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430 PASSING EVENTS.
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SOCIAL AND _INDUSTKIAL . ¦ - The annual examination of the wards educated in the Adult Orphan
Institution 3 rd instant , . St The . Andrew Institution ' s Place has , Regent for its ' s Park object , took the p education lace on "Wednesday of the orp , han the born daughters in the of upper clergymen classes and of officers society in , and the left army by and the navy early who death having of a fattier -be < en
selve helpless s b and their unfriended own exertions , are reduced . The to the ladies necessity are of admitted providing after for the themof fourteen y are maintainedwith the exception young of a small annual contribution age
of . £ 13 6 s . , Od ., and educated , till the age of twenty-one . The Committee recommend them to situations as governesses , and keep their names on the
in books theology as " senior and Scri wards pture . " history The pup , in ils history were examined , in French by and different German sgentlemen JLiterar vious nead ture , master and special in of Latin preparation the . Philolog In history or ical knowled , School the young ge , and of the ladies the selection answers were tested of given subject by , with Mr made . no _Abbots _pref , by
the students examiner in the , were Universities such as . would have done credit to __ ... the more advanced The Marchioness of _Northampton has laid the foundation , stone for th _6
new schools in Clerkenwell . Queen ' s College ( for Ladies . ) - —The annual meeting was held on M Thursday Ppresided , at the and College there , in were Harley present Street . the The Rev Ri . E ght . H Hon . Pltimptre . "W . Cowper ( dean ,
The clergymen of . the . report , college , and stated , ; ) a large Professor that number the balance Maurice of the -sheet , young the for Rev lad 1860 . y T . pup Jackson showed ils and , tte sev their sam eral friends , e satis other - .
factory result as that for 1859 , and enabled the council to add £ 246 to the reserve or endowment fund . LITERARY , SCIENTIFIC AND ARTISTIC . _t
Madame George Sand . _—r-This lady writes as follows to a Mend _respect-, ing the rumour current in Paris that she had accepted 20 , 000 £ sent her by the Emperoras a compensation for the prize which the Academy declined to
, tradict award . her It : — is - "M quite y friend true , — that There gracious is an on offers dit which have been 1 authorize made you me : to but con Iv _- have thought it duty to accept none of themhaving neither desire nor
need of any recompense my , or any distinction from , -any government whatsoever . — lette Yours from cordiall Weimar y , George Sand . the " approaching marriage of Listzthe _<
A :: r announces , pianist _TMrs , . to Thornycroft the Princess Witgenstein has been honored , a match with which sittings has been for two alread medallion y spoken s b o & y »"
Her Royal Highness Princess Alice and His Grand Ducal . Highness Prince Louis of Hesse . . The Royal Society of Female . Musicians had its annual meeting at the ;
Hanover Square Rooms on the 2 nd inst . The Society , which was established in 1839 , is managed by a committee of ladies , eminent members of the , musical professionand is _oneof the most praiseworthy benevolent institutions :
of the Metropolis . , The Report of the examiners of the works sent from the various schools * £ art in for the national medallions awarded the artments
ocompetition by Dep of Science and Art lies before us . As relates to the Art department , 503 Among works were the winners sent in , of an medallions advance who on last have year been both trained in in number provincial and school quality s *
, the names of twenty ladies are recorded . Birmingham , Miss M . A . Preston ;" Miss Aberdeen E . Gammage , Mrs . J . , Booth ( once and before Miss rewarded Campbell , ) and ; _Liverpool Miss M ,. . Mi Pow ss S ; . Dublin Collins , ,
Miss ( twice befor _.. E . e Harman rewarde d once , ) Miss before M . Mo rewarded ore , Miss ); . Waterfbrd Elizabeth Smi Miss th , E and . Jones Miss ' .
430 Passing Events.
430 PASSING EVENTS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1861, page 430, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081861/page/70/
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