1 . By public meetings , lectures , and the pressand especially by affording opportunities to the most competent authorities for the publication of Works on the history of tbe Italian national movement—to promote a correct appreciation of the

      Italian question in this country . 2 . To use every available constitutional means of furthering the cause of Italian-national independence , in Parliament . 3 . And generally toaid , in this country , the cause of the independence , and of the political and religious liberty , of the Italian people . Organisation of the Society—first , within itself ; secondly , in its relations with those whom it regards as the chiefs and representatives of tbe Italian cause ; and ; -thirdly , in its relat ons with the public . In the internal organisation of the Society , the following things are included : —The general body of the Members throughout the country ; the Central Office in London ; the Managing Committee ; tbe Council ; and the Corresponding Membersor

      , Local Secretaries . ( 1 ) Members of the Society . — The conditions of membership are simply thesethe payment of an annual subscription of half-acrimn or upwards , and . a general concurrence with the objects of the Society as set forth in its programme . The Society ofiers to its members the following collateral advantages : —The right to take part in the annual general meetings of the Society ; the rig ^ ht to receive regularly , on application at some fixed place in their respective districts , or otherwise , a copy ofthe Society's Monthly Record of proceedings and intelligence , as well as copies of any other publications of small size the gratuitous distribution of which to members may seem advisable to the Committee and Council ; the right to

      purchase at a reduced cost any larger publications which the Society may put forth ; and , finally , the right to correspond directly with the central office , whether for the purpose of procuring information on points connected with Italian affairs , or for the purpose of making suggestions to the Committee and the Council . ( 2 ) The Central Office . —Here books and documents connected with tbe Society ' s objects are collected and kept , and here the Secretary is in attendance daily to receive-personal or written communications , and to conduct the Society ' s correspondence . ( 3 ) The Managing Committee . —This consists of twelve members chosen from the larger body of the Council , together with the Secretary ex oMeio . The Committee meets at

      least once a week , and transacts all the ordinary business ofthe Society in tbe name , and subject to the revision , ofthe Council . The moneys of the Society are in the charge of a Treasurer , who is a member of the Committee . " ( 4 ) The Council — This consists of a number of members—not limited —of known name and influence , residing in all parts ofthe country , and representing as nearly as possible the various elements united in the Society . Stated meetings of the Council are convened at least once in two months ; but members of Council may attend tbe ordinary meetings of Committee , and the Committee is required' to summon special meetings of Council' on occasions of importance . The Society appeals to its list of Council already

      published , as at once a proof of the catholic nature of its aims , and a guarantee of the rectitude and prudence of its proceedings . ( 5 ) Corresponding Members , or Local Secretaries . —These are members of the Society who , being or not being members ofthe Council , will act as the Society ' s accredited agents in their several districts , receiving subscriptions , distributing information , corresponding with the Secretary in London , so as to report local progress , &c . ; . and , in short , promoting tbe objects of the Society in every ¦ possible way . The Society relies much on this part of its organisation , which , however , it will take some time to complete . . .. Under the second head of the Society ' s organisation — namely , its relations with the

      representatives of the Italian cause—it has to be remarked in , the first place , that , though tbe Society is strictly British in its constitution and spirit , it was absolutely necessary for its intelligent co-operation in the cause of Italian liberty that it should be in relations with native Italians , with whom it might consult , and from whom it might procure the specific information required in this country ; and in tbe second place , that though the Society , as such , pronounces no opinions aB to the form or forms of government which it might be desirable to set op in emancipated Italy—leaving this question entirely to the future and to the Italians themselves—yet it was absolutely necessary for the chances of its usefulness , that it should

      proceed on a general conviction of the good faith , and a general admiration of the conduct , of that party which really represents the national feeling in Italy , and without which , as events daily prove , Italy has no cause and no hope at all—the party of Mazzini and his brother patriots . Tbe Society , therefore , announces it as one of tbe features on which it counts most largely for its useful activity , that it is in such relations with Signor Mazzini and other eminentltalians , as secure to it all the advantages of direot and intimate knowledge of current Italian affairs , without , in the slightest degree , compromising its independence of judgment , or pledging it to any further adhesion to Mazzini's future . policy than is involved in tbe belief that

      Mazzini ia a true and noble man , and that hitherto Italy has had cause to bless his name . Externally , the action of the Society is to be on the British Parliament and on the public generally . For action on Parliament , -the Society has facilities : in . the- fact that , : some of its most zealous members are members of the British legislature . On the public at large , tho means of action are throngh the press and by public meetings . In the former of these methods the Society has already done a good deal , both by publications emanating from itself , and by the friendly aid of the established press of the country . To put this part of its labours on a better footing , a Sub-Committee of same ot its literary members

      has been formed , ' for watching the treatment of the Italian question , both in the domestic and in the foreign press—for systematising the information procured—and for disseminating true views and refuting calumnies and ' falsehoods , by all available channels oi literary intercourse . No public meetings have as yet been held ; but , aware of the importance of this mode of operating on the public mind , the Society has in contemplation a series of public meetings , to be held , as soon as possible , in some of the larger towns of the kingdom .. Proceedings ofthe Society hitherto . —In addition to all the operations -necessary for the establishment ofthe Soeiety , the Society has issued the following publications : —( 1 ) An Address to the

