We have always taken the deepest interest in the "Metro-
politan Association for Befriending Young Servants," and observe with pleasure that it will on July 4th celebrate the attainment of its majority by a festival at the Albert Hall, when H.R.H. Princess Christian will give away the medals to the young servants who have best deserved them by their conduct in domestic service, and where, besides a good deal of instrumental music, there will be an organ recital by Dr. W. J. Reynolds, and a solo by Madame Antoinette Sterling. The ceremony is to open at 3 o'clock. The proprietors of permanent stalls in the Albert Hall, if not themselves able to attend, would do great service to the Association by placing their seats at the disposal of the secretary, Miss Poole, 18 Buckingham Street, Strand, who would be able so to dispose of them for that occasion as to increase the funds of the Association. It is unfortunate that the many new calls upon the purses of the public for benevolent purposes, and especially in the interests of children, has seemed to drain the older associations with the same general object in view, rather than to open up new springs of benevolence. Probably there is no charitable association in London which has done more substantial good, with less unintended, but not on that account less important evil, than this Association for "befriending young servants." And it greatly needs help.
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