The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
complains bitterly of want of funds. It is already, we are told, in debt to the amount of £5,000, and it cannot add the twenty new officers of whom it stands greatly in need just because it is so desperately in want of funds. It has been in existence eight years, and has more than justified its existence both by the number of cruelties it has stopped and by the prudence and admirable judgment displayed in the duty of stopping them. The Rev. B.Waugh, who is not only the honorary director, but the head and front of the whole movement, is very indignant that larger resources are not placed at his disposal, and we do not wonder at that. But when he complains that he has this year received more help "from the theatres, the concert-rooms, the ball-rooms of London alone, than from all the churches and chapels of the United Kingdom," the explanation is obvious,—that many of these churches and chapels do already raise for charities which they ought not to desert, and dare not desert, almost as much as they can expect to raise from resources so limited, while it is hardly probable that "the theatres, the concert-rooms, the ball- rooms of London alone" have strained their resources in any way on behalf of other charities. Nevertheless, this admirable Society should not be stinted, and we are quite sure will not be stinted. It is one of the best and most characteristically Christian ways in which Christmas can be observed, to send a sum of money to the Treasurer of the Society, 7 Harper Street, Bloomsbury. Cheques should be crossed " Coutts and Co."
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