The Express.
London, England, 1864-11-01 00:00:00

WORKING WOMEN'S COLES

The opening of this college at 29, Queeu-square,
Bloomsbury, took pleas on the 26th Oct., when the fol.
lowing address, explaining fully the aims and object of the
institution, we, read before a crowded meeting of teachers
and students by the secretary, Mrs. F. Malleson. Mr. R.
Lrrcurtaw in the chats.

Students, Ladies, and Gentlemen,—lt has cost roe a pair,.
fol effort to resolve to say a few words to you to-sight,
but my " few words" were ready to be spoken, and it
seemed to me, at the opening of a college ter women, that it
was not fitting a woman should shrink from the self-iio-
posed task of their utterance because it cost h r o sacrihoe
of personal feeling. We meet together to•uigh: to nose
this place for its appointed business, and it
seems appropriate, seeing that we have under-
taken a common work—se our name " College" uo-
plies—a common work involving common responst bilit es,
that we should impress upon ourselves and each r Cher
we hope to gain by this association, i.e.. what we aim at ja
our labour, and how we intend to carry it out. refer t,
what we stated in our original prospectus, we open t.. 3,
college that working women may have an opportunity ..f
supplementing the education they have receivol,thore or le.;
sausfactonly, as school children. We use the ti em won 33.;
wools° to represent all the various classes of %onion oslo,
are obliged to work for their living, and who therefore, for
that reason alone, cannot obtain teaching doom; tee dat.
The venous classes of bread-winners, teachers. 5i0pe3,33,,..,
workers in all kinds of trades, domestic servauts,
enjoyed, very probably, endelydifferent oppurtuunim of ed:.•
oation.and coming to a conviction that schooliffie "3- Lou: I io,t
cease," to use some words of Mr. Maurice's. "hot toot
lessons of life and the lessons of books should mien,'
together, illustrating and interpreting each other," it •
will commence self-improvement from chtferrot .tar;.3
points; some will desire quite elementary teacbing in r,...
iog and wnting, while others wish austruction in phymi, ,
Latin, etc. In the arrangemeuts of our clavos we
studied to supply these varying needs, while io the s o .1
life of the coffee-room we hope all students, w Aber hold
the preparatory clamed or from this
college dames, will meet on septa] groileis,
seeking self-improvement, all helping to cr. ate Lem
an atmosphere of happy interest and friendly inteicturse.
We take as the model of our mode of wortiog, r,
Working Men's College in Great Ormond-street, in 5;,. .¢
teachers who have enjoyed large opportunities of
knowledge and culture give instruction and routpa3a.a.,...
to those who have less leisure, nod barn 1.,l
less happy advantages of learning, as a tu.lltr
of simple duty belonging to their larger fa.,,,
of usefulness ; and this system of volunteer tc.ichit,g
in so many more ways than in mere instruction,
iog into pleasant intercourse those who would ottorisise
remain apart by their different habits of iife and manna
thought, and bears so largely upon the genera. e 33
cation and culture of the students, tint I 13 .3.:
very earnestly we may be equally success ill in care,.
iog it out. 1 think we should be so
the young women who are now being educaied at La
ladies college, possess year by year larger and better opi.or.
tunities of culture ; and women, as a rule, coin for learme;
purely and simply for its own sake, less, I think, Loon men
do, desiring to put their acquisitioa to some use for utLoi,.
To such we say, " We have plenty for you to do,
pleasant work to offer you, if you will train your,o3vc- ,
teach with us." We possess a great advantage. see., 14 till
co-operation of men with women in our uodertailti3,g, tog
college receiving their generous, devoted, and ~3.1,
not only in teaching, but in all other parts of 133 e, 1.,3-• o
connected with it. This I regard as good security that L.A.
shall be in our work a right and harmonious adjustment •4
power and influence, that its details shall be subservient to
to general and large principles. Our programme of dames
has been characterised rather frequently as " ambitious.
" What is the use of latio, or drawing, or boffin,
iog people!" we have been ,aked • "You ehoold
women things which bear upon their delly life." Toe tea, briii
of the several claws put down in our programme • ill I re•
seutly speak on behalf of the value of their 4/%lBl.ll,jeCts. I
would merely say now, that we hove no doubt that spee3.:
training of various kinds is valuable, we have a hil.h respect
fur it, so that it be good, and thorough, and tea es pupi:r
to work with their whole mind sod endeavour. whether
it be at the scrubbing of a floor or the
keeping of books ; but we do not intend to suppl) tims need,
tee do not take it as our business ; and thougb w, utter
lane for special traioiog of WON sorts, these faciaties are
merely included in our larger plan. For, to say the truth,
