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PASSING EVENTS. 359
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Public And Political. The All Absorbing ...
and they may be shortly expected , as to the annual amount to be deposited and whether married women may deposit , and also whether there can be
only one depositor in saving banks . A Boston lady , Miss Emma Hardinge , has planned a self-sustaining Agricultural and Industrial Institution for forsaken and homeless womenand a large
mixed committee of ladies and gentlemen has been formed to carry , it out . ARTISTIC , & c .
Government Female _School of Art . —The distribution of prizes to the in female Council Jermyn students on Education Street in the the , E School took arl Granville place of Art in , the under in the theatr the chair e direction of . His the lordshi Geolog of the ical Committee gave Museum prizes of ,
in medals and books , , to 109 young ladies , cordially shaking hands p with each , as he presented the reward of merit . Mr . Bowler and Mr . Redgrave addressed the meeting , the latter gentleman remarking that there were
works eighty- of six this schools year were in the of coun a very try hi , of gh which order , ten and were had g in iven the the metropolis highest possible . The intellectual satisfaction . cultivation The noble of lord the , in knowled his address , of dwelt art . upon Amongst the ad the vantages ladies of who an
had taken prizes that day were several ge in affluent circumstances , and he , as upon responsible persons for who the were public able funds to , hel should p themselves not feel justified ; but the in operation expending of them the
schools tended in an opposite direction , inasmuch as the amount paid by such persons for their lessons lessened the charge of the schools upon the public On Friday funds . evening , the 7 th instant , the aged father of Charlotte Bronte
passed age the away picture , at of the the age strange of eighty old -three man . in To his all solitary who knew age Haworth will remain Parson as a - lad memory The y professors musical for ever of journal . the art s record , literall v y arious too numerous concerts duri and ng matinees the month given of by June the
of for Mrs record . Anderson in our pages whose . We extraordinary cannot , however retention , omit of professional special mention powers of th and at activity at an advanced , age must have greatly impressed all her audience .
Mr . Moy Thomas is engaged in writing a life of Lady Mary Wortley Montague 500 letters , which of Lad will y , Mary we understand , her husban , comprise d , and the son , substance hitherto of unpublished more than ,
besides a fragment of an autobiography of Lady Mary , and other family papers , all of which have been placed at Mr . Thomas ' s disposal since the recent A bazaar publication in aid of of his the edition Building of her Fund works of . the Female School of Art was
held on the 15 th , 17 th and 18 th of June . This school , originally the Female the " in School the middle year of class 1842 Desi - gn to 3 . , " obtain Its was object an established honorable is twofold by and . Government 1 st . ofitable To enable at Somerset young loyment women . House 2 nd of .
To improve ornamental design by cultivating pr the taste emp of the designer . number Since 1852 at the , 690 present students time is have 118 entered of whom themselves seventy-seven at are the stud school ying , with the
the view of ultimately maintaining , themselves . MISCELLANEOUS .
Frightful _Cruelty in a Convent . —An account was given some time back been convent sequestrated of a of nun the called Grey for Sisters a Sister long Ther time at Pl _^ in autrages se , the but establishment whose , near re Mons al name , and in is Bel deprived Bau gium dry , , having of in the the
common necessaries of life . Three days back the Superior , of the convent , famil Sister names Amandine are Noel , and and the Si infirmary anewere attendan tried b , the Sister tribunal Rosalie of , correctional but whose gny
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Passing Events. 359
PASSING EVENTS . 359
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1861, page 359, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071861/page/71/
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