The total of the expenses connected
with all these schools, during these two years, amounted to 886l. 1s. 11
1/2 d.

2, During this period were circulated 649 Bibles and 232 New Testaments.
There were circulated from March 5, 1834 up to May 26, 1848, 5746 Bibles
and 3760 New Testaments. 74l. 9s. 10d. was expended of the Funds of the
Institution, during this period, on this object.

3, From May 26, 1846 to May 26, 1848 was expended of the Funds of the
Institution on Missionary objects, 1559l. 1l. 6d., whereby 43 labourers
in the Gospel, at Rome and Abroad, were assisted.

4, During this period 64,021 Tracts were circulated, and the sum of 63l.
1s. 5d. was expended on this object of the funds of the Institution. The
total number of Tracts circulated from Nov. 19, 1840 to May 26, 1848,
amounted to 163,668.

5, There were received into the four Orphan-Houses, from May 26, 1846,
to May 26, 1848, Fifty-one Orphans, who, together with those who were in
the four Houses on May 26, 18413, made up 172 in all. Of these: 1. Five
children died, two as decided believers, one not without some hope, and
two as infants. This was the greatest number of deaths we had had for
many years; and yet how small is even the number five out of 172 within
two years, if it be remembered that we received children as young as two
years old; and if it be further remembered that the very fact of such
young children being bereaved of BOTH parents is, generally, a plain
proof that their parents were very sickly and unhealthy persons, as
indeed has generally been the case, since the greater part of the
parents of these children died in consumption, which I learn from the
certificates of their death. 2. One of the Orphans, who had been above
ten years in the house, left the Institution without leave, and went to
her friends for two or three days; and for an example to the other
children was not taken back again, when her friends wished her to
return. 3. Three of the elder girls, who had been several years in the
house, were taken back to their relatives and not suffered to remain any
longer, because of improper behaviour towards their teacher. All three,
however, were of an age to go to service, and would have been shortly
placed out, had they behaved better. 4. Four of the children were
dismissed because of malignant skin or other diseases, remedies having
failed: and in these cases, for the sake of the other children, we were
obliged to send them back