The New York Herald Newspaper, November 18, 1851, Page 6

Social A@airs on the Other Side of the Atlantic, Hier, en, dee ‘The Dinner given by Mr. Peabody to the American Exhibitors. Amonget the many festivities that have graced ‘the close of the Great Exhibition, none have sur. pasced in splendor, or left a more enduring and pleasing impression than the princely banquetgiven at the London Coffee House, on the 27th October, ‘by our hospitable countryman, Mr. Peabody. Al- though the motive of the invitations was ostensibly ‘a national one, it was evident from the large sprink- ling of Epglishmen and foreigners which we ob- served on entering the room, that the occasion had ‘been profited of to draw together in the bends ‘of social intercourse, as many of the per. Sonages of all nations as could be fougd in town, at 80 late a peried of the season. The style of our worthy host’s receptions is so well known, that it ia Gearcely necessary for us to state that the dinner and wines were of the most recherche description, and comprised everything that the most profuse, but at the same time discriminating expenditure could embrace. The noble banqueting room of this fine establishment was tastefully decorated with the American and English ensigns, intertwined rouad the portraits of Washington, (Queen Victoria, and Paince Albert. In th» adjoining room an excellent band was statiored, which coatributed, by a selec” | tion of appropriate music, to the enjoyment and har- | mony of the evening. Amongst the numerous and | distinguished personages who were assembled on this | ‘ocoaston, wo Meorved the American Minister, th» | Right Hon. Earl Granville, Sir Heary Lytton Bul- wer, K. C. B., the Hoa. Mr. Walker, the Baron de | Vidil, Mr. Corbin, Mr. Joshua Bates, Hon. Gov. | Ouseley, J. Bostwick, M P ,Gen. Walbridge, Gen. M’Neil. i. Davis, Secretary of U.S Legation, Col. | Bigelow Lawrence, Heary Wykofi, 5S. i. Low, Col. | Aspinwall, U. S. Consul, Col. Colt, C. St John, Sir Joseph Pax Sir Charlies Fox, Messrs, Rid- dle, Stansbury, Sir a Ellis, Hr. C. Mr. Robert Howe Gould, Mr. E. Geo. Atkinson, Mr. W. C. Baker, Mr. I Brewster, Mr. Bateman, Dr. J. KR Black, E. T Bridge, Mr. John Carter Brown, Mr. E. Bigelow, . Dr. Brewster, Mr. Cresson, Mr Chickering, Mr. S. Cabot, Mr. apt. E. Dunn, Mr. J Dennet, Mr. Dickenson, Mr. S. Dodge Eives, Mr. T. Fisher, Mr.C. E. Futer, ©. Field, Mr. G. B. Faribault, Mr. W. Giles J. Sturt Gwynne, Mr. L. Goddard, Mr. A. C Hobbs, 3 H. Hopkins, Mr. Holloway, Mr. Dp » Mr. F. Hollins, Capt. Hovey, Mr. Wu. Camptell, Mr. T. B. Coster, B Duff, Mr. D. Dick, Mr Huss B. C. Jone: Caps A. Jackson, Mr. , Mr. Lamson, Mr. C. M. Lampson, Mr. ( aumpson, Rev. SK. Lothrop, Mr. Leslie, Mr. § Low, Mr. Liogd, Col. Mo: Mr. Mal- i H. W: T. Maii, Mr. M ‘lane, Mr. lr. M’Carty, General M’Neill, Mr. O Jokn Mason, Mr. M’Dermot, Mr T. Newtoa, Mr. Neale, Mr. Ouse- 5 W. C. Ouseley, Mr. Oclrieks, Mr. Os born, Mr CH. Peabody, Mr. J.C. Eickesogil, Mr B. F. Palmer, Mr. A’ L. Payson, Mr. J. W Parker, jr, Mr. H. Paul, Mr. Ratherford, Roteb, Captain Smith, Mr. Sampson, Mr Sturgis, Mr. Soutter, Mr. James Serge. Mr. George Sum- ner, Mr. W. F. Shattuck, Mr. H. G. Somerby, Mr. E. G. Tuckerman, Mr. E. li. Thompson, Mr Pishey Thompson, Mr W. J. Valentine, Walker, Mr. Daniel Wells, Mr. H. Ward, Mr Marshall Woods, Mr. Westmacott, Mr. J. Wat- son, Mr. T. A.; Waterman, Mr. Edward J. Wool- sey, Mr. G. W. Yapp, &. ke & ‘The cordial and friecdiy character ef the speeches | delivered on this occasion, breathing as they did throvghout the mutual esteem and respect, which are ginerally the lt of an honorable rivalry, formed ope ature in the evening’s proceed- ings, and demonstrated to every reflecting mind the important effests which are likely to flow from | the Great Exhibition. The observations that fell from the English speakers, were marked both b: justice and extreme good taste, an ample anende cing mace for the sneers by which the Ame ean department bad been assailed at the set of the Lxhibition, by the confession that its clese bad nobly redeemed its character for ingenuity end enterprise, in the triumphs which it | hadwon. The speech of the evening was that of Sir Henry Bulwer, whose ex uisite tact, and well | known sovial qualities, were never moro happily displayed. lis declaration that he belonged to a new school of diplomacy, whose chisf policy con- sisted, not in distimulating, but in frankly expos- ing t ents, was received with thunders of applause dit must bave been evident to every lishmen present, that the intense and sim affectionate inter with whie Heary was listened to by the Americans prese great measure, the successful result of bis u and honorable adkeres this pri be bas come amonge briefly, but, as is state:men, ecnee , amount © ge #0 se, brea ith of 8 political views, and wmatic force, which is rarely to be found combined ia the lengthy haravgues of m acticed speakers ‘The / exceedingly happy in the od- ed, marked as they were by simplicity and excellent taste, have won for bim golden opinions amongst ‘asses, since bis arrival in England. Lifferent in its kind, but characterized by the high breeding and eloquent delivery peculiar to him, the speech of Mr. Corbin surprised these who know how litsle part be takes in such matters, by the effect w it produced—iree from effort, clear, fercibl concise, it was calculated to give a high ide the intellectual attainments of the class to which | be belongs, and to do away with the nm English, that turg’ are the prevailing chara the upaflected (the contriver of y the American legation), i all spoke with singular felicity honorabie to themselves tries. Among the toasts of uproariously applau ied was ¢ jate of our army in Mexico, to w peacemakers of the world-—the English language, free trade, and Colt’s [tevolvers.” Na INTRI The Croce di Si ia of th th inet , publishes nal letter from Naples: — that the Duke of Leuchten- | # charged with an important Ac: | ‘gf to inf on obtained from ellent | seurce, he has ised the Kirg of that, | in the erent of mmotions in 1952, Rassia | ‘Would occupy Tur! etstion corps of observation in Hungary and on {he frontiers of [taly, and that, | independently of ber own forces, she relied on the @o-operation of the Sclavonian population of Hum | gary and of the Turkish wpire. Lhe Dake also | communicated to the King a plan of the Emperor, by which he was to be piaced in possession of the ‘ontifical dominions, in eaee of new disturbances and pew arrangements. Kursia | anxious to extend the territory of Ler ally. [| ise said that | most yy and secret communications have | been made to the King of N by M. Hubner, | the Austrian Ambassador in l’arie, who lately paid | & visit to Corsiea, which gave rise to many conjec- | tures inthe diplomatic world. Nobody cvald ex- | | lain the object of M. Hubner’s journey to a coun that affords — to — +d attention of aforeign agent. It a rs it the visit of M Huebner was connected with that ef the Duke of | Leuchtenberg, who, ‘og © Beauharnais, is on | very good