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    fectl-v write a neat hand and be able to write a clear and simple letter . I should expect her to know an outline of Bible History and of the spread of . Christianity , and to be well acquainted with the four Gospels ; she might know also something of the leading events of ancient and modern history , gathered from a mere skeleton narrative , aided by reading the lives of great men and perhaps committing some principal dates-well grouped to memory . In the same manner she should have some slight notion of geography , partly learnt as a lesson , but in greater measure by following upon maps the travels I suppose her to read for her own amusement . I should ¦ wish her memory to be well stored ^ vith such poetry as she is able to take pleasure in , never having learned a piece unless it has first excited her own interest . She might have been familiarized in the French and German languages , if circumstances permitted , first by a Swiss botine , and secondly by a German governess . This is going far , when it is added 1 hat the child should already possess some knowledge of music . From twelve years of age to eighteen a complete course of education is laid down , and most readers will be satisfied that if Miss Shirreff ' s instructions were carried out the young lady of ei g hteen would be the pride of her family ; but in saying this we do not wish to imply that her views are particularly exaggerated . They are , on the contrary , moderate and well-considered , the only possible objection being that . they seem to suppose a general "capacity . among the young for the acquirement ; of formal knowledge in large quantities . We are glad to find that the writer advocates only moral methods of discipline for girls who have passed their childhood , the old fashion of physical coercion and disgrace having been worse than a universal failure . This volume on the intellectual education of women deserves the notice of all who sire engaged or otherwise intei'ested in the traiuing and culture of young girls .

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    NEW PICTURES AT THE FRENCH GALLERY . A fresh batch of pictures has arrived at the French Exhibition in Pall-Mall East . The three most important additions are M . Geromg's " Tragedy and Comedy , " M . Edooard Fueke's " Little Drummer , " and a meritorious picture by M . Louis Tali-ait , representing a scene at the grate of an Austrio-Iulian dungeon , between an old man , imprisoned within , and a young one , who clasps the withered hands through the spaces of the bars , and who expresses in his face a mingling of sorrow and indignation . The word " Patria" is rudely cut into the masonry outside . The colouring of this picture , somewhat of th e dark and massive kind which characterizes the works of our countryman Mr . J . Phillip , is its principal recommendation to us j for there is little novelty in " arrangement of the eubject , and that lias no novelty at nil . It is seldom one feels , in looking at a picture , that the artist 1 ms thoroughly and exactly done what he meant to do . This fact more than any other strikes

    us when we look at M . Gkuome ' s duelling scene with the antithetical titT above named . The picture is not new to the London public , having been ex hibited in the same gallery on a previous occasion . We are , therefore , deterred from entering into a minute description of . 'the . work , which , owing to ' the stern simplicity and truthfulness of its incidents , is easy enough to describe . It will suffice if we remind those who have only heard of the picture ( and who has not ? ' ) that it represents the termination of a duel , on a winter ' s morning , between masqueraders . One of them , in the loose , fantastic white dress of Pierrot is mortally wounded . His adversary , habited as a North American Indian is walking off arm-in-arm with Harlequin towards a hired carriage in waiting at the skirt of the wood . The poetry of this painful scene consists in the moment of change being caught and retained by the painter ' s skill . The face of the dying man is smeared with paint , at the same time that it is bedabbled with a death-sweat ; and . here a physical fact subserves imagination ; for , it bein ? natural that the traces of the paint should first disappear from the central and prominent parts of the face , and should hang round about the extremities , so it is , at the same time , a grand conception of such a death to make tragedyVwnej comedy in this awful manner . Again , in the < lress we have the same idea carried out . The white skull-cap which Pierrot wears tightly drawn over his head seems , by the slightest accidental disarrangement , to have entirel y altered its character , and looks like the head-dress of an invalid . It is scarcely necessary to point out , after this , the same grotesque parody of a sick man ' s robe , in the loose white dress of Pierrot . Those of our readers who havcj not seen , this extraordinary picture ought , if possible , to do so . It is , we hear , to be engraved ; but the painter ' s touch wilL he missed iu a . greater degree than is common in ' such reproductions . Of M . Freke ' s little ' picture , we will just say th at it is more highly finished than any of his other works this year , and is more cheerful in colour : that the subject is a little boy being taught , by a boy not so little , how to play the drum ; and that it will be found under a glass in the same ¦ frame with two miniature works . by Meissonieb .

