by hunger.

Here is

a

great work,

not

only

for the hand and the

purse, but for the heart.

Would that the rich natives would differently systematize charities. To the eye of kindness, it is sad to see

their the

lazy mud-bedaubed, painted Brahmins fed and pampered, regarded as sacred, when human beings stricken by disease and want, and weighed down by pressing care and gloom, are wilfully neglected and even despised. "We would appeal to the wealthy natives to look at charity, not as a mere formalism, but in its highest and widest sense?as a virtue which should spring from love and not from law. We would remind them that they do not fulfil their mission by paying indulgences to priests who, to our eyes, present a nasty combination of dirt and deception,?when all the while, with a fashionable but contemptible pride, and a vapid respectability, they are taught?in the bonds of that ignoble slavery to priesthood^ to restrict the impulses of their love and kindness in such a a manner, that the poverty stricken of the lower castes can elicit little, if any, compassion from them. Something should be done to remove this reproach of widespread destitution in Calcutta, and we appeal to the first publicspirited man of eminence under whose eye these observations may alight to bestir himself, and inaugurate a scheme which will command general sympathy and enlist public support. and monkies

DESTITUTION IN CALCUTTA. "We

led to understand that the number of houseless poor literally of starvation, in the Metropolis of British

are

die, India, exceeds belief.

?who

fact that here there is "

or

Gurreeb-Khana''

W e reflect with no

such thing

for

as

surprise on the general Poor-Asylum

some

a

natives, such

as

exists in almost

every town out of Bengal, or perhaps out of Calcutta. Now it strikes us that of all places in the empire, the large Presidental cities most

are

effectually

those in -which

carried out.

organized

charities

can

be

We should be the last to discour-

under-rate the very extensive private charity which exists among the wealthier inhabitants of this country towards their or

age

But in this charity there is a partiality, which not only defeats much of the object of the donors, but is absolutely productive of much public mischief. The prejudices of caste-distinction run riot. The parable of the Samaritan,-the -wounded wayfarer, and the Levite, but feebly allegorizes the cruel indifference exhibited to the wants of those in distress, where there happens to be a distinction of caste. To remedy this great evil, without injuring the good results of private liberality, involves a question of some practical difficulty. In

brethren.

London .many of those sciences

by

a

frugal

charitably-disposed

distribution of

salve their

mendicity tickets.

con-

But

a

ticket for soup in London is very different from a document of similar import in Calcutta. We are not quite sure in the case of the establishment of whether the

Jails,

could

a general Poor-Asylum in this city, messing system, which has been carried out in the

appropriately

of great moment, but propose to enter. Our

be euforced. of practical

object

Into this matter, one

detail,

we

do not

now

is to indicate the existence of

deficiency in the number of our public Asylums. Hospitals, an Alms-house, Schools, Sailors' Homes, but nothing special for the naked and dying denizens a

notable

We

have

indeed

of the soil.

There

are

thousands amongst us eking out life in misery and Uncared-fcr humanity is in our streets, subdued

wretchedness.