sympathies, unaccompanied by your prayers, unprovided with your alms? Let each one answer for himself. In conclusion, the Committee would humbly commend the future proceedings of the Society to the compassionate care of that Lord, who being rich unto all, has blessed its operations to the present date, beseeching Him to overrule its plans and works to His own everlasting glory and the final salvation of those who now and hereafter shall regulate, subserve or benefit by, the ministrations of that abounding charity, which it is its especial object to stimulate, develope, and control. APPENDIX A. All experience tends to prove a probable connection between dirt and vice. There is truth in the proverb, “Cleanliness is next to godliness.” We have the warrant of Holy Writ, for stating that men love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil. In every attempt to elevate the inhabitants of a neglected District, respect must be had to its sanitary arrangements. No exertion ought to be spared to procure for it water, light, and systematic cleansing; against the demoralizing overcrowding of single rooms the most stringent clauses of the Lodging House Act should be rigidly enforced. The following extracts from the Visitors’ Reports certify how these obstacles impede any permanent improvement in the physical condition of the poor in the less favoured parts of the Parish, and bring out in strong relief the existence of evils requiring the attention of the local authorities, if not the intervention of the Legislature to ameliorate or remove, as wholly unworthy of a civilized community. “In this district there is much and constant illness in consequence of bad drainage, and the entrance of the court is almost impassable in wet weather for want of paving.” “Five out of nine houses in my District are totally unsupplied with water, and the inmates have either to buy or borrow of their neighbours. I feel the uselessness, of impressing upon the people the advantages of cleanliness, when such drawbacks as I have mentioned come to the assistance of their naturally dirty habits.” “In this eight-roomed house forty people, men, women and children, live. Eleven human beings are crowded into a small low-roofed garret; the walls decaying from want of paint; the mother and children a heap of dirt and rags. The landlord has been remonstrated with again and again to have the house cleaned which is in a hopelessly dirty condition.” “This street has been much improved by being lately paved. It is now kept clearer by the people, and is quieter than formerly.” APPENDIX B. _The Treasurer in Account with the Church of England District Visiting Society_—1852.