girl declaring that she wishes to leave, is
not allowed to do so hastily, but is locked
in a chamber by herself, to consider of
it until next day: when, if she still persist,
ehe is formally discharged. It has never
once happened that a girl, however excited,
has refused to submit to this restraint.

One of the most remarkable effects of the
Home, even in many of the cases where it does
not ultimately succeed, is the extraordinary
change it produces in the appearance of its
inmates. Putting out of the question their
look of cleanliness and health (which may be
regarded as a physical consequence of their
treatment) a refining and humanising alteration
is wrought in the expression of the
features, and in the whole air of the person,
which can scarcely be imagined. Teachers
in Ragged Schools have made the observation
in reference to young women whom they
had previously known well, and for a long
time. A very sagacious and observant
police magistrate, visiting a girl before her
emigration who had been taken from his bar,
could detect no likeness in her to the girl
he remembered. It is considered doubtful
whether, in the majority of the worst cases,
the subject would easily be known again at a
year's end, among a dozen, by an old
companion.

The moral influence of the Home, still
applying the remark even to cases of failure,
is illustrated in a no less remarkable manner.
It has never had any violence done to a
chair or a stool. It has never been asked to
render any aid to the one lady and her
assistant, who are shut up with the thirteen
the year round. Bad language is so uncommon,
that its utterance is an event. The
committee have never heard the least approach
to it, or seen anything but submission;
though it has often been their task to reprove
and dismiss women who have been violently
agitated, and unquestionably (for the time)
incensed against them. Four of the fugitives
have robbed the Institution of some clothes.
The rest had no reason on earth for running
away in preference to asking to be dismissed,
but shame in not remaining.

A specimen or two of cases of success may
be interesting.

Case number twenty-seven, was a girl
supposed to be of about eighteen, but who
had none but supposititious knowledge of her
age, and no knowledge at all of her birth-day.
Both her parents had died in her infancy. She
had been brought up in the establishment of
that amiable victim of popular prejudice, the
late Mr. Drouet, of Tooting. It did not appear
that she was naturally stupid, but her intellect
had been so dulled by neglect that
she was in the Home many months before
she could be imbued with a thorough understanding
that Christmas Day was so called
as the birthday of Jesus Christ. But when
she acquired this piece of learning, she was
amazingly proud of it. She had been apprenticed
to a small artificial flower maker
with three others. They were all ill-treated,
and all seemed to have run away at different
times: this girl last: who absconded with an
old man, a hawker, who brought " combs and
things " to the door for sale. She took what
she called " some old clothes " of her mistress
with her, and was apprehended with
the old man, and they were tried together.
He was acquitted; she was found guilty. Her
sentence was six months' imprisonment, and,
on its expiration, she was received into
the Home. She was appallingly ignorant,
but most anxious to learn, and contended
against her blunted faculties with a consciously
slow perseverance. She showed a
remarkable capacity for copying writing by
the eye alone, without having the least idea of
its sound, or what it meant. There seemed
to be some analogy between her making
letters and her making artificial flowers.
She remained in the Home, bearing an
excellent character, about a year. On her
passage out, she made artificial flowers for
the ladies on board, earned money, and was
much liked. She obtained a comfortable
service as soon as she landed, and is happy
and respected. This girl had not a friend in
the world, and had never known a natural
affection, or formed a natural tie, upon the
face of this earth.

Case number thirteen was a half-starved
girl of eighteen whose father had died soon
after her birth, and who had long eked out a
miserable subsistence for herself and a sick
mother by doing plain needlework. At last
her mother died in a workhouse, and the
needlework " falling off bit by bit," this girl
suffered, for nine months, every extremity of
dire distress. Being one night without any
food or shelter from the weather, she went to
the lodging of a woman who had once lived
in the same house with herself and her
mother, and asked to be allowed to lie down
on the stairs. She was refused, and stole a
shawl which she sold for a penny. A fortnight
afterwards, being still in a starving
and houseless state, she went back to the
same woman's, and preferred the same request.
Again refused she stole a bible from her,
which she sold for twopence. The theft was
immediately discovered, and she was taken
as she lay asleep in the casual ward of a
workhouse. These facts were distinctly proved
upon her trial. She was sentenced to three
months imprisonment, and was then admitted
into the Home. She had never been corrupted.
She remained in the Home, bearing an excellent
character, a little more than a year;
emigrated; conducted herself uniformly well
in agood situation; and is now married.

Case number forty-one was a pretty girl of
a quiet and good manner, aged nineteen.
She came from a watering place where she
had lived with her mother until within a
couple of years, when her mother married
again and she was considered an incumbrance