sition and cruelty. That, as a safeguard for the future, they should direct their efforts strenuously to the forming of auxil iaries wherever children were likely to be wanted, with a view to the disposal of them through the medium and under the oversight of such associations. That the strictest engagements and securities would be required in all cases of children entrusted to strangers under other circumstances. And they concluded by appealing most earnestly to all ministers of the Gospel. and to the friends of humanity generally, to inquire into the condition of all children in their immediate neighbourhood taken from this or kindred institutions, and in all cases where they are not properly treated, promptly to notify the officers of the Institution from which they were taken."

It would scarcely be right to wind up our account without making some brief exhibit of statistics indicating the results of the work. The Report of the Trustees for the eleven months ending March 1st, 1855, gives the following: Whole number of inmates, 1,229, of whom 658 were women, and 426 were children sent to situations, 634; returned to friends, 75; transferred to other institutions, 48; in the House at the date aforesaid, 212; while, of the balance, some had died, some eloped, some been expelled, and some, in the over-press of work, were not accounted for in the books. The earnings of the workrooms in the same period were $5,931; of which $1,200 were in shoemaking, $900 in tailoring, $1,100 in plain sewing; the rest in work done for manufacturers. The same authority gives for the year ending March 1st, 1856, 1,005 inmates; 628 sent to situations, 119 returned to their friends, 43 transferred to other institutions; 50 expelled, and 50 left of their own accord; 115 remaining in the House. The receipts and expenses for the year were $34,099, of which $17,031 went towards the new building. For the year following, the figures stand thus: Receipts and expenses, $22,400; inmates, 1,248; to situations, 630; to their friends, 176; to other institutions, 36; went to housekeeping 80; left voluntarily, 69; 48 expulsions, 44 elopements, 3 deaths, and 162 in the House, March 1st, 1857.

On the whole, it is pretty evident that the schools are the great feature of the establishment, and that for several years they have been growing more and more so. We have already

seen how, and under what auspices, they began. Much the same arrangements respecting them have continued from the outset till the present time; the church of the Ascension providing for all the direct educational expenses, while the House furnishes the pupils with at least one meal daily, and in very many cases with three, and all of them with clothes and shoes. This joint work of beneficence seems to have gone on with the utmost smoothness, and to the entire satisfaction of both parties, insomuch as to foreclose any desire of a different arrangement. The venerable Mrs. Bedell, we believe, continues to be, as she was at the first, the soul of the enterprise; which is as strong a title to honour as a mother in Israel need desire. The parish, however, under the leading of their excellent Rector, the Rev. Dr. Bedell, have a special committee appointed to that care, and their appropriations have sometimes reached as high a figure as $2,400 a year; how much higher, we are not informed. About 1,200 children pass through the schools in the course of a year; the average attendance being not far from 300 in the Winter, and 200 in the Summer. A large number, amounting to some thousands in all, have found homes in different parts of the country many have been adopted into good families, to be brought up as their own. Nearly all thus provided for have turned out remarkably well. Of course, most of them have their parentage in the most profligate and degraded class; nevertheless, they are generally bright and intelligent, and learn with great readiness. Some 60 or 70 of them generally live in the House: the rest come in the morning, and stay till the afternoon, getting a nice dinner at the proper time, and a slight repast besides, before returning to their homes. That the religious instruction of the children might be duly cared for, the committee aforesaid deemed it advisable to have the services of a clergyman of the Church. Accordingly, the Rev. Robert J. Walker, Rector of the church of the Messiah, Brooklyn, has for upwards of four years served as chaplain of the schools, visiting them four or five times a week, and spending from one to three hours at each visit; instructing them faithfully in the Creed, the Lord's Prayer, and the Ten Commandments, and all other things which a Christian ought to know

and believe to his soul's health." As to the rest, we can but add a brief sketch made by one who knows:

Day after day they go forth, some to one position, and some to another, to the North and the South, to the East and the West. Many of these are furnished with Bibles, and, after receiving words of kind advice and instruction, go out to begin life under new and better circumstances.-The day of rest comes round, and, in the cleanest garments they can command, the inmates gather to the Sabbath-school and Bible-class rooms. Children from the outside begin to drop in, with the few devoted teachers whose places are never vacant, and at half-past nine the exercises commence. Reading of the Bible is followed by singing and prayer, and discretionary instructions from the teachers. At half-past ten all assemble in the chapel. A portion of Scripture is first read, accompanied with expositions, practical remarks, and questions addressed to the children, followed by singing and prayer, and addresses by Mr. Pease, and other gentlemen that may be present, till twelve o'clock, when the audience is dismissed. The afternoon services commence at two o'clock, and are similar to those of the morning.