      Public , explaining the Society ' s views and plane , and giving a general picture ofthe present state of Italy ; ( 2 ) Trast No . I ., entitled " Non-Intervention / ' treating generally of the principles that ought to preside over the mutual relations of nations , and applying these to the case of Italy ; ( 3 ) Circulars to the public and to the preBS , calling attention to the existence of the Society , and requesting their friendly support ; ( 4 ) An Address , in the Italian language , to patriotic Italians , expressing sympathy with them in their misfortunes and their efforts , and asking their assistance towards enlightening the British public as to the true state of Italy . Contemporaneously with this first number of the Society ' s Monthly Record , there will which will

      aho appear the Society ' s Tract No . II ., consist of a refutation by facts and documents ( the documents furnished by Mr . Mazzini ) of the charge , still so scandalously repeated against evidence , that the Roman Republic was a Reign of Terror . It may be mentioned , besides , that on the 18 th of July , a petition drawn up in the nameof the Council of the Society and signed by a number of its members , was presented to the House of Commons by Mr . Duncombe—praying the House to address her Majesty against the continued occupation of Rome by the Prenoh troops . Evidences , of Success , and Prospects . —As returns have not yet been made by those who are acting for the Society in different parts of the country , it is not possible at present to say how many

      members the Society counts , nor what amount ot iunus is in it 3 possession . So far as has yet been ascertained , however , the response to the Society ' s appeal has been ¦ ¦ highly encouraging . Many persons in differunt parts of the country , and of the most various-shades of sentiment -on other topics , have expressed their peculiar satisfaction that now at last there was a recognised means whereby inhabitants of Great Britain might , in a fair and open way , testify their abhorrence ofthe misrule prevailing in Italy , and their desire to contribute , however humbly and afar off , to its exposure and overthrow ; Not a few tbat have thus expressed themselves are ladies , and tbe Society hopes much from

      the assistance and zeal of this class of members . The press has also responded to the Society ' s appeal in a friendly and approving spirit . Notices of Ae Society and Its proceedings have appeared in he Mily Aw ' i the s P ectator t the Leader the Athetueum . the Dispatch , the Standard of Freedom , and other metropolitan newspapers-besides a most notable'and hearty recognition , worth a hundred of a more ordinary kind , from Punchy The provincial nrese has UkowisB largely quoted from , or comrfented on , the Society ' s publications ^ some- of S republisbing the Address entire . ^ . Scotland SeXaddresles of Father Gavazzi have roused Srsi ^ ssssp ti&SSm *•* » wmw * »* el 8 SS 0 * *

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      we hare reason moreover to know that the exist * ence ofthe Society has attracted attention in France , and , still more widely and with stronger effects , in Italy itself . The subscriptions recelred at the Central Office have gone on In an increasing ratio—varying , in individual amount , from the normal subscription of 2 i . Od . up to £ 5 5 s . ; and altogether the experience of the Society is such as to warrant the anticipation , that , ' as its own conviction of its power to be useful is strengthened , so its means and abilities will increase . 11 . Progress of the Italian Question . ;

      Mr . Gladstone ' s Letters . —Since the Society began its operations , the publication of Mr . Gladstone ' s Letters to Lord Aberdeen on tbe State Prosecutions in Naples has formed an epoch in the history of the Italian Question , both in this country and abroad . ^ The peculiarity ' of Mr . Gladstone ' s service to the cause of Italy consists in this , that by . the broad force of his personal character he has cleared a way for the discussion of the Italian question into quarters where the evidence of any witnesB less eminent and less conservative would have produced no effect . And though Mr . Gladstone studiously abstains , throughout his Letters , from the larger question of Italian nationality and independence— confiding himself to the demand of a just

      administration of law in the existing States—the whole result has been to show that they are right who maintain that there is no hope for Italy save in tbe expulsion of tbe foreigner ; and such a general political re-organisation as will subordinate all the Italian governments in some way or other to' the national will and aspirations of the Italian people . Mr . Charles Macfarlane ' s attempt to reply to Sir . Gladstone is worthy of notice only as illustrating , by its futility , the utter helplessness of that side of the question .. And regarding Lord . Palmerston ' s announcement in Parliament , that he had caused copies of Mr . Gladstone ' s Letters to be forwarded , through our ambassadors , to the various continental courts interested , we have only to say that (

      while the act was undoubtedly meritorious and proper , it must surely be a matter for regret tbat the liberal statesman who presides over the foreign affairs , of England should find himself unable to assist the cause of European freedom in any more signal way than by circulating the unofficial pamphlets of a conservative rival . ; ' ¦ - How opinion on Italian Affairs ig shaping itself in England . —Although it was to Naples in particular that Mr . Gladstone ' s Letters directed attention , it is evident that the general interest in this country in Italian affairs is concentrating itself on Rome . This is perhaps occasioned by the fact that the views and aims ofthe Papacy in connexion with Britain make Rome the special point of Italian

      interest to ourselves ; intrinsically , however , and in the most general aspect of the whole Italian' question , this course of opinion is right . Roir ieis the field of battle whereon the question of Italy , with all that depends on it , will necessarily be decided . And here we would request special attention to a fact whioh perhaps has not been so clear to others aa it haa been to us who nave watched its indications—to wit , that the universal' tendency of the British press during the laat month or two has been towards the expresB assertion that the deliverance of Italy and of the world must consist primarily in the radical abolition of the secular Papacy . * That the Daily News , steadfast and able advocate as it is of liberal government , should have been led to this conclusion—or that the Morning Herald , and

      other journals [ occupying the same point of view , should contrive to embrace it—is not to be wondered at ; but that the Times should have broached it as a circumstance of peculiar significance . Sucb , however ,- is the fact . By referring to the Times of August 2 nd , the reader will find , in an article of great power , evidently intended to turn the tide of public detestation- from Naples to Rome , a vehement denunciation of the iniquities and abuses of the Papal government ; wound up with an assertion , rendered as conspicuous as possible by the aid of italic letters , that" these will be the characteristics of the Papal power as long as it exists" In short , as " Belendaest Carthago" was the cry of Cato , so the "Abolition ofthe Papacy " is becoming the cry of the Kmej .

