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endeavours to promote its welfare. To them it belongs to at-
tend internal Management of the House, to direct provi-
sionally the admissions and dismissals of the Penitents, to afford
their counsel and assistance in the duties devolving upon the Ma-
tron and her assistants, (whose judgment and assiduity-continue
to deserve the marked approbation of the Committee) and to at-
tend to the general supervision of the domestic economy of the
establishment. These services continue to be rendered with
their usual success and efficiency. As to the state of the House
during the year, the Committee have to remark with satisfaction
that the health of the inmates has been very good. Seventeen of
the Penitents have been restored this year tc their reconciled
friends, or have been placed out in respectable families as ser-
vants, and many pleasing accounts are received almost monthly
of the correct conduct, and grateful thanksgivings of those who
have been in former years reclaimed by this merciful institution..
The present inmates, especially those who have been admitted
from the Probationary "Ward to the full privilee'es of the house,
are, in general, conducting themselves with that propriety and
decorum which give the surest pledge of the reality of their
penitence.
" To the paramount importance of Religious Instruction, your'.
Committee have been deeply 'attentive, and they feel that the
institution stands indebted (under God) for the most interesting
and important moral results, to the pious labours of the different
ministers who have so kindly afforded their valuable labours in
this hallowed sphere of usefulness."
It further appeared from the report, that in the course
of the last summer, .the Committee had felt themselves
under the necessity; from the increased number of cases,
of meeting several applications for admission with a pain-
ful refusal, or at least by an indefinite postponement. It
was therefore determined to enlarge the Probationary
Ward, (then accommodating twelve at the utmost) so as
to receive thirty-five inmates, or even forty, in case of
need. The work was accordingly undertaken -and has
been just finished. In effecting this improvement, the
whole available fiinds were expended, besides an addi-
tional sum of about £2OO. It was very desirable to ob-
tain donations for the liquidation of this sum, as well as
for the increased yearly expenditure, estimated at £l5O
additional at least. The number at present in the House
was 43, 30 of whom were fully admitted, and 13 were
on probation. The average number in the House du-
ring the past year, had been 49. The total number ad-
mitted since the first establishment of the Institution,
had been 529, of whom 189 had been restored to ,their
friends or placed in-service.
The first resolution, for the printing of the report, was
moved by Mr. CROOK, and was seconded by Mr. ADAM
HODGSON, who advocated the interests of the charity with
his accustomed eloquence. He depicted the vast amount
of physical suffering and moral degradation from which
this institution relieved its objects, and contrasted their
forlorn and outcast condition with ie amount of happiness
which they might have enjoyed and conferred had they
never wandered from the path of virtue. He called upon
the meeting to reflect before they undertook the responsi-
bility, by withholding the necessary funds, of' refusing
admission to any penitent, and sending her back to the
haunts of vice. He hoped no applicant would ever here-
after be repulsed from the door of that institution.
Mr. ASIITON then read several interesting letters from
former inmates of the house, as well as from their parents
and relations. These were filled with expressions of the
warmest gratitude for the deliverance which they had
obtained from vice and misery.
The Rev. GEORGE HIGIIFIELD warmly advocated the
interests of the charity, and observed that most of those
whom it was the object of this institution to reclaiin bad
been grossly neglected in their early life.—Mr. Jon also
spoke feelingly in behalf of the charity.
Mr. ASIITON having moved a vote of thanks to the-Rev.
Chairman, Dr. RALPH acknowledged the honour, • apd
observed that it was with great pleasure he devoted a por-
tion of his leisure time to the promotion of the interests of
this institution. Ministers in their visits to these estab-
lishments derived more benefit than they communicated.
He bore testimony to the attention to religious things
bestowed by the inmates of this House of Refuge, and
stated his belief that no institution in the town was so eft,
ciently superintended.'