For the regular poor of the parish, a very excellent house has been built, at a cost of £11,431 9_s._ 11_d._, on a portion of five and a quarter acres of “the Upper Readings,” purchased of the Bishop of London and the trustees of the Paddington Estate for £5,168 15_s._ 0_d._ {174b}—By an “extract from the statistical and financial statements of accounts of the Board of Guardians,” I find that for the half year ending Michaelmas, 1851, the total number of paupers relieved was 1,054, viz.—in-door, 88 males; 126 females; 117 children. Out-door, 122 males; 289 females; 312 children. The collective number of days being 37,171. I also find, from the same official document, that there was an increase of 36 in-door, and a decrease of 160 out-door paupers as compared with the corresponding half of the previous year; that the total expenditure for the relief of the poor, amounted to £2,995 16_s._ 0½_d._; that the sum of £1,130 10_s._ 8_d._ was repaid for “workhouse loan and interest;” and that the whole cost of the establishment for this half-year was £4,237 16_s._ 8½_d._—£4,500 having been called for to meet the expenditure. The financial account closed with a balance in hand of £1,154 10_s._ 1_d._ From the same kind of printed document, for the half-year ending lady-day, 1852, I find the total number of paupers relieved, was 1,070; viz., in-door, 70 males; 139 females; 101 children; out-door, 135 males; 290 females; 335 children; being a decrease of 120 out, and 26 in-door paupers, as compared with the corresponding half of the previous year; the collective number of days, being 36,738. The in-maintenance and clothing for this half-year, amounted to £892 16_s._ 9_d._; the “establishment and common charges,” to £830 6_s._ 2½_d._; the out-relief to 1,056 7_s._ 10¾_d._; the lunatic charges to £315 14_s._ 7_d._; and the extra medical fees to £27 4_s._ 0_d._, making the total expenditure for the relief of the poor this half-year £3,122 9_s._ 5_d._ Payment of interest, registration fees, &c., increased this sum to £3,474 18_s._ 11_d._ The amount called for this half-year was £2,700 0_s._ 0_d._, and £410 2_s._ 1_d._, was the amount of balance in hand. The Lock Hospital, which adjoins the Work-house, was removed from Grosvenor-place to its present site, in 1842. This institution was founded in 1737, and no less than 60,502 patients have been treated at this Hospital since that date. The number of in-patients for 1851, was 388; of these 193 were females, and 195 males; during the same period 785 persons were attended to, as out-patients. Attached to this charity, and indeed forming an important portion of it, is “the Asylum.”