terms with the President of the French ablic. I have been told on good authority that Louis Napoleon Bonaparte was favorable to tho aggrandizement of the kingdom of Naples aad its extension to Bologna. hic Piedmont, r, of (reno, of the 25th following, under the head “ Ita- Attn The Mercantile Couric ult., publishes lian Committee” —We cannot ¢ at im par- Uiality from the jonrnals devoted Mézsiai, * *pesk of the situation of the’ . A letter of M. Joseph Sertori throws gr light on that situation. It proves that whilet the Mazsiniats tend to dictate to 25,000,000 hele commitios, mynd A; disposed to ote, elves Ly th from the committee, in conse- = of cerleas diSvreneee of vplaies, nad not pereonal motives, aa inaccurately assorted the last jamation of g "The italian oar i head, Bevo taken part with the oop seeteen The the and “ sole united party.” This letter “kn shows the vanity of the teveta ‘tionary sy reduced to discuss the most cle- mentary . It. proves that Marzini, as woll as ti! Sertori, merosly rely on a eS ae ae akon —Five simul- td In cre. revolution agaist the Pledmcatess system ; « dissolution or transformation of the Pied- Pontere army ; the formation of ag Italian army ; fined to the brecht is met would have otherwise been the cae. INAUGURATION OF trial exhil Champs Elysée, took place at Falaise, tho birth- place of the conqueror. delivered on the occasion, among which wa; the | following, by M. G the example of a long and faithful memory after | watch bis remains b main: bh | Hiebed his pe tranrmilted Co the logitinitSjonraals from Frohe dorf, by a member of the household of the late h to I — Me etter see pec hie ths exumpheet oe On the 12th of Ostober, the Countess de Harnes nt ri eee ene cea Ferro dat Archduke Albreeht's arrival at Posth (says a | tat and who had been fo Freieace vine ot oS arth can | ly et Rar iy "rs aang witaeing hepere mest porno Kege Son the act res the kind activity sho displayed in showi °K a the emperor in Hungary. Whether from pe kd the environs of her residence, and at the or design is not known, the Hungarian colors were with which she exprersed he not among the numerous flags the steam- | her pager. ware on say will page epee ge — ee old ever to see it again! ; rary cthon province empire was represented, May God protect it! and may my nephew one day in the igstog, and on the masts of the vessel, but | 1 ."0410 ty make it resume the course of its the mo eae ite colors of Hungary were sought glorious destinies! The disinterested hope of og - Their abeence became generally kaown | 8 happixess which | shall not share in on * «Bay A ge yrs the Governor-ieneral | Garth suffices for my consolation.” On that day she was abou ie Jane the instant, the assembled received a letter from the Archdutchess Sophia, the people, who might otherwise have raised their | Dother of the Emperor, aunouncing her inten- tioa of visiting ber on the occasion of hor féte. ‘ Ia the event of your being prevented from reosiving me,” said she, ** 1 will delay my visit, but 1 do not renounce it ; for my dear aunt, I shall consider it a féte for me to seo you.” Alas ! that féte was deom- loyal acclamation, quitted the quay, leaving to the government cicials, the milit 54 and few servile Austrians, the reception of the Are! duke. Naturally enough, Arciduke Albrecht was deeply spzaged what he consideredan intentional insult. 12x; tions appear, however, to have been subsequently made, since the new Governor Cieneral, on the same day, proceeded to shower marks of his a and good will tinh the Crepe mane the people. At nis first reception, he int 0 every mae of the iecaconneel of the ‘cinedoae who camé to pay his respects to the now ruler, that in future they must appear in the Hungarian national costame, or in a black coat and white necksloth. dito be cruelly disturbed. On the 13th, daring ane: tha Counteas de Marnes feit the first Btn! ‘ind- toms of the disease which was fatal to her. | ing herself fainting she left the chapel, but, gling against ber ieelings, she went into thi fome minutes after, in order net to cause alarm to her ‘amily. The palencss and contractioa of ber features alarmed us; the Count and Coun- tess of Chambord begged her to ret to her the Taterion Se aeted. Bane 038 ~ aks apartment, and gent for Baron Thevenof, her phy- poor devils who had it made especially for the ocva- | S°!4D, who preserited what ho thought requisite sion, and then wore it for the first time. When- | {oF | ber. On the Jit, the | Archdutehess ever bia highness appeared in the streots ho was | S°Pbia and her sui ag th ay! wil an loudly grectod, It mast not be suppose that the | Sx". suite on te eceive. ber) tbe. physicina People of Festh were thus loyal because of thenew | a, fo effed to enforce hi: advies that she should change of the costume. They morely regard it as the forerunner of other and still greater changes in the bated system of orntralization, and with the en- thusiastic, sanguine charscier peculiar ty the Hun- | garian nation, give themselves up tu the most ex- travagant hepes. Too likely are they to be de- ceived. The /ioy? toldus some weeks ago, that the form of centralization was to be abandoned, but the spirit retained. Since then the ad- | vocates of centralization have out-intriged their | remain in bed, which he said she cound not leave withovt immediate danger. The Archdutchess came to sce ber in ber bedroom ; thoy had a long cenversation togetbe: he august invalid spoke freely, and with aife 3 terested maternal bear seemed to havo been forgotten; it appe had yielded to medicine. On tho 15th, t fete, Monsigner Viale, the Apostolic ‘to visit her, and to celebrate mas hduke Maximilian d’Esto ots to he an day of her opponents, and there is but too great probability the only change that will be made being oar. Al- also tJ uniform. Meanwhite Arohdul ch more favorably in the pro’ s, fearing the egitation Chem bord were tlone permitted to ofer ber gratulatiors; and this day, which was to have been euch a happy one, was very melancholy. Asa symbol | THE STATUE OY WILLIAM THE | ofthe destiny of this princess, herfete day was imme- | ‘ CONQUEROR, AT PALAISE. | diately followed by tho terrible anniversary of the On Sunday the inauguration of the fine equos- | execution of Queen Marie Antoinette. This me- | tue of William the Conquoror, which was | lancholy day, which she passed im mourzing and in | ted recently in one of the squares of the | the most absolute solitude, recalled all the most einful remiaiscences of her mind, and the most jar gerous eflecta were anticipated. “Nethingshall Speech of M. Guizot. Several epceches were | Z0t i— lemen, to-day, a rare example, You present, gex those duties in which I havo never failed.” During the night, her illness increased in the most alarm- arly eight conturies have | ing manner; by the elde of her bed watchtd Mme. William died neglected, in Nor- | de Sainte Preuve, whom she had protected from w be had resdered so illustrious. It | her chiidhood, and whois the grand daughter of was with