Star.
London, England, 1820-01-21 00:00:00

WELTER FOR THE HO USELESS.

This Asylum is making rapid approaches to a
state of complete organization, so desirable to all
Institutions of this nature, and so difficult in one

established on a new principle, without esperience or
precedent to guide its operations. The attention of
the House Committee has been directed to no part of
their arduous duty more strongly, than the means of
removing the filth attendant on the last stage of des-
titution, and of preserving cleanliness among their
inmates. They are now separated into divisions Ai
twenty-five persons, and each division is placed undc:-
the superintendance of an Officer, whose business is
to regulate their labour, their food, and their ablu-
tions. They were. employed yesterday in removing
the straw originally provided, and which the use of

a few days has rendered unfit for the purposes to
which it was destined : it was carried into Moor-

fields, and there burnt, the floors subsequently being

cleaned, and the rooms fumigated with vinegar.—
The benevolent Mrs. FRY, attended by Mrs. IlicKs
and Mrs. CAMPBELL, yesterday visited thelnstitution,
and, under their superintendance, many useful regu-
lations will be adopted, particularly as regards the
treatment of the females.

The ventilation of the building is about to be im-
proved, by making new windows both at the sides
and at the ends. Too much praise cannot be bestowed
on the persevering attendance given by the House
Committee, some of whom lave been employed on
their work of charity, with very slight intervals for
' refreshment, from seven in the morning till mid-
night; and this is done by Gentlemen engaged in
business, to whom time is most valuable and import-
ant. The numbers were not materially increased
yesterday, there being but 60 new applicants.
A case occurred early yesterday morning, which
proved both the utility of the Institution and the
activity of thoSe concerned in its management. About
one o'clock, a Member of the Committee,' returning
home from the Refuge, found a poor woman lying
in the street, in the last stage of pregnancy, wbo
had been turned out, and was likely, without aseitt•
ance, to perish. Several attempts were made, buc
without success, to place her under the care of this
Officers of the Parish in which she was found : she
was then brought to the Refuge in London-wall ; but
the place not offering the accommodation suited to
her situation, a Medical Gentleman, who is a Mem-
ber of the General Committee, caused a coach to be
brought, and accompanied her in person to the
Workhouse of St. Giles, Cripplegate-Without ; where,
on urgent representations being made on the necessity
of the case, she was admitted. Without this timely in-
terference, she must have perished in die open street.
The Special Committee, mentioned in our last,
met yesterday, at twelve o'clock, at the King's Head,
in the Poultry, to consider a proposal for extending
the views of the Society towards the relief of poor
persons at their own habitations. The BISHOP of
CHESTER is at the head of this Committee.
We believe, on account of the magnitude of the
evil, and the difficulty of devising a mode for admi-
nistering effectually to disci ess which shuns exposure,
that no specific plan has been determined on ; but
this Committee is to meet again to-morrow. A De-
putation limn the Committee of the Society for the
Relief of Destitute Seamen had an interview yester-
day morning with some Members of the General
Committee of the Refuge for the Houseless, at the
Nlansion House, when, we arc informed, the expe-
diency of a co-operation between them was admitted,
for the sake of providing,. in the most efficient man-
ner for that portion of the destitute who are seamen.
No definite measures were, •however, agreed on, it
being deemed advisable to make some previous ar
rangements with the Admiralty.

Six hundred families have, through the exertion
of the Committee in Plymouth, been supplied with
bread at three. farthings per lb. coals at three-pence
per peck, and potatoes at 71b. for a penny.
The Anniversary Meeting of the Lincoln's Inn,
fields' Bible Association, comprising the Ladies' So-
ciety, was held yesterday evening, in the spacious
Chapel. in Great Queen-street. At half-past six o'cloc k
J. BUTTERWORTH, Esq. took the Chair, surrounded
by several eminent Divines, and a most numerous
and respectable assemblage of other persons.—Tile
CHAIRMAN opened the business of the evening inn a
brief speech, in which he observed, that the exertions
of the friends to the Society were more than ever
wanting to resist the attempts of the infidel.—The
Report was then read. It detailed the labours of the
Committee during the last year, and stated, that 2595
Bibles and Testaments had been distributed. The
Report further stated, that many persons in the dis-
trict were still without the Word of GOD, and that the
Ladies' Association was in great want of active co-
operators.—Wxt. BL AIR, Esq. the Rev. Mr. MORLRT,
the Rev. Dr. WAUGH, and Davie" Esq. made
eloquent speeches in' behalf of the object of the So-
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clay, and a liberal collection was made..

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