      . What aspect the Italian question is assuming abread . —Abroad , all the events that are happening in connexion with the Italian question—the increased cruelty and tyranny practised in erery Italian state , from the Neapolitan to the Venetian ; the vague rumours ol alliances between the Pope , Naple 3 , and Austria , for the expulsion of tbe French from Rome ; the still darker rumours of German and Russian intervention for the suppression of the Piedmontese constitution and the restoration of universal despotism throughout Italy ; the growing uneasiness of the French troops in their disgraceful character of the Pope ' s police , the growing

      coolness between them and the Pontiff , and the growing uncertainty of the French President and politicians in power at home what course to adopt—all conspire : to . prove that the Italian question is connecting itself indissolubly with the larger question of Free Government or Despotism all the world over .. A great . thing , surely , . it will'be if—should the issue of the approaching struggle be as we hope —it shall have been , the part of an independent Society of Englishmen such as ours , however distantly , to contribute to it . Office , 10 , Southampton Street , Strand .

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      9 austIt ' a » J ^ F government of aus 1 ru treats its children . kk ?« fa ? te JohannosTonge haa addressed a SSSbSuW ^ T > « wouMiag . hi « desire to HeVr P- « nn 0 rjptl 0 n 8 / or the benefit of the wife of 2 SSf ' 'ho has been so cruelly perse-When wfe ^ " - Paternal Government . last dS o * fV 1 Ct ( Vo , of the Imperialists in . the desDKL ? ° ' 18 i 8 ' the un ^ PPy epoch of and when hnfr ^ ° am » . . P on ^ e people of Austria , ffatioTttM Ministers of the ^ Free Congre ' KrniS ^ ity . Ronge ) had been removed by manS Herr Pessnegger took the m « h £ r ™ , S L Oi } he congregation into hia hand , and S « ™ , ? e dut ith ability until August , 1851 . vL £ ? ™ e " 8 of the National Bank of Vienna . IUe government nrnniirari Mo Hiomiaol

      5 £ ° ffi ° e , because "« a member fntonS ? T > thri 3 w him for Bix ™<* > r ? ™ . p ! ? " Ia fche course of tne P « sent summer , ™ LflT * S er ac «<> mPanied by three youths PrhiKftion ^ i ?? t 0 tondon t 0 visit th « Grea * ™ . r S ; After his return to Austria , he was ' "SIS letter P eraec « twns related in the sut > - E r t o lettei > from Herr Pessneger , of Vienna , to the Rev . Johannes Ronge : — ,,-mu x " Bruqn / Aug . 21 , 1851 . r ^ V ^ Ytf at Paris a telegraphic message intimated that ihy presence was immediately re- ' pre atVieMll i When I arrived there on the e - 2 i ' ^ mos * co ' rdiaTsalutation from my family , the anxious question was joinedwhether I

      , had any intcrcousfe while in London with Mazzini , Ledru-Rollin , or Louis Blanc ? 1 said tbat I had not , which was the fact . They were astonished ; for on that pretext the police had ' made a domiciliary visit , under a special order from the government , when they took possession of all my papers , including those connected with the management of the congregation ; they even seized the various ministerial decrees on the subject of the Free Congregation . The frequent inquiries made at my house by the police , if I had returned to Vienna , showed that ulterior proceedings were in contemplation . People even hinted at banishment . On the 10 th of July I was summoned before the police , when it was intimated to me that I must leave

      Vienna in twenty-four hours . I asked the reason . They shrugged their shoulders , and replied that it was not known , and referred me to Weiss Von-Starkenfels , the director of police . I went to him , and was told to aBk no reasons , but to obey the order at once . My blood boiled , but I controlled my indignation , quietly protesting against this illegal proceeding , and declaring that I should not voluntary obey the order . I , however , resolved to act merely by way of passive resistance , so as to give no occasion to the government to raise a Criminal charge against me on that ground ! I tried to have an audince of Dr . Bach , the Minister of the Interior , but I could not get at him . I therefore presented a memorial to the Minister , stating

      that I had gone to London to see the Great Exb > bition , accompanied by three sons of a friend ( at his request ); that I was furnished with a regular passport ; that I could prove by official documents that I was a citizen of Vienna , and had been a re-Bidenfc since 1826 : that Vienna was , therefore , my legal residence , aiid that I had a right to live there ana gain my livelihood ; that iny expulsion from that town was a legal impossibility ; that I could not abandon mj wife and children ; that there wa 6 no possibility of gaining my livelihood in any other place , and that moreover my position as plaintiff in an action against the National Bank of Vienna

      rendered my presence peremptorily necessary , to save me from absolute starvation . "I obtained an official confirmation ot this proceeding , and hastened with it to the office of police . On leaving that I had memorialised the Minister of the Interior a commissary of the police promised to remove me merely outside the walls of Vienna , that he might be able to state that he had executed the order—thus allowing an opportunity to see if effect would be given to the memorial . It fell worBe , for me , however . An officer of the police came to my house and delivered the following document : —

