The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-10-23 00:00:00

THE COLLEGE FOR WORKING
WOMEN.

The College for Working Women, in Fitzroy-street,
London, was opened for the winter session on Monday
evening. The large upper room was so crowded with
students and their friends that an overflow meeting
was held in the coffee-room and library below.
Mr. A. Macmillan occupied the chair, and gave
some interesting particulars respecting the growth of
the college, its recent incorporation under the Com-
panies Act, and the number of its studeuts. During
the last year 393 students, nearly all of whom are
engaged during the day in laborious occupations in
warehouses, shops, or factories, attended the classes,
some of which give instruction in English, in arith-
metic, and in bookkeeping, and others in literature,
in Latin- and French, in physiology, and in history.
A cooking class has also been formed, and a savings
bank for the students has been largely used.

Addresses were delivered by the Rev. J. Llewellyn
Davies, Professor Henry Morley, Mrs. Garrett
Anderson, and the Rev. Brook Lambert, which were
warmly received by the students. Sir Thomas Dakin
also expressed the interest which was felt by himself
and others connected with the Corporation of London
in movements for the improved education of women;
and Mr. J. G. Fitch, in distributing the prizes to
those students who had obtained their certificates of
the Society of Arts, referred to the fact that the insti-
tution owed little or nothing to prizes, but everything
to the diligence and enthusiasm of its. students and
their unpaid teachers.

EMIGRATION RETURNS.—:From the monthly return
of emigration which has just been prepared by the
Government emigration officials at Liverpool, it
appears that the total departures of emigrants froth
the Mersey in the month of September numbered
19,263, as compared with 15,943 in August, 20,757 in
June, 29,292 in May, and 29,491 in April. As com-
pared with the emigration in September, 1879, the
month just ended shows an increase of 4,524.

Mr. HUGHES'S COLONY in TENNESSEE.

In reference to the above colony the American correspon-
dent of The Times writes : _ .

"Mr. Thomas Hughes writes me from his new
colony at Rugby, in Tennessee, that the assumption
that it is to be an exclusively English colony is erro-
neous. He and all connected, with the enterprise ex-
press the hope that Americans will settle there
freely. It is only by accident that the persons
who have as yet bought land and begun building
and fencing are Englishmen, the reason being, in
his opinion, that they are, Without exception,
persons who either saw him in England before he
left there, or whose friends had, after examination,
induce,d them to come out and look at the place for
themselves. The company, although an English
onhas an ,A.mericanl3?embership numbering nearly
-one-third of the whole. The interest in the new
colony Mr. Hughes describes as very keen in the
neighbouring cities and States. To-morrow there is
to be a formal opening of the town site at Rugby,
people coming from Cincinnati, Chattandoga, Knox-
ville, Lexington, and Danville, besides cities on the
Atlantic seaboard. Mr. Hughes says that- every
visitor scorns impressed with the beauty of the place
and the charm of the air, and also with the good pros-
pects for settlers who are prepared to work hard. So
far about 2,000 acres and several town lots have been
taken up."

[From Punch.]
THE NEW COLONY.

'Tie a scheme that is truly gigantic,
Tom HUGHES has just started, for he
Is now taking across the Atlantic,

To settle in far Tennessee—
A new colony, people by dozens—
Male settlers the young and the old,
With their wives and their sisters and cousins,
Are all gathered into the fold.

They're to sow on the fair mountain ranges,
To reap and to trade in the mart,
While through all Fortune's troublesome changes,
They're still to be English at heart.
Quoth the wily American, " Thank'e,
Though now of Old England you're types,
In a very few years you'll be Yinkee,
And swear by the Stars and the Stripes !"