mixing with other children, such companionship being of the greatest importance In rousing their intelligence, kindling their affection, and developing the mental and physical powers of these unfortunates, to whom all around them has seemed hostile and depressing.

To obtain better dwellings for the poor, it is essential for the poorer class to feel it want for, and a desire to have, houses better, cleaner, and more wholesome than those they now inhabit Too many, at present, wantonly and maliciously, but more frequently, through neglect and apathy, injure the houses in which they live. Many of them prefer to be uncomfortable. It is a bore to clean up, they prefer to "pig," and refuse to be disturbed in their slatternly ways. The man or men that are wanted to solve this difficult question, the only true or real reformers, Will be those who study how to alter the character, estimate of life, the ideal of existence amongst the poor. From the clergy of all denominations, from every mail who has influence over the masses, we want the moral courage to tell the poor not to marry until they are in it position to support a wife and family, to be reasonably industrious, uniformly thrifty, and unswervingly sober. The real reformer, the only saviour of society, is the man who will tell the poor low they may become less so, by teaching the"' how to earn more or spend less, not by robbing; others of what they have. We want a reform that will lead to improvement, not to ruin. The Socialists would treat property as the Radicals would treat the Constitution; the former would not increase, but disperse what exists; the latter would not improve or strengthen, but eradicate and destroy. To govern an empire like Great Britain