      11 Ofpioui .. —For Herr Pessnegger . —( Personal description is here given . )—Prescribed Route . — The same ia to travel by the direct route from Vienna to Bviinn , and is , immediately on his arrival there , formally to present himself to the police . All civil and military authorities are requested to let the bearer of this prescribed route pass free and unhindered provided he does not deviate from it . By the Imperial and Royal Branch Police-office , Josephstadt . ( Signed ) ' if euwirih , Commissary . ' 'Vienna , 11 th July , 1851 . '

      " I asked the officer whether he was provided with Money for my journey and other expenses ? He said' he waa not , but I was assured that I should find , on my arrival at Brunn , everything that "was / necessary . An hour , afterwards I was separated from my poor wife and boy . You will not require from me any description of the sad scene ; you can imagine it—compelled , as I was , to abandon my family to the benevolence of friends , parting from them with the knowledge that I was going away ' on a journey ' of sorrow ' and > nguish . " 'When Iarrived at Briinn I immediately reported myself to the police , but was informed that they had not received any notification about me , and I was told to call again . The official report did

      not come till the third day . It set forth , not in the uswalform , that I bad been removed from Vienna to Brunn , but that I was a person particularly dangerous to the state , and that Iwastobekept under the strictest surveillance ,, from " superior state necessity , " I represented to the police the inconsistency of thi 3 report , with , a compulsory passport , and , therefore'requested that I should be referred to the authorities at Vienna . A minute of my request was made and laid before the Governor of Moravia , who ordered a reference on the subject to be made to Vienna ; The ' police thereupon informed me that it was not obligatory on'the city of Brunntd defray my expenses 'ahtt ' the cost of maintaining myself there . Thus deceived and cruelly

      imposed on by the authorities of Vienna , 1 am compelled to live in an expensive hotel , as no private individual will let me a lodging , for fear of attracting the surveillance of the police . "The presiding coirimitteo of the free congregations , aud . a deputation of respectable and affluent oitizens ' of Vienna , without respect to creed , have used energetic measures on my behalf ^ They have had severalaudiences with Dr . Bach , the Minister of the Interior , but have ohtained no greater success than promise of a further extimination into the matter when the necessary documents are got at .

      My punishment , therefore , is in full force , while , according to the admission of the minister himself , my - offence' is doubtful . I am detained far from my home , where a surveillance as strict co . uld be maintained in Vienna as at Brunn . I have not the slightest doubt that mj persecutors hope . to be able to render Hie' completely aubmssive by starving me out ; ' As for the starvation they will have no great difficulty in carrying their point , for lam now compelled to exist on my poor savings , anil I am prevented by brutal force Irqm earning any livelihood . If they think that I will submit , lean assure you they are mistaken . ,

      "If the free congregation in Vienna is to preserve the little that remains of vitality as a protest against the fanatical proceedings of Jesuitism , and for the encouragement and support ofthe other oppressed congregations of Austria , 1 feel it to be my duty to persevere like a man , and better men than my oppressors are must help me . " It would remove a heavy weight of care which now depresses me if 1 knew that my wife and child could be removed to a place of safety . Do , therefore , my honoured friend , look out for some meanB of effecting this . I can do nothing fur ther , fettered as I am ; atid it is with these cares that my tyrants seek and hope io crush me . The Jesuitical clergy have gone so far in their system of terrorism

      against me as to intimate that they will not cease till the complete ruin of my fortunes is effecteduntil the education of my boy , now eleven years of age , baa been undertaken legally and officially by the government ; until , ia short , he has been placed for education in one of the ecclesiastical clens of vice—a seminary of the Jesuits . How can I prevent their Satanic plans , and abundant proofs of their dexterity in carrying them out they Lave already given me—bow can I prevent them otherwise than by the removal of my boy ? . ' 4 It breaks my heart to say so , but even my wife must he removed , for her oontinuanee in this scene of Borrow endangers the firmness of that resistance which Imust ' offer to our enemies . She writes a fine ,, almost . a manly hand , ' and knows French ,

      Italian , designing , painting , and music thoroughly . She is as clever in all domestic arrangements aB in ladylike accomplishments , and ppsesBes a tare activity . , With so many qualifications , coald she not in her future ' temporary place of sojourn Obtain the means of supporting ' and educating our child ? I beg to add that we are above the every-day prejudices of sooial position , and'that we know how , in the hour of adversity , to maintain the moral dig- ' nity of humanity in the lowest situatiou of life , as we have done hitherto in the sphere in which we have ' moved . May klrid Providence Bpare me this fgr ' avation of the pains of my wounded mind ; for ould my dear wife and ' child be forced to remain in Vienna , and "fall victims to the persecutions which I must enduve . ' tbig'indeed would be to drink the bitter cup to its drees ' . " ] ' "

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      The Jersey KltfRDERteR *'—The convict Fouquet has received a reprieve for one fortnight beyond the time fixed by the Royal Court for his execution , for the sole purpose of inquiry into his case . The decision of the Home Office has been communicated to him by Mr . Advocate Marrett , and he received the . intelligence with' much apparent gratitude . —Jersey Sun . Emrbme Dbmcact . op Tasib . — An earthquake haa Nfturad . to bytrUow tUe 5 » S of Kapl « B .-ft « n « A ,

