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  to improve the condition of their own sex mustered in strong force, and papers were read from Miss Carpenter, Miss Faithful, Miss Bessie Parkes, Miss Rye, Miss Florence Hill, and others. Coöperative institutions were the subject of lengthy and earnest discussion, in which Lord Brougham, Mr. M. D, Hill, Professor Huber, and other eminent persons took part, all warmly in favour of the coöperators. The meetings were followed by a dinner at the Crystal Palace, and by excursions to the prisons at Chatham, and the well-known reformatory at Redhill.

For some weeks past the weather has been very unsettled. Snow has fallen this month in both Scotland and Wales. One or two days last week were as cold as some days in January.