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•PASSING EVENTS. 213
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drive holders them and , to chiefs a desperate as had resistance not been ; " he recommended lices in the cold " - that blooded such murder landaccomp
possessions of Europeans , of should which be some enlisted had on heen our side deprived by the upon restoration the annexation of their ancient of the their from
provinc oppression e , subj . " ect With to such the restrictions despatch of as the would proclamation protect to Lucknow dependents , carrie orders d
were out as also lenientl , it seems y as , possible sent that ; the still terms , the proclamation of the proclamation itself was should the thing be to be made known to those most interestedand how likely that was to conciliate ,
we leave our readers to decide . , till ment decre In the e Prussia as has King Regent been , be the published perfectl , with Question independent restored , of empowering the Regency to p health owers the , has . Prince and been according to at carry last to settled on his the own . govern A views royal - ,
In Russiathe proposed y enfranchisement of serfs has received an impetus b nobles addresses y the of Emperor the made , government to ' s the expressed nobility of Moscow sanction during have his of recent receive the movement j d ourney a sound to , in rating Warsaw the on various . their The
in lukewarmness the fact that in they the have matter personal , which pride is perhaps as well , as to interest some extent at stake , exp , lained many of the richest merchants of Moscow being serfs . " It is a matter of vanity
who to own is a said serf to who possess is a three millionaire hundred , and thousand it is well peasants known , that refused Sherenietieff the most , magnificent offers for the liberty of a merchant ' s family who were
enormousl From India y rich the . " latest intelligence is , on the whole , favorable . A meeting extermination on of the the alread last y day of disarmed the of August men 62 nd took , was and place 69 quickl th . Bengal The y suppressed bulk _Native of , the Infantry and Oude an almost at insurgents Mooltan total , , miles
from who still Sultanpore keep the , on field the , Lucknow are concentrated road . They at Jug are despore stated , some to number twenty about five of twenty Lucknow thousand two is guns , and said are to to be stationed have seeking with in to them a make fort eig at condition ht no guns great . s distance for A thousan her . own The d safety men Begum and by
promising cold weather the has surrender set in of Lord the Cl Nana yde . will It have is expected no difficulty that when in crushing once the any force that may be brought into the field against him .
some We of give our an readers extract and from which the Times certainl , which y points may perhaps to the be desirability of interest to of Victoria encourag contains ing female a statistical emi , gration return to Australia of no little . " The interest latest to intelli ladies gence . B from the y
last returns of the registrar-general of the colony we perceive that the numerical of one hundred preponderance and thirty of men four over thousand women in amounted a population to the of astounding four hundred sum
and seventy thousand . In other words , there were only about one hundred and and sixty this proportion eight thousand was becoming women to even three more hundred unfavorable and two , as thousand the gold fields men ,
men one purchased still hundred acted earning as for and a nearl twenty magnet thirty y the shillings to four best the thousand wage adult and s in male what unhappy the labor world more bachelors . of obvious the An acre world consist to of . the land Now ' mainl well can , - these pai y be of d
workman than that the only things , necessary to a reasonable amount of earthly felicity are a cottage , a garden , and a wife ? Are statistics always uninteresting to fair readers ?"
We must not omit to record here the generous donation of £ 400 from the abled Rev . T to . Cornthwaite add to the number , of Walthamstow of scholarshi , by ps conferring which the council the privilege have been of a free
_ente education ars the . title in Queen of th ' e " College . Oxford London Scholarshi . " p , The " and foundation , in . its _scoj in ) e this and the instance con-
•Passing Events. 213
• _PASSING EVENTS . 213
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1858, page 213, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111858/page/69/
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