The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-22 00:00:00

WORKING WOMEN'S COLLEGE.

On Friday evening the annual meeting of the
teachers,stadeuta, and intending students was held at the
college, 29, Queen's -Kure, Bloomsbury, and was name-
rowdy attended.
Mr. W. T. Mattaacel, In opening the proceedings, stated
that the average attendance during the first year of the
existence of the college had been 135, and during the
seoord year 150, showing an increase of 15, and in the
course of some remarks upon the classes particularly re-
ferred to the success achieved by the st.dents of logic.
Mrs. F.bit. M./Lissom then addressed the students.
Mr. W. T. Matiasos then distributed certificates of
competency, awarded in the departments of mathematics.
English history, and English literature, and in doing so
warned the students against the temptation to study in
order to pass examinations rather than for the true ends of
all culture.
Mr. it. B. LTTCRYIELD, as one of the examiners la
mathematics, wished to express his conviction that the
demand for logical training of woman could not be
better answered than by the study of geometry,
and he would add for the comfort of those who had
any lurking suspicion that common tradition was right in
its appropriateness for women, that he had never seen—
and he bad had some experience at Cambridge and else-
where—better ppaapers than those of the successful candi-
dates for oertificatee. While agreeing with Mr. Malleson
that some of the evils attending exammations could hardly
be overstated, he yet thought that nine-tenths of thine
evils disappeared when the examination, were non-compe-
titive. llie then urged upon the students the claims of
music to consideration as the great art of thociorpriere, ex-
pressing his gratification at the immense s of the
tonic sop-fa system, which, in spite, perhaps, a few oddi-
ties, was of incalculable wie in rendering general cultiva-
tion of mimic possible among the poor.
After other addresses from the teachers the meeting
adjourned to the coffee-room, its formal business being
closed.

CtßlooB LEGAL QUESTION.—A curious point of
law was raised at the West Riding Quarter Sessions, at
Leeds, on Monday. A miner was charged with latealimig
some fowls, the property of Messrs. Briggs and Co. (Li-
mited), who, it may be remembered, have recently taken
their workmen into partnership with them. He denied
the charge, and also set up the plea that he was • share-
holder in the firm who prosecuted, that therefore he was a
partner, and that the taking by one partner from another
was no theft. The point was reserved for the Criminal
Court of Appeal.
RETURN or M. PULSKY TO PESTH.—We read in
the Memorial Diplornatiqwe:—"hi. Paleky, the eminent
Magyar patriot, whom the Emperor of Austria has. just
pardoned, has returned to Feath after an absenceof eigh-
teen years. He was lately received at a private audience
by the Emperor, who solemnly confirmed, and in the
kindest terms, the amnesty which bad been granted him.
The friends of M. Pula), write us word that the exile has
greatly changed and grown older looking, but that his
mind has ripened. During his residence in London he
maintained a constant intercourse with the most prominent
members of the English aristocracy ; at Turin, he lived on
terms of intimacy with Count Cavour, and acquired in his
relations with that statesman • thorough knowledge of
Italy in the present day. M. Pulsky is a veteran in the
cause of Hungary. In ISST be published in the Avizat,arg
Gazette some remarkable articles on the constitution of his
country. On the emetics of a Hungarian ministry in
1841, be was appointed Under Secretary of State, per-
forming the duties of his office under the direction of
Prince leterhaey, then the Emperor's Minister of Foreign
Affairs. At that period M. Pulsky lived constantly at
Vienna. AA a writer, • statesman, and • diplomatist, be
enjoy, a high reputation in Hungary. and is besides the
old friend from youth upward of H. de Maylath, now
Antic Chancellor. His programme, as he himself states,
consists in the amalgamation of the government party with
that at Desk?

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