Mr. Gosehen has carried out his great reform, the boarding-out.
of pauper children, and so giving them homes other than the work- houses. By an order, dated the 28th of November, the Poor-Law- Board permits Guardians to board-out orphan children in country cottages, between the ages of two and ten, with respectable per- sons of their own creed willing to receive them, for four shillings a- week each, the school pence, and medical attendance for the child._ The most jealous precautions are to be taken against cruelty trading in such children is prohibited, only two being allowed in one house ; and each child is to be visited once in six weeks by a, member of the boarding-out committee, — an association of charitably-disposed persons which undertakes to report on his- condition—or in case of such failure, shall be visited by an officer- of the Guardians. There are thousands of cottages in England where the arrival of two such children on 8s. a week would be- regarded as a blessing, where they would be mach better treated than in the workhouse, and where from ten years old they would. be able to earn something for themselves. Such children would• regard the cottage as home, while the committee, i.e., in practice- the clergyman, his wife, and an assistant or two, would be able to ensure moderate kindliness. The experiment is an immense one,, and in Scotland it has succeeded.
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