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PASSING EVENTS. 287"
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Public And Political. The Paris Presse P...
The King of Portugal died of typhus fever on the 12 th inst ., and having left . no children is succeeded by his brother the Duke of Oporto , who has been
proclaimed King by the title of Fernando II . called M . FotiLD to that has post been in consequence nominated of Minister the extraordinary of Finance deficit at Paris of , forty having millions been .. ,
sterling in the public revenue . SOCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL .
left _Tasmaniaist Gravesend Emigration on Saturday . — with -The ninety Aurora -nine Australis single , women Captain , selected G . 3 _ST . Poison hy the , * _, Tasmanian Emigration Agency . The emigrants were under the medical
charge of William Delaporte , Esq ., with Miss Martha James as matron , assisted by "two sub-matrons . Reformatory anb Industrial Schools . —Notices are given in yesterday * &
Gazette that the Industrial School for Catholic Girls in York Street , Westminster , and the Doncaster Reformatory Institution at Doncaster , have been : certified under the Act of Parliament , and that the certificate of the
_Boroughrnuirhead Reformatory has been withdrawn * At the opening meeting of the Session 1861-62 of the Dublin Society , held on the 18 th instant , the Solicitor-General in the chair , the _Report
of the Council was read by Mark S . O'Shaughnessy . The Report , which was adopted , contained the following paragraph : — " Considering the extent , the nature , and the value of the contributions
made to the transactions of the National Association by ladies , and that , since the meeting in August , three new societies , of all of which ladies are members , have been formed in Dublin , it appeared to your Council that , as
well to procure for your Society the aid of the valuable labors of these ladies in the cause of social science as to offer to them the strength and stability which connexion with a well-established society would insureit
was advisable to open this Society to ladies as associates , the rate of sub , - scription to which should be reduced . " It is stated that the paralysis of trade in the manufacturing districts , owing
to Each the succeeding scarcity of return American shows cotton numb , ers is of becoming mills graduall more y visible being re every duced day in - the hours of workingsome that were working six days in the week being
reduced in time by not , being lighted up in the morning and evening ; some that were working four days being reduced to three , and some being closed altogether .
Munificence of Miss Burdett Coutts to the Life-boat Cause .- — Miss Burdett Coutts has , with her wonted sympathy for the shipwrecked sailor , intimated her intention to present to the National Lifeboat Institution
the cost ( about _£ 200 ) of the new life-boat which that Society is about establishing at Plymouth . The residents of that and the neighboring towns _, fullappreciating this noble gifthave subscribed liberally towards the cost
of a y substantial boat-house and , the further maintenance of the station . Miss The Coutts first annual had previousl meeting y defrayed of the Ladies the cost _' Yisiting of thre Committee e life-boats in . connexion ¦•
with the Cork Union was Held on the 8 th instant ; the Mayor of Cork , Sir J satisfactory . . Arnott , M ' report . D ., presided was read , and by many the Hon of the . Sec guardians , Mrs . Paul were McSwiney present . . A
very-LITERARY , SCIENTIFIC , A _1 _STD ARTISTIC . The Gazette Musicale announces a singerSenhora Rosaro Zapaterwho ¦»
• will not of come an out yet for lished awhile mistress , thoug of h her she , art is with now , a when remark onl able y seventeen voice , . _, years At Nap age les , , the accomp management of the Teatro San , Carlo has engaged for its _^
winter season Madame cle Vries as " leading lady . "
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1861, page 287, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121861/page/71/
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