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    214 PASSING EVENTS.

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    To the Editor of the English Woman'*s Jo...

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    XXXI.—PASSING- EVENTS.

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    . —««£»- Kii^a over ten millions of peop...

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    To The Editor Of The English Woman?S Jou...

    There are two circumstances liere deserving- of notice : first , that out of so prize woman many essays and ; and this _T secondl ) y not persons out y , that of of this the intentional fact working was a classes comp injustice lete , the bar hut "best to simp her shoul obtaining lbecause d be b the y it a

    never ; occurred to the proposer any of the prizes that a , woman could y ~ b y possibility be a successful competitor , and he therefore so framed his

    advertiseregretted ment as to . exclude May not her the , a same circumstance thing happen which he in appear other s cases afterwards ? May to it have not often occur that women are excluded by their supposed incapacity from

    bethey coming As onl an competitors y examp been le permitted of for the rich practical to enter prizes good for in the life sense , race which shown ? they in this would essay have , I won give had the

    following short extract . " It might easily be shown , that among- the numemeans namel rous advantages y of , that subsistence it which gives and him the comfort weekl its rest . y , rest without affords diminishing the working in any man degree is this his ,-

    —'' By preventing the seventh day from being brought into the labor marthat ket , which it enables , were him there to procure no such a day remuneration , he would be for able six to days procure ' labor for , equal seven . to "

    Tours faithfully ,

    J . B .

    214 Passing Events.

    214 PASSING EVENTS .

    To The Editor Of The English Woman'*S Jo...

    To the Editor of the English Woman '* s Journal . Madam ,

    formation Several letters relative have to Female appeared Emi in gration your admirable . You would Journ render al , asking the for publi in c - much existing service for this if you would . The publish government a statement commissioners of the organisation grant free passages already

    only to carefully purpose selected candidates ; and those for whom the advantages of a new country are most needed are rigidly excluded . No girls under eighteen or women whose character is gone can be taken . It is perfectly

    just not become that the burdensome colonies in or granting injuriou funds s ; but should the m sti other pulat -countr e for y peop oug le ht who to have will towns some mean offer s such of locating terrible in temptations more favorable . No scenes notice those of Mrs to whom . Chisholm our large has

    appeared in the newspapers for some time . If some one would ( as she did ) I undertake do riot doubt to provide that funds homes could for g be irls raised sent for out the to New Zealand . or Australia , passage

    I am , Madam , yours respectfully , E . N .

    April 6 th .

    Xxxi.—Passing- Events.

    XXXI . _—PASSING- EVENTS .

    . —««£»- Kii^A Over Ten Millions Of Peop...

    . —«« _£ » - Kii _^ a over ten millions of people , it may be a small thing to Victor Emmanuel , of in the Louis hour Napoleon of his triump as the h sti , that pulated Savoy price _^ and of _Nice the heroic should show fall into of fig the hting hands for

    tion an idea . But , and the the day unheroic of reckoning reality has of supporting not yet arrived Sardinia , and — -for " the a considera sacrifice - fortunate dearest to Princess his heart Clotilde " ( the ) sacrifice to which , we Victor conclude Emmanuel , of Ms daug alluded hter , the in un his

    reults address than to the the Chambers " sacrifice , " may which not , h after ands all over , turn the , out unwilling more utterl - populations y bare of

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1860, page 214, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051860/page/70/