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      I—a——¦——^———jMM ^ —^^ MIDDLESBX SESSIONS . Tho September general wwsionB of tbe peace for the county of Middlesex commenced on Monday morning at the Sessions House , ClerkenweU-green . The calendar contains tbe names of seventy-two prisoners for trial , aixty-two of whom stand charged with felony , and the remainder with misdemeanour . ' Robbery by ' a Servant . —Alfred Guest , 22 , a young man of highly-respectable appearance , was charged with having stolen thirty-six pounds weight of soap , and other articles , the property of John HoldsTTorth , his master . —From the evidence of tho prosecutor it appeared that he was an oilman , residing at No . 7 , High-street , Sbadvvel ) , and had also . a branch business ia Maud-place , Jubileestreet , Stepney . About three months ago the prisoner was hired at a yearly salary to conduct the business , who stated that he had had a shop of his

      own , but that he bad recently let it , and was a single man . It waa the duty of the prisoner to enter all the goods he sold on credit in a day-book , which was inspected by prosecutor about every six weeks . For some time past , however , he had observed a deficiency in the stock , and from an observation made to him by a boy in his employ , he accused the prisoner of still keeping a shop , to which he replied that he bad re-opened it for his wife . Prosecutor told him that he would nob allow anything to be taken out of his shop without being paid for . At the prisoner ' s shop in Cambridgestreet he found thirty-six pounds of soap , fifty-four pounds of dip candles , mould candles , starch , washing powder , blacking , &o . No entry for them appeared in the day-book . After considerable difficulty the jury returned a verdict of Guilty . —Judgment deferred until next session .

      Artfoi . Dbfbncb . —Thomas Touerditcb , 27 , an Austrian sailor , was charged with having stolen two £ 10 notes and five £ 5 notes of the Bank of England , the property of John Seamore . —It appeared that the prisoner was a lodger in the house of the progecutor in WellcloBe-square , and on the 27 th of August last the prosccutor . put two £ 10 notes and five £ 5 notes between two pieces of wood on the top of his bedstead for security , but his wife found them , and to play up a joke against her husband removed them , and placed . them in a box in her own apartment . Some time afterwards , on going to the box for the money , she was amazed on finding that it had disappeared , the whole of whioh , with tho exception of one £ 10 note , was traced to

      the possession of the prisoner , \ rho was given into custody for stealing the game . —The prisoner , in his defence , said he bad been within ten ' minutes of the time he was given into custody in bed with the wife of the prosecutor , who had given him the money , and that he bad been intimato with her on other occasions . —The jury found the prisoner Guilty . —The Chairman sentenced him to be transported for ten years . Street Robbery . —Morris Fleet , 21 , was indicted for having stolen a natch , value £ 6 , the property of John Trotman , from hia person . —The prosecutor stated that he was a cbain-maker , residing in Hblborn , and that on the evening of the 21 st of Augu 8 the was in the City-road , near the Angel , looking , with a great many other personS i at a

      man who , dressed in a soldier ' s uniform , was going through u performance which he called " the exeroise . " The prisoner and one or two others were close by him , but observing that they were pressing against himself and several others , he thought that he had better get a little farther off . The prisoners and two others followed , and again took up a position beside him , and in a very short time afterwards he ( prosecutor ) saw hia watch in the prisoner ^ hand , the bow being out close to the pendant , the swivel remaining attached to the chain quite perfect The ptiaonev ran off , followed

      by prosecutor , who demanded the restoration of the watch . The prisoner stopped suddenly , turned round , and struck him a heavy blow on tho side of the head , after which he again ran off , but was in the end captured in the City-road . —Mr . O'Brien , who appeared for the prisoner , said he could not struggle with the evidence , and the jury returned a verdict of Guilty . —Archer , a police officer , stated tbat the prisoner bad been convicted of picking pockets at the Sadler ' s Wells , Theatre , and that he was a regular associate of thieves . — . Mr . With&m sentenced the prisoner to one year ' s hard labour . . . . _

      Singular Defence . —Henry Sheldrake , 21 , engineer , was indicted for stealing eight screw hobbs , ten screw taps , a force pump , some half-round taps , and other property , belonging to John Cramp Jury . —In January last a very extensive robberj was committed on the premises of the prosecutor , an engineer , in Green Dragon-yard , Whitoohapel , when property of the value of between two and three hundred pounds were stolen . At the following Old Bailey Session a marine store dealer named Hunt was tried , convicted , and sentenced to six months' hard labour for feloniously receiving some of the stolen property , and it appeared from entries in his books that the articles he was charged with receiving were purchased of a person named Sheldrake . Tho property set forth in the present indictment was found in the possession of another marine store dealer , who how deposed that he

      purchased seven screw hobbs and eight taps of a person whom he thoroughly believed to be the prisoner for 15 s ., though they wereworth more , but knowing the prisoner to have kept an engineer ' s shop , he though they were ordinary engineer ' s tools —that they were his own property . . Hunt ' s term of imprisonment having expired , he was called as a witness , and he stated that he had no doubt whatever that the prisoner was the individual of whom he bought the articles he was convicted , of rereoeiving . —The prisoner ' s defence was a rather inconsistent one . lie first complained that tbe witness only gave his 15 s . for what was worth £ 7 10 s . ; and then contended that both the marine store dealers were mistaken as to his identity , and that he never in his life had any stolen property in his possession . —The jury found him Guilty . —The court sentenced him to one year ' s hard labour .

