AGED WOMEN'S AND AGED MEN'S HOME.

To these noble Institutions which your Committee visited
and thoroughly examined your careful attention is called.
The character of these noble charities must commend them to
the philanthropist and the Christian. When the infirmities
of age bow down the once upright form, amid the wreck of
fortune and of health, and hope folds her pinions as she looks
to the future, a home of comfort opens its portals, and invites
the helpless to its embrace of protection, not as mere paupers,
cast by State or parish laws upon its care, but as sisters,
brothers, who amid the conflicts of life have been wrecked,
and who decayed in health and energy, need a friendly shel-
ter from the storm, where under the care of Ministering,
Angels, their wants are attended with tender care, and the
means provided for the spiritual culture and religious conso-
lation of those who stand upon the threshold of the future
world, and inquire into the mysteries which lie beyond the
bounds of time. To foster and aid such Institutions, is a
sacred duty devolved upon every citizen, and especially should
the representatives of the Majesty of the State, feel it to be a
sacred duty to extend their fostering aid in elevating the
moral of a virtuous constituency, and in the cultivation of
the defences of public and private virtue, and the acknowl-
edgement of common brotherhood in man. We suggest an
appropriation of $1000

CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY,

Of thia Institution your Committee cannot but speak in
terms of commendation; The object of it is to pickup from
the streets, children who have no one to care for them, or
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