The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-04 00:00:00

Society for the Employment of Women.

The annual meeting of the friends and suppor-
ters of this society was held yesterday at Willis's
Rooms—the Earl of Shaftesbury in the chair.
The SECRETARY read the report detailing the
operations of the society for the past year. In the
course of that period the number of applications
made for employment fully testitied to the neces-
sity for such an institution, and tar exceeded the
I means of the society. The great majority of the
applicants required such a description of employ-
ment as did not require any previous training, and
showed the necessity of parents training up their
daughters to some employment to which they could
turn in times of emergency. The attendance at the
adult class of Missßurchette's school averaged eight
e d the
pupils, and the total number wh
class since the close of the Bummer term of last year
had been 32. The report having
referredhad
jo
toin
several
ealeu to the public to sup-
cases in which the committee. had procured employ-
ment for applicants, app
port an institution established to supply a great
portion of the community.
want in the present state of
society, and to relieve
the distress which prevailed to so large an extent
moved the adoption of the
a mil‘ofersittltt3.l2 female
fewiwas
sis ,Eg s
gratifying
,ativ
ii
f.
yp i
o. , g
to perceive that the report,. i
y had done so much with the limited means at
its command' Public sympathy had been directed
to
the poor girl who had lately fallen a victim to
One of the evils her class were at present subjected
to, but the difficulties in meeting this system were
goodvery gthr eina
thing
. if He had
establishmentsalways h tsuocnhgahst
that
twld be
would
nwhicha
this young girl had died were subjected to the pro-
visions of the act of Parliament regulating model
lodging houses, which in those cases worked bene-
ficially.

Sir F. GOLDSMID seconded the adoption of the
report, which was unanimously agreed to.
Mr. A. RINNAIRD, M,P., moved a resolution
pointing out the duty of paients giving their daugh-
ters proper education and training, so as to fit them
for the exercise of the duties of life. There were
many fields of employment cpen for women. Miss
Paithfull had already shown how well adapted
women were to pursue the calling of compositors,
and there were many other light employments in
which they could be equally as profitably em-
ployed.

The Rev. Mr. KEMPE seconded the resolution,
which Was also carried.
The meeting was afterwards addressed by Mr. G.
Hastings and Dr. Lankester, and a vote of thanks
to tha chairman, suitably acknowledged, closed the
proceedings.

DOWN BY 'ME DOCKS.—Down by the Docks, the
pawnbroker lends money on Union-Jack pocket-
handkerchiefs, on watches with little ships pitching fore
and aft on the dial, on telescopes, nautical instruments in
cases, and such-like. Down by the Docks, the apothecary
sets up in business on the wretchedest scale—chiefly on lint
and plaster for the strapping of wounds—and with no bright
bottles, and with no little drawers. Down by the Docks,
the shabby undertaker's shop will bury you for next to
nothing, after the Malay or Chinaman has stabbed you for
nothing at all 7 so lott can hardly hops to make a cheaper
cud. Down by the Docks, anybody di rink will quarrel
with anybody drunk or sober, awl everybody disc will have
a hand in it, and on the shortest notice you may revolve in
a whirlpool of red shirts, shaggy beards, wild heads of
hair, bare tattooed arms, Britannia's doughloh-,i,, za
Docks,
mud, maundering, and madness. Down by t.o'nand,
s.rapiug fiddles go in the public-houses nlitLysicrefe', 4 _
shrill above their din and all the din, rises the
parts, nwlhg:,
of innumerable parrots brought fromhc by
what they find
on these native shores of ours. .
appear to be very much asto
Possibly the parrots don't
know, ;possibly they do, -,
that
where
Down by the Docks is the
road withl its lovely islands, here the
savage
g to
tficfloO:.:7 and 4.47 the savage boys carve cocoa-
sae g their lslr3,liacii
nut shells, and. o'3 grin, blind idols muse in their shady
groves to exactly the same purpose as the priests and chiefs.
the parrots don't know, possibly they do, that
noble savage is a wearisome impostor wherever he is ~
tAhnedpossibly
and has five hundred thousand volumes of indifferent rhyme,
and no reason, to answer fur,— _Dickens's " Ael the Year
Round,"