recommended for adoption by the various Boards of Guardians represented at a recent conference held under the presidency of Mr. Corbett: For a man with wife and one child, 6_d._ and 4 lbs. of bread per day; for a man with wife and two children, 7_d._ and 4 lbs. of bread per day; for a man with wife and three children, 7_d._ and 6 lbs. of bread per day; for a man with wife and four children, 8_d._ and 6 lbs. of bread per day; for a man with wife and five children, 9_d._ and 6 lbs. of bread per day; single man, 4_d._ and 2 lbs. of bread per day; single women or widows, 4_d._ and 2 lbs. of bread per day, with an additional 3_d._ per day for each child; widowers with families to be relieved as if with wife living. Where a widow with one or more young children dependent on her and incapable of contributing to his, her, or their livelihood, can be properly relieved out of the workhouse, that she be ordinarily allowed relief at the rate of 1_s._ and one loaf for each child; the relief that may be requisite for the mother beyond this to be determined according to the special exigency of the case. That widows without children should, as a rule, after a period not exceeding three months from the commencement of their widowhood, be relieved only in the workhouse. Where the husband of any woman is beyond the seas, or in custody of the law, or in confinement in an asylum or licensed house as a lunatic or idiot, such woman should be dealt with as a widow; but where a woman has been recently deserted by her husband, and there are grounds for supposing he has gone to seek for work, although out-door relief may be ordered for two or three weeks, to give him time to communicate with his family, yet, after such reasonable time has elapsed, the wife and family should, as a rule, be taken into the workhouse, and proceedings taken against the husband. That the weekly relief to an aged or infirm man or woman be from 2_s._ 6_d._ to 3_s._ 6_d._ weekly, partly in money and partly in kind, according to his or her necessity; that the weekly relief to aged and infirm couples be 4_s._ to 5_s._, in money or in kind, according to their necessities; that when thought advisable, relief in money only may be given to those of the out-door poor who are seventy years of age and upwards.