7 AUGUST 1869, Page 3

The Association for the General Welfare of the Blind (Treasurer

H. S. Thornton, Esq.), 20 Birchin Lane, is just now in urgent need of funds. This association provides maintenance or work at home for all placed upon its list by the subscribers, who have one vote for every 10s. a year. Blindness in poor houses means poverty of the deepest kind, and the misery among the 30,000 blind poor of this country is so deep, ;that we break our usual rule of never endorsing any application for charity.