Pounds s. d. Committee-rooms............. 45 0 0 2 Secretaries employed by the Committee................ 120 0 0 Agents, canvassing, &c.......... 88 6 2 Printing Notices, Placards, Pamphlets, a “Daily Bulletin of Health,” “Life of Ginx's Baby,” “Protestant Babyhood, a Tale,” “The Cradle of an Infant Martyr,” “A Snatched Brand,” and other Works issued by the Committee...... 596 13 5 Advertisements of Meetings, Sermons, &c............... 261 1 1 Legal Expenses............... 77 6 8 Stationery................ 35 10 0 Postage, Firing, and Sundries....... 27 19 2 ---------------- Total Pounds 1251 16 6 This left L 108 13s. 9 1/2d. for the baby's keep. No child could have been more thoroughly discussed, preached and written about, advertised, or advised by counsel; but his resources dwindled in proportion to these advantages. Benevolent subscribers too seldom examine the financial items of a report: had any who contributed to this fund seen the balance sheet they might have grudged that so little of their bounty went to make flesh, bone, and comfort for the object of it. A cynic would tell them that to look sharply after the disposal of their guerdon was half the gift. Their indifference was akin to that satirized by the poet-- “Prodigus et stultus dedit quae spernit et odit.” In an age of luxury we are grown so luxurious as to be content to pay agents to do our good deeds for us; but they charge us three hundred per cent. for the privilege. X.--The Force--and a Specimen of its Weakness.