edness and depravity,-from the horrors of gin palaces, and the unnumbered ills which result from poverty and destitution—this invaluable institution has rescued hundreds of children, and removed them to a country where industry and honest enterprise are amply rewarded, and where moral and religious instruction is imparted to them freely and without price. Who would not desire to participate in this labour of love? What person, under the influence of Christian principles, could desire a higher honour, than to be instrumental in obeying his Saviour's mandate, by affording the best of all relief to children, the offspring of want or of vice, whom he has never seen, and from whom he will probably never receive even an acknowledgment of his bounty? Yes, Sir, this Society is earning the imperishable gratitude of thousands who, as parents and relations, or as wards, are directly or indirectly benefited by its benevolent operations. Esto perpetua.

A Letter addressed to the Chairman of the Committee, of which the following is a copy, has been received from Ewan Christian, Esq. Treasurer to the Commissioners for the Guardianship of Juvenile Emigrants, dated at Cape Town, 15th of July, 1836.

I have the pleasure to announce the arrival of the 20 boys by the Bachelor, all in high health, and that they have been assigned to suitable masters in the country, with the exceptions of P. Fowler and T. Conway, who are assigned in town; the latter that he may be near his sister, who is a very well conducted girl, now in the service of Mr. Rutherfoord, one of our Board.

On the 3rd ultimo I had the pleasure to make a remittance, and transmit a requisition for 25 boys; I have now to request that 40 more boys may be sent out by the first favourable opportunity; but I venture to urge on your attention the importance of their having

*Meaning apprenticed.

+ Also sent out by the Society.

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been in training in your Institution for some time previous to embarkation.

I would also suggest that, in the list to accompany the boys, as required by the third section of the Ordinance transmitted to you, the day of birth of each child should be inserted, that we may not indenture them beyond their minority. This is the more necessary as some of the boys have written home and produced certificates of baptism, proving them of age some months previous to the expiration of their indentures, which causes dissatisfaction both in the master and apprentice.*

Captain Ellis and Mr. Cousins have shown much kindness and attention to the boys, as has also the mate of the vessel.

*See Rule 16, p. 101.

Extracts from the Laws and Regulations of the Children's Friend Society..

5. A donation of £5 or upwards shall constitute the donor a Member for Life.

6. A subscription of 5s. or more, yearly, shall constitute an Annual Member; and by increasing the subscription to £5 within the year, the subscriber shall become a Life Member.

7. All Members shall have a right to vote upon every question propounded, and every election held, at any General Meeting of the Society.

8. A legacy of £10 and upwards, bequeathed to the Society, shall constitute the first named acting Executor a Member for life.

9. Every annual subscription shall be considered as made on the 1st of June, or on the 1st of December next preceding the first payment.

10. All contributors shall receive, upon demand at the time of payment, tickets to the

amount of their respective donations or subscriptions.*

11. Any person contributing the sum of £15, or producing tickets to that amount, shall be entitled to place a child upon the male or female establishment, as the case may be. If, however, the child to be admitted should be under the age of 11, the sum of 4s. per week shall be paid for such child over and above the entrance-money, until it shall attain that age.

12. Children will be received from public institutions or parishes on payment of a weekly sum of 4s., and also of £10 when placed out, or embarked.

13. No boy or girl shall be admitted to the benefits of the Society below the age of 11, nor above the age of 14. Provided always that the General Committee of management shall have power, in special cases, to admit any child between the ages of nine and sixteen, if in the latter case the child be of good moral character.

14. A limited number of young children will be received into the female establishment

* Tickets are the Collectors receipts for the donationors ubscription.