25 88ths to S. Mary Abbot’s district, 9 88ths to S. Barnabas, 21 88ths to Holy Trinity, Brompton, 6½ 88ths to S. Mary Boltons, 17 88ths to S. John’s, Notting Hill, 9½ 88ths to S. James’, Norland, and their respective proportions are distributed to the poor of these districts by the Incumbents and Churchwardens of each district. The income from these gifts during the year ending Easter, 1890, was £93 8_s._ 5_d._ I for one venture to doubt whether this method of distribution is the best possible. In the first place it is altogether disproportionate to the present population and to the localities now inhabited by the poor residents in the parish. As we all know, a larger proportion both of population and poor now reside in that part of the parish north of the Uxbridge Road, yet the districts of S. John’s, Notting Hill, and S. James’, Norland, which according to the order in question occupy the whole of the northern part I am alluding to, receive only 26½ 88ths, which for the year ending Easter, 1890, amounted to £28 1_s._ 8_d._, far less than their due proportion. Then there is needless complication in dividing the income into eighty-eight parts, splitting it up into small proportions, so that it reaches the hands of those who have to distribute it in driblets, giving an amount of trouble and anxiety out of all proportion to the importance of the sums, or the benefit to those receiving them. I for one venture to think it would be much better to hand over all the property now representing these gifts to the Charity Commissioners and the Campden Trustees, to be dealt with by the latter in the same manner as that portion of their fund allocated to charitable purposes as distinguished from educational ones are applied. There are also some other gifts more recently bequeathed, which are distributed to special purposes as directed by the donors. These are:— In 1840 Mr. Searle bequeathed £300 consols the dividends on which are distributed by the Vicar and Churchwardens among poor women, sixty years and upwards of age in single £1’s (pounds sterling) or as near thereto as possible. In 1851 Mr. Shore bequeathed £120 9_s._ 8_d._, new £3 per cents. the dividends on which are distributed by the Churchwardens and Overseers in bread and coals, or both, but not in money. In 1867 Mr. Haine bequeathed £300 consols, the dividends on which after defraying the costs of cleaning and restoring the donor’s tomb every second year, are distributed by the Vicar and Churchwardens in the same manner as Mr. Shore’s gift.