MISS BURDETT COUTTS.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 431, 30 October 1875, Page 3

MISS BURDETT COUTTS.

‘ Synder ’ thus discourses in the Coro mamici Mail on the Baroness Burdet Coutts: —ln a supplement to the Auckland Evening Star, nearly a column of reading matter is devoted to eulogising the Baroness Burdett Coutts. Miss Burdett Coutts, by which name she is better known, is the richest woman in the world. She is an old maid, more's the shame for her, considering she has been asked in marriage as many times as it would tako a cannon ball seconds to reach the sun, which is ninety-six millions of miles within a foot or so either way. After extolling Miss Burdett Coutts’ many virtues, showing how at at outlay of £50,000 she founded three colonial bishoprics at Adelaide, Cape Town, and British Columbia, and founding other things beside, her eulogiser goes on to say that the wealth of Lady Burdett Coutts, if told in sovereigns, would weigh thirteen tons and fill a hundred and seven flour sacks. Now we say, with all deference to any one who may dissent from us, that Miss Burdett Coutts is not a good woman, or she, without chick or child to provide for, would not be in possession of thirteen tons of sovereigns which would fill a hundred and seven flour sacks. So far from Miss Coutts being a good woman we must think her the reverse when we think of the complete misery and utter destitution of thousands of families in London; when we hear of them dying in garrets from starvation ; when we hear of children fading out of existence for want of nourishment; and all this while there is an old girl, with never a husband, who has got thirteen tons of sovereigns which will fill a hundred and seven flour sacks, And yet she is pronounced so good because she has founded three bishoprics which would have founded themselves if she hadn’t done it. What a pity it is that Miss Coutts couldn’t get an act passed by which she could take her sacks of gold with her when she left this world to lire in another climate!