we are " ambitious" for wmlciog women ; we hope to at•
tract to the college these who tie in our sews " ambitious "
for themselves—those who feel time they oat e poatniut luta.
ligeoc, and emotion which they have lonianto not culti-
vated @Donk—those who would humbly learn to perceive
a little more of the wonders and beauty which lie hidden
around them in this wonderful world—those sib° feel that
uncultivated and thoughtless women cauuut tie the teal
companions and helpmates of cultivated lied thought-
ful men—those who see that by endearoaiiug
to make themselves nobler human creatures they not only
make themselves more fit to fulfil the large duties of lase,
but the smaller—l would even say the smallest. For what
are called the " special duties" of women, too +am...nation
of home, the management of children, I may be permitted
to say no culture can be too wide or too deep, and I think it
would not be difficult to show that a girl who trains henna
by the learning of a language, or the study of physiology,
or history, or drawieg, in hahita of does attention to small
things, of persistency of work and torment patience, would
make a better shopwoman, a better servant, a more valu-
able worker in any and every department of labour.
In the teaching of the college we especially
desire to lead one students to look up to subjects reverently,
not into them with conceited cleverness. We shall aim at
giving thoroughness to whatever we teach; we know that
all really valuable results in education must be of sloe
growth, and we shall be content to wait for these, if we see
good reason for hoping that they are coming, that they will
come at last. We look to the students so share our pa-
tience. You of course will have trials as all student., have ;
you will sometimes be discouraged with the difficulties of
ylur work ; you will be tempted to abeodor it, in the hope
of finding something cattier ; some of yon may think it hard
to be made by your teachers to travel over Scale a road
which you thought you were familiar with, but remember
that real honest work will bring its reward to you at last.
" No matter how often defeated, you are born to victory.'
We hops, for the future honour of oar college, some
of our students may attain worthy intellectual
distinction; I think the students will echo this wish.
To the larger number of those who come to us feeling that
they have little time at their disposal, and mn.li to do to
improve themselves, I would say :—Work bttadily and
thoroughly at the ooe subject you take up, and always re-
member that if through your work you train your minds
to habits of careful attention and thought—if you redly use
your minds in your work—the training is wont, mire than
that which MI really acquire; for in the one case you have
gained • little knowledge—a few facts out of the stores
that lie beyond ; in the other, you have strength-
aced yourselves to gain, collect, compare, amd
see 000stantly and always new facts nod nines
knowledge, and can take cars for yourselves, one and all,
that the strodard of education in the general lody of our
student. is no mean one. It would be good that our students
should read our best literature with appreciation and tote.
should express themselves in writing and speaking with
correctness and clearness ; should write clear, legible hands;
that they should not be puzzled with simple accounts. that
they should see things by the light of reason as well as
through instinct, that they should know sofficieutly of the
elements of sciatic* to choose some one study to pursue, that
they should have their interest awakened in the history
going on around them, and have a genuine care, foe
instance, as to whether slavery is abolished thron4h.
nut America or the franchise is extended in Eogleod.
But beyond all this, I hope those of us who belong to the
college will remember always the one end nod situ of all in-
tellectual advancement. I trust that the life here enriched
by devotion, unselfishoess, earnest *Utah,' after good. nisi
givo to us all a yet higher idea of duty, of thankful senior
to God, and that the college may he an instrument helping
us all to lead more unselfish, more dutiful, more noble
If it fail in doing this it will, I fear, fail altogether. thou,:b
our students should be numbered by hundreds. That the
college succeeds in its purpose will be shown in the
steadiness, order, and devotion of the class work here.
It will Ire shown in the coffee-room, whore girls
give a welcome to all new comers with a sisterly sympathy
—where they strive to make the sad more cheerful. the
lonely less lonely, arid do their pert to create as atmosphere
of rest and peace, as well as atirriog interests for those
whose days have been filled with toil aid small anxieties.
It will be shown in the homes of our students, where
women's strongest and happiest influence lie., in mire
deeply loving hearts, in more perfect relations, end where-
ever our students put before them as the ideal of woman-
hood—

