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MISCELLANEOUS . BrasBXD , the Blacking Manufacturer . — This bankrupt passed the Court last Saturday . The business had been carried on at a loss for some time , and it would appear that the bankrupt ' s habits were improvident . Corea . —The J ? ags announces that , while the Chinese Government shows itself so unfriendly to foreigners , the King of Corea has spontaneously opened the ports on his coast to commercial ships of all nations . The kingdom of Corea , -which lies between Manchooria , Japan , and the Straits of Corea , contains many fertile districts , and produces many articles suited for export to Europe . The King of Corea acknowledges the suzerainty of the Court of Pekiu ; but he is completely independent as to the government of his kingdom . —rimes .
women on , was on Monday night at Exeter-hall . The Bishops of London and Liandaff , Lord Shaftesbury , and Dr . Lankester , were among the speakers , and resolutions in accordance with the objects of tbe meeting were unanimously carried . The Wikdsor Castle Theatricals . —Mr . Charles Kean has written to say that , when the greater number of the actors at a particular theatre are taken away on one night , to perform at Windsor Castle , so as to cause the theatre to close on that night , the manager receives a sum in compensation , and the salaries of the actors are paid on that occasion on the calculation of what they ordinarily receive . Mr . Rogers , therefore , on the night for which he received 13 s . 4 d ., | was paid double salary . It must be manifest , however , that this does not do away with the charge of meanness .
Reformatory and Eepuge Uniox . —The first annual general meeting of this society was held on Wednesday , at "Willis ' s Rooms , St . James ' s , under the presidency of the Earl of Shaftesbury . Besides the chairman , the meeting was addressed by Sir Stafford Northcote , Mr . Chambers , M . P ., Mr . Russell G limey , the Hon . A . Kinnaird , &c , by whom resolutions ( which were carried unanimously ) were proposed , in accordance with the objects of the association . The British Bank . —The negotiations lately in progress for a compromise between the shareholders and the creditors of the Royal British Bank have terminated
in an agreement that 6 s . 6 d . in the pound shall be paid , over and above whatever may be realized from the assets . Bankruptcy of Messrs . Fox and Henderson . — Messrs . Fox and Henderson , engineers and contractors , ¦ were on Wednesday declared bankrupts in the Birmingham District Court of Bankruptcy , and duly surrendered in the course of the afternoon . The reluctance of a large English creditor to sign the deed of inspection agreed upon in November , aud not the recent decision of the French Court , i 3 said to have precipitated the bankruptcy . The first meeting is fixed for the 2 nd of March , and the last for the 30 th of the same month . Mr .
Coleman , of London , is to prepare the accounts . The Court granted an allowance of 10 ? . per week to each of the bankrupts . Ruins of Carthage .- —A . Mr . Davis , an English gentleman , has been excavating in the neighbourhood of ancient Carthage , and has discovered some very interesting remains . Stabbing in Se ^ f-Defence . —A young man at Edinburgh has been tried for the manslaughter of a labourer . The deceased attacked him in the streets at night , when the accused stabbed him with a knife , and also wounded three others . It was held to be justifiable homicide , and he was acquitted .
Hack v . Race . —Tins case , by the desire of the parties interested , was heard in the Vice-Chancellor ' s private room on Monday and Tuesday ; and at the conclusion of the arguments , shortly before four o ' clock on the latter day , his Honour reserved his decision until Thursday morning . The decision , like the former proceedings , was delivered in private ; but it transpired that the following order was made : — " Declare that the infant plaintiff , Alicia Race , ought to be brought up in the Protestant faith . Appoint Captain Conolly and Mr . Woodroffe
( of the Chancery bar ) guardians of the infant , if they think proper to accept the office . Otherwise , refer it to chambers to appoint fit and proper persons to bo such guardians . Order that the infant plaintiff " , Alicia ltaco , be delivered to the Sailors' Orphan School at Harapstead . " This order proceeds upon the undertaking of the kev . 32 . tT . Bickerstcth , and four other gentlemen , to clothe , maintain , and educate the child in a manner suitable to her rank , J to an amount not exceeding 25 £ . per annum , until she attain the age of twenty-one years .
Tub BANKRurTor ov John Paul . —The adjudication of bankruptcy in this case , which had been disputed , was on Thursday confirmed . Gkokof , Holmes , the man who was released from prison by Sir George Grey , on pretence of ill health , about a month ago , bus again got into custody on a charge of theft . Railways . —The Railway system continues not merely to increase but to change . Of the 26 / i separate companies mentioned in " Bnulshaw ' a Manual" for 18-18 , as having ; an independent existence , upwards of ninitty have either become absorbed in others , or been almndoned and broken up . Notwithstanding this somewhat surprising alteration , the number of companies which now exist in the throe kingdoms amounts to no leas than 243 . —Bra (] . i 7 iuw ' n Railway Manual , <)•<; ., 185 7 .
