The Sun.
London, England, 1870-09-05 00:00:00

THE PROSPECTS OF JAMAICA.

Considerable uneasiness prevails among the mer-
chants, magistrates, and planters in Jamaica regarding
the future military defences of the colony. The dis-
bandment of one whole West Indian regiment, the
reduction of others, and the dispersal over a wide
space of the solitary European regiment, are things
which serve to raise feelings of alarm among
all who have a stake in the country. In
case of future disturbances the chief resource
the Government would be obliged to fall back upon
would be the "local constabulary," described as a
motley body of all classes of men of all castes and
colours, possessing neither the goodwill or respect of.
most colonists. The removal of the General and
staff of the Jamaica troops tolßaibadoes, a terri-
tory which is within easy distance of Cuba and
Hayti, communities in atstate of chronic revolution,
has been thought a highly injudicious measure, and
one which more than all the other recent changes
contributes largely to the colonial gloom

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wards this great and truly Christian duty still flow in
most satisfactorily. In all places large sums have been
received, and amongst those who stand prominent in the
good work are the names of Piesse and Lubin, of New
Bond-street, whose fourth list of subscriptions has just
been published. It amounts to a very large sum, and
does honour to the donors, as well as to those by whose
exertions it has been brought together.

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reason of the ingeuious method by which the oil is removed, pre,
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WOMEN'S EDUCATION.
It is a remark as old at least as Horace that "11.4#
maidens " are cut off from many studies and 9
of 0
4
which are selfishly monopolised by what we have
accounted the " stronger " sex. With some ef
grievances specified by the poet we cannot (Itllte
4d.
pathise—for instance, with the fact that young AO,O
not, as a rule, " wash away their cares with sweet ifoll
but it may be granted that many of the restrictions
applied to the Roman ladies, and notably to the Ate
maids and matrons, have been handed down t 0
times with a persistence which proves the ulsos
eradicating any traditional feeling, however a iiil
may be. Without venturing upon the delicate gred,
woman's rights, or debating the vexed questior4,
" woman is not undeveloped man, but diverse,
~teti,
yet point with satisfaction to the widening and no' of fair
spheres of woman's work as a satisfactory sigiltiof
rA
times. Of the success attained by female writers:47
necessary to speak; yet it is worth while to relit ii, etioi
such success has generally been attained, not„„, ,
sequence, but almost in spite, of previous ti-T.-,y,
preparation. The tendency of female education aLIi,
to qualify its recipients for the GynaTeum rathei?:",e
the arena of active life, or for judicious competiV,
men. A change has set in ; and, as a matter 0.'607
the tide will carry some of our strong-minded lath,/
very opposite extreme indeed. With that ultell,,,
bability we are not at present concerned. A or
will occur, which will doubtless result in the
ment of the " golden mean." Of all the by,f4
however, that show which way the wind is
one of the most unmistakeable has been '
e
brought under our notice during- the past .dge a
For some years the University of Cam
undertaken the examination of girls and wome:1100
same plan as that of boys and young men at thew
,41
or " middle class " examinations; and this year ni-1,-
University has modified the scheme in a way e' A
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still more to equalise the position of the sexes 104 t
tual matters. In the statute of the Unive".ol.:l
e el
Oxford, as amended by the Convocation of Decno Al
1869, " De Examinatione Candidatorum qui 11,,,,`"1.6.7d
de corpore Universitatis," occur the following 616,i-ej#:./
words : " Liceat delegatis puellas inter C3' jotta
adnumerare," which we translate--though l'Aeelfo I
" for the benefit of the ladies "—"Let the .7 All I have power to enrol girls among the candidates. of fri
read the passage there arises before us a vision.tb tPI,,,
the Laureate calls "Sweet girl-graduates, v/1_„obp"
golden hair ;" and assuredly the time has come,' a
proverbial College Don, snuff-consuming and m1'7017'41
must be relegated to the same limbo as the tyPl J,,,`
eating Frenchman and wife-selling Englishman'
the authorities of the University of Oxford hav;olFq,
nised the existence of ladies, not only as cosy
designed by Providence to render Fellowships ° 01
their matrimonial devices, but actually as beliels:ia
examined, classified, and possibly "plucked." ;;t. ii:
are literally "adnumerate inter candidatos
note
division lists of the Oxford Middle-class Exa
Doe I
for this year—so much so, indeed, that there is tad I
on the face of the class-list to give one a clue 041 i, I
of the candidate, except when the successful ' eat '
set down as a lady, or the educational establislltli
specified as a "Ladies' College." The candidatielos k
selves are simply garnished with initials ; so 'tot
can only infer from accompanying circumstances"
may stand for Mary instead of Matthew or tiger re,
or that P. means Priscilla or Pauline, and net fr,
Indeed, in the innocence of our hearts, we haddi
moment indulged the fear that the rites of til;
tional Bona Dea were infringed by allowing Yle On"
of 18 or boys of 15 to be "prepared " a" , , tions ostensibly designed for the fair se-.(je,)
Advancing, with such a slender clue alone to gra r
into the intricate mazes of the division lists, we "'„etiio;
twenty-nine senior and seventeen junior corefriA ;
whose names appear this year among the success ag ~
presumably puellce inter candidatos adnumeratic -';
there is nothing to enlighten us whether any Youllfigt!,
,
were among the "plucked." We will chivalreti,
dude that there were none. The most casual WV/
of the list of ladies, which we have diligently e: 0);
