The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-06 00:00:00

character of their great descendants and rivals—the

are not known to me, has been appointed " Royal
Hungarian Stadthalterei-Rath." Count Francis ,
Zichy, who is a member of several industrial
" Boards," is to be Grand Usher ; Count George
Andrassy, Grand Cupbearer ; and Count J.
Barkoczy, the Boanergies of the Reicharath, Lord
Steward. Count George Carolyi and Baron von
Pronay are to be Keepers of the " Sacred" Hun-
garian Crown ad interim. M. von Zsedenyi,§
Bishop Korizmics, and Messrs. von Rohonczy, von
Privitzer, von Beke, and von Balogh are to be Aulic
Counsellors in the Hungarian Chancery. In order
that the principle of perfect equality of rights
might be maintained in Hungary, M. Zsivoka, a
plebeian, has been made Obergespan of the count 3
of Csanad.

Americans.

In the evening, after the musical festival, there
was a grand ball. It was given in the beautiful
Opera-house, which was decorated and lit up with
the most charming good taste. The whole of the
spacious building was very full, though not by any
means too crowded for the proper enjoyment of
such a festivity. All the arrangements of the fete
were, in short, very good, so it was a decided suc-
cess. Still, as with all the other balls that have
been given on this tour, none even at their brightest
have approached either for splendour or good taste
the magnificence of the great fete at Montreal.
His Royal Highness and suite arrived at ten
o'clock, and almost immediately afterwards opened
the ball with Mrs. Lincoln, the wife of the Mayor.
Dancing then became general all over the spacious
floor, and as usual was kept up till an advanced
hour in the morning. To-day his Royal Highness
has gone to visit Harvard University at Cambridge,
the foremost seat of learning in America, and
which number among its professors men of world-
wide reputation in literature and science. On his
return the Prince is expected to visit the superb
library of the city, the only one conducted on such
liberal principles that I ever heard of. This fine
building contains upwards of 200,000 volumes.
Anyone, no matter whom, on registering his name
and place of abode, can borrow books from it.
Only one work or volume is lent at a time, and
only allowed to be retained for 14 days. These
rules, however, are relaxed if good reasons are
given, and always in the case of habitual readers.
Between 2,000 and 3,000 volumes are thus lent out
weekly, and not £lO worth are injured or missing
at the end of the year. In fact, during the last
two or three years, the losses sustained by the
library have been merely nominal, and in nearly
all cases arise from unavoidable accident. It speaks
well, indeed, for the Boston people to have founded
such a system, and to work it with such complete
success.

A YEAR'S EXPERIENCE IN WOMAN'S WORK.

The following paper on the subject of female industry was
read by Miss Bessie Parkes at the meeting of the Associa-
tion for the Promotion of Social Science, Glasgow, 1860 :
" Nearly a year has now passed since, through the means
of the last meeting of the Association for the Promotion of
Social Science, public attention in England was largely
drawn to the subject of female industry. Nor was it in
England alone that this vexed question came under discus-
sion; France also contributed her thoughts ; and two elabo-
rate articles in the Revue des Deux Illondes, and other papers
in less important periodicals, testified that our difficulties
are also felt., although under somewhat modified conditions,
on the other side of the Channel.

This evening the Royal party remain quiet. To-
morrow they start for Portland, where they are
expected to arrive by 2 o'clock. One hour will be
devoted to wishing farewell to danadian and Ame-
rican friends, and at 3 his Royal Highness goes on
board the Hero. At 4 the squadron will be under
way for England.

AUSTIIIA AND II UNGARY.

THE SUN, LONDON, lITESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 6 1860.

( belong to tradesmen's families, and teach in the same.
Others again are quite younz, and, living with their parents,
can afford to go out and teach for any sum they fancy pays I
them, and at a much cheaper rate, than they could do if
they actually supported themselves on their earnings.
Others, again, are inferior in education, and so are driven
down to offer their services at a low rate from being desti-
tute of accomplishments. Custom does not shield the
governess as it shields the phy: ician, with his definite
standard of acquirement guaranteed by his diploma, and
his one guinea as a fixed recognition thereof ; and therefore
women will be found classed under the general head of
daily governesses' who are very unequal in their qualifi-
cations, and in the amount of salary they require and
receive.

" But it is none the less true that really educated women,
possessed of a certain skill in music, drawing, and in modern
languages—ladies such as teach ladies in the profes-
sional and merchant classes—ask and get more than a 0 a
a'year as a general rule. The conclusion, therefore, to which
I have come is, that it is chiefly for young people living at
home with their parents, and for single women not possess-
ing a high stamp of education; and having only themselves
to support, that the semi-mechanical arts—such as that of
working the telegraph, printing, law-copying, managing
sewing-machines, &c.—are profitable, and will supply with
bread and meat and clothes; and that it is hardly desirable
to extend and encourage such occupation in every way,
taking great care in the formation of model classes, or new
businesses, to harmonise them as much as pOssible with
the physical and moral conditions of female workers. The
Society for Promoting the Employment of Women devotes
its energies to increasing this kind of occupation, and de-
serves the active support of the public for its exertions, so
that it may gradually be enabled to extend them in new di-
rections, and-offer fresh examples for the introduction of
women into hitherto unaccustomed businesses and trades.
" But for older and for highly-educated women—for these
to whom the keeping up of a social position has become
a moral necessity, and for those who have others dependent
on them—we surely ought to seek some employment which
will secure them a fair income, and not consign them to
simple trades, which, let them be ever so extended over
numbers, cannot be parallel to the professions which gen-
tlemen require, or to the commercial enterprise which they
carry on on a large scale.
" Now, there is work which really clever and energetic
women are wanted to perform, and which people are every-
where beginning to say they ought to perform ; all work in-
volving moral superintendence over women and physical
eare of the sick and infirm of both sexes. Mrs. Jameson
dwelt constantly of late years on this whole subject in her
writings and in her private conversation ; and Miss Night-
ingale has begun to organise the training of women for
the latter purpose, and nurses are also educated at
several institutions under lay or church influence. But,
as to placing educated women to act as officials in chari-
table, industrial, penal, or reformatory establishments,
I really think I may say that nothing is done or doing. NV e
keep reiterating the need of them in each and all ; but I do
not see that we are nearer the realisation of our wish than