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144 PASSING EVENTS.
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XXV.— PASSING EVENTS.
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A Hindoo Member of Council in India, is ...
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. Temporary assistance being granted by the Governesses Benevolent Society , it has been thought best to devote this fund entirely to annuities .
societies And believing to be that quite less insufficient than £ , 25 there per annum is no has wish proved to lower , on trial the b amount y other » amed . , ,
ladies age The d governesses would payment not be of could five willing avail pounds to themselves give in the advance sum of the and seemed plan all ; the it s was must only though way join t to in younger render which
the fund an efficient one . , age In conclusion , allow me to repeat that those governesses who take an entirely personal view of these five-shilling annuities have not comprehended
the great object sought to be obtained , for they must recollect that " union is never strength hope , " and otherwise a position to attain might . be gained by co-operation such as they can
Subscriptions and donations on behalf of the X . Y . Z . Fund are received 32 by William Sackville Gil Street pin , Esq who . ; and will C kindl . Klugh furnish , Esq ., circulars at the office for distribution of the _G-. B . and S . y
any , information that , may be desired . I remain , ladies , yours obediently , X . Y . Z .
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Xxv.— Passing Events.
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A Hindoo Member Of Council In India, Is ...
A Hindoo Member of Council in India , is about to introduce a Bill to lessen the evils of Polygamy , which is a moral rather than a religious
custom question . , since In Bengal the Shasters , this vile lite practice the Hebrew prevails scri to ptures a fearful merel extent y tolerat ; many e the of the privileged Brahmins having 20 wives , while one husband has been
aunts known and to possess nieces in 180 a , famil the y same . That man the sometimes Hindoos are marry themselves ing all the becoming sisters , alive , to the evils of such a system , is a most encouraging feature of the
times . his The last " l Own etter Correspondent on the undue " preference of the Times shown , at Melbourne for the Irish , commentin by the g late in
into ministry public in offices that colony , an Irish , mentions lady , Mrs that . Tiern after ly numerous , had been Irishmen appointed had been registrar put . and of births adds , deaths " This , and appointment marriages for seemed a large to division excite of about the city the of same Melbourne sort of ;
may mixed be surprise supposed , , disgust to hav , and e felt indi at gnation the promotion as that of which the hors the citizens e to the of Consul Rome - ; ship . " Of course we do not know how far this particular lady may or may
not have been competent to fill such a post , but the feeling excited seems to have been quite irrespective of this , and to have arisen solely on account of hex sex . In this country , men of capacity certainly far below the generality
if of the our colonial well-educated women women are not , may be to the found standard filling situations of even these of this the kind need ; . and for up ; , appointment other " Middle hand Class , their of one Femal _cajmbilities of them e Emi to gr are fill ation equ an al " office to must those onl be y of requiring pressing their sisters ordinary indeed at home . intelli If , , that on the the
gence should excite " disgust and indignation" is only disgraceful to those who indulged a level in such with feelings horses . Men are assuredl who look y in upon some women danger of average of being ability ranked as
themselves upon , by the more sensible , of their sex , with kindred quadrupeds of yet lower pretensions . _« .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1863, page 144, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101863/page/72/
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