MISCELLANEOUS.
Mr. Kingsley has addressed the Times in support of the scheme managed by Miss M.Rye for promoting female emigration to colonies which want wives. He is very doubtful, be says about the movement for seutencisg women to work, having, it seems, a heretical fancy that God made them for wires and mothers. He holds, however, that there is a surplusage of women in England, a fact which tends fust to enlarge the bounds of the "social evil," and looks to the project now started as a direct and practical relief. The Nutional Review proves that this surplusage includes 750,000 souls. Of these thousands are unfit for colonial life, thousands have means, and hundreds of thousands, have" Tftuiily ties, amid which they are almost as happy as in their proper state. Miss Bye proposes to deal with the remainder by aiding them to remove to colonies where there are two or more men for every women who lands. The celebrated Yelverton case is likely to occupy the Irish Court of Common Pleas this term probably after the Easter holidays. Mrs. Yelvertou's legal advisers have filed notice of a inotiou to amend the bill of exceptions taken after the trial. If leave be granted, the effect will be to somewhat simplify the cause, by expunging from the bill all the exceptions relating to the Scotch marraige, leaving the validity of the ceremony performed by Father Mooney at Rostrevor, the only subject for consideration. After long weeks of continuous iucubation, the pythoness in the Zoological-gardens has not been rewarded by a single baby python. The mass of eggs has been removed fiom beneath the serpent's coils ; the operation was very unpleasant and somewhat dangerous, the eggs being, for the most part, a mass of putridity, and the serpent in a highly excited state. But afrer th c eggs had been removed, she resumed her coiled position and appeared trauquil. The Press says— "A rumour prevails in the best informed circles to the effect that Buckingham Palace has besn pla ced at the disposal of the Emperor of the French, and that his Majesty, accompanied by the Empress and tbelmpe. rial Prince, will sfend.lo days in London, during the month of May or June, for the purpose of inspecting the Grett Exhibition." As we mentioned in a previous column, however, he Moniteur announces that the Emperor has l ormed no plan as yet for a journey to. England
MISCELLANEOUS.
Wellington Independent, Volume XVII, Issue 1734, 24 June 1862, Page 5
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