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been formed into a committee , in order to give it the necessary attention and publicity . That the subject may be fully understood , an address will be delivered at the Royal Soho Theatre , Dean-street , on Monday , October 6 , relating to the same . Resolutions will be proposed ; and the mothers and daughters of England are earnestly invited to attend , and by their presence forward the welfare of the present and future generations , by adopting an improved method instead of the present injurious and artificial mode of dress . The ladies of the committee will attend , attired in the Bloomer costume .
The doors of the theatre were open more than an hour before the time appointed for the commencement of the proceedings . The building was soon densely filled At the appointed time the Bloomers appeared on the stage , twenty in number . They appeared to be timid persona , unused to the dress , and not very happy in their new situation , for new it evidently was . Four of them were mere children of from seven to fourteen years of age , one was about seventeen , two were from twenty-five to fifty ( it would puzzle anybody to tell what might be the nearest point to either ) , and the lady who was to deliver the address was twenty five or twenty-six , a blooming young American , fall of enthusiasm . In her address she mainly dwelt upon the influence of fashion and the rights of women . Fashion was a tyrant , and that
° + i _ . „ ^ f a marina had determined to tyrant the women of America had determined to bring before the bar of public opinion on three separate changes : —1 . That nature had been violated and endangered by its rules . 2 . That in consequence of its requirements a vast amount of money had been expended , which might have been devoted to higher and holier purposes . And 3 . That by encumbering women it incapacitated them from rendering services to society worthy of their high destiny . These doubtless were strong charges , and for them she hoped the tyrant fashion would receive either banishment or transportait
tion for Jife—hanging she could not recommend , as was contrary to her American creed . She went somewhat fully into the question of " stays , " and their deteriorating effect upon the human frame . She implored the women of England to follow the example of the women of America , and no longer countenance such an atrocious system . She confessed that in many parts of the country the Bloomer costume had been received with much disfavour , but so had paletots when they were first suggested for ladies' wear . When that useful article of female attire was first introduced , it was said that wives
were about to wear their husbands' coats . A lady of her acquaintance in America , who was looking over a book of fashions from England , exclaimed , " Oh , what a delightful invention , whenever I am in a hurry to go out , all I shall have to do is to pop on William's coat . " { Laughter . ') The lecturer concluded by thanking her audience for the treatment she had received . Three cheers were given for Mrs . Amelia Bloomer , and a young lady was called upon to sing the National Anthem . The following note appeared in the Daily News . Of coursewe do not know anything of its authenticity .
TO THE EDITOIt OF THE DAILY NEWS . Sir , —May I be allowed , in your columns , to ask why the British public is so horrified at the idea of women dressing in trousers , seeing that they have for many years tolerated a number of men ( from the north of the Tweed ) in wearing petticoats—and shockingly short petticoats too ? Amelia Bioomeu . A young woman , named Mary Benson , was brought before Mr . D'Eyncourt , at Worship street , on Tuesday , charged with having caused a mob to assemble before the British School , Cowper-street , City-road . Mrs . Dexter ' s lecture was announced lor that evening and Mary Benson had come down en Bloomer to advocate the cause of
trousers . Not being able to gain admission , she harangued the crowd outside . The police interfered . But Mary Benson was not to be daunted . Great confusion ensued and the road was blocked up . The result was that Mary Benson was taken to the station-house . In the court hIic defended herself by Buying that she was a native of Gloucester , and she was ao convinced that the costume sought to be established would be of much utility and convenience to her fellow countrywomen , that Bhe had come to town on purpose to give it her advocacy . She understood it was Monday Mr . Dextcr's lecture was announced for , regretted her present position , and promised not to give cuuae for a recurrence .