d ficulty that there were found a few | her governess, Mme. de Fréeminville. “oly dear servants at Houen—the scene of his death—to | child,” said the countesst r, ‘'we must pert. Do A few feet cf earth were | ' Donot you bear what is taking place in my chest deceive yourself; it isthe death rattle.” Mme. de Seivt-Preuve, who was kneeling beside her bed, could not restrain her tears. ‘*What is this that moisten my hands!” exclaimed the countess, in all thedeliriam offever. “he then prayed fervently, and said the litanies; she frequently repeated “ Holy patriarchs, holy angels, protect my nephew ! Save t e! My God, unworthy as I am, in your mercy receive my soul! Hear the prayer of your humble Fe: t, who is on the threshold of eter- Notwithstanding the dreadful night sie ssed, and the rattle which continued, she ‘ored in the morning to get out of her bed, in order to go and pray fur her mother. Her at- tendants succeeded’ in preventing her, by saying that the nuncio was coming to perform the for Marie Antoinette. ** £xpress to him how grate- ful Ifecl to him,” she replied. The Abbé Trebeque' then proposed to her to receive the communion; | the joyfully acceded to this proposition, which restored calmness to her soul, and raised it towards G b 3! , was remarkable. Lr. Soeburger, Grst To peg of the Emperor, came to unite his skill to that of Dr. Thevenot; theybeld a consultation on the state of the fFatient, and on the best means of saving her. They found that ber diseare was inflammation of the lure, of such a v i diy obtained at Caen wherein to deposit his re- 3. Onthe present occasion you repair that | indifference of his cotemporaries by your persever- ing care; and, owing to the talent of an eminent aitist, King William is again bebeld in his native | town. Falsise repays him, after eight centuries, the glory which it received from him. It is a glori- ous deed to render jastice toa great man. Creat men, however, must not be flattered, neither after | their death nor yet during their life; their errors, their faults, their viecs, their crimes, wien they bave committed any, ought not to be kept a scoret, | but ought rather to ‘be judged with severity. the right, tory It is | becomes the duty, of impartial his- Bat this just severity once exercised—the onee reecgnized aad treated as it desorves—a great man still remains-—great in the midst | the imperfections history discloses; and then it is our duty to admire and pay signal hoaor to his memory, inasmuch as great men are the glory of tion,even where their despotism has been rude and y purchased illiam was indeed a it ought to be, by the difficult deeds and the importance of their res sre few who have been superior to him. You | aveforgotien, gentlemen, a deed which was | ned in our time—the expedition of 1530 What mighty efforts, what powerful ze employed by the aid of ‘our advanced tion ' And all that wasdeemed ab- | ry, becaure the undertaking was | ave now the proof that none of | amelioration, the Countess de Marnes had hereel moved op to @ sofa, and carried into her saloon She was, at her request, placed near her secreta the drawers of which she opened, in order to ar renge Ler pay She qaestioned me with perfect ations were unnecessary for a view to | calmness and iucidity on ai! the affairs connected with ; and the sucsess of that enterprise | the charitable establishment 3] e jy of its leaders. In the eleventh | under my direction, informing herself in detail of ing from a barbarous condi- | the interest of every one, even the most hamble, ces now furnished William assem- bled together, embarked, conveyed to the other side of the Manche, and landed on the enemy's ; and searcely had | ded, when he w nd conquered for | fakingdom, So much for the ditfjculty of erprice. Now for the greatness of the re- | Wiliam not only traversed the sea in small gile barks with a mighty a only | did he conquer a kingdom—he did still more, he founded a State. He strongly and solidly estab- t 0a a@ foreign , soil. acd giving orders on some parti r matters to ber secretary, M. Sainte Preuve e afterwards a:ked me to read several letters which had been ad- Gretsed to ber, and gave me precise directions as to the answer to be sent. * wish to see Charles de S ence reminds me of bis ¢ so much loved, and whore d by her afectionfor me. You will afterwards call Stanis- las Ce Blacae; I have some communications to trans mit through bim to his . I should be also glad to see M. de Villett is deal; I should be obliged to raise mm, wi by ci and a pew lengvage, ard new institutions. my chest is too fatigued; 1am grieved at this, as his work has lasted for ages, and it stillendures. he ix eo attached to my nephew. You also Ard itis inthe tongue that King Wiltiam spoke | afterwards call tome the good Mme. de Chaban- that the h Parliament still addresses ite no- pes; I wish ber to give news of me to Mme. de ble (neon, in it she replies. We have seon, | Kovgé, who will be distressed at having loft gentlemen, juesta more vast, more dazzling, Frelederf atthe moment | was taken ill. You than eof hiog Wiliam. ‘They disappeared as | will write to the Dutchess de Levis, and tell ‘The phenomenon is, a State. Yet | ey were made ' - ker how wuch | am gratified by her amiable let f invasion foundin, ter, ad her desire to see me again. | would see omplisbed such a deed. William | her myself with great pleasure, but | am so old souy with the spirit and the perma- | and so ill! God's will be dine! [ will speak more * of his age. He was deeply im- | fully on the subject to M. de Loris.” 1 brought the ore ¢ spirit as be was | persons to her whom she had mentioned, and they conqueror. Weare | stopped with ber for afew minutes. After this, she stice, as his glory haa | saidto me, “ Now call M. Charlet to me, and tell a gin of that national | strugg'e which lasted more than three centuries | Frarce and England. It was Willism blishing between two nations partial and precarious Lies, began between them that epoch of terrible hostility, and all the wars which lasted | until they terminated in a complete separation of the two countries. We were the conquerers in that mighty struggle. We successively won back | all the parte of our territory, and ended gloriously by seouripg our national independence. We de- finitively Grove the Norman invaders to thesoil | begun to re-eppearin the most alarming manner, conquered by them, and whither we bad sent them. | and durir 7 the night her brain was affected. Fro That glorious creature, withoat parailel in the his- | tbat tim was constantly offering up prayers. tory of the world—with a nature elic, half | the would exclaim, “i beg pardon for Joan of Arc, for ever destroyed what the t your humble servant at this f William the Conqueror labored to moment, whic! to decide my eternal state.” spot of | s Thévenot and Sceburger passed the night ing all the resources of science in without sucvess ; her strength and Ler movements paralyzed. the ¢ t de Chambord d to revive; to the replied with mater. bis papers