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    Native India . —There arc thousands of my countrymen who hoar of ghat murders , nnd other horrors of India , but few realize them . Let mo just give them an idea of the reality . At present I am residing near the Hooghly , not far from Calcutta , and scenes Hko the following constantly occur under our windows . For example , ubout midnight we hear the noise of a number of natives going down to tho river , there is a pause , then a alight muttering , and sometimes you may catch the sound of some one as if choking ; * it is truly a human being , a man who is having his mouth crammed with mud nnd dirty water by " his friends . " u Hurree bol !" hurreebol ! " they urge him to repent , and when ho appears dead they push his body into tho stream , then , singing some horrid eong , they depart . Soon the tide washes the body ashore , and then wo hear the doga und jackals quarrelling over their horrid meal , as they tear tho corpse limb from limb . In tho morning a few vulturea are eitting around the spot , nnd nothing remains but a few bones to attest one murder out of hundreds , perhaps thousands , committed every night on tho eourac of this dreadful river I Within one-eighth of a mile , I have counted tho remains of six

    human bodies , and it is said that when property is in question , it is not always a sick man who is thus treated . Every one knows that the bodies of men , women , and children pass constantly to and fro in the river ; and all this goes on under the shade of our mission church and schools , where one or two persons are spending their lives to rescue a few of the millions who arc engaged in these abominations . — Letter from a Missionary in the Times .

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    THE - PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY . The fifth annual exhibition of this society is now open at No . 1 , New Coyenttystreet , Piccadilly . It is a most interesting and instructive display j as regaTds both the variety of subject and the illustrative value of the photographic specimens . Mr . F . Frith , the younger , exhibits a noble series of views in Egypt , one of the most remarkable being the Hall of Columns at Karnac . Sir . Eiukcis Bedford , commissioned by her Majesty to photograph the town of Cobourg at every point , has brought castle , palace , market-place , garden-terrace : md cascade at Itosenau , and Tower of St . Maurice , faithfully before t lie eyes of her loving subjects . Mr . Roger Fenton has been prolific , and his architectural views y re of great value ; but we are sorry to have to say they are all , more or less , out of focus ; a drawback attributable to his having obeyed a general demand for large-sized studies . Tlve Galilee Porch of Ely Cathedral positively bulges at the sides to such an extent as to look dangerous . Were we not acquainted with the true cause of this alarming sign , which only exists in Mr . Fen-Jon ' s sun-picture , we should draw the venerable bishop ' s attention to the subject , with a view to having the porch immediately shored up . Of all the landscape studies , Mr . Thurston Thomi'son ' s trees are most commendable ; and of all the portraits , those by Mr . ' May-all are ( with the exception of some coloured specimens ) most to be condemned As Mr . Mavall seems to be extensively taken on trust as a brilliant photographer , we think it worth while to point out the false ground on which his reputation stands . It will be observed that nearly all his portraits are " touched . " They are more than touched ; they are altered in essential particulars . The original backgrounds are removed and false ones are substituted ; the effect of which is to give a sharp edge to the object . Without describing the photographic process b y which this tasteless operation is conducted , we need merely say that it is precisely equivalent to cutting out a head or figure , and sticking it upon something to which it does not belong . The supplementary exhibition of French photographs , in an upper roony is for the most part excellent . It includes many copies of pictures little known in England . This of itself is an inducement to visit the gallery .

