ubtedly cover a multitude of sins.

Associations for the voluntary relief of distress, the reclamation of the
criminal, and diffusion of Christian truth, are a noble characteristic of
the English people. There is no city in the world possessing an equal
number of charitable institutions to those of the British capital.
Taking the whole of London, and not exempting, from their distance, such
as may be correctly classed as metropolitan institutions, as Greenwich
Hospital, &c., we find there are no less than 526 charitable
institutions, exclusive of mere local endowments and trusts, parochial
and local schools, &c.

According to Mr. Low, the charities comprise--

12 General medical hospitals.
50 Medical charities for special purposes.
35 General dispensaries.
12 Societies and institutions for the preservation of life and
public morals.
18 Societies for reclaiming the fallen, and staying the
progress of crime.
14 Societies for the relief of general destitution and
distress.
35 Societies in connection with the Committee of the
Reformatory and Refuge Unions.
12 Societies for relief of specific description.
14 Societies for aiding the resources of the industrious
(exclusive of loan funds and savings' banks).
11 Societies for the deaf and dumb, and the blind.
103 Colleges, hospitals, and institutions of almhouses for the
aged.
16 Charitable pension societies.
74 Charitable and provident societies, chiefly for specified
classes.
31 Asylums for orphan and other necessitous children.
10 Educational foundations.
4 Charitable modern ditto.
40 School societies, religious books, Church aiding and
Christian visiting societies.
35 Bible and missionary societies.
526 (This includes parent societies only, and is quite
exclusive of the numerous "auxiliaries," &c.)

These charities annually disburse in aid of their respective objects the
extraordinary amount of 1,764,733 pounds, of which upwards of 1,000,000
pounds is raised annually by voluntary contributions; the remainder from
funded property, sale of publications, &c.

The facility with which money can be raised in London for charitable
purposes is very astonishing. A short time back it was announced that
the London Hospital had lost about 1,500 pounds a