EAST-END LADS AND POOR MOTHERS.

[To THE EDITOR. OF THE "SPECTATOR."' SIR,—Will you kindly allow me to acknowledge in the Spectator the following donations, so generously sent to me in response to my letter of June 25th ? -

FOR THE WORKING LADS' INDUSTRIES.

FOR MOTHERS' s. d.

Mrs. De Quince'

"A Small Offering " 0 10 0

0 2 6 "Eton College" ... 1 0 0 "For East-End Lads and Mothers" 0 10 0 G. M. Slade, Esq. ... 1 0 0 Mrs. Theobald 1 0 0 E. Chapman, Esq. ... 1 0 0 — Cooke, Esq. ... 0 5 0

" A Reader of the Spectator" 0 2 6 "A Sympathiser" 0 10 0 " Spectator" ... 0 2 6

Rev. H. A. Martin ... ... 1 0 0

1 0 0

Those who subscribed to our

EXCURSION. 2 s. d.

" A Friend" ... 0'

Mrs. Gladstone ... 0.

a Mrs. Wilson ... 0 10 0

Mrs. W. Debenham 0 5 0

A. Oambnrn, Esq. ... 1 0 0 Li ian Hawkes g Cr A. B. Welb, Esq. ... 6 "A Summer Excursion"

Anon. 1 0 0

Miss E. Lynge ... 0 5

Mrs. Hobson ... ... 1 0 0

Mrs. Quilter 1 0 0

" A Day in the Country" ... 0 5 0

Lieut.-Colonel Parr o 10 0 excursion fond may be in-

terested in hearing that, by their aid, we were able to take 110 mothers and 320 little children for a long and happy day in the country. No words can describe their pleasure when they left their hot London homes for the joys of the country. May I add also that your readers will greatly help our lads with their industrial work, if they will kindly mention to others that they make artistic articles in wrought-iron, repousse brass-work, embossed-leather work, or wood-carving, and thus perhaps obtain fresh orders for the young workers F•

Mrs. De Quineey " For East-End Lads Mothers" " A Sympathiser ...

Rev H. A. Martin ...

Mrs. Wilson ... .

F. A. Rambnrn, Esq. ... 0 and 0 0 ..• 2 ..• 0 ••• 1

s. d

10 0 10 0 10 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 Miss Armitage ...

Mrs. Williams ... Lady Mabella Knox Mrs. Hobson Miss Binyon Rev. G. Boys ... 1 ... 0 ... 5 ... 1 0

0

s. d.. 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 Oi

4 0 5 0

St. John's Vicarage, Bethnal Green, July 13th.