not only allowed to do as much as
before, but to expend even 1016l. 5s. more than during the former
period, notwithstanding all the many heavy additional expenses for the
various other objects of the Institution.

It is my sweet privilege to state, that the labours of many of these
forty servants of the Lord, whom I assisted, were especially owned of
God during these two years. There took place very many conversions
through their instrumentality. This applies both to those who laboured
among idolaters and those among nominal Christians.

4, From May 26, 1848 to May 26, 1850 the sum of 184l. 9s. 4 1/2 d. was
expended on the circulation of Tracts. There were circulated during this
period 130,464 Tracts. The total number which was circulated from Nov.
19, 1840 up to May 26, 1850 amounted to 294,128.

As the Missionary department was considerably enlarged during these two
years, so the Tract Department also increased to nearly three times the
extent that it was during the former periods, for which I desire to be
grateful to the Lord, and I rejoice in it as a means by which the Lord
may be pleased to do much good; indeed already we can say, we are not
without fruit.

Besides English Tracts, we circulated many in German and French, also
some in Welsh, and a few hundreds in Portuguese and Italian.

On May 26, 1848, there were 122 Orphans in the four Orphan-Houses in
Wilson Street, Bristol. There were admitted, before the New Orphan-House
was opened, 9 fresh Orphans, making 131 in all. Of these, however, one
was taken by her relatives to Australia, to which they emigrated, and
wished her to accompany them. Three were sent to their relatives till
they might be cured, on account of such diseases as made them unfit to
be with other children. Two fell asleep in Jesus as decided believers,
of whom the one had been several years in the house and converted some
months before her death. The other had been only six months under our
care, when she died. Almost immediately after her admission she was
found to be in consumption, but the Lord allowed us the joy of winning
her soul for Him. Two girls were sent out to service, both as believers.
And four boys and one girl were apprenticed. The actual number,
therefore, of Orphans who were removed from the four rented
Orphan-Houses in Wilson Street, Bristol, on June 18th, 19th, 20th, and
21st, 1849, into the New Orphan-House on Ashley Down, Bristol, was 118.
Some of these children had bee