The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-12-05 00:00:00

THE STOURBRIDGE OBSERVER.

from a higher class than that of the scholars, and
which offers to women of that higher claim a very
superior provision to any they can obtain (without
accomplishments of a high order) as governesses, and
infinitely superior to the miserably precarious means
of genteel livelihood to which so many poor ladies
resort for bread, and, alas ; remit in vain. If I dared
trespass longer on your space, I could multiply tenfold
this evidence of the need of higher education for women,
and of the justice of the claims I advance fur some
application of end, cements to schools for the sisters of
the boys who crowd all our great foundath iis ; and I
have not even touched on the argument which will,
perhaps, be thought the mightiest of all, and which I
have heard advanced again and again by flead Masters
of those founded°. -i.e., that half the nioney spent
on the boys is wasted because they coins to school
without the habits of order and discipline and intel-
ligent apprehension which can be given only by edu-
cated mothers. I can only trust that what I have
said may be enough to draw the most serious attention
of those who have any direct influence on the applica-
tion of endowments and of the general public, the pres-
sure of whose indirect influence would be more power-
ful still.—l am, Sir, yours faithfully,
MARIA G. GREY.
18, Cadogan-place, Nov. 29.

! Produce four interior courts, 48 feet square, one at
each corner of the central space. The main worn°.
uades through the nave and central transept are each
:10 feet in width, and those down the centre of the side
avenues and transepts 15 feet. All other walks are 10
feet wide and lead at either end to entrance-doors.
The wain Exhibition building is to be situated
ins-
mediately to the east of the intersection of Belmont-
avenue and Elm-avenue on the Lansdowne Plateau.
It is to stand 170 feet back from the north side of the
latter thoroughf are, the area between the building and
the avenue being set apart for special products which
may be exhibited in the open air. The south entrance,
fronting Elm-avenue, will be the principal approach
for street cars, a covered way, extending from the
facade down to the line of the avenue. Ihe east en-
trance will form the principal approach for carriages.
The main portal on the west side gives ageess to the
machinery and agricultural halls, and that on the north
side communicates directly with the art gallery.
There will be a building of far more architectural pre-
tensions than the Exhibition itself. It is a stone struc-
ture of elaborate and effective architecture. Access is
gained by a triple-arched facade, crowned by an ela-
borate cornice and balustraded pediment, at either
angle of which is a life-sized statue in a sitting posi-
tion. To the right and left extends an arcade,
flanked by a square pavilion. Similar pavilions
occupy the other angles of the building, the wall
extending between them being erected to receive a
series of statues. In the centre a low square tower,
enriched externally by a group of statuary at each
corner, supports a glass dome, surmounted in turn by
a colossal statue of America.
The building, as already noticed, will open on the
10th April, 1876. Invitations have been issued to
the venous European Governments to appoint com-
missions for the purpose of organising their depart•
ments of the exhibition. To most of these invita-
tions affirmatory answers have been given, and
the recent arrival in London of Colonel John
W. Parney, Commissioner to Europe of the
Centennial Exhibition, will doubtless result in
England accepting the President's invitation to
collaborate in the cause of peace, progress, and
humanity. The recent abandonment of the annual
International Exhibitions at South Kensington had,
perhaps, led to some discouragement with reference to
&Rauch matters, but it would be a standing disgrace
to our position as the champion pioneer in the path of
modern improvement if we were to fail to be worthily
represented at the World's Fair of 1870.