with him; | have some- impertance to arrange * ‘The matter unate persons to cuniary assistance ctated by that spi- bim to br thing to which I attach great i with him, while | have yet etr in question was a list of un’ whom she wished to send Her last act wae thus one rit of benevolence ad alleviated 60 many mirfortun venot begged her to remain quiet, ez he apprehended o return of those symptoms which had so much a ni on the previous night. In fact, effect in France; and it was on this sam earth, inthis very city of Rouen ( Nom met bis death), that the virg: with her marty:dom the deliverance of her country. | Yet | care not to dwell apon thore glorious but sad- dering memories of the Re «t. I rather love to con- template ourrelves and the history of our owa days. r be ber became exbaust Nevertheless, w ¢ to ber, ber in that well loved vo | In our times, also, ships without number crowd our | pal tendernerz, “Adieu, I am exhausted.” coasts, and convey thousands upon thousands of | These were the isst words she spoke. Ma vegeges to the shores of Ii rt Bat is it for | deme de Sainte Preuve, stooping over her another war that they thus depart! No,no! Ivia bed, moietened the parched lips of tho auguet benign peace that beckons aod guides themtoa retood ber slightest movement, reign land, and leads them bi ry look with the intelligent and re isnot for chivalrous adv: al of @ sister of charity watching ane: nor ambition that of conquest. They crowd thit! r' other. The Abbé Trebuquet read the ofler. to bring back, the pled; f | prayere for the dying, which the Countess followed roeperity. The intercourse Lad great fervor, but the rattle became ever; ons now a¢ pacific as it is fre- | memert weaker. ‘Ihe Count and Countess de ed. A Crystal Palace, where | Chambord, with all the household friends and de- in thougands— invisible | pendente, were on their knees at prayer. A sudden of lightning shooting beneath and deep silence chilled every heart. Over the which conveys from the one to the head of the dying Countess was a painting repro message of their matual wants and tual services—such, gentlemen, are tl hich now replace thoee that William the Conqueror wished to establish. Which of the two riods, genticmen, ie the happier * le is the nobler, the more midst of the troubles bye peep which weigh senting the consoling angel pointing out to Louis | XVI. the glory of heaven. The worthy priost raised bis arme and tho cross towards this paint ing, thus uniting the idea of the great expia | tien by yA ‘ith the painful souvenirs of the Jan 21, and the present sacrifice of proreribed vir- Our hei understood hia tue expiring in exile te us in our present agitated and jariouscon- feelings, and repeated with his, “,Daughter of St. ye sot have a right to be provd of, and fall | Louis and of Louis VI, ascend fo heaven.” our own provided our hope and oar The following is the la t will and testament of do not impel us into the pride of madness. he Duchers d’Angoulime -— of the In the name o and Holy Ghost'— l eubmit myrelf in all things to the will of Provi-+ dence; | do not fear death, and, notwithstandin; | my little merit, { trust entirely to the mer the Holy Trinity, Father, Son , came | than be co have anticipated, and will be able to gan titee and was yma ptomatic | 8 present a er colored Teportto the Emperor han | ¢f #pproaching fever. The Count and Sormipe’ ot / bs to | ineessant coxscription. , but Dr. Tbévenct forbnd | jne is ctill more soma prevent me,” ehe said, “from going to-morrow to | the chepel to render to the memory of my mother | considered my my niece Louise as my children, Saleeel heehee: hare apne being brought u: our religion. y always ret faithful to imap they always be the w: descendants of Saint Louis! May my nephew devote his faculties to the accomplishment of the great duties which his position imposes on him. May he never de; oa the paths of moderation, of j an truth ! I censtitute my ne} aa lepri, Count de Cham- bord, my universal ‘ Iwish my remains to be deposited at Goritz, in the tomb of the Franciscans, between my husband and my father. Ido not wish any solemn servise to be pectirpieg for me, but only masses for the re- pore of my eoul. ‘ The above will is followed by legacies to several old servants, to the poor, and other souvenirs of affection. 5 Marriages, meee and Deaths ta Great ritalin, [From the London Times, Oct. 30} Amorg other statistical phenomena of unusual interest occurring just now, is the striking oxtent to which the i gene of England is repairing the | gap cause! recent losses and still contioued rains. The cholera and an increasing emigration | appear, in the long rua, to have no effect in retar- ding the rate of our increase, but rather the con- | trary. Whatever be the case with Ireland, where | natural calamity is always aggravated by the un- | towardness of man, in this country we need bo under little fear of desolation, ia our time at least. All students of history are aware that the ravages of pestilertice and war, unless they are carried to tha extent of depopulation, have often boon repaired | with a rapi -y that almost threw doubt on the narratives of the previous disaster. time we have seen the povniaee of France but very little checked by tho annual expenditure of many Et peg | of lives, and only begin to stagger at last when the youth and etrength of the country was almost disappgaring under the strokes of an hat we aro now witness- is etill more remarkable, if only because, while it is ona vory great soale, it is faithfully aud ex- actly recorded. We do not read it in Gibbon or in Thiers, but in the unpoctic and impartial pages of the KRegistrar-Genoral. On this undeniabie au- thority we leam the following facts, which may btn the interest even of those who usually skip ures. First as to maariogee. The number registered in the epring quarter, that is, the quartor ending June 20, in the melancholy year 1442, was 30,048. Inthe | same quarter, two years after, it had risen to | 34,208, After another interval of two yoars, it was 37,111. The next year, 1517, the spring after the In our own | great Irish famine, it deciined to 35.197. In the spring quarter of last year, it wi 018. ‘This ear it is a little less, 38.4 pore than in the spring quarter of 15: fact thas speaks for itsel’. Marriage is a most direct, natu- ral, and unsuspicious index of prosperity. As a | general rule, a working man marries as soon a3 he géts into good work; and much the @ rule ap- plies to all classes. With very few exceptions, the habitants of a populous and highly civilized cous- try are obliged to wait several years for the oppor- tunity of marriage. Abundance of food, of enter- | pee, and employment, has an immediate effect on hose who are only waiting. This, doubtless, is the true account of the immense increase during the last nine years. The fast meets the eye in various | re Wherever a manufactory or # station is built, or avy other focus of industry is fixed, \ with the exalted piety for which sho | st beyond | jers; the attempt to embark and transport to | the reach of wedi x the night, | er shore of the Mediterranean an army of | however, and on the following morning, a favorable | mn, to obtain from a barbarian th isface | reaction appeared to manifest itself, which inspired ° What immense preparations were | ecme hope. Taking ee of this ualooked for forthwith rows of cottages branch out in all directions, and a crowd of youthful, active, and | apparently well-to-do men seem to start up, as it were, out of the earth. Within the last nine years, suburbs and little towns, containing severalthousand inhabitaxts, have sprung into existence, on spots where, on the Ordnance map itself, there is nothing | but blank space. ‘or every house that is built, | for every new situation in life, for every new place | as porter or breakman, or now platelayer, offered by a railroad, a new marriage is likely to follow | before lerg. In manufacturing towns and other | seats of employ ment, it is well known that the con- clusion of a strike, the orrival ofa eee order, and evon a change of fashion, will send half a dozen ochurch. Prosperity, however, is not the cof the very great increase since 1817, erpecially in the year 1850. The cholera made many a place empty at the hearth, the workshop, the counter, and thedetk. Those plaves have been | since filled by the accestion, in most cases, of | younger end healthier persons. Young widows | may remain long desola‘e, but young widowers are neitber so constant, ner 60 much at the mercy offortune. After a battle there are many promo- tions, and an epidemic is nothing moro thana bat- | tle with an i i not less murderous foe. | The effect Has of war, in multi- yi ging them on at anear- | ved by our oldest chroni le | ter of IC), coming soon after the cholera, sliould | have witneseed the convulsions of an earthquake tell no surprise, that the spring quar- produce even a greater return of marringes than the same quarter this year. The decline has been 52) —notbing compared with the increase of the last nine years. Py far ihe most remarkable foature, however, in this return, is that which is thus simply stated 1 births bay ending September 50, of births ever and exceeds b Eeptember qu of 467.066 children have already been registere is probable that in the year the number will not fall short Of $00.60, Tn the opinion of all mankind, and particular! of the éacred writers, the natural increase and mul- tiplication of a people is the moi the most undehlable tign of prospei reeent instance, the extraordinary increase of births #8 Come Very opportunely at a time when the de- opuletion of the emp're ia already looming, a errible possibility, in the distant horizon. So far a8 England alore is concerned, it will evidently be some years before the o!d bugbear of asurplus popu- lation bag lost its terror. While 1£0 584 children were bern and registere4 im the frumm , anys the return before us, 1,600 persons ; leaving ‘cess of 65.984 in the population. The excess of births over deaths in the dret nine months of the present your, har been 170411, which is probably more than equivalent to the actual increase of the popu jon. In the absence of an annual cenena that actual | increase can only be conjectured. There are re- turns of the emigrants from the several ports of the United Kingdom, but there are no roturns of the parsengera by the numerous steamers passing to | and fro between ~~ and Ircland, as well as other countries. Ye only know that by far | the greater part of tho emigrants from Liverpool, Glasgow, and Greenock are Irish; that many emi- grants from London are Germans and other foreign- ore; and that vast numbers of Irish are still pour- ing into all our populous towns in quest of employ- ment orreliof. It is probable, therefore, that the immigration from Ireland more than makes up for English cmigretion, and that the actual increase in fay pee ener is at least as much as is indicated by the extraordinary excess of births over deaths. he Register General very naturally calls attention to a conjuncture cf ciroumetances without parallel in the history of the world. ‘The prerent movement of the population is, in many ronpecta, arkable. The free admission of grain, frait, ard ment, since the scarcity is equivalent to an ad¢i- tion to the country of a vaat tract of fertile soil, which tore, and, as the land is abroad, for agri- cvitural emigrants whe prefer the cheap, though di lands of America to the high-rented farms of Ireland, no longer porsersing a monopoly for ite preduce in the Engli ket, the fact deserves attention, that while the t Kingdom hes been importing food in unpre- | orCented quent.tier, it has been fending out swarms of em'grants from (he population, of which the marriages ‘and birthe promise to keep up ® perpetual and increasing supp! TUYe impossibie to contemplate vast movements of any kind without a feeling akin to terror. The launch of a ship, the fall ofa vast boy of water, an army on the march ora multitude on the move, eal's for cult: the downfall all spectacles that suggest even more thi and seein to resal the operations of a preternatural power. They who us that no words canconvey tho awfulness of their impressions when they first saw all nature ranging around them. A like awo might well be inspired b the events we now witness around us, such aro their strangeness and magnitude, but for the evident signs ef anoverraling and beneticont Providence ithin a few years, or rathor within a few mouth, we have witnerred the food of a nation | _ in the ground, that same nation fed | y fupplies cirawn frcm the very onde of the | earth, an annual importation of food sufficient for several millions, a terrible epidemic striking | down many thoarands in the midst of us, notwith- has given to France, | Ged, at the same time beseeching Him for time | standing all tho resources of wealth and art, a con- of gins. I wish | and grace to receive the Inet sacraments of the stent emigration eufficient each year to people a throw a gloom over this festivi- Church with the most fervent piety. whole State, and yet, in the midst of these disasters of andnerr; will me | I die in the Rowan Catholic and Apostolic re- | and losses, iingland, prosperous, weathy, tranquil, sentiment, which is certainly | jigion, in which | havo lived as faithfully as it was and fast employed, and repairing all ite losses of nee and of . When men | possible for me to do, and to which I owe all the every kind—tho drain on {ts wealth andite num- who traverse the wide ocean aro overtaken by the consolations of my life | bers, by extraordinary production, such as is no- eat, it is not sufficient to haves noble snipe | After the example of my parents, ! pardon with | where teen but in England, and which none bat equipped, and well fu with an inte all my soul, and without exception, all thore who | Heaven could bestow. And after all these losses, crew— crew must be have or offended me, ote praying God | and in the midst of there great efforts, we see it must