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friends of the family — the physicians of their souls. Unless the 
minister is the kind and affectionate father of his parishioners, fol- 
lowing his avocation day by day, making his religion a daily work, 
one great source of aid in putting down such evils as are prevalent 
in Scotland must be awanting. 
“ 3d, To the landed proprietor — to the manufacturer — to all 
masters and mistresses, we must appeal for aid. 
“ To the landed proprietor we would say, instead of bothies for 
males and females, let all single men and women be boarded, if 
possible, with the married couples, giving sufficient room to keep all 
pure ; or let there be separate houses for men and women, where 
they may mess and live together under some superintendence. 
“ We might also, under this head, appeal to the heavy charge for 
poor-rate as an argument for exertion on the part of all who are 
taxed. 
“ I have before me a set of tables, issued by the Poor-Law Board, 
giving an account of the number of paupers in 646 unions and 
parishes at the end of the first half year of 1860. 
“ There were 162,337 men, 357,271 women, 289,587 children 
under 16, and 1737 vagrants ; the men thus forming 20 per cent., 
the women 44* 1, the children 35 '7- Of these 338,497 are de- 
scribed as able-bodied (including the children of the able-bodied) ; 
and concerning 303,797 of these, information is supplied by 629 
unions of the causes which brought them on the poor-rates. 
