NEGLECTED AND DESTITUTE CHILDREN.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4606, 29 May 1872, Page 3

NEGLECTED AND DESTITUTE CHILDREN.

To the Editor : Sir, — I have read carefully the homiletic and somewhat lengthy notice of the meeting of the " Society for the Relief of Neglected and Destitute Children," which appeared in Tuesday's Cross. Every benevolent person must wish the Society all success in its gcjod work, and regret deeply that "the Committee of Management has felt it necessary to issue instructions to magistrates and others to send no more children to the Home," there being no more room. Allow me to" suggest a remedy for this state of things. Let the Committee of Management make arrangements for sending 'over to the Orphan Home as many as .possible of the representatives of that class of children for which the "Orphau and Destitute Children's Home" was (set on foot by Archdeacon Lloyd ; and let the Reliermg Officer be requested m future to give the priority to the Orphan -Home for children of class (a.) of rule 1 of the Society, thus making room for more of the children of classes (b) and (c), the street Arabs and such like, for whom, as many of us were led, to understand "at the time, the Society's institution was specially intended. The Orphan Home has accommodation for 100 children ; it is * pity that any portion of this space should go unused, while the committee of the Neglected' and Destitute, Children's Home are obliged to turn' away : from their doorsVehildreti that, even more urgently than ' orphans,^ and -Idofititute children , of, respectable, parents, need public attention. It miyjbeoaid that this Orphan Home is. a sectarian inalitixtibn ; but I think it may b» safely answered 'that the earnest desire of its promoters ur.to'.make it *s unsectarian in ill. respects as is compatible with ensuring. for its'inmates a certain definiteness. '"of, > religious; 1 , instructian. The" children are drafted from it into the families , of members of other denominations as. frequently as into' "ChnroH of England households ; and-they ar© sent forth without any stipulations of a sectarian character. I was ! sorry tobe unable to attend the meeting last r eyenipg to' express' my* views tHerelj' "and un'deV tbew cif cumßta^ces I;iivjair myself of wepruif^e'ofj^g^iu^la^g&^l am, j *ovji *--*•-» a- v' »B^THOENi t o»\Doi)ijnr. *•' St. Sepulohw'i s^ » -t* T - " i