when in distress. Shipwrecked seamen are furnished with warm clothing, and aided to return to their distant homes when discharged from the hospitals, by giving them money to defray the expense, if necessary. Efforts are made to procure them employment on land when entirely disabled from going to sea.

Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the
Miseries of Public Prisons.

No. 1602 CHESTNUT STREet.

Among the objects of the Society are the frequent obligatory visits of members of the "Acting Committee" to prisoners in their cells; also of the agents appointed especially to inquire into the physical needs of convicts about to leave the prisons, and to afford what advice and aid they can in clothing and means to reach a distant home, or to procure employment in the city or vicinity; and additionally, in the County Prison, to interfere in behalf of the friendless untried prisoner, and to settle differences that have led to imprisonment on trifling charges.

Secretaries,

JOHN J. LYTLE,

W. S. INGHAM.

Pennsylvania Society to Protect Children from Cruelty.

ROOMS, 1406 CHESTNUT STREET.

(Second Story.)

It is the earnest wish of all good citizens to shelter the younger members of the community from cruelties against

which they are powerless to protect themselves. Adequate laws already exist for the protection of children, but the police force is necessarily occupied with the most obvious and gravest cases of crime. Hitherto no friendly and powerful hand has been habitually extended to rescue these little ones from lives of misery and danger; to place them under the shield of the law, and where natural protection has failed, or has been transformed into brutality; to bring them, by an order of the Court, under the merciful care of some orphan home or other sanctuary provided for the desolate and oppressed. To perform these kindly offices, the Society to Protect Children from Cruelty has been lately organized. Its members entreat the co-operation of their fellow-citizens in its aims, and their generous contributions toward the fund necessary for the discharge of the duties it has undertaken to fulfil.

Secretary,

BENJ. J. CREW.

The Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

OFFICE, 1012 WALNUT STREET.

Annual contribution five dollars. Life membership fifty dollars.

Complaints.-A book is kept at the office of the Society for registering complaints and bringing cases of cruelty to the notice of the officers, who will take steps to arrest the offenders, or to prevent a repetition of the offence.

Secretary,

SAMUEL J. LEVICK.

The Fuel Savings Society of the City and Liberties of Philadelphia.

This Society, through its receivers, who are located in various sections of the city, and serve without compensation, receive sums, however small, from those whose circumstances will not enable them to purchase a supply of fuel in the season when plenty of it is in the market (except dealers in coal and keepers and inmates of houses of immoral character, including taverns), and returns them coal during the winter at a price below its cost, the deficiency being made up from the Society's funds. It is for the exclusive benefit of the depositors, who are thus encouraged to economy and self-dependence. By a provision in the charter, no officer or other member of the Society can receive directly or indirectly any compensation for services rendered.

The Grandom Institution.

This Institution was established under the will of Hartt Grandom, who left a letter of instructions to his executors, expressing a wish that they should transfer to an

incorporated or benevolent society all the ground-rents he might own at his decease, and other suitable property, so as to make the clear annual income about fifteen hundred dollars, to be an annual permanent fund, to alleviate the most prudent of the poor (but not the intemperate) in procuring fuel, clothing, and other necessaries, which such persons want in winter, of which only the income should be expended, and not to be lessened, but remain to produce a regular annual income for said purpose.

He in like manner further declared that he had long desired that a society were established in the city of Philadelphia, composed of discreet members, who feel an interest in the moral and religious welfare of young men who arrive at manhood and want assistance to commence the various vocations they have learned, and whose parents are unwilling or unable to aid them, whereby they sustain loss; and feeling it to be his duty to commence such an institution, he directed that, if an incorporated or other society should be formed at his decease or within one year thereafter, such as should be approved by his executors and those whom they should consult, and embrace the views of the testator, a conveyance should be made to it, either of the real or personal property, worth about twenty thousand dollars.

These provisions were duly carried out by the organization of a society.

For further information apply to
Secretary and Treasurer,

EDWIN H. DIXON,

No. 715 Walnut Street.

The Merchants' Fund.

Founded in 1844, to relieve those who have been merchants, but are reduced to indigence by misfortune or sickness. Many who were once wealthy and prominent in business have been kept by it from great suffering and want. They are aided privately, their names being known only to a small Committee of the Board of Managers. The rest of the Board even do not know them.

President,
Vice-Presidents,

Treasurer,
Secretary,

Officers.

JOHN WELSH.
THOS. ROBINS,

WM. C. LUDWIG.

RICHARD WOOD.

JOHN H. ATWOOD.

Flower and Fruit Mission.

HORTICULTURAL HALL, MONDAY, 8 TO 12 M.

An Association to obtain flowers and fruit, and distribute them to the sick in needy circumstances, and in hospitals.

The House of Mercy of the Protestant

Episcopal Church of Philadelphia.

The aim of this organization is to "Preach the Gospel" and "Relieve the Poor." To the reverend clergy is committed the former duty, while the lay agents of the Mission report upon every application for relief.