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PASSING EVENTS. 359
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of a workhouse generally on account of age , bodily infirmity , or illness , only husbands 2 , 267 being , or able with -bodied their husbands : 2 , 389 were in gaol married ; and wonien 1 , 698 were deserted married by wonien their
with their husbands also in the workhouse . presented cost Munificent of the . £ 300 lifeboat to Gift the and . — _National Miss transp S . orting Lifeboat Lechmere carri Institution , age resident which , to in the enable Somersetshire Societ it to is pay about , has the
stationing at Withernsea , near Hull . Some lamentable wrecks , with y loss of life , have occurred near that dangerous place . It is a gratifying and remarkable fact that most of the lifeboats presented to the institution have come
from ladies . One gift is of a striking' character . A lady , who has to this day withheld her name , had come to the institution month after month until she had given the cost of four lifeboats .
M' In Lean a letter Collins published , who was in latel a late y numb at Memp er of his the , gives Cincinnati the following Gazette , account Mr . John of what he saw there : —
"On the 25 th of April , 1861 , I was arrested upon the allegation that I was : a correspondent of the Tribune , and thrown into a dark and loathsome - length dungeon of , where time the impossible accumulated . This filth arrest of years the Avalanche rendered existence was exceeding for any l
J ubilant over , and had their counsels for summary execution been acted upon y , I would not now be writing this letter . While confined in that city , I was compelled to witness the enormities perpetrated in obedience to the behests
of those who ruled the mob . One hour in the morning , froni six to seven , was allowed me to stand at tlie window-grate , and at sucli times their whippings and head shavings were indulged . Here I sawfrom the 27 th of April to
the 6 th of June , eighty-five men whipped and their , heads shaved , and fortythree hung , because they refused to take an oath of allegiance to the Southern Confederacy . And on the 19 th of May last , one of the most' beautiful and
waist accomp thirteen lished young lashes ladies laid this country her back can and boast the of ri , ht was half stri of pped her to head the gratulating shave , d , simp herself ly because that she she upon would had purchased be in , a land ticket of for freedom g Cairo , These and was crimes
conwhich make the blood curdle in our soon veins , and a rouse a vengeance . blood alone , can quell , ' were regarded as small matters by the Avalanche , altogether too
insi On gnificant Thursday to be , May noticed 30 , . " an interesting scene took place at the East India Docks , Blackwall , on the occasion of the embarkation of the first thousand
_colonists new settlement , who are of now Albertland on their , ( way named for after New the Zealand late , Prince in order Consort to found , ) about -the fifty miles from Auckland . The colonists consisted of nearly all classes of
society The . Victoria Press . —The Queen , in token of her satisfaction with a Victori volume a latel Press y printed hasb for a Her warran Majesty t of b the y the Lord female Chamberlain compositors _apjDointed at the
Miss Faithful ! " , Printer , y and Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majest , y . " The Annual Meeting of the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women was held at Guildhall on the 11 th inst . Tlie Annual Report was
read and passed . It will be given in the August number of this journal . LITERATURE , SCIENCE , AND ART .
at Mr Damascus . Buckle , at , the the author early age of " of The thirty History -nine . of Civilization , " has died of fever
Royal General Mrs Navy . of Elizab Cape , and eth Coast daug Dixon Castle hter , of , widow died Archibald at of Tri the poli Dalzel late , in , Barb John Esq . ary , Dixon some , on , time the Esq 30 . Govcrnor , th Surgeon of last - ,
April . It was chiefly through tlie persevering efforts of this excellent lady
Passing Events. 359
PASSING EVENTS . 359
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1862, page 359, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071862/page/71/
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