Mr . D'Eyncourt , taking into consideration that she had been locked up all night , took her personal recognizaiiRCB not to offend again , and ordered her to be discharged . _
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PERSONAL NEWS AND GOSSIP . The Queen ih coining home again ! home , a name not unwelcome oven to ruyul ears . She left liuljnoral with li « r family on Tuesday , and passed by the most romantic road to Stonchuven . Arrived there , the royul party took the mil to Edinburgh , where , after two railway " accidents , " a blazing axle-tree ami a broken-winded engine , which caused n Htonpugc of an hour , with a fast train behind expected every moment , the Queen arrived about eight on Tuesduy night . Ureat welcome all along hand to llolyrood
the line mid at Edinburg , so C ' aHtli' The next morning betimes , her Majenty h-rt for Croxtcth Turk , near Liverpool , the neat of the Karl of Sufton . taking Lancaster by the way , wlure ttho alighted , received addresses from the county a . « l borou K b , and , enjoymg a »^;»^" view from " John o' ( iroat ' s Chair , on the Keep of the CaHtle . She left I ^ incBHter and arrived at Croxteth Hall "boat half-past live , llore she remained the night , and started for Liverpool on the following morning . . _ - _ , Liverpool ia » "itl " « t to kuvo b'ouQ to bcu on
Wednesday night . No sovereign has TOitf tJ ^* happy people for above a hundred and fifty years But Victoria , reverenced as the symbol of British authority , and respected as a woman , was now coming to see them ; and what could they do but deck out their magnificent town with all the Bplendour of flags and festoons and triumphal arches , and rich draperies , and go themselves , an excited crowd , to make glad the way with shouts of welcome ? The Queen arrived from Croxteth-park about eleven o ' clock . The rain fell thick and fast ; but on the line of the procession spectators weie * . ckly planted . Banners and decorations were on all sides , stretched line of the
and across the principal route a flags of all nations . When the Queen reached the entrance to the landing route " a body guard of young gentlemen volunteers , dressed in black , with white rosettes , fell into rank after the proceasion , the artillery fired a salute , the soldiers presented arms , and the Queen retired into «• a splendid tent . " Here she received the address of the Liverpool Dock Committee and of the Chamber of Commerce ; and passing thence through a covered avenue , lined with red and white bunting , and over a platform covered with crimson , she proceeded to go on board the Fairy ; the band , as the royal yacht left her moorings for atrip on the river , playing irreverently " Oft" she goes . ' kindsThe
The river was covered with craft of all . Fairy steamed down one shore , crossed , went up the other , and recrossing , reached the landing-stage again about twelve o ' clock . The Queen then made her progress through the town , attending at the Town-hall to receive the address of the Corporation , to lunch , and knight the mayor , now Sir John Bent . From the Town-hall , she proceeded to St . George ' s-hall , and thence to the railway station . All the morning the rain poured down very fast , the streets were muddy and dirty ; but nothing could damp the enthusiasm of the crowd . The train started off at four o ' clock , and reached Worsley , the seat of the Earl of Ellesmere , about five o ' clock the same evening , whence she will proceed to Manchester .
Lord Clarendon reached Dublin on Tuesday . Addresses of welcome were presented to Lord John Russell last week , during his stay in the neighbourhood of llhyl and St . Asaph . Lord Carew , Lieutenant of Wexford county , has obtained the ribbon of St Patrick , which the death of Lord Clare had placed at her Majesty *! disposal . Lord Carew spoke and voted against the Ecclesiastical Titles BilL
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Henry St . John Viscount Bolingbroke and Baron of St . John , of Lydiard Tregooze , Wiltshire , died on Wednesday week , at North College , Elgin , the residence of his daughter , the Honourable Mrs . Shaw . Lord Boiingbroke was the fifth viscount of that name . He was born on the 6 th of March , 1786 , and was consequently sixtyfive years of age . He succeeded to the peerage on the death of his father in 1824 , and is himself succeeded by his son Henry St . John , now Viscount Bolingbroke , who is in his 31 st year . His remains will be interred in the family bury ing-ground at Lydiard .
