108 PROCZEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 
be worth acquiring. An advertisement is said to have appeared in 
a London paper, where the art of begging is taught exhaustively in 
six lessons by a person who has founded a college for that purpose. 
He had an assortment of professional appliances, artificial wounds, 
trained dogs for the blind, crutches, and could direct his students to 
the most lucrative streets and neighbourhoods. 
Whilst the existing charitable institutions and societies are not at 
all interfered with by these organizations, they are assisted and pro- 
tected by them. It has been said that a knowing tramp in this city 
of Toronto, with its churches and its two dozen of charitable institu- 
‘tions, could put in the winter very well, and if detected too early, 
could easily earn the sixty days that would entitle him to free 
quarters in the gaol. The church societies are largely imposed upon 
also, and in the many cases of slender stipends of the clergymen the 
imposition is outrageous. The charity of all is much greater than 
the good done to the recipients of it, and whilst an association, such 
as we have been describing, may not remedy everything, it might 
do a vast deal of good. 
Mr. Dale stated a case that came under his observation at 
Newport. 
Mr. Hughes approved the idea of registration of paupers. 
Mr. Murray thought we had in the Combined Charities the 
nucleus of what is wanted, and suggested that the children of 
confirmed paupers should be taken charge of by the State, 
but that the moral reformation of the parents should be left 
with the church. 
Mr. Vandersmissen referred to the difficulty of the State 
assuming the care of children of criminals undergoing punish- 
ment. 
Mr. Phipps said that pauperism might be reduced one-half 
by stopping immigration of unsuitable persons. 
Mr. Livingstone and Mr. Elvins made some remarks. 
