ABSTRACT

The other case is of a more satisfactory nature. It was argued in the Common Pleas Divisioll before Mr. Justice Denman and Mr. Justice Lindley. By it has been ruled that a married woman's earnings in trade are her own1 and not liable for her husband's debts, although her stock in trade may have been purchased by money

lent to her and not by her own earnings. The case was Lovell v. Newt.on :-

Judgment accordingly. INSPECTION OF FACTORIES.-Mrs. Paterson, Hon. Sec'

WOOD CARVING.-This is an occupation very suitable to women, and one in which they are beginning to make great progress. In the new improvements of St. Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, the rered9s is to be a. gift of tbe ladies of Scotland, and the sculpture is now progressing IInder the hands of Miss Grant. a niece of the la.te President of the Royal Academy •. We are told also that the panels of a pulpit lately placed in Bangor Cathedral in memory of the Rev. Morris Williams, are by Miss Bonham, representing St. John the Baptist preaching in the wilderness, and onr Saviour sending forth the apostles to "preach the'Vord to every creature." MiEw Bonham carved pulpits for Whitnach, Warwickshire,

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Postwick, Norfolk, and Agot St. Peter's, Herts; also fonts. She is now engaged on a pulpit for the Parish Church, Leamington.