ThkThkatkics . —Two iiovcltica Imvo been produced this week , to which we have only . space , barely to allude . One is a translation at the Hayinarket from a celebrated French piece , cilleil in its English dress JJouble .-Faced People . Mr . ttuclcstono , Mr . Complon , Mr . Chippundale , Miss Reynolds , and Mm . K . FiUwilliuw , in this drama throw a various light on the one principle of hypocrisy . —The other new piece is nt the Olympic , where Mr . Kobnouexcites laughter > n tho complications of a farce culled A Splendid Jnvestment . Tun French JomtNAi . s havo received ordorn from Government to be absolutely nilont on the wubjoct of the approaching elections , for fear , we . supposo , of disturbing tho purity of the Huflrago .
This INkw Jijixuc . —Mr . Serjeant Channcll will , we arc informed , succeed the late Sir IS . II . Aldcrson as a llaron of tho Kxehernjcr . —Morning rot ( .
Norfolk Island . —Norfolk Island is to be severed fiom the diocese of Tasmania , and to be annexed to that of Sydney , the Queen being empowered , by a bill , to issue letters patent to that effect . The Unemployed . —A crowded meeting of working men was held on the evening of Friday week at the Temperance-hall , Clerkenwell , Mr . Neale Porter in the chair ; when several resolutions -were agreed to , having reference to the present distressed condition of the working men of the metropolis . The first resolution called the attention of Government to the " severe , wide-spread ,
and . alarming distress existing in the metropolis and its suburbs , the result of a long stagnation in the building and other trades . " The other resolutions spoke of the " acute and almost intolerable privations" now endured by working men , their wives and children , and stated that the only hope of the men who could not find employment wa 3 emigration to Australia , New Zealand , and Canada ; and they therefore prayed the Government to grant them a free passage to the colonies . Petitions to both Houses of Parliament , based upon the resolutions , were agreed to .
Reports of the Inspectors of Factories . —The reports of the Factory Inspectors for the half-year ended the 31 st of October appeared in print last Saturday . From their conjoint reports it appears that the inspectors Lave applied themselves to the consideration of the duties nnder the act of last session in regard to the fencing of mill gearing and machinery . They find the provisions of the " arbitration" clause wholly inadequate to Jfacd . tbat amount of protection to the operatives which they conceive * must have been contemplated by the Legislature in passing the Act of 1856 , and they have therefore not taken any proceedings under that Act . Tney do not object to the principle of arbitration , but to
the class from which the arbitrators are required to be chosen , because that class is not qualified to act in such a capacity . The number of children employed has decreased considerably in flax and woollen factories , while it has increased in worsted . The total number of children under 13 years of age employed in all kinds of factories last year amounted to 46 , 071 ; the number of males between 13 and 18 to 72 , 220 ; the number of females above 13 to 387 , 826 ; and the number of males above 18 years to 176 , 400—making an aggregate of 682 , 407 . There were 1919 accidents from machinery , and 53 not due to machinery . The number of informations was 380 , and the number of convictions 245 .
The Income-tax Movement . —A , meeting of the inhabitants of Bath , convened by the Mayor , has been held at the Guildhall , for the purpose of protesting against tho continuance of the war increase of the income-tax , and against " our meddling foreign policy . " Both the members for Bath were present , and promised to vote against coutlnuing the tax as it now stands . —A meeting was held at Marylebone on Thursday evening , when Sir Benjamin Hall spoke in favour of a reduction of the tax , but aaid it could not bo altogether abolished without injustice to the poorer classes .
Illness of Mr . Thackeray . —Mr . Thackeray delivered one of his lectures on the Gcorgea last Tuesday , at Halifax , and was to havo delivered another at tho same town oa the following evening , and also one at Leeds on Thursday ; but ho was seized with illness at Halifax on Wednesday , and was unable to lecture either on Wednesday or Thursday . Thr Latk Abcjii > eacon Wiuibbforck . — Tidings of the decease of the Kev . Kobert T . Wilberforce , second aon of the late Mr . W . Wilberforco , and late Archdeacon of tho East Hiding of Yorkshiro , at Albnuo , fourteen miles from Home , on Tuesday , February 3 , of gastric fever , have been received by his family .
