Martineau to be the propagandist of the sexual equality most notorious in our days, and in this country. Other renowned agitatrices are the Hon. Mrs. Caroline Norton, who is understood to have circulated a work on this subject; and Lady C. Bury, of whom still less need be said, if, as our contemporaries the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews have publicly accused her, she be indeed that Lady of Honour, authoress of the foulest and most infamous publication of treachery that has ever yet appeared in England! for amongst the other disgusting and abominable characteristics of that vile work of scandal-mongery, we find also the repetition of these doctrines !—fit receptacle for such things!—though there they are not argumentated as Miss Martineau and the writer of this article do it, but sentimentalized: e. g. speaking in her own person, she writes," As it is the interest of the stronger sex "to subdue women mentally and personally, at least we imagine "that it is so," &c. v. i. p. 346. and putting into the mouth of her royal mistress, queen of England and post-prandial horn-maker in ordinary to his majesty the king! (as her lady of honour describes her to be)-" Punch's wife is nobody when Punch is present."-" Married love never lasts; dat is not in de nature.”—“When I will do anything, by G- I do'ot!"

When works, containing sentiments, and doctrines, and phrases such as these, are continually issuing forth from the press,-not, as one would suppose, edited by the lowest inmates of the purlieus and stews of St. Giles's, to which they would be a disgrace; but by high-born ladies,-the proud inhabitants of aristocratic St. James's,-ladies received in society, and at the court, in that place of honour, the observed of all observers, which gives the tone and manner to all the higher classes, and consequently to all beneath them,-we think that it has become high time no longer to let pass sub silentio, and thus become daily more and more current, but to animadvert on and expose, the falsehood and immorality (for nothing that is false can be moral!) of these so generally received and believed sentiments and doctrines! If, in doing this, we have used strong language, (for we confess we are not of those who can see the morality of "sugaring over vice" for the devil to suck at with his sweet and liquorish tooth for a bit

of well-candied sentimentality!) let those who are shocked be assured that we have only done it from necessity. In times like these, if a stop is to be put to the insinuations of vice, things must be called by their right names. Let those then who pretend to be shocked with our strong language, read the still stronger employed by such divine and pure-minded moralists as Isaiah and Milton; and let those who, though not shocked by the thing, are so with the name, though not horrified at the truth of the deeds, from their long practical acquaintance with them, may yet well tremble for the exposure of the doers,-be persuaded, while it is yet time, that we have used these strong expressions in mercy. We have no desire, if they only desist from attempting to demoralize the public mind by the publication of such doctrines, to say a word more about them or their publishers; but if we are compelled, we shall not scruple to use language still stronger, and to lay bare vice to the skin and bone.

When Dante, during his journey through Purgatory,—the real symbolic representative of Man in the purgatorial world we live in,-fell into a dreamy languor, and was almost overcome in his high and arduous resolutions after the Good and Beautiful, by the subtle discourses of that sweet syren Vice, another, his own true Lady, appeared to him; and delicate, and pure, and holy as she, this fair and glorious Virtue, is

"L'altra prendeva, e dinanzi l' apriva,

Fendendo i drappi, e mostravami 'l ventre;

Quel mi svegliò col puzzo che n' usciva! "—c. 19.

When all else has failed to reform them, people must be made to see and smell the foulness and stinkingness of the well-draped lie which is the poisonous source of disease at the bottom of all their vices; and if that does not disgust them, and make them wake up and turn away from it with abhorrence, Væ mundo! for nothing but hell will.

Martineau to be the propagandist of the sexual equality most notorious in our days, and in this country. Other renowned agitatrices are the Hon. Mrs. Caroline Norton, who is understood to have circulated a work on this subject; and Lady C. Bury, of whom still less need be said, if, as our contemporaries the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews have publicly accused her, she be indeed that Lady of Honour, authoress of the foulest and most infamous publication of treachery that has ever yet appeared in England! for amongst the other disgusting and abominable characteristics of that vile work of scandal-mongery, we find also the repetition of these doctrines!—fit receptacle for such things!—though there they are not argumentated as Miss Martineau and the writer of this article do it, but sentimentalized: e. g. speaking in her own person, she writes," As it is the interest of the stronger sex "to subdue women mentally and personally, at least we imagine "that it is so," &c. v. i. p. 346. and putting into the mouth of her royal mistress, queen of England and post-prandial horn-maker in ordinary to his majesty the king! (as her lady of honour describes her to be)-" Punch's wife is nobody when Punch is present."-" Married love never lasts; dat is not in de nature."—"When I will do anything, by G— I do'ot!"

