£16,241 16s. 8d., leaving a balance of £450 0s. 8d. in
favour of the charity. The average charge of each child
is £20 12s. 2d. The necessity of increasing the building;
so as to accommodate 400 has involved an expense which
it is hoped the sympathies of a generous public will
enable the managers to liquidate. The bequests to the
institution for the past year amounted to £2,603 6s. 8d.
The stock at present held by it is £66,828 7s. The
Duke of Cambridge, the Duke of Wellington, and Lord
Hardinge, were elected presidents.

A crowded meeting of the members and friends of the
Protestant Alliance was held at Exeter Hall on the
25th, "to adopt resolutions respecting the persecutions in
Tuscany and the aspect of Popery in this country." The
Lord Mayor was in the chair. The meeting was addressed
by his Lordship, Mr. T. Chambers, M.P., Mr. Bevan, the
Earl of Cavan, the Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel, Sir H.
Verney, Capt. Trotter, the Rev. Dr. Anderson, and
others. The following resolutions were unanimously
adopted, which was as follows:—"That it has been the
desire and prayer of the church of Christ, in all ages,
'That God's way may be known upon earth, His saving
health among all nations;' that to the attainment of this
end the free circulation of the Bible and the preaching
of the gospel are the appointed means, to forbid the use
of which means is to obstruct the progress of Christ's
kingdom, and to deprive man of his highest privilege;
that it is therefore with mingled feelings of regret and
indignation that this meeting has learned that there
are at this moment many Christians immured in the
dungeons of Tuscany, under no other charge than that
of reading and distributing those Holy Scriptures
'which are able to make men wise unto salvation,
through faith that is in Christ Jesus.'"—"That this
meeting desires gratefully to acknowledge the efforts
which have been made by the Earls of Roden and
Cavan, and Captain Trotter, and by the foreign
members of the late deputation to Tuscany, to obtain a
remission of the sentence passed on Francesco and Rosa
Madiai; and having now seen the fruitlessness of any
appeal to the humanity or the justice of the Tuscan
government, it authorises a memorial to be signed by
the chairman, and presented to her most gracious
Majesty, praying that, if that government should
continue to disregard the intercessions of the Protestant
states of Europe, her Majesty will be pleased to take
into her consideration the propriety of discontinuing all
diplomatic relations with a court which could thus show
itself indifferent alike to the dictates of humanity and
to the claims of international friendship and courtesy."—
"That regarding the late proceedings in Tuscany as
indicative of the real character of Popery in its
dominant condition, and as furnishing the fullest
disproof of all those representations that its character
has been ameliorated, by which the British people have
been deluded for many years past—this meeting renews
its protest against all national encouragement of a system
so adverse to the commands of God, and so injurious to
the best interests of man. Especially it adopts petitions
to both Houses of Parliament, praying for the
discontinuance of the endowment of Maynooth college; and
for the enactment of some provision which shall secure
the due inspection and proper regulation of all nunneries
and convents in the United Kingdom."

A Lending Library and Reading Room are about to
be established in Windsor Great Park, for the use of its
inhabitants, and others in the employ of the Crown, who
live in the neighbourhood. His royal highness has
most kindly permitted the appropriation of two of the
lower rooms at Cumberland Lodge to this purpose, and
has ordered that they should be suitably furnished. The
subscription has been fixed at 6d. per quarter.

PERSONAL NARRATIVE.

Her Majesty and Prince Albert have again testified
their interest in the welfare of the labouring classes by a
joint donation of £150 towards the funds of the "Public
Baths and Wash-houses Committee," making a total of
£650 given by them for the "Model establishment in
Goulston-square, Whitechapel."

The Queen gave the first of a series of dramatic
representations at Windsor Castle on the 7th inst. The
play was the second part of Shakspeare's King Henry
the Fourth.

The Earl and Countess of Eglinton held their farewell
reception on the 3rd inst., at Dublin Castle, and the
attendance, notwithstanding the unfavourable state of
the weather, was the largest for a very long time past,
and must be regarded as a gratifying testimony of public
approval of the principles which guided Lord Eglinton
in his government of Ireland. The Lord Mayor and
Corporation presented an address which was "adopted
at a recent meeting of the Town Council. In his
reply, the Earl deprecated the abolition of the Vice-
royalty. "I think" he said, "that such a measure
would inflict irreparable injury on this city—that
it would be a wanton outrage on the feelings of
the people of this country—that it would be
impossible to carry out, satisfactorily, the changes
which it would render necessary—and that it would be
an unworthy act of imperial parsimony." The officers
of Dublin garrison took this occasion of presenting the
Countess of Eglinton with a magnificent bracelet, set
with brilliants and emeralds, and bearing the inscription:
"To Teresa, Countess of Eglinton and Winton, by the
Officers of the Staff and Household, in memory of 1852."

The Hon. Miss Stapleton, sister of Lord Beaumont,
has renounced the errors of Popery. She received the
sacrament at Carlton church on Christmas day.

The will of the late Duke of Wellington is to be
proved under the sum of £800,000. It has at last been
decided that the car which conveyed his remains to
St. Paul's is to be placed in the Repository at Woolwich,
and the pall used upon the occasion of the funeral
in Chelsea hospital.

The Duke of Wellington has consented to become a
vice-president of the Royal Highland School Society,
vacant by the death of his father.

Lord Denman has been dangerously ill at Nice.
He has had a paralytic attack, but is said to be
convalescent.

Mr. Bailey, the sculptor, has just completed the
model of a colossal statue of the late George Stephenson,
which, when executed in marble, is to be placed on
one of the landings of the grand staircase at the end of
the great hall at the Euston-square station.

Dr. Hawtrey, Head Master, has been appointed to the
Provostship of Eton College, in the room of the late
Reverend Francis Hodgson.

The late Mr. Philips, of Brunswick-square, has left,
by bequest, a sum of about £6000 for the purpose of
founding a professorship of the physical sciences in St.
David's College. The principal and professors have
elected to the office the Rev. J. Matthews, M.A., of
St. John's College, Cambridge.

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Thomas Mitchell, Surveyor-
General of New South Wales, who has just arrived
from that colony, has brought with him a diamond of
good form and of the finest water, weighing three-
quarters of a carat, found at the gold-diggings at Ophir,
West of Bathurst. Sir Thomas has presented this
specimen, as also one of sapphire found in the same
locality, to the Museum of Practical Geology.

Sir B. Lytton Bulwer, Bart., returned seven and a
half per cent, to his tenants at the last audit, at
Knebworth Park, Herts.

Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of "Uncle Tom's
Cabin,'' is about to visit this country with her husband.
She has lately received a letter trom Dr. Wardlaw,
tendering her, in behalf of a number of ladies and
gentlemen in Glasgow, an invitation to visit England
at their expense. This invitation she has accepted,
and she will soon leave the United States for Liverpool.

Inspector Field has received from Sir R. Mayne, the
Commissioner of Metropolitan Police, a first-class
certificate of good conduct, and from the late Government,
a pension of £126 per annum.

Mr. G. Cornewall Lewis is to be Editor of the
Edinburgh Review in the room of the late Mr. Empson.

Dr. Max Muller, a personal friend of Chevalier
Bunsen, the Prussian minister at this court, and who
has resided for several years in England, has been
appointed to a lectureship of modem literature in the
University of Oxford.