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Besides the good works to which reference has already been made, the institution accomplishes a vast deal of relief in small deeds of mercy and charity to outside want and poverty and suf fering. This is a feature well worth dwelling upon, but our story has already reached an overgrown length. We can but indicate it by a single specimen, though there are hand, that we scarce know where to choose. In the four months ending with February, 1855, 39,267 meals were given to those out of the institution, besides 1,014 pairs of shoes, made in the House, and over $572's worth of bread and groceries to the deserving poor of the vicinity. During the last two of those months, the whole number of meals furnished to inmates and outsiders, children and all, was 72,963.

Another grand result of the establishment, and which we can barely glance at, is its large fruitfulness, at least as regards the school department, in prompting and guiding similar enterprises in other places. Its genius indeed has been highly procreative; its powers have propagated themselves far and near. In various parts of the country, but especially in the larger cities, the benevolent have had their eyes drawn to the example set them at the Five Points, and thence have learned how to do good and prevent evil in the dark purlieus of sin and suffering that lay before or around them. In this respect, Mr. Pease may justly be said to have inaugurated a new line of philanthrophic enterprise.

We hasten to make an end. Mr. Pease has again retired

from the superintendence of the House. In the last number of the Monthly Record the Trustees announce that, since the resignation of Mr. Talcott, they have been active in quest of a suitable person for the office. That after the most careful inquiry they have at last found a man to whom they can intrust the charge of the institution, with a fair prospect of having its interests maintained, if not increased. And that Mr. Benjamin R. Barlow is the present Superintendent, having entered upon his duties on the first of March, and having thus far fully answered the high expectations entertained of him.

Mr. Pease is now at the Farm, which has always been a favourite part of his scheme, and in the ordering of which his native enthusiasm of genius evidently luxuriates with unflagging gust. To the original 64 acres of corporate property, he has lately added as many more of his own. We lately spent part of a day with him on the spot, and saw him at his work, clearing hedges, digging out stone, making ditches, renovating old walls, building new ones, laying out fields, gardens, graperies, and "expecting to find work enough for all to do, and in it, with the blessing of GOD, a great deal of happiness." The marks of his long years of toil and care in the city were indeed. strong upon him, but his spirit was full of limberness and elasticity. His eye was upon everything, his hand was in everything, his thoughts giving shape and life to everything, that was going on. The same productive energy, the same living and kindling enterprise, the same practical and operative insight, the same inventive and directive skill, which have regenerated the Five Points, are now bent on converting 128 acres of soil into a laughing garden. We are no prophet, but our rearing was amidst agricultural pursuits: the hoe, the spade, the plough, the harrow. the scythe, the rake, the pitchfork, the axe, the threshing-floor, the fanning-mill; cows, horses, pigs, chickens, sheep; milking, churning, cheese-making, wood-chopping, gardening, manuring; the mysteries of the dairy, the granary, the cider-mill, the haystack; green pastures, meadows, warbling wood-lands, clear streams, bubbling springs ;-all these, and divers other ruralities, are old and familiar acquaintances of ours; often amidst the toils and struggles and perturbations of our later life, "when the fretful stir unprofitable, and the

fever of the world do hang upon the beatings of the heart," we sigh, God only knows or cares how deeply, for the scenes where we used to "fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world ;" and in the light of all these cherished recollections we venture to predict that Mr. Pease, if life and health be spared him, will be no less successful on the Farm than he has been in a far worse place; and that he will prove a public benefactor, by teaching the sleepy residents of the country how to make the neglected acres sing and be glad with their teeming flowerage and fruitage for the happiness and health of man. So may it be!

Our story is now told; poorly indeed, but honestly and, we trust, fairly. That we feel a deep interest in the subject, is certain; but our motives look beyond Mr. Pease and the Five Points; and what we have done has been in the hope of contributing somewhat towards extending and propagating the work to other places where it is needed.-To the best of our judgment, the Trustees of the House of Industry have approved themselves worthy of the office; liberal, intelligent, enterprising. They can hardly need to be reminded, that their true rule of action is, to be always making improvements, and never trusting in them; and that, if their work cease to be progressive, it will not be long in ceasing to be operative.

THE DIVISION OF DIOCESES.

The subject of the size of dioceses has for some years past occupied, to a considerable extent, the mind of the American Church. It has been discussed of late in the Church periodicals. A similar tendency has been shown in the action of the General Convention; which has tended towards the removal of the restrictions that had been placed upon the division of dioceses. At one time, it seemed probable that all those restraints would be swept away and the decision of each particular case be left to the wisdom and discretion of the authorities of the Church. This would have been all that could have