When works, containing sentiments, and doctrines, and phrases such as these, are continually issuing forth from the press,-not, as one would suppose, edited by the lowest inmates of the purlieus and stews of St. Giles's, to which they would be a disgrace; but by high-born ladies,the proud inhabitants of aristocratic St. James's,-ladies received in society, and at the court, in that place of honour, the observed of all observers, which gives the tone and manner to all the higher classes, and consequently to all beneath them,-we think that it has become high time no longer to let pass sub silentio, and thus become daily more and more current, but to animadvert on and expose, the falsehood and immorality (for nothing that is false can be moral!) of these so generally received and believed sentiments and doctrines! If, in doing this, we have used strong language, (for we confess we are not of those who can see the morality of "sugaring over vice" for the devil to suck at with his sweet and liquorish tooth for a bit

of well-candied sentimentality!) let those who are shocked be assured that we have only done it from necessity. In times like these, if a stop is to be put to the insinuations of vice, things must be called by their right names.

Let those then who pretend to be shocked with our strong language, read the still stronger employed by such divine and pure-minded moralists as Isaiah and Milton; and let those who, though not shocked by the thing, are so with the name, though not horrified at the truth of the deeds, from their long practical acquaintance with them, may yet well tremble for the exposure of the doers,-be persuaded, while it is yet time, that we have used these strong expressions in mercy. We have no desire, if they only desist from attempting to demoralize the public mind by the publication of such doctrines, to say a word more about them or their publishers; but if we are compelled, we shall not scruple to use language still stronger, and to lay bare vice to the skin and bone.

When Dante, during his journey through Purgatory,—the real symbolic representative of Man in the purgatorial world we live in,-fell into a dreamy languor, and was almost overcome in his high and arduous resolutions after the Good and Beautiful, by the subtle discourses of that sweet syren Vice, another, his own true Lady, appeared to him; and delicate, and pure, and holy as she, this fair and glorious Virtue, is

"L'altra prendeva, e dinanzi l' apriva,

Fendendo i drappi, e mostravami 'l ventre ;

Quel mi svegliò col puzzo che n' usciva!"-c. 19.

When all else has failed to reform them, people must be made to see and smell the foulness and stinkingness of the well-draped lie which is the poisonous source of disease at the bottom of all their vices; and if that does not disgust them, and make them wake up and turn away from it with abhorrence, Væ mundo! for nothing but hell will.

Postscript to Article III.

Since the remarks made in this article were written, events have proceeded rapidly to the consummation continually predicted by us, and to the ruinous exposure of that policy which has for some time ruled the vacillating cabinet of England, in relation to our foreign affairs. Egypt, ripe for rebellion and backed by Russia, has at last openly solved the problem, and the opposing interests are now in presence of each other. No less than one hundred and eighty-four members, out of a house of three hundred and eighty-four, have decided that Lord Palmerston's conduct in the affair of the Vixen was disgraceful to this country; and in the house and the political circles, the discomfiture of the noble lord was greater than can be conveyed merely by the announcement of the respective numbers that voted. Meanwhile the commercial classes (that vast and influential body to whose will kings, lords and commons must, in the long run, bow) have openly expressed their sense of the protection given by the foreign office to our merchants, and will inflict severe castigation upon that minister whose nonchalance cannot condescend to weigh the value of a schooner of a few tons and a cargo of a few hundred weight of salt. Had his late royal master lived, he would ere this have learned that the English flag must be respected though it fly over no more dignified a craft than a cock-boat; and that an English merchant is to have redress for injury, whether his cargo be worth thousands of pounds or dozens of pence only!

To this affair of the Vixen we shall return in our next number, as there are still numerous misrepresentations to be cleared away. But in the meantime, we print the evidence of our assertion, that the commercial interests are rousing themselves at last to a sense of the ruinous and degraded condition to which our diplomatists have brought us. The following address from that great and influential city of Glasgow is but the first of a long series of similar remonstrances from other great commercial constituencies.