Naturally connected with this first interest of the soil is the second, or Mining. It is no longer considered fit for women to work in shafts, though the need of bread forces many to evade the law. The census, however, cannot touch them: the seven thousand women it reports as engaged in Mining are employed in dressing and sorting ore, and as washers and strainers of clay for the potteries,--heavy and disagreeable if not unfit work. The next largest interest is that of the Fisheries. The Pilchard fishery employs many thousands of women. Jersey oysters alone employ over one thousand. Then come the-- Herring, Cod, Whale, and Lobster fisheries. The work in connection with the whale fishery consists chiefly in what is done after the cargo is landed. Apart from the Christie Johnstones,--the aristocrats of the trade,--the sea nurtures an heroic class, like Grace Darling, who stand aghast, as she did, when society rewards a deed of humanity, and cry out in expostulation, "Why, every girl on the coast would have done as I did!" In natural connection with these come the-- Kelp-burners, the Netters, and the Bathers, or women who manage the bathing machines used on the coast. Then come two hundred thousand female servants; of which, largest in number, shortest in life, and, of course, the worst paid, are the general housemaids, or unhappy servants-of-all-work. Then come-- Brewers, Custom-house and Police searchers, Matrons of jails, Lighthouse-keepers, and Pew-openers. I cannot mention the Matrons of jails, without a sigh, when I remember, that at our common jail and at Charlestown there is no proper matron; and sickness, death, and childbirth meet only with such care as women detained as witnesses, or inebriates, can offer. Surely a Christian community should furnish Christian, womanly ministrations to its prisoners; and I would that some noble soul in an able body might be found to take up this work! Pew-opening has never been a trade in this community; but, as there are signs that it may become so, I advise our women to keep an eye upon it! There are in the United Kingdom-- 500,000 business-women, 94,000 shoemakers' wives, 27,000 victuallers' wives, 26,000 butcheresses, 14,000 milk-women, 10,000 beershop-keepers, 9,000 innkeepers, and 8,000 hack proprietors. The difference between the employers and the employed is shown in the following numbers. There are-- 29,000 shopkeepers, and only 1,742 shopwomen; since the lower class of English women are seldom taught writing or accounts.