The Earl of Liverpool died suddenly in the sixtyeighth year of his age , at Buxted-park , Sussex , on the 3 rd instant . Charles Cecil Cope Jenkinson , Earl of Liverpool , Baron Hawkesbury , and a baronet , was born 29 th of May 1784 . He was half-brother to the Lord Liverpool , who , with Castlereagh and Sidniouth , ruled England so long . In 1841 , when Sir Robert Peel came into power , Lord Liverpool was made Lord High Steward of the Household . The family titles now become extinct . Lord Stafford , a venerable member of the Roman Catholic peerage , died on the 4 th instant , at Hampton Court , in the eighty-first year of his age . His name was George William Stafford Jerningham , and he was born in the April of 1771 . He married , first , in 1799 , Frances Hen-Edward
rietta , youngest daughter and co-heir of bulyarde , Esq ., and by this lady , who died in 1832 , he had issue twelve children , the eldest of whom , a daughter , ia Lady Lovat . His second child , and eldest son , the Honourable Henry Valentine , succeeds to the title and estates . His lordship married , secondly , in 183 G , Elizabeth , daughter of the late Richard Calou Esq ., of Maryland , and by whom he does not leave any issue . This lady is sister to the Duchess of Leeds and the Marchioness Wellesley . The late Lord Stafford succeeded his father , ns the Baronet , in 1809 , and obtained the peerage in 1825 , by the reversal of the attainder of Sir William Howard , Viscount and Baron Stafford . Ho assumed the name of Stafford , in addition to that of Jerningham , in 1826 , by aiu ; u manual .
Admiral Tancock , died on the 29 ultimo , in the eighty - second year of his age . He was one of the retired Itear-Admirul of 1846 , and a Lieutenant of 1799 . The deceased suw uome rough service . He wua midshipman of the Crescent , at the capture of the French frigate Reunion , in 1793 , and of the Orion , in Bridport ' s action , in 1795 ; alao in the action off Cape St . Vincent , in 1797 ; as Acting-Lieutenaut of the same "hi p , he commanded her launuh in Nelson ' s attack on the Cadiz flotilla , in the same year , and at the Nile , in 1798 . He also commanded the boats of the Iiiu , at the capture of a Privateer
of 10 guns , on the coast of Norway , in 1800 . lie was Lieutenant of the Cuesar , in Algebras Bay , and in the Straits of Gibraltar , in 1 H 01 . 1807 , he commanded the St . Christopher , at the capture of St . Croix . Lieutenant-Colonel William Eraser , an old Waterloo officer , expired on the 4 th mutant , at hid residence in London , lie entered the army in 1813 , and bicamu a Lieutenant-Colonel in IH ' . il . Tho deceased officer served in the campaigns of 1814 16 , and took part in the engagements of Quatrc Uras and Waterloo , lie was twice wounded during the W aterloo oumnaiKu .
M . de Savigny , member of the Academy of Sciences and known for his works on zoology , has just expired at Versailles , at an advanced age . The famous Don Manuel Godoy , Prince of Peace , died on Saturday last at Paris , aged eighty-seven .
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John of Tuam preached at the Roman Catholic Chapel Clerkenwell , on Sunday last . Mr . Sheriff Swift and his lady were present . The Most Reverend Dr . M'Hale leaves London this day ( Thursday ) for Hilton Grange , in company with his Eminence Cardinal Wiseman . —Post . Mrs . Dexter has been lecturing in Glasgow . From the tone of the North British Daily Mail , we imagine she was rather equivocally received by our kilted brethren . Mr . John C . King , delegate from the branch of the Australian Anti-Convict League in Victoria , has arrived in town . The subscriptions in Victoria alone to resist the countinuance of convict transportation to Australia amount to upwards of 6000 guineas . Mr . William Rickford Collett , formerly M . P . for Lincolnshire , has been declared a bankrupt . Since he left Parliament , Mr . Collett has been engaged in several speculations , some of them ia Ireland , which have turned out unsuccessful . —Globe .