for our own edification, leads us to conclude Tateijetr
of Ramsgate must be as favourable to the in
faculties as we know it to be to the physical frame'of to
,i
fewer than seven of the successful seniors and eight: 1
1
juniors have passed at this centre. Cheltenhara I°
next in order of success, and the metropolis shedv
small indeed. The supplementary tables inform
polio
the young ladies naturally selected such subjects 0
and German, music and drawing ; a very large Pr°o Poi
satisfied the examiners in the rudiments of fat
religion ; many "took up" mathematics with suece, "07,, 1
a few aspired to subjects hitherto deemed yet Irece fir
culine, such as Latin and Physics. It may not,),
rally known, but it falls in with our present 13''',,dgv..
mention, that this experiment of grouping boys a'io
together for examination in scientific subjects ‘'cr
cessfully tried last year at the London Institutionil
professor delivered a course of lectures on Ph
geography, geography, and was followed; during two 5i1,e:14,1 sessions, by professors of equal note, who leet,
mixed audiences of boys and girls on cheinis7olo
botany. At the conclusion of each series there pity
examination of such candidates as thought Pr°o6
present themselves, and we had, in that case svit,o
'j?
feature of paella' inter candidatos adnumeratos, feroi
corresponding average of success on the part of the
portion. The experiment of the separate examin4 19
girls was tried by the University of Cambridge d 45
ago as the year 1866, and the report of the Synai
v10:4,
that year closes with the 'following summary of reVil
" I conducted the girls' examination in London- „, 9,4
thing went on quite as regularly and quietly
any, examination at which I have been :0 i
The girls seemed to take a great interest
and worked at their papers in a very '-'44,61,,,,,
like way, and for the whole time allot s9,f
them. I was quite struck with the easy waY "'TPA':
they bore the stress of the examination. I coil o,',
• of s 110'
detect any flagging of interest in it, or any sin it /
ness, or any ill effect upon them whatever. OA
fairly be assumed that the growing success :igiv.ie
separate examinations has led to the present arnp 0
tion, and also to the grouping of the candidatesvr•
list. Now that fact represents a vast social cha ,tio;
marks a prodigious step in advance of- former:gellor.,4
The great question is, whether it -A a change e co,,t
better, a step in the right direction. Will the tiltet
i!ii
when, as Sydney Smith says, a lady will neg.` fo f
infant for a quadratic equation ? Will a nervonahiell
gentleman ask a lady to dance a quadrille, when 7011 p
possibly assail him with a Greek quotation., 0r_,,D0,41
venture'to propose for the hand, of a fair " Ass(,7i
Arts of the University of Oxford " ? Time al/PA
chew. It would seem, indeed, that, if kept za'"
judicious limits, such a movement is likely to Or:, eopelf
sexes, and to make the wife more thoroughly nii kk/ -nankin of the husband than she was in the old-faepci ro,
days when " the accomplishments " were deeV;i3O,l
acme of a woman's ambition. We may, at aii4
hope to witness the dyingr out of what has been Oroo
irreverently
termed ' schoolmistress's English " Ifo,;:tia
style of female correspondence. We may even ' ill"?
more satisfactory punctuation and authographi,, or
billet doux which, " still for all slips of hers, ~y,
charming for the fair writer's sole sake. Thaclfier,-
deed, said of one of his heroines, that she took 011,14
liberties with her spelling and grammar ; adding af,ja )1
teristic wish, that, if such liberties detracted l'illio
worth of the correspondence, every schoolmasterre d
perish miserably. But still there would seem 011 i
why, in the nature of things, even a lady's Pero
billet should not bear criticism ; though we are togs
that many a male " associate " will deem any such Pl.ePhot
applied to those effusions analogous to gilding 0t
gold or painting the lily. In the meantime we canner'
congratulate both the young ladies and their teacnoic
the honourable places attained in the recent exallctA,,,
the first where male and female students and ine"o,ll-8 have had an opportunity of testing their relative pod
One lady stands in the second class of the seniors, 1a
occupies the same distinguished position all e.t
juniors. There may be more ; and we would ghe P7e•
presume that there are some blushing unseen in t: 0 te
class. But here we are again met with a ,difficultlfa!p
garde the teachers similar to that which results triiiitibh,?
fact of letting the students' names be entered wit to rot
only. Unless we have " Mrs." or " Miss" prefix
teacher's name, or are helped by the specific it
" Ladies' College," we cannot tell whether the ",.; an,r`
are reading is that of a male or a female
.professe'oeti,
from long though ungallant custom, we infer the di ei
line gender. May we suggest to the University
ties that for the future they print the Christian r'„el;
candidates in full ; and to the heads of ladies' o', ,1,,i,
private female coaches, that -they also subscri°";,gofo so
names at length ? By those means we shall be estic/
in subsequent examinations, to do even-handed kitta7,,,,,
the honourable positions that they will assuredly n: fr.lll
an endeavour which may now possibly have per, "ea
strated by the fact that some' lady's name Olio' eciatif
stood higher up in the division list than we have ecPittealf,
was veiled under treacherous initials. It has fret_ 2
been affirmed that women were the best, if not the „,
proper teachers in elementary education ; and the roe;
results convince us that the higher branches, eve
jects not usually assigned to their sex, may be it'cr t
fully couducted by them. Hence, in a kindred eV; pea"
that displayed by the University of Oxford, vir4iFtlo
forth enter on our statute book the sentence, ~, 0, Duo
feminas inter professores adnumerare." It sounwecogy ,
Hibernian to say so, but we are literally glad to 2.>7.
ladies among the schoolmasters.—Daily Telegral2l' Aero
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