The Capk of Good Hone—The colony for the most part is tranquil ; but apprehensions of attacks by the Kaffirs are felt by tho white jncn . The savages are also « aid to have committed wanton havoc among tho crops . The Manchestjer CuAMiucn ov Commeiick held its annual meeting on Monday in tlio Manchester Townhall , when a long report -was road aud adopted , having reference to the necessity of encouraging the growth of cotton in India , our African possessions , and other of our colonies . Milunkks and DurcssMAKKits . —A meeting to oxprea 3 sympathy with tho frightful overwork of milliners aud dressmakers , and to call tho attention of Englwh-
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There is . no learned , man . but will confess he hath , mucn profited by reading controversies , his senses awakened , and . his judgment sharpened . If , then , it be profitable for him to read , why should it not . least , be tolerable for bis adversary to write I —Milton-
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THE LAWS RELATING TO THE PROPERTY OF MARRIED WOMEN . ( To the Editor of the Leader . ) Sib , —You . have kindly promised me space in the columns of your " Open Council" to speak at length of the first petition on the subject of the alteration of the Jaws respecting the property of married women , which was signed by three thousand petitioners of the female sex , and presented to the Houses of Lords and Commons by Lord Brougham and Sir Erskine Perry respectively . This petition , succeeded by many others from all parts of the kingdom , was intended to include in some sort a sumniary of the arguments in favour of the change it supported , and was therefore drawn up at some
length . It contained thirteen clauses , detailing most of the special injuries which the petitioners conceived to be inflicted by the said laws upon society . Permit me to take these clauses one by one , and examine their statements . The first clause humbly showeth " That the manifold evils occasioned by the present law , by which the property and earnings of the wife are thrown into the absolute power of the husband , become daily more apparent . That the sufferings thereby occasioned extend over all classes of society . That it might once-have been deemed for the middle and upper ranks a comparatively theoretical question , but is so no longer , since married women are entering on every side the fields of literature and art , in order to increase the family income by such exertions . "
That the particular evils complained of are ou the increase , both as regards fact and as regards publicity , admits of no question . "We canuot take up a newspaper without seeing cases wherein the -woman s earnings have been dissipated by the man ; while the story is sometimes reversed In an advertisement , wherein the husband announces to the public that , after the date of such and such an insertion , lie will not hold ' himself responsible for his wife ' s debts . This partly arises from the vigilant surveillance which the press now exercises over society , dragging to light every minute detail , of private life , so that that which was once hidden in secret is now proclaimed upon the house-tops ; but
still more from the increased facilities of action which our modern civilization affords to woman . It is evident , upon the slightest thought , that until tho physical forces of society are brought into order , tho power , whether moral or intellectual , of the weaker sex must be doomed to comparative Inaction . Not only is the woman , from her feeble frame , exposed to chances of death , lrnt , ns a mother , she bears during many years the responsibility of other lives than her own . She may possess this artistic eye of Rosa Itonhcur , or the iiery genius of Elizabeth Barrett Browning , but these are of no sort of avail so long as she must remain shut up in a feudal castle , only taking exercise amidst the laurel bowers
of " The Ladye ' s Walk , " and seeing tho world , either panorama-wise- from the top of a tower , or in small ornamental sections of the court nnd the chapel ; eo long ( is she must lead the life of a bird of bright plumage tenderly fed in a gildud cage , under \) iih \ of exposing herself to death , or worse than death . Women are physically at the mercy of evil doers , and herein lies the gist of the whole argument for their servitude or their enfranchisement ; . It is ¦ well to put this plainly , because it aUbrds at once excuse for the past and hope i ' or the future , and destroys tho force of that " semper ct vbiqita" which decrees that women havo been , are , and ever shall be in tho position of minors before the law .
But this very law which redresses the balance between the strong and tho weak , now performs for woiuan that oflice of personal protector , in which she was once obliged to instal father , brother , or husband . Not only is a woman sure of instant redress , from thu picking of her pocket up to major offences , but , what in of infinitely more importance to refined and sensitive natures , is the fact that the unseen pressure of the law , aiding the increase of good manners , actually secures from impertinence all women who
do not bring it upon their own heads , and tlmt , -with tho exception of particularly lonely country districts , women are equally aafe by day and by dusk in tho streets of London , in tho precincts of the country town , in the village , in the farm , and on the king's highway . Women may travel all over England without the risk of any annoyance except such aa they choose to create in tlioir own imaginations ; they may enter into business relations with men , married or unmarried , and thereby gain not lea a
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 14, 1857, page 153, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2180/page/9/
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