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The Emperor arrived on the 2 nd at Vienna . The Ban of Croatia also was there . Count Reventlow , the Danish Minister to the Court of St . James ' s died suddenly , at Glasgow , on Monday , of spasmodic affection of the heart . General Haynau , who is living in retirement at Gratz , has had the freedom of that city conferred upon him . The Asemblee Nationale says , respecting the submarine telegraph : — " At present the wire is laid ; an inauguration fete is spoken of in honour of the opening of the electric communication between Paris and London , at which an electric spark communicated at London by Prince Albert is to discharge the cannons of the In valides ; and another , imparted by Prince Napoleon at Paris , is to let off the cannons of the Tower of London . Thought at present knows not what space is , for it has taken lightning for its messenger . It is thejiat lux applied to man . "
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Miss Laura Addison was to make her first appearance in the States , at the Broadway Theatre , New York , on the 29 th ultimo . Mrs . Warner continues earning laurels . She appeared on the 26 th ultimo , at Burton's Theatre , as Hermione , in the Winter ' s Tale . Catherine Hayes gave her second concert in New York on the 25 th ultimo , and her third was to take place on the 27 th ultimo . Miss Hayes had been visited twice or thrice by the President of the United States and his family , Archbishop Hughes , and all the fabhion of the city .
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The " Sisterhood , " formerly settled at St . Barnabas , Knightsbridge , under Mr . Bennett , and latterly resident in Margaret-street , Cavendish-square , were publicly received in a body into the Roman Catholic Church at Islington , on Sunday evening last . Mr . Walmsley , says the Livarpool Courier , has submitted to our inspection a chaste medal , commemorative of her Majesty ' s visit to-morrow [ Wednesday ] . Ihc medal has been struck by an erninent manufacturer or Birmingham , and is designed principally for the use oj schools . , „ ... . , „„„ The sale of the Knowsley aviary and Zoological collection commenced on Monday . There were gentlemen from Paris , Amsterdam , and Antwerp present on befcaii of the gardens at those places .
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THE EXPOSITION . To day the Great Exposition closes , an / the "V ^ f show is over . The numbers who have visited the bunding this week are bo vast that the figures have a "„* £ ! look upon the paper . On Monday 107 , 816 person * entered the building . The sum taken was £ 517 &Jos . Two cabs were employed to bear it away , ami wne weighed at the Bank it was found to be 16 » " weight . The Duke entered during the day , and ¦» " \ mendous rush was made to see him , while a great snout , rang through the vaulted roof . He walked up " >» eastern half , through the press , went out at the bouui entrance , mounted his home , and rode away amid cu »» aiastic cheers . On Tuesday there were 109 , 915 visitors and the Runi taken was £ 5231 10 s . ; on Wednesday , 109 , 760 visitor- , and the " take " of the day waa £ 6283 , showing « i « fewer season ticket holders entered than on the previ a On Thursday the numbers fell to 90 , 813 , and the fiium received was £ 4344 7 s . u'd . And thus , during the nrBl ' days of the last week of the Exposition , no lean i 418 , 303 persons entered the building , and the enoriu sum of £ ' 20 , 034 7 s . ( id . was taken at the doora-Bloomer appeared on Thursday , and creattu " immense Bensation . " Owing to "PP . * " ? I ciosc admission , and other causes connected wltu ,, < . cnof the Exposition , the correspondence of the u ' ^ live Committee cost them on Thursday aloue > for postage btumps .
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" MAI ) MADOK , " AT GUILDHAIX . ^ Matilda Barton , who has for muny years obt " |" city sympathy of tho magistrates of this part ol u » ^ and who from her eccentric and dissipated imui : „ secured to herself the appellation of " Mad JJf" *^ , applied on Wednesday , to Alderman Lawrence the following extraordinary request : — favour , Madge : 1 huvo come now to « nk you a great i «* If you will grant it to me . Alderman . Lawreac ©; What ia it , Matilda ?
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 11, 1851, page 962, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1904/page/6/
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