have stout anchors, to extend to them bis mercy, as well as to myself, joning all the earth to » great foast of of salvation of all depends. Let as, and beseeching to pardon all my faults nd geodwill in the British metropolis. ° united; let us know how to IT thank all n who have remained faith- | se great design crowned with a splendor and strong cy ful to my f, for the proofs of de- | success even beyond the anticipation of the authors, «Yee! -votedness y have given ws, and for the | and concladed withou & parsing shadow ofthe WCW Ot #9 OF do sufferings and aflictions to which they Lave berm | dangers with which fuch designs have heretofore pubjeoted om ous aocoumty bn too often attended. | | enough to do to keep order. of vebicles drew up and discharged their occu- | | was the sign for momentory indifference. The Dead Letter Office of Guent Brttain, From the London Times, . ‘The i adopted in the dead letter otlice is as follows :— letters are returned to the depart ment as dead, the first step is to ascertain, if possi- ble, hole parentage, and then return them to their birthplace for ment. If this attempt fails, they are consigned to absolute destruction, except- whore er come from abroad, in which oases they are exchanged tor similar wai ith the postofiices of foreign governments. When, however, the’ contain property, they are treated with muo reater Co! ration. If the pr y is in the form of cash, the letters are care! preserved, kept of their contents, te all claimants prov- In default of such claim, tho amount, at the ex; three years, is ia to the revenue. the property is in the form of not aetual cash, but of bills, checks, notes of hand, money orders, or 80 forth, the letters are kept for three years, atthe end of which period they are destroyed, and the property is converted into mo- ney by public auction for the benefit of the revenue, as before. How much money or money’s worth does the reader imagine was consigned to the Post office within twenty-four months, 80 looeely nd carelesaly that it could net be delivered at all? No less than one million and a quarter sterling! Bot ¥een the Sth of Jenuary, 1849, and the 5th of January, 1851, there was found in dead letters tho sum cf £1 226,282 ss. Id., in the shape of bills, cheoks, notes ot band, and momen anders. 3 and in hard gash, or bank notes, £18,870 10s. dd. more. There are few persons, we ae to whom this will not iy J almost in- credible; and yet here are the plain figures before us, showing that a sum of monoy exceeding the whole receipts of the Great Exbibition is every year dropped into the Post office, under such ciroum- stances a8 to make its loss very possible. Consern- ing the restitution or disposition of this property, it was merely stated, in general terms, that ‘nearly the whole” was ultimately delivered to tho writers of the letters; but it is clear that the essape was due wioily to the provision made by government against the general car ees of the population. It is very probable that some of the biils and notes thus discovered represented but listle bona Jide property, but still the incontestable facts of the cate are year are actually risked in money and bank notes, not to mention cheeks and money orders, which must be in a far Jarger proportion, and which aro Tittle less available then cash. After this diso'o eure, it can be no matter of surprise that the total number of casualties should be absolutely unmon- tiovable. We may safely bolieve that a letcer containing property is pested, in a vast majority of cares, with greater care than a letter contaiz-~ ing none; and if these particular letters, therefore, “die” im euch numbers that their effects yield £600,000 a year, we may form some conjecture of the gross mortality. Cortainly the Post Office authorities are justified in 6» earnestly beseeching people not to transwit money by post, except through the office orders. Jt is not in contemplation, we learn, to adopt any fresh measures for improviog the system in use, but some additional care, we trust, will be exercised by the public, after this exposure of its carelessness. Making all allowance for unavoidable accidents, it must be quite certain that the death of a letter is due, in a very large proportion of cases, to want of ains or forethought en the part of the writer. Sometimes letters are posted without beingaddressed at all, sometimes with the address illegible, and sometimes with a superscription for which no owner can be discovered. All this admits of very simple remedy, especially as the writers of letters contain- ing property must generally be persons of sufficient education to use their wits as well as their pens with better effect, when reminded of ir folly. The reader will think, perhaps, that wo have made more of ‘*a dead letter” than ever was anticipated inthe proverb ; but, as we are now upon the subject, it may be serviceable to add, that letters are often lost for want of prepayment, and that after next Sutur- day no prepayment can be mate im money, but only means of the stamp. From that time forth no a register and index bein, and festitation is duly pr A ing their title, “penny” can be received at the window, and, as'an | unpaid letter is frequently turned away from its ad- dress, it will be as well not te add this source ef ac- cident to those enumerated above. The Bloomer Bell in London, (From the London Chronicle, Oct. 29.) If Bloomerism was at ail tardy in walking into fashion, the notion of trying whether it would not dance into supremacy was, to say the least of it, ingenious. ctures—eveh with disgrams—wore fownd to be of the dryest, and the rights of woman, | imported by the American ladies, afforded no aid to the progress of their pottiloons and pantalettes. A bloower bail would ps the thing ina gayerand more ractical light; anione was accordingly got up, ut with somewhat worse than dubious results. There will be no goed done to Hloomerism by the display in the Hanover-squsre Rooms last night. Indeed, we could find it ia our hearts to lament that the progress of any thing like a reform in the ao- knowledged absurdities of female costume, must be seriously retarded by any such exhibition. On approaching the scene of action soon after midnight, we found a dense crowd clustered around the doors at th net of Hanover square, and the loud murmurs and ‘he occasional half utterred bursts of cheering which rove from them announced the popular interest in the Bloomers. And, truth to say, tbat intcrcst did not appear favorable. The crowd was eurly, and swayed roughly to and fro—very unlike the ordinary behaviour of tie mob of spectators who assemble round the por- tale of a ballroom, to gaze on way toilets or fancy dresses. Some dozen of policemen had pants, diecsrdant bursts of uproar broke forth. A thout of disappointment, not to say impatience burst out when the person alighting chaneed, as gererally the case, to be a gentleman H» wa semetimes caloted as a “be Bloomer ” and politely arked whether he had r eft his petticoats in the cab; while if a ladz in the ed costume mats ber appeatanee, be was tolerat!