      Plunder . of a Charitable Institution . —Mary Bentley , 23 , and James Lewis , 27 , were indicted for haying ' stolon nine brass keys , value 12 s ., the property of the trustees of the Society for the Elefuge of Females , at Dalston . —The prisoner Lewis pleaded guilty . The female prisoner , it appeared , was an inmate of the institution , and the eviden'ce showed that the keys were stolen from the washhouse by her , and given to the other prisoner through the window . —The jury found Bentley Guilty . Assault . —Miohael Driscoll , 17 , was indicted for having unlawfully assaulted Emma Caunter , a girl under the age of ten years , with intent , < fec — Mr . Payne prosecuted on behalf of tbe Society for the Protection of Young Females . — Mr . O'Brien defended The jury found the prisoner Guilty . Judgment was deferred .

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      Death of one of Bubn ' s Heroines . —A Glasgow contemporary records the death of one of the six " Mauchline belles , " on whom Burns confers the fame of his verse . Mrs . Findlay , relict of Mr . Robert Pindlay , of tbe Excise , Greenock , was one of the very few persons , surviving to our own times , who intimately knew the peasant bard in the first flush of his genius and manhood , and by whom her name and charms have been wedded to immortal versev When we consider that sixty-five years hare elapsed since Burns wrote the lines in which this lady is noticed , and that the aix Mauchline belles were then : in the pride of opening womanhood , it is surprising that two of them , who

      have often listened to the living accents of the inspired peasant , still survive . The fate in life pi the six belles was as follows : —Miss Helen Miller , the first named , became the wife of Burns's friend , Dr . Mackenzie , a medical gentleman in Mauohline , latterly in Irvine ; Miss Maryland wehaveafready spokeB of ; Miss Jean Smith was married to Mr Candlish , a successful teacher in Edinburgh , and became the mother of tho eminent divine ; Miss Betty ( Miller ) became the wife-of My . Templeton , in Mauchline ; and Miss Morton married Mr . Patterson , cloth-merchant , in the same village . Of the fate and history of " Bonnie Jean ( Armour ) , we need not speak . The survivors ar& Mrs . Patterson and Mrs . ; Candlish . —Scottish Tress * '

      TnE Woods and Fork&is . —In the late session ah act was passed , to which refereace was wade by H e * Majesty en the p » o « sga ( ikm , foi tho bfeUer management of the Woods and Forests . By this act the Woods and FoFests will be separated from the PoWic Works and Buildings . On the- lOfch of October the Dew law will take effect , from which day the First CommiBaioneB- of / the Publio Works will be the First GoBunissioaersof the Public works and Buildings , at a salary of £ 2 , 009 : a year , and he may be amember of the Souse of Commons . ¦ Itis further provided that tbe other Commissioners of the Woods may hold than . appointment , and their

      salaries are to b& provided for by Parliament ; they are to-sit ia the House of Commons . Provision is made for the appointment of other officers and the regulation of the departments . From the com > meneementof the act the management ofthe Royal parks will vest in the Commissioners of Public i Works and no-fc in the Commisaionrrs of Woods , and Porestsv Both departments are to be provided for by Parliament . The Chief Commissioner of Public Works will be ah Inclosure Commissioner , a commissioner of Greenwich Hospital , a commissioner for Building Now Churohes and Presidont of the Board of Health . It is expected that the separation made by the act will be beneficial to both departments . j ¦ . .

      _ . _ „ , , , . . Shocking Dhath . —The Dowager Duchess de Mai-He has just been burnt to death at the chateau of La Rocheguyon , where she was on a visit with her friend , the Duchess de Laroohefouoauld , She was standing in her room near a waxlight when a current of air sent the flame in the direction of her dress , which caught fire . ; in a moment she was en * veloped in flame . She wa 3 so dreadfully burnt that all the aid of medical art could not succeed in saving " aer life ,

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      The court resumed its sittings on Monday . 14 appears by tbe first edition of the calendar tbat there are at present only Bixty-seven prisoners for iriai at this session , ¦ Henry Dimsdale was called upon to surrender and take his trial upon a oharge of misdemeanour Llr T that the defendant ia one of the parties who stand oharged with assaulting Mr . ¦ ftf ^ Xi-F mana 5 g c i k to Mr . IlnmpRreys , the solicitor , by pelting him with eggs upon the return from the Oaks races . The cafe , which has been adjourned over two sessions , was again adjourned , owing to the ill health of Mr . Dimsdale False Pretences . —Jobn Imrieand Charles Cr ' oaa

      surrendered to take their trial for conspiring to obtain money by false pretences . —The prosecutor in . this oa 8 e was Mr . Ross , tho well-known perruquier of BiBhopsgate-street , and tho indictment appeared to have been preferred under the following circumstances : —It seemed that both the defendants were in the service of this prosecutor , Imria being engaged in a rather confidential capacity , and it was the custom of Mr . Ross to consult him with regard to the quality of h » ir that was brought for sale , and the price to be paid tor it , the prosecutor consuming a groat quantity of that material in his business . The fraud imputed to the defendants was that they had conspired together to get the prosecutor to purchase a Quantity

      of inferior hair from a person named Gooding , and that the defendant Imrio had represented that it was worth 48 s . per pound , when he was aware that it had been purchased by Cross of a Frenchman named Aujarre for 40 s . por pound , thus , as it was alleged , defrauding- the prosecutor of the other Ss . per pound . —The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty . A Youso Thief . —William Carson , 14 , a fifer ia the Royal Artillery , was charged with stealing a . watch , the property of Robert Hill Uoss and Joseph Westsvood , . a private in the same regiment , was charged with feloniously receiving the watch , knowing it to have been stolen . —The boy Carsoa pleaded guilty . —The prosecutor was a private ia the same regiment to which the prisoner belonged *

