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  win their share of the higher and more remunerative kinds of employment, and if woman ever approaches the angelic character in this life, surely it is in that sphere of self-imposed and intelligent exertion.

Miss Parkes edits the Englishwoman's Magazine, a monthly publication, printed and managed entirely by women. Among other means of relieving their sisterhood, they have hit upon emigration, and I believe several young women have already arrived at Sydney under the auspices of Miss Rye and her friends.

We have been appalled by a frightful and unprecedented colliery accident, the details of which will be found at great length in the papers. By a sudden accident 215 men and boys were shut up in a coal-pit, without light, without food, and in a poisonous atmosphere, for a whole week, before they could be disentombed. Oh! the wailing and weeping of the doomed women and children above that living grave, throughout those bitter winter nights. The awful result is best told in the decisive sentences of the Electric Telegraph.