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London, England, 1865-09-07 00:00:00

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HOME for LITTLE
for the Reception, from
Outcast and Destitute Boys,
under lo years of age.
President—ROßEßT
VICE-PRE;
Stephen Cave, Esq., M.P.
Henry E. Gurney, Esq.
Samuel Morley, Esq.

BOYS, Tottenham, N.
1. all parts of the Kingdom, of
,and those verging on crime,

lANBURY, Esq., 31.. P,
:SIDENTS.
ISir S. M. Peto, Bart., M.P.
Abel Smith, Esq., M.P.

COMMITTEE.
Mr Alex. Anderson. Rev. IL N'Sorley.
Mr. E. H. Burrows. Mr. W. J. Maxwell.
Mr. A. D. Chapman. Mr. Alfred Short.
Mr. E. F. Gedge. Mr. Robert Sinclair.
Mr. George Moore. I Mr. E. J. Tabrum.
Mr. Francis Lycett. Mr. R. T. TurnbulL
Treasurer—W. H. Wiliens, Esq., 78, Basine,hall-street. B.C.
Honorary Secretary—Mr. A. 0. Charles, Les Suffolk-street,
Pall-Mall East, S.W.
Bankers—Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, 1, Lombard-
Jitreet, E.C,
The mode of admissioff to the House is twofold,
Ist. Be eleetion of the subscribers. Boys thus admitted
are received free, boarded, clothed, educated, and taught till
They are 11 years of age.
With the view I o secure the election of the most deserving
cases, the Committe have from the first discouraged canvas-
sing, and they do not print any addresses of the subscribers.
The voting papers contain a description of each case, as care-
ful y investigated by the Committee, and with this informa-
tion the subscribers are able to judge for themselves as to
those most eligible for free admission.
This Home was opened in April, 1861. It was designed to
take la the little ones whose charact r and circumstances
disqualify the n for the Orphan Asylums, and whose tender
age precludes their admission to the Refuges. Such are these
who, from neglect, are already on the road to ruin. Such are
those who have been deserted by their natural protectors and
left to beecome idle wanderers. Such are those whose
parents may have at one time or other received parish relief,
and who are now friendless orphans. Such are those whose
parents are breakers of the law, or are in prison, and who
train their children in the same path. Such are those whose
evil associations have already had their painful effect, and
must lead them to a life of crime and misery.
There are now 50 little inmates from about four years of
age to 10. There is room for nearly 101, and the Committee
would joyfully see the Home filled at once; they only wait
for the necessary subscriptions.
The Committee feel constrained to p'ead for those who
cannot thus plead for themselves ; and, referring to the cir-
cumstances of some who have been already admitted, they
ask—ls it right to make a widow and her family paupers for
life because one of them (the naughty boy of the family) runs
wild in the streets and is beyond her control ? Is it kind to
tell her, because she has so large a family, that you will not
h her to put one of them into a Home, but that they must
ail go into " the house ?" Is it doing the best we can for the
little destitute orphan to send him to the workhouse. Is it
doing to others as we would they should do unto us that when
these little ones have unnatural parents who turn them into
the streets, or force them by ill-treatment to "run away,"
none of us shou d be found to care for them, to speak a kindly
word to them, to befriend them, to house and clothe than ?
Shall we leave them still on the doorstep, passing by on the
other side, or else exclaiming " Ain I my brother's
keeper ?"
The necessity for an Institution for these little ones is evi-
dent from the police statistics, which show that in London
alone, in one year, no fewer than 311 boys under 10 years of
age, have been apprehended for various offences, 79 of whom
were convicted and punished, while the bulk, 232 were dis-
charged by the magistrates with a rebuke, as being too
young to punish, though not too young to learn the beginnings
of crime. On the other hand, there are numbers who, but
for the timely help afforded by such an Institution, must
otherwise become paupers, and losing all ideas of self-rell•
ante and self-help, be permanent burdens to the State.
fhe Home for Little Boys has, therefore, been established
to rescue the little ones, to save them from the prison on the
one hand, and ''.ll.e workhouse on the other, and to endeavour
to make them useful members of society.
The daily routine of the Institution presents all the fea-
tures of a home, a school, and a workshop. The little ones
are cared for as children ; they have their regular meals,
their suitable clothing, their hours of play and amusement,
and their singing class. They are treated as scholars ; every
morning is devoted to school work—reading, and writing,
and ciphering, and Scriptural instruction, with occasional
lessons in otjects and other subjects. But they are also
trained to work. As they must all, and that at a very early
period in life, earn their living by the sweat of their brow,
they are here at once taught habits of industry. So the after-
noons are occupied with various industrial occupations—
making brown paper bags for bankers, and white paper bags
for tradesmen, and door mats and servants' kneelers for any
who will buy them ; picking the coil for the mats, mending
the c othes, &c. Some assist the master in the garden,
digging, planting, watering, weeding, and so forth. By
degrees they are being made useful in the house, scrubbing
and sweeping, while the elder ones clean all the boots,
knives, etc. In this way it is sought to fit them for an active
working life.
2d. By payment of 55. a week, made quarterly in advance.
All children must be under 10 years of age at the time of
admission. Those received on payment are admitted at any
time as soon as approved by the Committee,
Elections of children to be admitted free will take place as
frequently as the increase in the annual subscriptions will
admit, till the Home is full; they will then be held periodi-
cally
Forms of application for the admission of children may be
had at the Home, and of the Honorary Secretary,

