has exerted a wonderfully beneficial influence on them. I am aware we have here many schemes of benevolence, such as "improved houses for the poor," in connexion with which ladies of position and independent means have undertaken the work, of weekly rent collecting and supervision, and by this friendly intercourse with the tenants they are able to exercise great influence on their homes and characters. But we want our "Poor-law system of relief" to be based upon this idea of "personal contact." The aim of charitable persons should not be so much the giving with money in hand, or religious teaching on their lips, as the sympathetic, friendly intercourse of man with man, woman with woman, irrespective of class, and actuated by the desire to stimulate hope and energy, and to show the lowest outcast that the world, even to them, may be made more enjoyable, if they have the "desire" to live a life more in harmony with the better part of their nature; and so in time, by degrees, as the child is taught to walk, step by step, we may improve the lowest types of humanity.

Hereditary pauperism, and the cure for it, has been, and will be, the study of philanthropists and political economists. The latter acknowledge, with the former, the necessity for a system of relief, and do not advocate the abolition of the Poor Law; but to lessen or extirpate pauperism needs a different administration, so as to reduce still further its pauperizing - tendencies, for the protection of the public purse and the benefit of the poor themselves, without lessening in any degree the giving of relief to the really destitute. The desire should be to "help the fallen," but to do so in such a