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19 I either found Ladies actually present at the time of my visit, or heard that they were in the habit of being present almost daily. Their chief effort is to instil into the minds of the children a good moral & religious line?; & to bring them to feel that there are such things in human hearts as kindliness & regard for others; & that this kindliness & regard is being directed towards themselves. they also generally superintend the musical instruction, for which purpose each School is supplied with an Harmonium. It is thought that Music will both attract, & humanize children accustomed at home to so much roughness, & coarseness. They also teach the girls to make their own clothes; the materials for which, in the case of the poorest & most neglected, are given either at the cost of the school funds, or by some of the well-wishers of the School through these voluntary assistants. This, & meals provided two or three times a week for the most destitute are used as allurements by which the most neglected children which are precisely the cases the managers are most desirous of getting hold of, may be brought in.

   None of the children found in these Schools wd. ever attend the

Common Schools. Their rags & habits wd. alone render them inadmissible & it is only by such means & exertions as I have just mentioned that they can be attracted to, & fitted for the Industrial Schools. I was told that notwithstanding the success I witnessed there was still a