CHAMBERS' EDINBURGH JOURNAL
CONTENTS
MRS CHISHOLM.
A GHOST OF A HEAD.
DIAMOND-CUTTING.
ASCENT TO THE BRÊCHE-DE-ROLAND.
OUR WILD-FRUITS.
THINGS TALKED OF IN LONDON.
ADVENTURES OF A YORKSHIRE GROOM.
DURATION OF PLANTS.
THE RETURN TO LEZAYRE.
CONDUCTED BY WILLIAM AND ROBERT CHAMBERS, EDITORS OF 'CHAMBERS'SINFORMATION FOR THE PEOPLE,' 'CHAMBERS'S EDUCATIONAL COURSE,' &c.
| No. 456. New Series. | SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1852. | Price 1½d. |
MRS CHISHOLM.
This lady will be ranked with the memorable persons of the age; herenthusiastic and ceaseless endeavours to do good, the discretion andintelligence with which she pursues her aims, and her remarkableself-sacrifices in the cause of humanity, placing her in the categoryof the Mrs Frys and other heroic Englishwomen. The history of MrsChisholm's labours up to the present time is worthy of being fullytold.
Caroline Jones, as this lady was originally called, is the daughter ofWilliam Jones, a respectable yeoman of Northamptonshire; and whenabout twenty years of age, she was married to Captain A. Chisholm ofthe Madras army. Two years after this event, she removed with herhusband to India, where she entered upon those movements of a publicnature that have so eminently distinguished her. Shocked with thedepravities to which the children of soldiers are exposed in thebarrack-rooms, she rested not till she had established a School ofIndustry for girls, which became eminently successful, and, under anextended form, has continued to be of great social importance toMadras. The pupils were taught to sew, cook, and otherwise managehousehold affairs; and we are told, that on finishing their education,they were eagerly sought for as servants, or wives, bynon-commissioned officers. In this career of usefulness, Mrs Chisholmemployed herself until 1838, when, for the benefit of her husband'shealth, and that of her infant family, she left India for Australia,the climate of which seemed likely to prove beneficial. At the end ofthe year, she arrived in Sydney, where, besides attending to familymatters, there was plenty of scope for philanthropic exertion. Drawingour information from a small work purporting to present a memoir ofMrs Chisholm,[1] it appears that 'the first objects that came underh