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  street, under the business style of "Emily Faithful and Company;" and she has about twenty lady compositors hard at work. The Victoria Regia, copies of which have no doubt reached Sydney, is a really beautiful specimen of the ladies' typography. But these printing-offices are the least of their establishments. There are 120 middle-class women carrying on the business of a large highly-organised telegraph office in Moorgate-street, under the admirable management of Mrs. Craig; there is a School of Art with 80 women pupils in Gower-street; there is a School of Design with 100 women at work at Brompton. Miss Rye herself has established a Law Copying Office in Lincoln's Inn, where several young women are honourably earning from 15s. to 30s. a-week. It is astonishing to see the fine, clear, lawyer's hand which these fair copyists have acquired by a little practice. Several of the young ladies, too, are studying medicine, and are determined to practise the "healing art." Others are employed in the British Museum deciphering old manuscripts, and one of them, a Mrs. Green, is getting £300 a-year for her work. There are many other ways in which these noble young creatures are seeking to