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    THEATRICAL AND MUSICAL NOTES . Tub chief theatrical event of the week is the closing of tho Adelphi Thicatbe on Wednesday evening with a speech from Mr . Wkbster . After existing lor some half a century , the old Adkiphi-scene of so many melodramatic and farcical triumphs—is to be pulled down , but only that a larger and better theatre may rise on its site . At the Haymaiucet , Miss Apir Sedgwick has reappeared , after her indisposition , in the Unequal Mutch . Popular Italian opera ( almost wholly Vekwi's ) is flourishing , at moderate prices , at DnunT Lane , Mozart ' s Nozze di Figaro , with Mademoiselle Titiens as the Countess , has been l-eproduced at Hun Majksiy ' s Tiieatue ; and Lucrezia Borgia , with Gkisi and Honconi , has again delighted % he frequenters of the Covent Garden house . Jloots at the £ wan has at length reeled out of the playbills of the Olympic , giving place to a revival of Daddy Ifardacre ; and at the Stuanw Miss Swaxuouougii has produced a new burlesque by Mr . I 3 vhon—a travestie of his illustrious namesake's Bride of Abydos , pleasantly acted by tho fair lessee , Miss M . Tkunan , Miss Hughes , Miss Olivkk , and sundry gentlemen .

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    WILL HE MARRY HER ? Will He Marry Her ? By the Author of " Too Clever by Half . " Eoutledge and Co . Will He Marry ' Her ?¦ is an addition to Mr . Routledge ' s cheap series of original novels . It possesses the merit , uncommon in our days , of being a story of r < eal life . It is crowded with recognizable portraits ; many of the anecdotes will be remembered by persons belonging to the political and military classes , and , at the same time , the narrative is full of incident and invention , dashing on through and round the world , and quite as rich in humour as in " situations . " The reader will not go far before he penetrates the irony of the writer ' s delineation in the person of Lord Avalanche , the statesman in a howdah , lately a living topic in . both houses of Parliament . Nor is it difficult to guess who is meant by the gallant Indian general , for Lord Hardinge is as plainly portrayed as even provincials could desire . Then , again , Sir John Gay is at once identified with an actual personage of the same title and profession , and it is obvious that alL these characters have been drawn from close and intelligent personal observation . But this is not all . We find in Will lie ' -Marry Her ? several descriptions of great battles in India , the particulars of which must have been derived from special sources of information , . ' . -when . ' we have said this we have justified ourselves in directing attention to tlie novel as one of mark , and an interest altogether independent of its melodramas . It is , besides , exceedingly entertaining , and abounds in well-sketched illustrations of life in our days , at home and in the East , at the university and in the field of battle , amid ' the enervating atmosphere of gilded saloons , " to quote the last romance by the author of Conin

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    1 John Young , I 2 sq ., of Mnida-hill , to Elizabeth , oiil > I surviving daughter of Jurac . y Walton . Esq ., of Spuncer-1 road , Hyde . DEATHS . CARY .-Ou the 2 nd inst ., at Woodrord , Essex , in his ISIh year , and after n short illness , AVilliam Honry , third son of W . H . Oary , Esq . I POUT . —Ou tho 2 nd inst ., at 1 <> , Priory-stroot , Cheltenham , I Anno Port , tho beloved wilts of tho Kev . CJoorgo Port , rector of Grufton , Ply ford , Worcestershire , in her SOtli year .

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    — - ¦ » •¦ - London , Friday KvuninKi J 1 II 1 C * TitEpriuo in tho TundN is lower this week , and (? ei » erally the tone is not so coulldont . Tho irritation felt in Now York , nnd tho chequered complexion of Indian alTiurs , operate against tlio cuko of money , and tho prospects of an aduiirablo bay iuul corn harvest . Thoro is a sensible dcpicuHUm in all Ktucks and wliarcs throughout tho Kxohan ^ u ; at one tlmo thoro ucemud a reaction in Indian and Hrn' / . lbnii lines , but iLhas | uiHsudotl ' . UovcrdandCalcdonianHaiowor . s o —all tlio heavy bharca hang oit hand . In Miscellaneous and

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  • Leader (1850-1860), June 5, 1858, page 548, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2245/page/20/