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£10 annually for five years, and £5 at the termination of their apprenticeship. All the boys, upon leaving the Hospital, receive a bible and other useful books, with two suits of clothes of their own choice. In 1836, an Act was obtained from Parliament, empowering the Governors to extend the benefits of the Institution, and employ their surplus funds in establishing Free Schools in the different parishes of the city. Ten of these schools are already in full operation, in which very nearly 3000 children, of both sexes, are instructed in the usual branches of a parochial education, the females being, in addition, taught sewing and knitting. This great scheme of instruction, when complete, must prove of incalculable benefit to the community, as the advantages of a substantial education will be brought within the reach of every citizen, however humble. In addition to these liberal provisions for the instruction of youth, there are also ten bursaries, or exhibitions, open to the competition of young men not connected with the institution. The successful competitors for these bursaries receive £20 per annum, for four years. The princely provision thus made for the welfare of his countrymen amply justifies the sentiment put into the mouth of the founder by Sir Walter Scott, "I think mine own estate and memory, as I shall order it, has a fair chance of outliving those of greater men." The management is vested in the Town Council and Clergy of the City, and visiters are admitted by an order from any of the Governors, or the Treasurer. Retracing our steps to the entrance of the Cha

rity Workhouse, the Meadow Walk will be seen exactly opposite. In a field, upon the right hand, a short way down the walk, stands

GEORGE WATSON'S HOSPITAL.

This hospital is for the benefit of the children and grandchildren of decayed merchants of the city of Edinburgh. The building is plain, but commodious. Boys are received into this hospital between seven and ten, and remain till fifteen years of age. The number of boys amounts to about eighty, and the education they receive very much resembles that of Heriot's Hospital. Each boy, after leaving the hospital, receives £10 a year for five years; and, upon attaining the age of twentyfive, if unmarried and well-conducted, he receives a further sum of £50. Such as evince " an extraordinary genius for letters," receive £20 a year for four years, and £17 a year during the two succeeding years. The management is vested in the Master, Assistants, and Treasurer of the Merchant Company of Edinburgh, the ministers of the Old Church, and five members of the Town Council. A little to the west of George Watson's Hospital, stands the Merchant Maiden Hospital, but as it does not come within the scope of any of our walks, we think it better to include the description of it, and of the other more important hospitals which we do not pass in our progress, in a foot-note.*

*The Merchant Maiden Hospital was founded in 1695, for the maintenance and education of the daughters of merchant burgesses in the city. Nearly 100 girls are maintained in this

Immediately adjoining to the Meadows on the south-west, are Bruntsfield Links (Anglicé Downs),

hospital. They are admitted between seven and eleven years of age, and leave at seventeen. The course of instruction includes English, Writing, Arithmetic, Geography, French, Music, Drawing, Dancing, and Needle-work. Upon leaving the hospital each girl receives £9:6:8. The original edifice stood in Bristo Street; the present building is agreeably situate in Laurieston, a little to the west of George Watson's Hospital.

The Trades' Maiden Hospital stands on the south side of Argyle Square. The girls eligible for admission into this institution are the daughters of decayed tradesmen. It supports about 50 girls, who are admitted at the same age, and instructed in the same branches, as in the Merchant Maiden Hospital. They go out at the age of seventeen, each girl receiving £5: 11s. and a bible.

The Orphan Hospital maintains and educates about 100 children of both sexes. The old building, situate near Trinity College Church, was abandoned as unhealthy, and a handsome new edifice was erected in 1833 on the property of Dean. The benefits of the institution are extended to the whole of Scotland. John Watson's Institution is a spacious and showy edifice, also situate on the property of Dean. The purpose of the endowment is the maintenance and education of destitute children. About 120 children are maintained in it. They are admitted between the ages of five and eight, and leave at fourteen.

Cauvin's Hospital is pleasantly situate at Duddingston, a village about a mile and a half to the east of Edinburgh. The children enjoying the benefit of this institution are "the sons of respectable but poor teachers," and "of poor but honest farmers;" whom failing, "the sons of respectable master-printers or booksellers," and "of respectable servants in the agricultural line." Twenty boys are maintained in it. They are admissible from six to eight years of age, and are retained in the hospital for six years.

Trinity College Hospital, the oldest charitable institution in the city, was founded in 1461 by Mary of Gueldres. It stood at the foot of the lane called Leith Wynd, but the ground being purchased by the North British Railway Company, the inmates have been removed to Moray House, which has been comfortably fitted up for their reception. Its benefits are conferred on

where many of the inhabitants are accustomed to amuse themselves with the national game of golf.

burgesses, their wives or children not married, nor under the age of fifty years." Forty persons are maintained within the walls of the hospital, and about 90 out-pensioners receive £6 a year.

Gillespie's Hospital enjoys a fine situation on the south-west confines of the city. The founder was a tobacconist in Edinburgh, who devoted the greater part of his property to endow an hospital for the maintenance of indigent old men and women, and for the elementary education of 100 poor boys. The number of the aged inmates is between 30 and 40. None are admitted under the age of fifty-five, a preference being given to servants of the founder or persons of his name.

Donaldson's Hospital-probably the finest building in Scotland, certainly the finest of modern date-stands on a piece of ground to the westward of the city, about half a mile along the Glasgow Road from the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Station at the Hay-Weights. The founder was a printer in Edinburgh, who died in 1830, and bequeathed the greater part of his estate, amounting to nearly £200,000, for the purpose of building and maintaining an hospital for poor boys and girls. Of these there will be accommodation for about 300. The building is from the design of Mr. W. H. Playfair, whose reputation would securely rest on this structure alone, if Scotland were not fortunate enough to possess numerous other examples of his taste and genius.

Stewart's Hospital.-Another institution for the maintenance of poor boys, now being erected, for which Mr. Daniel Stewart of the Exchequer, who died in 1814, left about £13,000, and some houses in the Old Town.

Chalmers' Hospital.-For the erection and endowment of an hospital under this name, "for the sick and hurt," Chalmers, a plumber, who died in 1836, has left the sum of £30,000.

Besides the endowments for the relief of the destitute, there are many other charitable associations maintained by private subscription. Among them may be mentioned, The House of Refuge The House of Industry-The Strangers' Friend Society -The Blind Asylum-The Deaf and Dumb Institution-The Night Asylum for the Houseless-The Society for Relief of the Destitute Sick-The Society for the Relief of Indigent Old Men, and two similar institutions for the Relief of Indigent Old Women

The game is played with a club and ball. The club is formed of ash, flexible and finely tapered, measuring from three to four feet long, according to the player's height and length of arm. The head is

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faced with horn and loaded with lead. The ball is about the size of a common tennis ball, made of feathers, compressed very firmly into a hard and

-The Seamen's Friend Society-the Society for Clothing the Industrious Poor-and two Ragged Schools.

There are also many public Dispensaries, and a Lying-in Hospital, where medicines and medical attendance are gratuitously afforded to the poor; but a further enumeration of such institutions does not appear to be required for the purposes of the present work.

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