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From Miss Sedgwicks Journal. Fdshiond6ie SingIe Women.-A feature that in so-

 ciefy mus, be striking to Americans, is the great

 number of single women With us, you know, few women live beyond their minority unmated, and those

 few sink into the obscurity of some friendly fresde

 But here they have independendent existence, ,pur

 suit and influence, and they much happier for it.

 mind, II do not say happier than fortunate wives and

 good mothers, but than those who, not having drawn

 husband in the lottery of life resign themselves

 mere passive existence, English women, married

 and single, have leisure, and far opportu- nty for intellectual. cultivation, than with us. The objects of art every side of them, exciting

 their minds through their sensations and filling them with beauty. There is with us, far more necessity,

 and, of course, opportunity for the development of woman's faculties for domestic life than here; but

 this, think, is counterbalanced by woman's neces-

 sary independence of the other sex here. On the

 whole 1t to that there is not a more loyea-

 bie woman than the American matron, steadfast in

 her conjuga duties, devoted to the progress of her children and the happiness of the household,

 more powerful creature than the English woman in

 the full strength and development ol her character

 Now, my dear C., word as to the dress of the

 women kind of your family. l do not comprehend what our English friends, who among us, mean by their comments. on the extravaganza of dress in America have seen more velvet and costly lace in one hour in Kenslagton Gsrdens than ever l saw in New York; and it would take all the diamonds in the United States to dress duchess for an evening at L-- House. You may say that lace and dia, monds are transmitted luxuries, heir looins-a spe- cies of inheritance we know little about--stl, you must take into account the immense excess of their wealth over ours, before you have idea of the disparity between.us. The women here up to five and for,y--and splendid women many of them are up to that age-dress with taste-GtnessI after that, abominably. Women to seyenty-and Heaven knows how much longer-eave their necks and arms bare not here md there one, 's blinded deuded, misgud- ed;" but whole assemblies of fat womeu-and {" oh tempora! oh moresl'' and lean, Such parchment necks as have seen bedzened with diamonds, and arms bared that seemed fit only bold the scissors of destiny. to stir the cauldron of Machehs witch es--dresses in azure sains and rose colored silks and bares her if they were.as round and dm- pied us cherubs. tboagb they are mere branches of sinews and seem only kept together by that nice an, atomicaI contrsance of the wristband, on which PH ley expatiates. This post norfsm demonslraton is, perhaps, after a an act of penance for past foIles or perhaps it,. benevolent admoniton the young and fair that "to this compexion they must come at lasts .l3s n B,i4 4lJ