It is the high and peculiar distinction of our country, that we have not only charitable institutions for the prevention and cure of many of the physical evils, and for the relief and solace of many of the moral evils of life; but we have societies for the supply of the religious wants of our home population, of our colonies, and of the whole family of man, wherever British commerce, and, with it, British influence, extend. This is not the place to enter upon the subject of all these societies; their bare enumeration, with the most brief statement of their several objects, would fill many pages; perhaps, therefore, to particularize any, where all have merit, may be deemed unjust towards others; but every consistent member of the Church of England is bound strenuously to support, and every clergyman zealously to advocate, societies, whose professed object is the inculcation of doctrines which he firmly believes, the use of a ritual which he fondly loves, the observance of ordinances which he highly values and reverences. Of these it may be right to make some brief notice, not only because some of them have not received that encouragement and support to which their importance entitles them, but because they are peculiarly calculated to remedy the existence, and to prevent the recurrence, of many of the evils which at present endanger our civil and religious institutions. First in order stands the National Society for promoting the education of the poor in the principles of the Established Church. Then, ascending to a higher grade in society, we have an institution, King’s College and School, to supply the youth of the middle classes, in the metropolis, with a liberal education, founded on the basis of religious knowledge. This institution is only in its infancy, but if properly supported, it might extend its ramifications throughout the kingdom, diffusing every where the beneficial fruit of true religion, sound learning, and useful knowledge. It is much to be wished that similar colleges and schools, in connexion with King’s College, were established in all our great towns, in like manner as schools every where throughout the kingdom have sprung from that prolific parent, with which they are in union, the Central School in Baldwin’s Gardens. Our National Schools are well calculated early to train children in the path of godliness; to accustom them to habits of cleanliness, neatness, and order; to excite them to industry and application, to habituate them to proper restraint and discipline, to supply them with the knowledge suitable to their station in life; and, above all, to impress deeply the mind with the great truths of the Gospel, and to store it richly with passages of Scripture, which, once thoroughly learnt, are rarely forgotten, but may, in after life, prove in the hour of temptation a safeguard, and in seasons of sickness or of sorrow, a sweet and never-failing solace. If the minds of our