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142 PASSING- EVENTS.
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western of . The both Eari sexes London _/ X Closing engaged suburb Movement in swas the drapery held . — on A and the well millin - evenin attended ery g of establishments meeting the 18 , th of , in assistants Sloane of the
Streetand a local committee , was appointed to further the early closing movement Post , Office . Savings' Banks—The amount of business transacted since
' . most Monday sanguin , the e 1 expectations 6 th , at the new of those Post who Office arranged Savings the ' Banks details , far of the exceeds scheme the ; all and classes
having a very become large number depositors of pers . The ons , male money and collected female has , of alread ages y been invested ,
loj A Government usTBAiiiA . — . The Registrar-General has published an abstract of the population as exhibited by the late census . The excess of males is still very
great , being 328 , 651 males to 211 , 651 females . the Femaxe Government Education on the in India . and —The condition report which of the has Bengal been Presid issued ency by , progress
states that little has as yet " been done in regard to female education , and it As that there is a feared . general are direct but , be ten rule and a schools work , the tang peop of ible in very operation le benefit are slow opposed , development to attended be to derived female by , somewhat because from education of the over there , education 367 and not childr it being must en of , . _^
the daug g hters irls marry which at follows the age from of four the education or five , and of are sons mothers . in In thi a country at direction thirteen where or
be fourteen antici , pated it is not ; female from education schools th must at any be great broug success ht within the s penetralia can of homeThere is reason to believe that it has at length gained entrance
. there that it , is and inrpossible takes the to form obtain of statistics yenana teaching of this . mode The of report education acknowled , hut it ges is stated to be quite certain that it is spreading .
OVERPIXJS OF THE FEMALE _POPULATION OF THE UNITED KlNGDOM . who dom The were _conxp at tli leted abroad e recent returns amounted census show , not to that 29 reckoning 031 the 298 population an army increase , navy found , of or in sixty the merchant - United one per seamen King cent - _,
in emi fifty gration years . , notwithstanding The , census found that , here we , have 14 , , 077 been , 189 planting males , n and ations 14 b , y 954 a , vast 109 females—an excess of females over tlie males of 876 , 920 . The overplus of
women all Edinburg and g h irls ; in in Irelan England d , all would Belfast fill , all Waterford Liverpool , and and Wexford Leeds ; . in Scotland , readers Lifeboats that . a — benevolent It will probabl ladnamed y be Mrs remembered . Hartleyof by Bideford many Devon of - our
had exerted herself in raising y , the cost of a lifeboat ,, and its transporting , , different carriage . parts By her of the indefati country gable , she efforts lias , succeeded aided by in those raising of some the l friends arge sum in
of , £ 330 . The National Lifeboat Institution has selected Tynemoutli , on lifeboat the some Northumberlan fe , arful invented shipwrecks about d coast take eig , hty for place the years every station ago , winter was of the first . lifeboat Moreover successfull . In , there y this tried the locality , when first
for it was their the , rescue means had of saving previousl a shi y pwrecked failed . Since crew that , when period all other some app thousands liances of poor creatures have owed their lives , under God , to the lifeboat . In
National appreciation Lifeboat of Mrs Insti . Hartley tution ' s has zealous presented services to her in a this beautiful human model e cause of , the the Tynemoutli lifeboat , which is to be called the Mary Hartley . In the north
. Lifeboat of Devon Institution , in the nei has ghborhoods three lifeboat of A establishments i _3 p ledore and . Braunton These , lifeboats the National have been the means of saving several shipwrecked crews . The lifeboat house at
modation Braunton comfort of whatever is those a smal poor l in , inconvenient that shipwrecked desolate , wooden spot sailors , far who structure from are the , often and haunts affords broug of men ht no ashore , accom for the in -
142 Passing- Events.
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1861, page 142, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101861/page/70/
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