The Sun. — 1842-02-23 (London, England)

MODE OF EDUCATING DAUGHTERS.—The desire which many persons feel to give their children a better education than has been bestowed upon themselves, is laudable, because it proceeds from sincere affection ; but how often is the success equal to the motive which actuates ? How often is the manner of attempting at all calculated for attaining the object so ear. nestly sought ? An ambition to promote the welfare 'of children reconciles parents to part with them at that tender age when they ought to command more constant care than they generally need at a more advanced time of life ; and this ambition is so strong, that it will even cause ittle girls to be consigned to the blighting atmoshere of a crowded school-room, there to bewail the loss of the warm hearth, or the airy room of their own homes, and all the comforts which depend upon a mother's solicitude. With a view to their being educated,—that is to say, fitted for the world, and for the discharge of their respective duties in it,—girls are sent to school, and aro there condemned to a dull course of lessons, before their minds have sufficient strength to imbibe any kind of learning that requires mental labour, and before their understandings are equal to any greater exertion than that of receiving the difference between a roasted apple and a s•var plum.—English Housekeeper. Lepretre Dubocage, whose name has figured in several political prosecutions, and who was condemned to imprisonment for attempting the lives of two sergens de !tulle, in the riot at the Impasse Saint Sebastien, in 1836, but was included in the amnesty on the marriage of the Duke of Orleans, has since been living quietly, maintaining himself by his trade as a house-painter. This man on Tuesday committed suicide under the following extraordinary circumstances. Having become enamoured of a young woman, the intimate friend of his own mistress, he used every attempt to seduce her, but she indignantly repelled his advances. On Tuesday he informed a friend named Roasselet, who occupied the same room with him, that he had had a quarrel at La Courtille, and must fight a duel. 'faking a pair of pistols they went together to Belleville, and entered a wine.house, where Dubocage said his adversary was to meet him. No one, however, came, and they remained drinking with some other companions till night, when they returned together into Paris. While in the Rue du Faubourg du Temple, Dubocage, who was in advance of the rest, suddenly turned round, and saying, " Good night, my friends," put one of the pistols to his head, fired, and instantly fell dead. An immense quantity of snow has lately fallen in the mountains of the Artleche, and many of the passes have been entirely blocked up. On the 3d instant a hundred artillerymen, who had left Puy for Aubenas, on their way to Africa, were only able to cross the Peyrabaille by dint of excessive fatigue, and holding each other from time to time by the hand. Several lamentable accidents Lam occurred in different parts of the mountains.  The adventure of the tame bear and traveller, on the top of the Havre diligence, which our readers may remember as having recently occurred, did not terminate so risibly, it appears, for one of the parties concerned. Young Bruin, after the precipitate desertion of his companion, being driven to seek another pastime, occupied himself with inspecting the bandboxes, carpet bags, and other light articles on the top of the coach, and not being in possession of the keys, he made forcible entry, by means of tooth and claw, with such effect, that boxes and bags with their contents were in a few minutes Ulm to pieces, many of them in the operation being thrown down upon the road. This new disturbance again awakened the attention of the conducteur, and he endeavoured to put a stop to the devastation. The juvenile bear, however, was not to be so easily diverted from his frolic, and showed fight. A conflict ensued, and became so desperate, that the man was soon compelled, in order to save his own life, to put an end to that of the refractory outside traveller, who terminated his long journey from Texas to the Garden of Plants more in the form of a grenadier's cap than a living animal. An action, it is said, has been brought against the conducteur for the loss of the animal. The Handelsblad of Amsterdam announces that Mademoiselle Rachel is to arrive shortly at' the Hague, for the purpose of performing for a limited number of nights.