THE FREEWOMEN OF VENICE.
Venice is asserting herself. According to a letter from that fair city,-
“Not many says since the word was given by the ladies through the Venetian provinces that, in order to be distinguished from the female companions of their oppressors, one and all should renounce wearing Crinoline.”
The Venetian ladies have done admirably in signifying their hatred of an abominable despotism by the renunciation of an odious fashion. In thus acting, they have vindicated the dignity of their sexl for the gregarious and sheepish submission to the burden of hoops and whalebone, ob the part of the softer sex, had rendered it questionable whether woman, however stubborn and obstinate she may sometimes be, really possesses any intelligent will of her own. The Venetian ladies, however, by bursting the bonds and easting away the cords of Crinoline have proved themselves endowed with sense, reason, and the power of free agency; faculties which, therefore, we may regard as only paralysed in the ease of the rest of the females, who persist in wearing clothes which are inconvenient and ridiculous, as if they were unable to help themselves. As the ladies of Venice have rejected the yoke of the Lady Bellaston dynasty revived, so may they, by the help of men who are worthy of them, very soon be enabled to get rid of the atrocious tyranny of the Imperial dastard who suffers his execrable hangmen to whip them.
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