H., in T. street-frequently attended theatres, circuses, &c., La Fayette and Mount Pit. Enters Third Class. Šince M's residence in the House, there has been an astonishing change. For nearly four months past, she has evinced the sweetest Christian spirit, mild and meek, quiet and kind; often seen to weep under religious exercises, but never discovered to show any fruits of her former life-is one of the most industrious and trusty of her class; and when a sufficient length of time shall have elapsed, for her to be settled and grounded in the way she should go, we trust to have the pleasure of transplanting this hopeful child into some soil that will be congenial to her future prosperity and usefulness. REPORT OF THE LADIES' COMMITTEE. The Ladies' Committee to the Female Department of the House of Refuge, respectfully Report: That we have great satisfaction in finding ourselves able to communicate information respecting our truly excellent institution, which must be very acceptable. Where there are so many abandoned and profligate young persons, daily entering this establishment, it must be expected that some among them will be refractory, and occasion vexation and trouble; yet these are not numerous. Within the last year we have heard few complaints from the Matron. Two or three of the girls have not behaved so well. Their improper conduct may probably be, in some measure, attributed to the nearness of a store-room, by which the boys have access to the baking room of the girls. Here they can communicate to each other and contrive mischief, only a thin partition separates them. We are glad to learn that the directors of the institution have in contemplation to turn this store room into an eating hall for the boys, where they will only be admitted at meal time. In our opinion they should be kept out of view of each other-it is certainly the best plan, and most likely to keep them orderly and well behaved. The Female Committee have not been unmindful of the suggestions of the Indenturing Committee, in respect to the selection and recommendation of girls to be apprenticed. Four are now, in the opinion of the Ladies' Committee, qualified, by their general good conduct, to give satisfaction, in any family in which they may be placed. At the same time, we would observe, that it is most desirable that these children should be sent to some distance from the city, where they would not be likely to meet their former bad associates. The Ladies' Committee have held their monthly and weekly meetings, without intermission, even in stormy weather. They have constantly visited the House of Refuge, inspected the apartments, heard recitations from the Scriptures, and attended to the different lessons in which the children were engaged: most of them have improved satisfactorily, and give promise, under the advantages of religious education which the House of Refuge affords, that they may become worthy members of society, and repay the friends of the institution, the expense, trouble, and anxiety they have undergone In our monthly reports, every particular, in regard to these children, is given with great exactness. We now only add, that we shall continue our visits, with unabated zeal. We have daily more reason to think this institution is going on well, and that it is doing much good in the community. The beneficial effects of the establishment must and will be continually seen. Under the influence of this humane institution, vice will forsake its wonted haunts, and virtue find votaries in those who were depraved-Praise be to God! through the perseverance of a few benevolent persons so much has been effected. We have nothing further to add, but to assure the Directors of the House of Refuge, that we desire not to weary in our efforts to aid them every way in our power. ISABELLA BULOID, First Directress. REPORT OF WORK DONE BY THE FEMALES. A statement of the work performed by the Female subjects in the House of Refuge, from December first 1827, to the first of December 1828, inclusive, viz: Reeling two hundred and seventy thousand skeins of cot The number of stockings mended were so numerous, that to have kept an account of them would have proved tedious. Washing and baking, are two branches of no inconsiderable importance. The washing on an average has during the year, amounted to about eight hundred pieces per week, and the mending of the same. In addition to the above estimate of work there is to be considered all the domestic work relative to themselves, and the keeping in order the female department, viz: cooking, mending for themselves, cleaning house, &c. &c. of which there cannot be a minute account given. WORK DONE BY THE BOYS. BRASS NAIL MANUFACTORY. Of assorted sizes, 15,600 M. which averages 300 thousand per week. CHAIR BOTTOM MANUFACTORY. Cane chair bottoms, 10,844, or 907 dozen. It will be understood that the cane is dressed, and the frames for the seats made by the boys. TAILORS' SHOP. 150 Suits, jacket and trowsers for winter. STATEMENTS. There were in the house when the last report was made, Subjects. 161 17 159 159 The number of subjects received into the House of Refuge since our last report as above Of the above number, ninety-three are foreigners, or the children of foreigners, and the remaining sixty-six are of American MEMORIAL. To the Honorable the Legislature of the State of New-York. The Memorial of the Managers of the Society for the reformation of Juvenile Delinquents, respectfully sheweth, That your memorialists have seen, with deep concern and regret, a remonstrance addressed to your honorable body, purporting to be from shipmasters, mariners and citizens of the city of NewYork, against the appropriation made by law towards the support of the House of Refuge, of a part of the moneys collected by the commissioners of health. Your memorialists will not doubt but that the authors of the remonstrance are actuated by the best motives, nor question the sincerity of their declaration, that they are not "hostile to any charitable institution;" neither will your memorialists presume to say, that by the remonstrance, facts are intentionally misrepresented; yet it is certain the language the shipmasters, mariners and citizens have adopted, is calculated to mislead the Legislature, and to create a prejudice in the public mind against an establishment which the late Governor, in his message to the Legislature, in eighteen hundred and twenty-six, characterised as "the best penitentiary institution ever devised by the wit, and established by the beneficence of man." In adverting to the law creating the fund, a part of which is appropriated to the House of Refuge, the remonstrance could not avoid disclosing, that it was collected as well from passengers as from mariners; yet, in the zeal of their remonstrance, this important fact is entirely overlooked, and the injustice of a diversion of any part of the moneys collected by the commissioners of health to any other purpose than the immediate benefit of mariners, is urged on the ground of the fund being "wholly earned by them, in their arduous profession. If it be meant by the remonstrance, that the money collected from passengers, as well as that which is paid by mariners, is earned by the latter because the passengers in question arrive here by sea; then seamen might, with equal propriety, claim a particular interest in the public funds derived from duties on importations in the ships they navigate. Soon after the law of eighteen hundred and twenty-six, relative to this subject, was passed, the managers received, under an order from the late Governor, nineteen thousand dollars out of a surplus then in the hands of the commissioners. This sum was applied to the extensive buildings erected by the society, owing in some measure to the house having been opened by a late law, to the Juvenile convicts of all the counties in the State, the number of delinquents it would be proper to receive has so far increased, that an addition to the building has become necessary. To meet the expense of an enlargement of the establishment, the managers obtained from the late Governor an order for a further appropriation of seven thousand dollars, from any surplus the commissioners might find in their hands. Of this appropriation the managers have received no more than two thousand dollars. Soon after the law, giving the Managers a claim on the surplus of the Hospital fund, was passed, they entered into an arrangement with the Health Commissioners, to receive from them at the rate |