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358 PASSING EVENTS.
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Public And Political. The All Absorbing ...
During the past year it has educated and clothed 30 orphans , maintaining 5 in the house ; 7 have left the school to earn their own living .
The System of _Hiring Farm Servants . —A meeting was held at Doncaster on Saturday to take steps for promoting the establishment of register-offices for the hiring of farm servantsin lieu of the present " statutes . "
Mr . Edmund Denison , late M . P . for the Riding , , _occLipied the chair . Several large employers of labor expressed an opinion that it would be impolitic to carry out the lan so far as male servants were concernedbut that if
register-offices p for female servants could be generally adopted , , many of the evils _General incurred Garib by the aldi present it is system stated would has written be avoided a letter . to the Marchioness
Anna Trivulzio Pallavicini , , begging , her to use her powerful influence towards the ball foundation the mean , s in at all their the towns disposal of Ital the y moral , of committees and materi of al ladies improvement for procuring of the
lower y classes of society . , A JLECTURE on Slavery was delivered at the Finsbury Chapel , on Monday evening , June 17 , by Miss Sarah P . Remond , a lady of color from Massachusetts .
ei lace g Lace hteen factories may Factories be contains emp . — loyed Sir clauses G between -. Lewis providin 4 's a bill . m g . th and for at app youth 10 p ly . m ing s ., of but the . sixteen not Factory for and more Acts under than to
nine hours in a day if employed before 6 a . m . or after 6 p . m . An hour and a half is to be allowed for meals to women , young persons , and children between 7 . 30 a . m . and 4 . 30 p . m ., and half an hour between 6 and 7 to every
youth children emp , may loyed be . emp after loyed 6 p . until m . On 4 . 30 Saturdays p . m . , women , young persons ; and _Morris _Schoolmistresses on schools _insjDected and their in Cheshire Dress . — Salop In the and report Staffordshire of the Rev in 1860 . J . he P .
expresses his satisfaction at noticing an , improvement , in the matter of dress , _,, especially among the younger teachers . lie remarks that the serious importance of simplicity in dress , on the part of schoolmistresses and their
pupilis teachers such , will cannot her be hundred too earnestl scholars y impressed bemore upon or less them . . If Such she is as dressy the teacher , they , , fancy too will , they be are dressy dressy ; but to their with ruin this . difference If a dressy —she teacher is dressy could to see please with her her
g mind lances ' s eye at all her the flounces consequences or ribands of her , and exam then ple , the beginning pause with before the the admiring shopwindow and shillings , the squandering the awakened of the vanity hardly won the courting or ( it may of be attention ) illgotten the sixpences street
, , , flaunting , and worse—if all this could be brought before the young schoolmistress as in a vision , she would understand the full meaning of those words , " Whoso shall offend one of these little ones , it were better for him
the that depth a millstone of the were sea . " hanged Mr . K a ~ arris bout his says neck he , has and wondered that he were sometimes drowned th in at school managers did not see the necessity of speaking to their teachers more
plainl The y New on this Post subject Office . Savings' Banks Act . —This importantAct , which has statute received as declared the Royal by the Assent preamble , has just is to been enlarg issued e the . facilities The object now of avail the
able for , the deposit of small savingsand , to make the General Post Office available for that purpose , and to g , ive the direct security of the State to the every interest such depositor thereon . for The repayment deposits of are all to money be entered s so _deposited in a book , together and not with to
be less than one shilling , the depositors are to be entitled to repayment , not later than ten days after the demand made . The interest is to be £ 2 10 s . per cent , per annum . The funds received are to be invested in the
Governdeposits ment Securities to other . savings By the ' banks 10 th can clause do , so depositors , and they desiring can transfer to transfer their deposits their from other savings' banks to the Post Office Savings' Bank . The
Postmaster-General , -with the consent of the Treasury , is to make regulations ,
358 Passing Events.
358 _PASSING EVENTS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1861, page 358, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071861/page/70/
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