      and it appeared that tho boy had gone into his room and taken the watcb , which he afterwards gave to > the other prisoner to pledge . He went for that purpose to the shop of a pawnbroker named Davis , who appeared to entertain some suspicion as to the manner in which the watch bad been obtained , and tha answers to tbe inquiries that were mnde by him not being satisfactory , he gave Westwood into custody . —This prisoner , in his defence , asserted that ha knew nothing' of tho robbery , and that he merely went to pledge the watch because Carson told hint that the pawnbroker would not take it in from a boy . lie requested that tbelad might be examined oh his behalf to prove that what he had stated was true . —Tho boy was accordingly sworn , and he

      confirmed the statement that had been made by Westwood with regard to the oircumstanccs under which he had gone to pledge the watch . —The Recorder having summed up tbe case as it affected tha prisoner Westwood , the jury returned a verdict o £ hob Guilty . —A corporal of Marines , who was tho stepfather of the boy Carson , informed the Court , in answer to inquiries that were made by the learned judge , that his own father was an artilleryman , who was drowned , leaving a widow with seven children , of whom the prisoner waa the youngest . His pay , it appeared , was Old . per day , and at the time of the robbery ho was under a stoppage of 2 d .

      per day to the quarter-master-sergeant , for shoes and other necessaries that had been supplied to him , and being in arrear , he took the watch , hoping , by means of pawning it , to relieve himself from hia difficulty . He had , it appeared , always borne a good character up to the time when this transaction took place . —The Recorder inquired whether , if a slight punishment , such as a whipping , were inflicted upon the prisoner , he would be taken back into tho regiment ? - —The father-in-law said , it would depend upon the colonel ; but he had no doubt that ha would be taken back if only a alight sentenco was passed upon him . —The Recorder very kindly undertook to communicate with the colonel of ths

      regiment upon the subject , and in the moantims sentence was respited . , . Embezzlement . —Lewis John Jones , 21 , the clerk to Mr . Huddlestone , the barrister , who had pleaded guilty at a former session to a charge of embezzling a considerable sum of money which he had received from different clients on account of his master , was brought up for judgment—The prisoner , who > was strongly recommended to mercy by Mr . lluddlestone , was sentenced to he imprisoned for twelve months in Newgate .

      Pocket Picking . —Emma lardley , 27 , and Mary Thompson , 29 , were indicted for stealing a pursa containing a half sovereign and other money , tha property of Alfred Tritton , from the person of Angelioa Tritton . —It appeared tbat Mrs . Tritton waa upon the Paul ' s Wharf steam pier on the 27 th of August , waiting for a steam boat , when she felfc some one ' s hand in . her pocket , atvd she seized tu ' e hand of the prisoner Yardley while she was in tha act of withdrawing it . Yardley was then ' observed to pass some article to Thompson , who walked off , but she was stepped by the pier-master , and she was then observed to throw something away which turned out to be the purse of Mrs . Tritton . —Tha prisoners were found Guilty ; and as it appeared that they were not known to the police , they were sentenced only to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for six months . . Forgery . —Caroline Gertrude Rogers , 19 , pleaded

      guilty to an indictment , charging her with forging a cheque for £ 43 , with intent to defraud Messrs . Currie and Co . —Mr . Bodkin , who appeared for theprosecution , stated that the prisoner was in ths service of tho Rev . Mr . Lawford as nurse , and he said that she had taken the opportunity to abstract a cheque from his cheque hook , upon which she had committed the forgery in question . —The Rev . Mr . Lawford , in answer to questions that were put by the court , stated that he received a good character with the prisoner , and she had generally conducted herself well while in his sorvioe . Her ideas , however , appeared a good deal above her station , for she had occupied her time in writing poetry , and had likewise taught herself the ' Italian language . She was also very fond of dress , and a Considerable pdrllon of the proceeds of the forgery were expended in the purchase of clothing and jewellery of an expensive character . —Judgment was respited .

      Bigamy . —William Matthews , 44 , w& 9 indicted for bigamy . —Sophia Reeves deposed that the prisoner was married to her sister , jinn Lover Reeves , at Chichoster , at the sub-denery parish church , on ths 3 rd . June , 1341 . The sister had between £ 200 and 4300 when the prisoner married her , and they went to London and took a public-house . About two years afterwards her sister came home in a road waggon , and having paid her fare she had only sixpence left . Her sister was always- of weak mind , and she was subsequently removed by the parish : authorities to Bethnal Green Lanatic Asylum , where she was at the present time .. Tho parish had to support her sister at Chichester for some time , they had instituted the present prosecution . Tho prisoner did not contribute in " any way towards

      the support of his- wife after she- left him . —Mary Young , the second wife , deposed that she became acquainted with the prisoner wbHa she was in service in Portland-pJace , and she was married to him on the 3 rd of February , 1849 . She was aware that he had been married , but he showed her a letter stating that his wife was dead , and when she married him she believed that he wasa widower . The prisoner was engaged as a waiter and interpreter at the Exhibition . ' He oame home one day tho-worse for liquor , and they had a quarrel , and he struck her , and she then went to Chichester to make inquiries about his wife , and this led' to the- present proseoution . —The jury found tho prisoner Guilty , and he was sentenced to bo-imprisoned and kept to hard labour for six months * . ; i "

      Pocket Picking . —Janiea John Saaith , IS , printer , aiad William Haspur , 24 , clogmaker , were indicted for stealing a watch , valued £ 3 10 s . from the person , of Mary Condon Henderson , on a vessel navigating the River Thames . The evidence in this case rested on the testimony of Whiio , an intelligent officer , who , sseing the- two prisoaers at Greenwich , and they being known to Mm ,, he watched them on to . one of the Greenwich steamboats , and went on . board after them . He saw

      them , try the pockets of several ladies between-Greenwich and tie ' Tunnel Pier , where the pro-, secutvix and a female friend came on boasd , and she shortly afterwards made n complaint of having lost her watcb . White told her not to make a noise about it > and went to . Smith , whom he had seen at her poeket , and he immediately passed tho watch to Harpur , who to . get rid of it threw it overboard . —The jury fouad them both Guilty , anil they were sentenced to twelvemonths' imprisonment and hard labour .