A Being breathing thoughtful breath.
A Traveller between life and death.
The rearm firm. the temperate will.
Endurance. fortsight...trengtb. and
A perfect woman. n My planned.
To warn, to comfort. and command ;
And yet a spirit still and bright.
With something of angelic
That this college may succeed in the true sense of the word,
we will devote our best efforts, our love ; and in our
of its life we are not drawing upon our imagination only.
The Working Men's College has attained some of this.l ven-
ture to say, truest sumess. Ton years ago, whets the college
was first started, I heard of its establishment and pl►n with
a thrill of pleasure and thankfulness which has left its re-
membrance and its seed in my mind ever risco. It first
opened classes of working women ; ■nd since it has been my
privilege to know more DeArly something of the college
life, it has won my reepeet and admiration more and more.
The Working Men's College of London represents not only
a noble thought and a noble endeavour, but shows as results
of its life and labour a body of students, truth-loving and
manly, hotrod together by ties of brotherly friendship and
sympathy, ready to help one another in times f need and
sickness, even to the parting of death—men peeking after
good, delighting in simple pleasures, and cultivating refined
tastes, men tender to little children and to women. t me of
the students, one I felt it a happiness to know, spoke tome
when near his death of his connexion with the
having been one of the great privileges and joys of his life.
If at the cod of tea years our college shall have created in a
few women as well qualified to judge such a feeling, ae
shall not have existed and laboured in vain.

Seirent toe then-acidreset.7 ting upon the
nature end ilia of the different claws.

TILE REGIUS PRAT OFESSORSUIP OF GREEK
OXFORD.

DECISION IN PIZOFFS.SOR JOWETI"S CASE..

learn that the Hebdomadal Council met at
f esterday to consider the proposal made by
Vice-Chaucelior, that in consideration of the
.i ..,Irs of the Regius Professor of Greek a salary of
1.0- a year be paid to him, and that after a short
the proposal was rejected by a majority
division list was as follows :
FOR TIIE ENDOWMENT.
The Vice-Chancellor.
The Dean of Christ Church.
The Master of Banjo.
Professor Pus•y.
Professor .facobson.
Professor Wilson.
Proles-1...r Price.
Professor Bernard.
Mr. Eaton.
The Junior Proctor.
AGAINST.
The Provost of Oriel.
The President of St. John's.
The President of Magdalen.
The Warden of All Souls'.
The Warden of New College.
Professor lieurtley.
Professor Maned.
Mr. Mitchell.
Mr. Bansell.
Mr. Turner.
The Senior Proctor.

