At the commencement of the last period, there were 672 orphans in the new Orphan Houses No. 1 and No. 2. During the past year were admitted into the two houses 70 orphans. On May 26, 1860, there were just 700 orphans under our care, our full number in the two houses, _i. e._ in No. 1, 300, in No. 2, 400. The total number of orphans who have been under our care since April 11, 1836, is 1,153.
_Without any one having been personally applied to for anything_ by me, the sum of L133,528, 14s. has been given to me for the orphans, _as the result of prayer to God_, since the commencement of the work, which sum includes the amount received for the building fund for the houses already built and the one to be built. It may also be interesting to the reader to know that the total amount which has been given for the other objects since the commencement of the work amounts to L51,777, 14s. 11d.; and that which has come in by the sale of Bibles, since the commencement, amounts to L2,530, 4s. 51/2d.; by sale of tracts, L3,546, 19s. 11/4d.; and by the payments of the children in the day schools, from the commencement, L2,304, 18s. 9d. Besides this, also, a great variety and number of articles of clothing, furniture, provisions, etc., have been given _for the use_ of the orphans.