> saro to be grevied by an outbreak of noise, half cheer, half lauga—the laugh, however, by no means sounding like an an- provirg one, and tono of the cheer evidently sarcastic. The mob seemed to pay particular att tion to private vehicles. ‘It’s only a * Hush 0 instantaneous very few of the hams, the gentlemen who the penalty of public dix here's a brougbam!”’ p hush of expectancy; Bloomers came in brow, emerged from them paid oppoimtment in being ealuted with @ roar of eatiri- cal Ieughter, and as many slangy witticisms ag could be mustered on the epur of a minute. Entering, we found the ante-rooms and staircases crowded with gentlemen, nearly all in evening drese, while now and (hon a niger eee my Bloomer ald glance like a meteor among the black coate and trousers. At the doors and corridors close to the ball-room, gentlemen who had clearly been dinin; out were amueing themselves by pushicg ec! other about, aod occasionally using stronger lan- guage then ecomed quite consistent with aa over- whelming tense <i the proprieties of the occasion. Jo the ball-room iieelf, dancing was rapidly proceed- ing to the strains of a very brassy band, but the comparative number of persons taking a share in the quadiille may be conceived when we say that there were present at least fifty gentlemen to one lady. As to the “‘ladics,” we may as woll state at once, and to prevent mistakes, that they certainly did not compose the élite of the casinose—and that the fact was in all respects glaringly visible. The maceuline part of the congrogation was strik- ingly different, the maes formed of persons de- cidedly above the calibre of gents, and half the well-known s of the West end being present. Tho peerage was certainly well represented, and the Lower House had contributed a respecta- bie deputation. ‘The clabs murt have been emp- tied--indecd, at every turn you came upon faces 80 familiar to every opera goor—uardsmen, dandics, aitists, authors, and the like—that one might have fancied onerelf in the crush room. ‘The immense majority had evidently come merely as spectators —na dark row, standing on the seats, lined the length of cither wall he floor was more or less crowded ; andin the interior of pushing, shifting, jolting rirgs of occasionally noisy gentlemen, the Bloomers and their partners were jerking each other eboutin @ galloping polka, in the style fami- liar to the habitwé of any of th more. the circle broken, amid the expostulations of the dancers and the loud laughter of the intraders. Sometimes, again, a cheer would be raised for a fat Bloomer, or a thin bloomer, or an old Bloomer. or a Bloomer with particularly gaudy ribbons or neg old flaunting feathers; and, to do the ies justice, they came out strong in both respects. The standing joke of the night sppeared to be to shout out, “ Kossuth!” cre’s Kereuth a beautifal Bloomer ;” wre which there would be an immediate sway of the crowd, and roars of laughter. As for the ladies, the that is said, eithor of themsely their dresses, the better. generally gaudy and tasteless—the prominent points of Bloome copied, but in a very few cases with anything like grace or detail. Seme of the girls Wore mere ordinary polka jackets; others had hor- rible affaires, glaring with colors; and not a few presented shabby m: up from faded old materials. Some wore loore and wide Turkish trousers; othe! be called, fittin, pantaloons. e theatrically perched decorated with alarming plumes of fact, a8 a general rule, the co'ored gaudy and flaunting to a degre white predominate Ny ae style of the thing, in mistakably of V night. pper was laid out below, hut what occurred we hardly folt is incumbent on us to stay to on one side of the head, feathers. As the long line | | | jects verging cnoritical matters,a gr The Effect of the New Costume E. From the London Chronicle, ‘cae refined lecturer on “Bloomeritma” may, ete Jelive intoesnanivanine than euch ag ave eted those gre’ ers of an up| philosopby. Mrs. T. C. Foster, at the Club, whose “ Ceatury of lomale Costume” we yesterday reported, is a more orodita- ble advocate even for a more preposterousfolly than that urged og the nameless females who have been in sbabbier suburbs of the City Road, Mile End, and Soho. There is so: ia the roverb which connects smoke inseparably with Ere ; and Blcomerism would scarcely have ry its present amount of rin ny rgangend large an ia- gredient in that interest may be mere scorn, had it hot something substantial to say for iteelf. Ite ca- pabilities, however, like those of other clever- esses, are rather destructive than construstive. The lecturers may confute, but they do not prove. It is one thing to pele a over hoops and bustles, igct sleeves and crinoline, and another to place ré. Bloomer in Madame Maradan’s id throne. We accompany Mrs Foster in her not uc- instructive review of the last century of dress; but We cannot forget that it is casy to insult the reliva of dead traditio: “ar easier, as our Bloomers a than to propagate ancvel and contumacious jeresy. ae fashion—costume, is, after all, an inter- esting subject; and what is historically so curious, if not important, cannot safely be sot aside merely by a solitary sneer. Wecare not, thorefore, that the transitory folly of Bloomerism bas mer up— from tbis nettle may spring the rose. And. what- ever elucidates high and trathful principles of taste and utility of general application, is never, howev- ergroteraue its entneiation, altogether in vain. So far as we have been able to learn, there was something like an attempt to enforce a principle in Mrs. Hloomer’s own first essays ut conversion. If the female dress of the present day be unheal- thy, dirty, and inconvenient, as the original indict- ment runs, the Indies had better look to it. There never can be real beauty where there is nol a eva- structive adaptation of means to au end, and the final couse of femate dress is surely not to injure the re- spiration, to dirty the person, and to prevwns oxer- cige which shall he at once comfortable aad decent. rodigious. Ten thousand pounds 2 | Any discussion, then, which is simply raised as to what are the actual results of tho presont siyle of female dress, we shon!d never think of discouraging; for a subject which is interesting alike ts the phy- sician, tho artist, and the econouist, is a social one, and cannot be other thau of large importance. Thero is something, too, to be said even on the moral | Sheree for a long trailing gown ia a street is an abject piece of pretension, when reselved into its origin, Tt is the silly spectacle of a drawing- room dreeson a walking oxpedition, aud is analas gcus to silk stockings and pumps ia a Sopiembor stubble. It is the bouest Mnglish morning, wet or windy, or drizzling or dirty, affecting to be arrayed ina dinner dress. Tho promenade, let us whisper, should have one length of potticoat—may we add, one thickness ofeole’—the drawing-room decidedly another. A ledy “doing her