Or NiR. LEM•H.—It has been arranged
t...• tho funeral of Mr. Leech shill take place on Friday
at Keusal.creeo, where the hearse will arrive at half-
riit 1 o'clock. Mr. Lee..h's heart was in that cemetery,
where he buried his first child in 1819. There also his
friends have been all to fAti Ire for him a grave the next
but one to that of hiA f and schoolfellow. Thackeray.
It may ho right to ii that none will be invited to the
funeral but the memhers ..1 his family and those who, like
Or. („MAin. Mr. liutrhimi,r). Mr. Bradbury. and Mr. Evans,
were more immediat,lv ...qmected with him. He had so
111.46 a circle of friends that it is impossible to invite aIL

An important fa: question bas lately been de-
, :el at Naples. I! wPI be remembered that the late
:.ere of Capus. a younger brother of Ferdinand 11., mar-
vv.: %lip Penelope Sulith, an English. or rather an Irish
;adv. The m►rriage I,A acknowledged by the family,
tLe prince and prince.. left the country. On the death
ct the r; seen I).eagir Is inella, mother of Ferdinand 11.,
i:f Jam were mide to mitigate the position of the
piir, but the princes. was never acknowledged as
y the Bourlo ns. it was, however, decided lately by
,a,-reme Court of .itistige in Naples that she woe en-
bt:,d ti Ler full rank, while her children were legitima-
tised sal placed by the Italian law courts on the same
b.tin; with the other descendants of the Bourbon family.
The Prince of Capon died about a year since, too early to
witiiess the juittiv to Lis wife ►nd children.

lie: Pope a f.•:v days ago indulged himself,
it 14c midst of la:, heavy political and religious duties,
•:S o visit to the newly-found statue of Hercules. Not
the combicied wisdom of the arehsologists has thrown
.ev I:cbt on the mystery connected with the history and
si•ature of this famous statue. It is a noble specimen of
tea: art. Coosideriog the length of time that it has
1,4 iu its watery bed it is in wonderful preservation, but
t..iiaitlg foot has not vet been found. That it was
Ce.' erately buried with a view to concealment there can
be doubt, but the date of its burial is uncertain. It
to co s been placed in a room of the palace in which it
sa, found, and is undergoing the process of cleaning.

Ti' Universal Gernotri I:a:cttc is making war on
gaming.houses in Germany. It publishes a list of the
:ales which have taken place at those residences. At
W.evividen it gives the number as 7 ; at Neuheim, 3 ; at
i:sai:iurg, 13; and at Withemabad, 2. By adding to the
• re the suicides which have not precisely taken place in
lee cambliog towns, but which have been caused by the
ejecta of play, that journal brings up the number to 3.1.
aH oF LIEUTF:NANT-GENEICAL
colooelcy be 'omen vacant by the death of Lieut.-
eauto ieneral Chas. A. F. Beutioek, colonel of the 12th
Vast. aho—while on a visit to his brotberiin-law Count
Wal lea, at lhogheim Castle. in Germany—died in a fit of
.pods:. :it. Friday at wow°. The melancholy Dewy
reached tare family. is London on Sunday last. The gallant
orhcer was the brother of General Sir Henry Bentinck.
VoLF NITER OFFjcERs' MEssm
The follosifig letter is addressed by Lord Elcho to a jour-
ra'at elan, having been invited to attend a volunteer
• •e re' u,ess.fter parade, was excluded on the ground of
:rite a private'. uniform :—" Sir,—ln the Madding-
: • rof Frid iv lust, reference is made to the fact of
Gating loco precluded from dining at the officers'
Less of the Fast Lotbiau Rifle Volunteers, on the mu-
ttn uf fac inspection of the regiment, in csmaequeoce
ay. Laving appeared there in the uniform of
• f mote of the corps. Having myself had the
t cir of dining at the mesa on the occasion re-
f-rr-d to, and having at the time heard of the
c.:t.o.stance of *our exclusion, I regretted then. as I regret
s. :hat the rules of the officers' mess excludes privates
0 Le corps io unifivrit. My object, however, in now
• .* cotta find tuna with rules laid down by gentles
tic , whom I have been hospitably entertained, but to
etp:eit the strong opinion I bold that in the voluotesrerr-
r..e
officers' mess is a mistake. Happily, all social
.'.J,.. frau dukes to mechanics and agricultural
▪ .:•r,, ate to be found in our ranks; but a
position in the force does not depend
(:. in society. There are men serving in the
ono are socially the equals, 111 many Can, even the
f.;,.. station wealth, of the officers under whom
- :ie. When 03 duty, the strictest, discipline is main-
tare.: ov volunteers : and privates, no matter what their
tora,: tositiou may Le, when on duty, always pry ready
caetheate to than placci in authority over them. But
• e• duty, •Len mixing socially together, milt-
shon!.l he at an end the uniform
t: private ahould not Le barred where that of
t•.- ,r is free. soch, at least, I venture to think,
tic the rule of the service, so far as regards our social
'tar
.1,, and such potent ly I believe it to be. The East
I7L Veornatiry t ~:airy have a mese, at which also I
h-en hospiviOlv entertained; but, if lam not mis-
t i• is not au • .•!1: -ers' mess.' And in the interests of
t-., het Lotto.° Ride Vol tweets, whose wellbeing I have
• .t neat. I wonlii ulailly see every member of the
r, ...o etre:vet to vise for his dinner free to dine at the
...•e.- • &Z.. EI.CIIO. Aroistield, Oct. 25."

