This order, as regards Aisley’s Charity, directed that the dividends from the £1,352 12_s._ 11_d._ consols belonging to the charity should be applied in the payment “of exhibitions to boys of the yearly value not exceeding £15 a-year to boys educated at one of the public elementary schools in the parish, either in the situation of pupil teachers, or to assist their education at some school higher than elementary, or of technical or professional instruction.” I have also examined the accounts of Aisley’s Charity for the year 1890, and I find during that year the income of the charity was £37 5_s._ 8_d._, out of which, and from a balance of £46 9_s._ 1_d._ from preceding years, exhibitions of varying value were paid to five boys at various schools. I have next to deal with a charity as to which there was, at the time I prepared this paper, a singular absence of information. It is called the District School, carried on in Jenning’s Buildings. Jenning’s Buildings, if I remember rightly, was a rookery in Kensington, and removed to make way for Baron Grant’s house, since in its turn pulled down, and its site occupied by Kensington Court. Since this lecture was delivered, Mr. J. J. Merriman, of 45, Kensington Square, one of the most respected and distinguished of Kensington parishioners, has most kindly given me full information as to these Jenning’s Buildings Schools. Jenning’s Buildings are thus described in the Report for the year 1853, of the S. Mary Abbot’s Kensington District Visiting Society:— “Jenning’s Buildings is a portion of the town leading out of the High Street, and is the chosen settlement of the Irish Romanists. It consists of a series of courts and alleys, which, for closeness and filth, are probably without a parallel westward of S. Paul’s. Being a _cul de sac_, unlighted, irregularly-paved, and indifferently supplied with water, its best-disposed inhabitants find it difficult to cultivate the habits of civilized life. The majority give the matter up, and seek in alcoholic and other stimulants an antidote against wretchedness, malaria, and disease. Nowhere are the evils of overcrowded chambers more apparent. Single rooms frequently shelter two and even three families. Its choicest district exhibits a return of 40 families to 18 houses; of 160 persons, exclusive of lodgers, sleeping in 39 rooms. The entire population must exceed 1,500 souls. Prior to the erection of the present schools it was impossible for ladies to penetrate its recesses. The police entered its retreats in couples. In 1847 the work of reformation commenced, and since then a steady progress has been made. At first the school was emphatically ‘a ragged school;’ its scholars were literally running wild and half-naked in the streets; they outraged alike propriety and decency.”