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    PASSING EVENTS ". 215

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    Public And Political. The Mortal Remains...

    distressedhas munificently intimated her intention to contribute the cost of a new life , -boat ( about . £ contributed 200 ) to be stationed £ 200 in at addition Plymouth to . £ 50 Miss previousl Wasey ,

    presented of The Priors will Court by of her , the , has to late the also Royal Miss Mary National P < . Life Townsend , Boat Institution has been . presented for y

    of prob Indi ate gent in Boston Females , U . S . She Pier ives princi 20 pal 000 bequest dollars for is to the the erection Home for of additional the Relief

    . g , buildings of which is upon to the be estate lied in to Ch the arles support Street , of and those 60 , 000 females dollars who " the are incom called e app

    reduced parents 4 spinsters b they y ' poverty or are sing to , le be not women of crime the . " virtuous ; to The be reci American poor pients of s this , are and descri to born be ption such of , American who as are are

    ; sing Mrs le from . Ann choice Macrea or necessity to whom . a Civil List pension of . £ 50 has just been awardedwas associated , with the late Joseph Lancaster in his earliest efforts

    for the promotion , of popular education . Before any institution for the training under of teachers Ms direction for their and work with the existed sanction in Eng of land the , late Mrs Dukes . Macrea of Kent was

    busy and SussexLord Brougham , , and others of Lancaster ' s friends , in travelling instruction through the in , method country , to organizing the teachers new When schools the for British poor and girl Forei s , and gn School giving

    . Society engaged was as the established superintendent , now of more the than model the fifty school years , and ago subsequentl , Mrs . Macrea for y and female was for

    teachers many years . During she had that the time supervi she sion prepared of the training first department systematic manual oi teaching needlework which had ever been published for the guidance of

    female effectand teachers which — is a work still in which extensive produced use . a Owing most salutary to her advanced and widespread age she

    has been , compelled recently to give up active life . poetical Miss Susan marbles ARTISTI Durant for the C Mansion has , LITERARY received House a , honor , being commission AND , of as _SCIENTIFIC this far to as we execute recollect . kind one , the of The first the

    Eng commission lish lady was wlio awarded has ever to gained her in an open competition particular with numerous . other artists The . following is a list of the _pensions granted by Her Majesty on the

    Miss Civil Barbara List to ladies Bell , in for consideration the year ending of the June eminenc 1 st , e 1860 of her : — late . £ 50 father per , annum professor on

    of cumstances law in the . £ University 50 , on Mrs of . Barber Edinburg , in consideration h , as a jurist , of and the vice of zeal her consul and straitened intelli at gence cir les

    especiall evinced b y y in her obtaining husband the , the liberation late Mr . Lewi of two s B British arber , as subjects - made prisoners Nap , on board the Cagliari . . £ 100 on Lady H . Brenton , widow of the late Admiral

    Sir Jahleel Brenton , in consideration of the late Sir J . Brenton ' s meritorious and gallant services in Pier Majesty's navy . £ 75 on Miss the Julia lat Hunt Lei , in h

    Hunt consideration to Eng of lish the literature valuable . contributions £ 25 ( additional of her ) to father Mrs , . Mary e Had Mr . yn , g in consideration , of the merits of her late husbandMr . Joseph Hadynauthor

    works of the . _? ' Dictionary . £ 50 on Miss of Jerrold Dates , " the in consideration " Book of Di , of gnities the literary , " and other merits , literary of her

    Fourdrinier father , the late and Mary Mr . Doug Ann las Sarah , Jerrold Fourdrinier . < £ 100 , on on in Miss account aid of Harriet the of manufacture the Elizabeth valuable

    in of ventions paper Miss , Eliz and of the the late destitute h Mr and . Fourdrinier Miss circumstances Charlotte , their in father Murp which , hy they as an are acknowled placed . gment £ 100

    on of the eminent a Murp literary y merits of their sister , the lat , e Mrs . Jameson , and on . account of their straitened circumstances . £ 50 on Mrs . Ann Macrea , on work of education £ 100

    account of her long and successful services in the .

    Passing Events ". 215

    PASSING EVENTS " . 215

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1861, page 215, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051861/page/71/