      ALtBciBO , Robbery . — . Richard Collinson , a cabman , surrendered to take his trial for larceny — The prosecutors are Messrs ., Dunnage ; the contractors of Gray ' s Inn-road , ' , successors to Messrs . Cubitt . On the 20 th of August they having some works going en at Hatchford , Surrey , Mr Robinson , the cashier , packed up seventeen sovereigns and three pounds in silver to be sent down to tbe foreman of the works there . " . . . The parcel was at first intended to be sent by rail to thei Weybridge station , and there left ,, being , so directed with a memorandum within statin ^ from whence it came , and it was seal « d \ ip with the seal of the firm . On he same night ' , a cart going from London down to the works , the cashier changed hia mind , making tho money into : a larger paroel and entrusting ^ to the oarman but not telling him what it contained . The man consequently thrlw the P «™ 1 < £ ' ^ W aesfe ^ g « S

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      LECTURE ON BLOOMERISM . On Monday evening , Mrs . C . II . Dexter delivered a lecture on Bloomer ism , in the Literary Institution , John-street , Fitzroy-square . The building was densely crowded , and hundreds were unable to obtain admittance . The price of admission was twopence to' the hall , and three-pence to the gallery . At half-paat eight Mrs . Dexter , a lady about thirty-five years of age , made her appearance on the platform habited in the Bloomer costume . She was received with slight manifestations of applause . Her attire , which was wholly composed of black satin , consisted of a jacket ordinarily worn by Iadie 3 in walking dress , a skirt below

      that scarcely reached down to the knee , and ! a pair of exceedingly wide trowsers , tied at the ankle . She proceeded at once with her lecture , which she commenced by adverting to a slight degree of difficulty and embarrassment she fell in appearing publicly to advocate a change of , female costume . ' She felt there was something wrong in the slate of things which rendered it necessary for a woman to appear in public ; to vindicate such a change . Under the dictates of fashion , the most absurd customs bad prevailed . In China they compressed the feet of their victims until they rendered them incapable of locomotion . In other lands they compressed the skull so as to puzzle the most acute phrenologist . At one time a lady

      would not be considered , dressed unless she carried a pyramid of a considerable height on her head . No custom had been too absurd to be followed , provided the example was set by . the affluent . Long flowing dresses , hoops , patches , powder on the head , &c , were originally invented by persons in a lofty situation , to hide some injury or malformation of the body , under which they were labouring . In eastern climes more primitive manners prevailed ; fashions seldom varied ; the females wore a costume similar to their own , and the Georgians , Circassians , and other eastern females had ever been celebrated for the beauty of their persons , and the elegance of their carriage . They must . not imagine because they

      were a highly civilised people , that they were free from absurdities in their modes of dress . The lady then showed the absurdity of stays as . in article of female apparel , and the loss of health , and deaths from consumption , that were produced by the system of tight lacing . Could they imagine anything more absurd , than a Venus kept upright by pieces of whalebone ? Nothing could be more inconvenient in wet weather than the present system of long dresses . Of this the lady gave a humorous description . She had often regretted its inconvenience , but had not thought of adopting the eastern costume nntil a lady in America , disregarding the sheers of the ignorant or prejudiced , dared to assert her right to use her own judgment as to the style of dress . She could speak to the

      comfort of the style she wished to introduce , and she left them to contrast its elegance with that of its competitors . Little could be said with certainty as to the dress ofthe females of ancient Greece ; but the modern Greek ladieain common with the Turks , Hindoos , Siamese , Chinese , and the most of t&e other Asiatic and African nations , ' comprising more than one-half of the human family , wore the objectionable trowsers ; ' it was in Europe , alone that they were monopolised by man . Why should not a woman wear a dress that would enable her to range freefover hill or dale , gathering Health from exploring the beauties of nature ? ' At present , she was debarred from these enjoyments , ; being looked uDon bv the men as a drag and inc ' umbrance—as

      giving too much trouble to be a sharerin a country ramble . Their limbs were equally free and elastic with those of men , and they claimed to have a description of dress which would ' give them the free use of them . One great objection to its use had been on the score of its novelty . Surely this , could not be a very tangible objection , when onehalf the world were iiraearch of novelty , and were always changing fashions in an endeavour to procure it . Tbe speaker then replied to the objections made on the score of . modesty ,, showing that in this respect it-was far above ita competitors . v » r » " and

      until fourteen years old wore trowsers snore skirts , but when they reached that age they were put into long clothes ; what had been modest at fourteen became immodest on the following day . After entering into a variety of arguments in support of her views , she earnestly called upon the gentlemen present to give their sanction and support to a movement which she had endeavoured to . demonstrate was a reform as regarded conveniencei health , and expenditure . Upon ' ' the lady ; aij tiag down , the applause , partly subduedduring he r discourse , burst out with renewed enthusias / n , and waa prolonged during a C - Onatferable , period .,

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 20, 1851, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1644/page/7/