A meeting was held at the Mansion House this day
week to raise funds, much needed, on behalf of a most useful associa- tion,—the Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants,—at which the Speaker of the House of Commons, Mr. Brand, made a very effective appeal. The object Of the association is to find work for young girls discharged from pauper schools, and to take care of them till they are twenty years of age, and able to take care of themselves (and there are now 917 such girls on whom the association keeps a careful watch). The association, however, also undertakes to help young girls who have never been in pauper schools ; and 1,600 such girls have been placed in situations during the last year by the association, while many more have beenhelped in other ways. Naturally enough, all this takes 'money, and the associa- tion not being well supplied with money, the object of the meet- ing was to appeal to the public for more money. The answer to Mr. Brand's appeal was rather promising than adequate, but -we hope that the promise may be fulfilled. The bankers of the association are Messrs. Ransom, Bouverie, and Co.
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