her sister Miss M'Lean having gone to Sydney to commence a seminary there. I could not in Edinburgh procure such another eligible home for the same terms unless in an inferior school where no masters taught. I did go for a short time to one of that description but I soon discovered that I could teach many of the branches better than those with whom I went to be under so that is the reason of my being here with Mrs Walker, a sister of Mrs M'Lean's, a clever energetic ladylike person. She keeps a pleasant stylish house with several other young ladies who