Such order, it is evident, must have embarrassed the actions of the trustees greatly, and considerably interfered with their judicious application of the charity funds. I have not been able to refer to the evidence upon which the order was obtained, but if, on the ground of the distribution of the population of the parish in 1852 it had any shadow of justice then, it would be highly unjust now, when the population of the northern half of the parish, forming the Parliamentary district of North Kensington, and then comprised in the church districts of S. John’s, Notting Hill, arid S. James’, Norland, is greater than that of all the other districts put together. Between 1853 and 1879 the income from the Campden Charities increased from the £667 7_s._ to about £3,500 a year. Several leases of plots of ground had fallen in, and meanwhile the value of the land had been rising enormously. Charecrofts, at Shepherd’s Bush, formerly a nursery ground, was in 1864 let on a building lease for a term of ninety-nine years at a ground rent of £870 per annum. In 1865 the London and South Western Railway treated for and subsequently purchased a part of the estate, 5 acres 2 roods 5 perches in extent, for the sum of £10,000, which reduced the rent of the estate from £870 to £485 per annum. This sum of £10,000 was for some time invested in consols, but in 1887 was reinvested in the purchase of ground rents in the city of London. In 1874 a portion of Butt’s Fields was sold to the Duke of Bedford for the sum of £18,500 (a very good price you will think) for the site of Thorney House at the corner of Gloucester Road. In 1875 a further portion of the estate, being 12 and 13, Hyde Park Gate, was sold to Mr. James Watney, M.P., for £22,500. Both of these amounts were at first invested in consols, but have since been invested in the purchase of a freehold estate in the city called Thanet House, and in ground rents in the city. In 1869 the Gravel Pits Estate was let on a building lease for ninety-nine years at a rent of £1,040 per annum, when Clanricarde Gardens, and Nos. 2, 4, 8, 10 and 12, High Street, Notting Hill, were erected thereon. And advantageous leases of the remaining land were made at greatly increased rentals from time to time as opportunity occurred.