room; it appears therefore, that something should be done for ventilation, which might easily be accomplished.

The construction of the privies appears to be very objectionable; and there is only one in each of the upper galleries, one in the criminal part, and two on the basement story; nor are there any privies or urinals in the airing grounds. And it seems doubtful, whether the drain passing under the beds, is on such a construction as will answer the intended purpose.

There is no room set apart for the reception of the dead bodies, which should be provided for.

There are eight acres of ground occupied for the hospital, including the site of the buildings, the airing grounds, and one acre and an half intended for a kitchen garden; and there are nearly four acres more adjoining, which it is the intention of the governors to turn to profit, the act of Parliament restraining them to the use of eight. The Committee, however, think it may be expedient to submit to the consideration of Parliament, the propriety of enabling the governors to devote this ground to the general purposes of the hospital, from a conviction of the benefits the patients derive from exercise, and in many cases from labor.

And that the patients may not be entirely deprived of these benefits in wet weather, it appears to be desirable that pent-houses should be erected against the cross walls of the airing grounds, or a sort of covering in the middle thereof, like those of St. Luke's Hospital.

In the criminal part of the building, the Committee find the same objection to the height of the windows, as before mentioned; and that no provision whatever is made for warming this department, although the warming pipes from the basement story are continued to the door at which this

part is entered; and it may be useful if external doors of grating should be provided on the basement story.

The Committee have only further to remark that in this part of the building there is no infirmary.

RESOLVED That the Chairman be directed to move the house that leave be given to bring in a bill to amend and enforce the provisions of the Act of the 14th Geo. III. cap. 49, entitled "An Act for regulating Madhouses."

July 11, 1815.

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THE HE Reports of the British and Foreign Bible Society are ten in number. They contain little else besides matters of fact, stated with correctness and plainness. But to the mind that is guided by Christian principle, and animated by Christian feeling, these facts exhibit an object of contemplation, pleasing and captivating. They exhibit a system of the most disinterested benevolence, simple in its origin, pure in its spirit, unlimited in its operations, extending, without the arts or aids of human policy, its benign influence over the habitable world, and every where bearing upon it, the lineaments of that wisdom that is from above, pure and peaceable, and gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and of good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy ;' possessed of an annual and increasing revenue, unknown for magnitude in the history of benevolence, and supported not less by the mite of the poor widow'

I 'A poor widow almost worn out with affliction, and who had seen and enjoyed better days,' hearing we were in the neighbourhood, waited our arrival with tears of joy; we went up to her room, at the top of a miserable house, when the woman said, 'This is my dwelling, and blessed be God for it; for I assure you, my dear sirs, although I have but little to supply my