shopping,” or pacing ber garden, in the came slippers aud train as those in which she presides at her tea table, is mere “wasteful and ridiculous oxcess;” and had Mrs. Bloomer confined herself to this range of subjects, and worked the detai’s of trains and tight 'e— whalebone and cane—-horsehair aud cushisns—she had, perheps, dore some service. But somehow the subject, oven ifa serious one, has come before us in a very unfortunate aod ludicrous way, for either in the lecturers, or ia their mapner, or in their associations, there bas ever been something that repelled. ‘Tao scene of Bloomer lectures has often been that of the accredited hatitats of sedition, or socialisin, or something worse. Then, our transatlantic cousins have rot an agreeable style of pro- pagandism, and they seem determined to make no allowance for our national reserve, stupidity, and prejudice. Perkaps, too, the advocates of this reform forget that dress scarsely admits of a philo- sophical and exact method. Like the British con- stitution, fashion isa plant of slow growth; dress is an imperceptible formation ; Soclegicall speak- ing, it is rather of a coraline growth than the result, ofacataclyem. ita ‘mits no revolutions or euddea interferences ; for neither we, nor the ladies, like to have very violent tamperings with the establis: order of things. of striving to conquer prejudice by a coz, instead of trying plots, factions, and schisms. It is too soon, at least for the old coat nent, toexpectthat a change in fashion will ever procced from the lower ranks. Fashion is from above. As eociety is constimuted, Bioomerism stands no chance until, like Almack’s,itha: * patronesses. Jt may be all very well to invite contemplate the succinct and Sabine usefulne. Bioomerism, or to accept it for its oriental cor tions, but we cannot forget that from the day Hector— “And Troy’s prcvd dames, whore garments sweep ti geound,” Mrs. Bioomer’s mistake wag that y 2 broeding alady’strain and the notioa of cou bave gone together. Still, although for the reasons just stated, tha ies of lecturing down the prese+t style of dross ogether favorable, something may ye gained by the bloomer agitation; and if C ere only relieved from performing the di ofua paid scavengers, we shall not object to its But, as to their construction echemes, we have not a word to say in defence ofthe American ag- gressioniste—a Bicomer in ‘ull costume is no im- provement upon a hoop, and as the lecturers have one and all steked their reform upon the suc ofthe costuire, we join issue at once Foster her own most practical refi ard the Bloomer di have no right to complain of the ill success of their agita- tion, for they have challenged public oriticisu in that ho which, in England, we have not yet learaod to think other than offensive. Lady lecturers are rare in Europe; and when they take up sud ater amount of decorum, modssty and discretion is demanded thaa has beed presented to us at Miss Kelly’s Th. | fatal. of inthe Holbern Hall, At prosgat Mra, fosta7 is ah exception to ber sect, but oven in he? clever management the crucial experiment was To bave seen a Bloomer, settles Bloomerism. It is net the trivial witticiem about the wife wear- | ing the breeche’, nor the unhappy suggestion of | into a walking mop,” is certainly a feature » @ casinos or Cre- | Sometimes a rush would be made, and | the George Sand and Debardeur echoo! of with which this dress bas unfortunate!; nected, that will do all the mischief; but the cos. tume iteelf is its own condemnation. ‘ I’illows un- der all arm-holes” are, perhaps, » female abomina- tion; but then they may plead precedent. ‘They are as old as the Bible, at least in the English trans- lation—‘‘ten or fifteen pounds of petticoat round the body, and balloons in the sleeves,” are neithe graceful nor reasonable, we admit—‘‘sixteen equi nde of skirt” merely “depositing strata of thick lack slosh on the ankles, and turning their wearer gore tive of nothing agreeable—and English fashion, which, without transatlantic prompting, has en- cased cur females in Ser -y paletots with largo pearl buttons, has, we low, little ground to object to the andro-gynous aspect of tiloon” or “‘pantalette.” Nor indeed can aay of us, with any show of propriety, object to the novelty of a costume which, cayhow, every Eog- lish git] under fourteen has worn this many'a year. But all there objections to every oxisting fashion fail utterly in demonstrating the propriety of the new one. We do not pretend to have beea initiated in the greater mysteries of the gynacewm; and we theretore content ourselves with aa American lady’s criticism on the Bloower costume, which we cite with the more satisfaction as itis ex- pressed in righ vernacular, which so graphically exceeds the powers of any masculine pea. it”— and the dilemma isto us insuporabdie if,” says rs. Jane Swisehelm, “the trowsers are loose at kle, yo flip ted if gathered to a band ing over ina pu ak f°, slip slap as ono walk It there is a ruftle to fail down on the top of the foot, it gets in the mud, and is as ugly as the longest skirt. If itis drawn up to be conveniont, as much of the footand ankle is exposed as need be in a moderately short ekirt. Then the trowsers, all af them, give a genoral appearance of dro; legs.” An Aristotelian sorites of dilemmas— er ilip- flap, or slip slap;” the division is exhaustive ; there is no fertiwm quit. If long, dirty; if short, im- modest, and ® common nature dropsicd took. il cases. is not this enough to ¢on- morals, been eon- can ally is here more graphic than we wish to be. Only let our readers imagine how a stooping Ve- nus weuld look, simply braccata et twmicata, with the natural rise and fall of a x which, in ito eptieg position, is only to reach “two inches below the anee”—tho regulation cut—and then les us idealize the modesty of a Bloomer female “ vi- sibly trowsered to the waist’? And s9 as to ano- ther class of objections, we admit their fore they do rot prove Hloomerism. Five ht wrongs do not make a right. It m quite trve ‘hat ¢ne absurdity involves ai and t the quantity of petticoats—we bo, pardon, “ woderskirts”~is in some mathema’ proportion to the square of their density and Velume. Jn other wor that ono petticoat, like one es makes many, that Spe ae is rd a xoophyte, erelf propagating—or, to phrase it differ- ently, that when BSomen inside a quilted balicen of the present mode, or a tub coastracted of horse hair cordage, catgut, ¢, and whale- bone, of @ past fashion, sho wants clothing to protect ber from her clothes. Hut, we repeat, ad- | mitting the absurdity of all this, there is some in- termediate stege where taste may be found bo. tween this style of drees, which the Bloomers so effectively dem: and what has been called th» ‘forked parsnip” attire—their owo. With respect to the “naturalness” of dress, which Bloomor urges, of course that which the poot gives Nora Creit a beats Mrs. Bloomer’s bollow on that score. And now, having done What the ‘'Spetator” was warned not to wo fear \uat we shall be ad-