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432 PASSING EVENTS.
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attended the Easter term of 1862 had been 239 . On the motion of the Rev _» Thomas Jackson , seconded by the Rev . F . I > . Maurice , a resolution adopting
the report , and expressing satisfaction at the success of the college , was _Tjnanimousl Proportion y carried of Sexes . in States of Europe . —As it is always interesting
to compare the statistics of this country with those of the kingdoms of " Europe mentioned , the . In relative Prussia proportion , in 1858 , of there the were sexes 100 in * a 7 few females of these for every may 100 be
males . In Denmark , in 1860 , there -were 100 * 8 females for every 100 males _, in in 1858 Spain , , there in 1859 were , there 101 * 8 were females 101 * 5 for fem every ales for 100 every males 100 . In males France . In , Holland in 1856 , * ,
there were 101 * 9 females for every 100 males . In the combined States of the German Union , in 1856 , there were 102 * 3 females to every 100 males . In in Norway 1855 , there in 1855 were , there 106 * were 3 female 104 s * 2 to females every 100 to every males 100 ; While males in . Eng In land Sweden _ancT ,
" of Wales Scotland , , in 1861 being , there 111 were * 2 female 105 * 2 s females to every to 100 every males 100 . males It is ; thu the s proportion seen that Scotland far exceeds all these countries in the excess of her female population ;
and that fact deserves the serious attention of the _Legislature , as it cannot be doubted that such an excess must tell prejudiciously against the prosperity of the country , though there is not the shadow of a proof that it affects its
general The sums morality remitted . —Reg to istrar the Chancellor - Generals of Report the Exchequer for Scotland by pers . ons unknown , for conscience' sake , in the course of the financial year 1861-62 , amounted to
the . £ 7 , 573 sum . of There £ 333 is 13 another s . 4 c ? . was remarkable repaid to the item Committee in the accounts of Council for the on past Education year : by teachers who have quitted their profession , " in respect of the expenses of
their training . " A Church Congress on the plan of that which met last year at Cambridge _,, has been held at Oxford , under the presidency of the Bishop of Oxford .
Among other important subjects , that of the employment of women in works : of charity was discussed . The question was introduced by a Paper on followed Deaconesses bone by on the Sisters Rev of . Dr Mercy . Howson by the , Rev Colleg . T iate . Carter Institution of Clewer , Liverpool . Then ,
followed the y most exciting scene of , the Congress hitherto , , when Dr . Pusey was called on by the President ( the Bishop of Oxford ) to read a short paper on the subject . The Professor was received with the loudest acclamations .
The paper was a simple statement that sisterhoods , in the sense of associated women leading simple lives and devoted to works of piety , was a scriptural restored and catholic to us institution and l of ing the the Church want , whi for ch a time had led held to in the abeyance Wesleyan , but schism now
and to recent , secessions _suppy in another direction . A Paper on " Parochial Mission Women" was then read by the Rev . Wellington Furse , and some remarks on the general subject of women ' s work were made by the Revs . R .
Seymour , of Kinwarton , W . E . Scudamore , Archdeacon Cburton , and others . Tne Right Rev . the President then briefly recapitulated the chief points of the discussion , expressing his strong objection to the use of vows and the
term " religious life , " in connexion with sisterhoods , as unscriptural and un Emigration -English , a snare to Queensland and delusion . — to We excitable understand minds . that Miss M . S . Rye is
preparing to send 100 persons to Queensland in August . Application for the remaining passages may be made to Miss Rye , at 12 , Portugal Street , X daug < incoln hters ' s . Inn This Fields party , and is being a preference formed will in order be given to afford to families an opportunity having many of
emigration to a desirable colony , to a class of persons ineligible for a
government passage and unable to pay the ordinary fare .
432 Passing Events.
432 PASSING EVENTS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1862, page 432, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081862/page/72/
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