management of the Reformatory School. A donation
list was opened, and among the names entered were
those of Sir W. Middleton, for £50; Lord Henniker,
£50; Sir E. Kerrison, £50; Mr. T. B. Western, £30;
Mr. J. Berners, £50; Mr. H. Wilson, £50; Mr. W.
Gordon, £20; several for £10 and £51, with an annual
donation of £150 for three years, by Mr. John Fitzgerald,
exclusively for the salary of a well-qualified master.

The Working Men's College numbers at this time
250 students, being a marked increase upon the
last term. The attendance is remarkably steady, and
many of the young men, and especially those in the
drawing class, are displaying abilities of a high order.
A great desire to learn French manifests itself among the
students, seventy of whom attend the class in which
that language is taught. Although the fees of the
Working Men's College are all but nominal, the institution
is nearly self-supporting. The public was some
time since informed that a similar college had been
opened at Cambridge, and will now learn with satisfaction
that there is every probability that one will shortly
be available to the working classes of Oxford.

Government has ordered the sum of £1000 to be
placed at the disposal of the Royal Society, this year,
for Scientific Purposes, and has informed the council of
the society that a similar sum will be annually included
in the miscellaneous estimates for the advancement of
science.

The foundation-stone of the new building at Birmingham
for the Birmingham and Midland Counties Institute
was laid on the 22nd inst., by Prince Albert, in the
presence of an immense concourse of people. His
Royal Highness delivered an address full of enlightened
sentiments, which was received with great enthusiasm.

The Reverend Dr. Booth delivered an able lecture on
the 20th, to the members of the Wandsworth Literary
and Scientific Institution, "on the Education of
Females of the Industrial Class." The substance of his
lecture was, that as the intellectual progress of a boy
depends upon his school-teaching, and his moral education
on the habits of his parents, especially of his
mother, the education of young women should be such
as would fit them for matronly and domestic duties, and
enable them to make comfortable homes. They should
not be taught simply to sew, but the common things
and common arts of life; they should be taught to cook,
to wash, to light fires and sweep rooms. He told the
ladies there present, that if any of them had the means
and the will to do good in their generation, they could
do nothing better than establish a school for the education
of their young townswomen in common things. At
the close of the lecture, Mr. Edwin Chadwick, expressing
more trust in the efficacy of school-teaching than
Dr. Booth, concurred in his conclusions. Mr. Charles
Pearson and Dr. Longstaffe also addressed the meeting,
concurring with Dr. Booth.

A Strike for Wages has been begun at Manchester.
On the 21st inst. nearly 3400 workmen had struck, and
the number has since increased. The question between
the masters and the men has been temperately discussed,
and it is hoped may be amicably adjusted.

PERSONAL NARRATIVE.

The Prince of Wales attained the age of fourteen on
the 7th inst. His Royal Highness's birthday was kept
with the usual loyal demonstrations.

The Earl of Stamford and Warrington has sent a
contribution of £500 to the Patriotic Fund, and a
donation of £100 to the building fund of the Midland
Institute. His lordship has also forwarded a donation
of £50. to the latter Institute, from the Countess of
Stamford.

Lady Cranworth has been appointed to succeed Lady
Canning as the Directress-in-chief of the establishment
for supplying the army in the East with nurses.

Lord Montgomerie, eldest son of the Earl of Eglintoun,
has entered the Royal navy as a cadet.

At the meeting of the Royal Geographical Society,
on the 12th inst., Sir Roderick Murchison gave a
description of the memorial lately erected to Lieutenant
Bellot at Greenwich. This was a compliment never vet
accorded to a British officer. The whole amount of the
subscription was about £2200; of which about £500
had been expended in erecting a beautiful granite
obelisk to the memory of the gallant Lieutenant, and
the remainder would be devoted to his indigent sisters,
—who have also been provided for by the Emperor
Napoleon.

The Queen has conferred on Captain Robert Maclure
of the Royal Navy, the honour of knighthood.

The subscription entered into two years ago for the
purpose of honouring the memory of the intrepid and
amiable French officer Bellot has been closed, and
amounts to upwards of £2200, of which sum nearly
£500 has been expended in erecting a monument of
granite; the remainder, according to the wish of the
subscribers, being in the course of division among five
young sisters of his. The site of the monument is the
quay of Greenwich Hospital. It is an obelisk, about
thirty five feet high, of red granite, designed by Mr. P.
Hardwick, R.A., and executed by Messrs. M'Donald.
of Aberdeen.

The reappearance of Sir Colin Campbell at the United
Service Club created a sensation amongst those who
were present. Many of his old companions in arms in
the Peninsular and Indian campaigns congregated about
the gallant veteran, and welcomed his return with
cordial enthusiasm.

M. Thiers has: personally presented the twelfth
volume of his "Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire"
to Prince Jerome, ex-King of Westphalia, brother of
Napoleon I.

The first lecture in the Edinburgh Philosophical
Institution for the session 1855-6 was delivered on the
6th inst. by Dr. Southwood Smith. The lecture was
the first of a course of two, "On Epidemics and their
Relation to Climate and Civilisation."

Marshal Radetsky reached his 90th year on the
4th inst.

Mr. William Henry Barber, who was transported on
account of his alleged complicity in the well-known
forgeries of Fletcher, and afterwards received a free
pardon, has at length been Replaced on the Rolls as an
Attorney. This act of tardy justice was done by the
Court of Queen's Bench on the 21st instant, when Lord
Campbell delivered judgment on Mr. Barber's
application in the following terms:—In the matter of Mr.
Barber, who has applied to be re-admitted as an
attorney of this court, we have long and anxiously
considered all the evidence before us, and the court has
arrived at this conclusion, that the evidence to establish
his connivance in the frauds of Fletcher alleged against
him is too doubtful for us to continue his exclusion any
longer, and, therefore, the court orders the rule for his
re-admission to be made absolute.

A gratifying instance has occurred of Honesty in a
Cabman. One of Messrs. Twinings' clerks hailed a
Hansom cab near the Bank of England, and having
placed in it a large quantity of coin, drove direct to the
Strand, where he himself superintended its removal
into the bankinghouse. The cabman drove off and
went on to the stand in St. Clement's Churchyard,
whence he was shortly hailed to take up in Norfolk-
street. A shower coming on, the driver took his mackintosh
out of the cab, and in doing so found a heavy bag
of coin, which it instantly occurred to him must belong
to Messrs. Twinings. After depositing his Norfolk-
street fare at a railway station, the honest fellow drove
back to the Strand and handed his "treasure trove"
over Messrs. Twinings' counter. The bag, which
contained 300 half sovereigns, had been given up for lost,
and the driver was promptly rewarded with a £10 note
—afterwards increased to £20 for his honesty.

                  Obituary of Notable Persons.

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL LENNARD BARRETT TYLER,
commanding the 62nd Regiment, died at Balaklava on the 24th
ult. of his wounds received when leading his regiment to the
assault of the Redan on the 8th Sept. Colonel Tyler was
only in his 36th year.

JOSEPH STOCK, LLD., Judge of the Irish Admiralty Court,
died in Dublin on the 30th ult., in his 69th year.

LIEUT.-GENERAL FREDERICK WILLIAM BUTLER, formerly
of the Coldstream Guards, died on the 8th instant at his