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OPEN COUNCIL. 425
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Ziittle Street Peggy , London Bhan . , o...
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LXL—OPEN COUNCIL.
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Open Council. 425
OPEN COUNCIL . 425
Ziittle Street Peggy , London Bhan . , O...
Ziittle Street Peggy London Bhan . , or Price the Is Hi . g 6 hland d . Widow , John Murray , 50 , Albemarle
, sold " Little for the Peggy benefit Bhan of , the or the Ladies Hig ' hland Association Widow in , " support is a prett of y Gaelic story , tale of
Schools connected -with , the Church , of Scotland . It is a a _soldier the ' s family , left of in a poverty wound received by the death at Waterloo of their . father There from is a consequences
her villanous helless lawyer han and children a devoted clansman there are , a pensions lovely young and Waterloo lady and porp ; of the villain in favor of the
ri medals ghteous , and peop a le general ; altogether overthrowing a charming little story . We give our readers the benefit of the " appeal" which forms the preface .
and This destitute Association localities , has of , the for its Hi obj hlan ect ds , to and support Islands or of aid Scotland Schools . in remote g
11 Frien of the ds are day reques far ted from to "bear benefitting in mind have that the proved great actuall Educational injurious Move to
the districts men distant The localities attainments , so and scattered of Teachers population , are elevated of our Hi ou g t hland they y and look Island inueli ,
t hi gher children t . t he humble dis co tric ttage tea n be y instructed side school , by Government means of wh aid ich is g alone iven
ean to sc be hools expected ; bu , t it from is y alone the districts to t hose , before that alread referred y p . to ossess , and are hig , her in fact income , alread than y
lation self " - It supporting of is , the then Hi , . hlands y by such and Islands Associations can be as furnished this , that with the scattered any education popu- . g
their " We seek Bibles onl with y to imp understanding art such knowled , both h in Eng will lish enab , to and the le Gfaelic th Female e y , and Education g t t o w read rite
and ciherwith a little geograpy ; adding needlework attended p , and nearl other fifteen industrial hundred branches male and . ~ female We have children twenty . -nine Our schools annual , y
expenditure y averages 5 s . 9 | d . for each child taught in our schools , and this includes Christian " Wo , are in friends most entirel eases a y nd dependent unless , the priee their upon of contributions books the * annual be voluntary increased contributions , we must with of
draw our aid from , some of the districts which now acknowledge it as a want ¦ blessing of " good The of is funds Committee for accomp the when young lished cannot it . is at made b so elieve little known that expense a . scheme They , will b therefore y be which allowed leave so great to their languish an amount case for in
fe the y the hands Treasurer and , hearts , B ,. E of . Scott the Christian , _Esq ., 127 public , Princes . Donations Street , Edinburg will be h received . " "
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LXL—OPEN _COUNCIL . _£ As these pages themselves are intended responsible for general for the discussion opinions , expressed the Editors /] do not hold
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I Madam much , impressed bthe letter of correspondent Lin the last
number am of your Journal , y which indeed touches your on one of the most . 2 e impor-VOL . v .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1860, page 425, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081860/page/65/
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