... No. IV. tb FEMALES EMPLOYED ON MILLINERY a AND IN DRESSMAKING. b - ii The age at which females enter into the millinery d and dressmaking business, generally speaking, is b that of fourteen. This is on becoming apprentices for two years, and then they become approvers in the large houses. A large number of girls, from h sixteen to seventeen years of age, go to London is from the country for ...

... EDUCATION IN THE EAST INDiES. Having some time since censured the niggard- ?? of the East India Conmpanly on matters of education, and especially mentioned Madras, we Wbink it but fair to publith the following statement, sent toom unquestionable authority, of the expenses of education in the Presidency of Mladras: statem-nt shoesing the severol establishments under the vddras l'residency ...

... I THE MIETROPOLITAN DISTRICTS. LFROM OUR SPECIAL CORRUSPO-NDHNT.J LETTEr XXII. Having finished with the different classes of Coal- 'abourers in London-the whippers, backers, pull- backs, trimmers, and waggoners-I purpose now dealing with the Ballast men-including the ballast- getters, the ballast-lightermen, and the ballast- heavers of the Metropolis. My reason for passing from the Coal to the ...

... ;e 330trict Tturtelligelice. 'I taiw- - wr. HELEN'S.it day, At thce pttY oeesionA held or' Wedne~day last, before ?? ra Nell-O 1nod1 Wjfliaoo Pdtington, E ear,., Sanmuel jobosin, 01 it Itec- Stit, nb ...

... BORROWINGS FROM PUNCH7 oh~ CHR5STUAS-BOX[NG THE COMPASS -Christmas br'xs I 3,havo for agos ranked amongstt the fativit~' os oft the season, ro- though thne festivity mutt co)me M.ore ?? to thoe u reh ...

... HISTORY will contain few epac l naore memorable than the years which close the first half of the pre- sent century. No convule en so universal has taken place since the religious outburst of the Reformation. We do not augur for the present a course so long and so ?? as that great struggle. There is not the same stubborn element of difference in political as in religions creeds. And government ...

... LiI WILLIAM WILSON, yTRE PHILANTHROPIST OF BRADFORDq icr Three weeks ago, we rccorded the death ot WVn! Wo Wilson, Esq., a member of the Society of Friends, at Bradtilrd, and inl a brief paragraph not ...

... T-hirl-AG OF ESSEX PROTECTIONISTS. _1F.OE, MVNDAY EvENINQ,-Tlris after- too tere ,cIts a great gathering of gentlemen holding Petcitt1ri~rilS at the Maid's Head-inn, in this 'vIe mneeting was convened for the purpose of afford- ,ag tire rfaioers, arid others of the southern division of the csuaty, an opportunity of expressing their opinions upon or, present aspect of agricultural affairs. Sir ...

... The official Ga.ette of Canada, of the 8th of De comber, announces that His Excellency the GO- vernor-General, has been pleased to discharge the under-mentioned gentlemen from the coinmissioll of the peace, for the district of Montreal :-Jclob De Witt, of Montreal (a member of Parliameut); Benjamin IHolmes, of ditto (a member of Parlia ment); Michael M'Culloch, of ditto la merchant); Hon. ...

... The psntornime, so far from being, as is comrnolly imagined, an invention of modern times, wag ancient even among the Greeks. The term in derived irrne. diately from pantomimes, which ...

... LONDON: TUE8DA Y, 4tAA (.'UAY 1, 1850. To those who love to find or fancy a certain artificial roundness and finish in each succes- sive volume of the world's Annual Register- who would like every year to be a separate chapter of history complete within itself, and, d fortiori, every century or half-century to coin- cide at both ends with some great era in human destinies-to such curious ...

... SIR R. PEEL AND HIS TENANTrRY. The following is a copy of a letter which has been addressed by Sir Robert Peel to his tenantry:- To ?? Tenant-Farniars on the Estate of Sir Robert Peet. I wish to commu ...