ng the pupils.

'AKBAR.'--(MERSEY.)

Established 1856.

The vessel is managed by "The Liverpool Juvenile Reformatory
Association," which has also a girls' reformatory and a farm school. The
report for December 31, 1877, shews that during the year 79 boys were
admitted between 11 and 17 years of age (all of them under sentence of a
magistrate), and 59 were discharged (of whom 43 went to sea), leaving 198
in the ship and about 100 besides "under detention," or on license
elsewhere. The total number admitted since 1856 was 1393, of whom 731
went to sea, 130 went to friends, 73 were transferred, and 59 died.

In January, 1878, the ship parted from her moorings in a gale, and this
and repairs caused an expense of about 500 pounds. The ordinary
expenditure of the year is about 3800 pounds; the average number on board
is 190, and of these 134 could swim.

'ARETHUSA.'--(GREENHITHE, _Thames_.)

Opened August, 1874.

This vessel is the new sister ship of the 'Chichester,' and is described
below with the other vessel.

'CHICHESTER.'--(GREENHITHE, _Thames_.)

Established 1866.

This vessel, together with the 'Arethusa' (already mentioned above), is
managed by a committee in connection with the "National Refuges," an
institution which comprises a Refuge for homeless boys, a Refuge for
homeless girls, a "Farm school and Shaftesbury school," at Bisley,
Surrey, a "Working Boys' Home," and "Girls' Home" at Ealing and Sudbury.
In these six homes and two ships are more than 1000 inmates, and the
expense is defrayed by voluntary contributions. The Earl of Shaftesbury,
K. G., is President of the Institution, and Mr. W. Williams (9,
Southampton Street, Bloomsbury Square), is the Secretary.

The 'Chichester' was fitted up in 1866, and opened in January, 1867, for
training homeless boys between 13 and 16 years of age for sea life. By
the munificent gift of the Baroness Burdett Coutts, the 'Arethusa' was
presented to the committee fully fitted up as an additional Training
Ship, in 1874, and the two vessels are moored close together near the
pleasant hills of Greenhithe, in Kent. The woodcut on the preceding
page, representing some boys on the topsail-yard of the 'Chichester,'
appeared in the _Leisure Hour_ as one of the illustrations of an article
on 'Ragamuffins' by the present writer.

[Picture: Away aloft]

The number of boys sent to sea from the 'Chichester' in the year 1877 was
1