The British American Provinces.

- (From Me Special Correspondent of the Times.)
OTTAWA, Aug. 19.
For two generations it has been the practice
throughout the United States, with the exception of
Massachusetts and Virginia, to remove the seats of
Legislature from the great cities to small towns
situated as nearly as possible in the centre of
the Commonwealth. The reasons alleged were—
first, the facility of access, supposed to lie in the
equidistance of the Parliamentary centre from all
points of the State; and, second, the freedom from
mob influence and intimidation, to be found in the
rural districts, and which could not be expected amid
the rowdy and excitable population of large manu-
facturing and commercial cities. For a system of
government whichrests upon the suffrages of a whole
people, in which the mob (to use the word in no
offensive sense) forms so large a proportion of the
constituency, the plea of such a necessity is some-
what damaging. No one ever heard that the Parlia-
ment of Great Britain was not as safe in Westmin-
ster as it would have been in Kenilworth; but the
people of the large States of New York, Pennsylva-
nia, and Ohio mistrusted the crowd too much, though
they always boast of its educated intelligence, to
consent tliat populous and wealthy New York, Phi-
ladelphia, and Cincinnati should be the seat of the
Legislature. The consequence is that the capitals of
these and most other States of the Union are but in-
considerable places, deriving a fictitious importance
from the presence once a year of the local Legislature,
but striving in vain to expand into the size or the
dignity of cities. Washington itself, selected for the
same reasons as the capital of the Union, has little of
the appearance, and none of the amenities, of a veri-
table metropolis. It is a place of immense promise
and small performance. Its design upon the topo-
graphical chart is magnificent. Its actual condition
is petty and disappointing—a mixture of imposing
public edifices, separated from each other by long
intervals of inferior or half-built streets, in which
the pigstye, the cabbage-garden, and the wooden
shanty, alternate with the brick house and the marble
mansion. Unpaved and unfinished, dirty and dis-
reputable, swarming with beershops, groggeries,
gambling dens, and brothels, Washington can give
no other excuse for its existence than the meeting
of a Congress, which would have been much better
housed at New York.

To a great extent this unflattering but not incor-
rect description applies to Ottawa, the legislative
capital of Upper and Lower Canada, and, if the
proposed Confederation of the Provinces be consum-
mated, of the British American Union. Its situation
is much more picturesque than that of Washington,
and the noble quadrangle formed by the Houses of
Parliament and the Government offices, standing
on the crest of a hill which overlooks the beautiful
valley of the still more beautiful river, from which
the city takes its name, is alone sufficient to impress
upon it a character of individuality and grandeur
which few cities in America possess. In Ottawa
the memory of the oldest inhabitant extends no
further into antiquity than 89 years. It was but in
1826 that the first tree was cut down in the wilder-
ness, on which the city now stands, and when Colo-
nel By, of the Royal Engineers, gave the name of
Bytown to the little collection of wooden huts that
were the first results of his scientific "prospecting"
in this lonely region. Nolv, the streets of the
capital that has been arbitrarily, and, perhaps, un-
fortunately, fixed in this out-of-the-way spot are
laid down on a scale sufficient to accommodate
150,000 or 200,000 inhabitants. Though so lately
covered with forest trees, scarcely a bush flourishes
within the municipal boundaries. With a strange
wantonness of destruction on the part of the early
settlers, and with an equally strange want of
foresight on the part of the municipality, not
an old tree remains and not a new tree has
been planted to supply its place. • As the heat in
summer is as oppressive in this latitude as in New
York, the omission to plant such umbrageous trees
as are to be found lining the main thoroughfares of
all the cities and towns of the Federal Union is not
easily to be accounted for on any principle consis-
tent with the public spirit, or even the common sense
of the place. It is true that the evil adMits of
remedy. Nevertheless, it is to be seared that the