As I withdrew a Poor-law paper on the list to make way for Miss Smedley's paper, I wish to give only so much of the statistics as bears on the points raised by Mrs. O'Connell's and Miss Smedley's papers.

After I had considered in an address to the Statistical Society the question of the proper mode of dealing with the children whom destitution has brought into the care of the state, this paper was sent to me by the late ...