!..1 h • ELI •II oN.—The election for Cie-
t,..k e aft:onto:co at 2 o'clock. Mr.
I,:trie 'MS t:on..tmt;d by fr. Lewis Morris, soli-
r •or. 1 tarn artloa, ant seconded by Mr. James Buckley,
t! Yrayfau, I.lsnelly. 7 nere wee no opposition.
1, ELECTION IN THE UNITED
.-11, fnr erecting the President of the United
the r•th • f .vernber. As this falls on • Sunday
tue non !ace on the ith instant, The result
~." : : oo the sth. The Omani
,"'"'`` Le '1
• ',ere Boston on the 9th, sod will
brine bra% of tll- e"c• •on a'nout the 20th of the rooatb. It
t •teamer City of Glasgow, or the
1'-Hen .teartn-r \.o r loth of which will lawyer New
rto At Cape Rae• and brow word who
• ,••!:- ; I.: • •• :, we shall get the news about

N.•-• I AND 2.—Two friends,
:.•:uare, if not subjecta of Queen
dai • .a,• entered the •• establishment"
who lives in a magnificent
•. Thew) two simple, unsuspect-
.tv. their hair cut ; and, passing
r•o•eiving on their way a polite
dressed lady at tn.* counter,
•Aticeritly decorated operating
- immediately atteoded upon
;tI • • aol•:,Av by a second artiste. A. the
•-rk. k. 6,r No. I observed to the alder
ti,-td 11 tp, reason why you should have
,r I I, :.n ecto onw it can be restored."
lath" care is brushing,"
• "..% a nveuliar instrument of our own
.•., •••a• lotion No. 1 atid 2." Several
o were teen quoted, who had by such
• ••••••••red t. hair to its youthful
sid thin was going on, barber
- '• n-:0 youthful customer, that unless
• . " • .•f I r.ol No. 2 he would probably be
-f • -•r• Thu cane, too, oddly enough,
• *- • a ,b-ot brush, "which," added the
' • " sir. lake water to the plant •
• r •, • noes the circulation of Ns;
: c• v medical gentleman say even
• t..t nonsense and humbug we
•• • • • .etc is addre.sed. The you's(
• ' • •:k took lotion No. 1 and No. 2,
• - of brushes. They were told to
•.• • . o; •••: a couple of bills were
: • -• ti uch, gentle reader, do you
• "' ' 1 ',Purl to pay Remember we are
o •••fr. ; that in to say, each geetle-
...,
• •..• cut, two Lottlesof a mysterious,
'•• • ••• bloid. and a bairdnrush, very
•
- 1• - tins requvat me to make the fact
• . • .0.," ...v. They ere unhappy at
• • - • . i aiis Correspondent of theti.al.

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