Forrest was induced to visit England in 1844. He was accompanied by his wife. There he soon became involved in a bitter dispute with the dramatic critic of the London Examiner, and Macready the actor. This quarrel led to the most serious results. Out of it were developed the mob and the bloodshed of what is known, in the social history of the city of l^ew York, as the "Astor Place lliot," and with it commenced Mr. Forrest's domestic

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rouble, winch ended, as all the world knows, in tire permanent separatron of hr^self and wife. Font Hiil, where he had enjoyed so mncl Happ,ness, lost rts eharn,, and he sold it to the Ronran Caholie Sisters of

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Charrty, of the Convent and Academy of Mount St. Vincent.^ This insti- '

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the r.fth and S«th Avenues, New York. It is devoted to the instruction I

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of yotiug ladies. The community, numbering about two hundred Sisters at the time of my visit, was scattered. Some were at Pont Hill, and others were at different places in the city and neighbourhood. The whole were under the general direction of Mother Superior Mary Angela Hughes. At Font Hill they erected an extensive and elegant pile of buildings, of which they took possession, and wherein they opened a school, on the

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ist of September, 1859. It was much enlarged in 1865. They had, in 1860, about one hundred and fifty pupils, all boarders, to whom was offered the opportunity of acquii'ing a thorough education. The chaplain of the institution occupies the "castle."