XII. PEPINSTER, PROVINCE OF LIEGE, 1857.

Day Schools-Infant Schools-Night School for Factory Girls.-The total number of pupils is about 250.

XIII. ST. TROND, PROVINCE OF LIMBURG, 1859.

The Sisters, who were invited here by the Bishop of Liége, occupy a building adjoining the Little Seminary. They superintend the domestic economy of this establishment, and attend the seminarists when ill; the infirmary forming part of the premises occupied by the Sisters.

XIV.-SPA, PROVINCE OF LIEGE, 1862.

Boarding School.-At the request of the inhabitants of this town, the Daughters of the Cross opened a boarding school in 1862. The establishment is a fine one and beautifully situated.

XV.-MONS, VILLAGE IN THE PROVINCE OF LIEGE, 1862.

The Sisters have schools frequented by more than 100 pupils. A night school is also numerously attended.

XVI.-WAREMME, PROVINCE OF LIEGE, 1866.

Boarding School-Day Schools.-These schools are numerously attended.

German Novitiate-Boarding School-Free School.-To this magnificent establishment, where the young German Sisters are formed, there is annexed a boarding school for young ladies.

A school for poor children has been established there, at the expense of the Sisters. At Christmas time there is a general distribution of clothes to these poor children, made by the young ladies of the boarding school.

XVIII.-REES, 1851.

Hospital-Visiting the Sick-Upper Class School-Poor School-Infant School. -Rees, a small town, a short distance from Aspel, possesses an hospital for the sick of both sexes, under the care of the Sisters. The sick are also visited and nursed in their own homes.

The Sisters have besides an upper class school for young ladies, containing about 30 pupils, a Government school, of 150 children, and two infant schools.

XIX.-DUSSELDORF, 1852.

Hospital-Nursing the Sick at Home-Visiting the Poor.-The house at Dusseldorf is an old Carmelite convent, beautiful and spacious. There is a public church attached to it. The Sisters have charge of a large Hospital. Some of them nurse the sick at home, and some are employed in visiting the poor.

XX.-WESEL, 1853.

Upper Class Schools-Government, and Infant Schools.-The Sisters have:1st.-Classes for higher instruction, numbering from 70 to 80 young ladies. 2nd. The middle schools and infant schools, containing 180 children. 3rd. A Government school, frequented by 230 pupils.

XXI.-EMMERICH, 1854.

.. Upper Class Schools-Government and Infant Schools-Orphanage.-These schools are precisely similar to those at Wesel.

In 1861, a fine Orphanage, until then under the charge of lay persons, was confided to the Sisters.

Since January, 1863, the Government schools have been placed under the direction of the Sisters.

These different schools are attended by about 500 pupils, of whom more than 80 follow the upper classes or higher branches of instruction.

XXII.-MALMEDY, 1854.

Boarding School-Upper Class Schools—Orphanage—Government Schools— Infant Day Asylum.—Malmedy, the principal town of the small Walloon part of the Rhine Province, required a religious community, containing members who could speak both German and French.

The Sisters have charge of all the educational establishments for girls and infants in the town. These schools, under different heads, are attended by about 400 pupils.

Besides the poor school, there is a day asylum, where little children are taken care of by the Sisters, from half past seven in the morning until five or six o'clock in the evening. Since 1864, an Orphanage has been intrusted to them.

XXIII-XANTEN, 1855.

Upper Class School-Government and Infant Schools-Hospital-Nursing of the Poor at Home.-The Sisters have charge of the Government and infant schools of the whole town-number of pupils 400.

They also conduct the upper class school, since 1862. They have charge of the Hospital, and nurse the sick at home, and visit the poor.

XXIV. RATH, NEAR DUSSELDORF, 1857.

Boarding School-Training School-Government Schools.-The German and French boarding school contains from 60 to 70 boarders. Attached to it is the training school for schoolmistresses.

The Sisters teach the Government schools, frequented by about 170 scholars. They have also a Sunday school, and superintend a work-room for the young girls of the village.

XXV.-WERDEN, 1857.

Hospital-Upper School and Poor School-Work-Room for Young Girls-Visitation of the Poor.-The upper class school numbers 30 pupils; and the poor school from 70 to 80.

A large Hospital has been intrusted to the Sisters.

The Sisters have a wook-room for young girls. They visit the poor.

XXVI. PEMPELFORT, SUBURES OF DUSSELDORF, 1859.

This house was begun with a poor school, which numbers more than 60 children. The Sisters visit the sick and poor of the locality. They have a House of Refuge established in 1862, after the model of the Refuge at Liége.

XXVII.-WESEL, 1863.

Orphanage. This is the second house of the Sisters in the town of Wesel.

It is in a different parish from the other house.

It is a fine establishment, where orphans of both sexes are received.

A work-room for young girls is annexed.

XXVIII. AND XXIX.-DUISBURG AND FELDMARKT, 1865.

Government Schools-Private Schools- Work-Room.-In 1865, the Daughters of the Cross were invited to take charge of the Government schools established in the town. They opened at the same time private schools.

In 1867, a second establishment of the same kind was opened in another part of the town. No less than 942 children attended the schools in 1868.

XXX.-MALMEDY, 1866.

Home for the Infirm-Hospital for the Sick-Visiting the Poor.-This second house has been established at Malmedy, at the request of the members of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul, for the above mentioned works.

XXXI.-DUSSELDORF, 1868.

Day Schools. In January, 1868, the Sisters opened a second establishment in this town, exclusively destined for the education of children. A large number of pupils belonging to the higher class attend these schools.

EAST INDIES

XXXII.-KURRACHEE, SCINDE, 1862.

Boarding School-Day Schools-Work-Room.-This foreign mission was undertaken at the request of Bishop Steins, Vicar Apostolic of Bombay. The Sisters conduct a boarding school for young ladies, day schools for the upper classes, and a work-room for poor girls.

XXXIII.- -BANDORA, NEAR BOMBAY, 1864.

Asylum for Aged Poor-Orphanage-School.-On the arrival of the Sisters at Bombay, at the request of the bishop, in January, 1864, they began by receiving into a temporary asylum the aged poor, and the children who were confided to them. Some months later, they were established at Bandora, where a suitable building was erected for them, in which they take care of aged women, orphan children of both sexes, and little ones abandoned by their parents. The Orphanage contains 110 children. They have, besides, a school attended by English children and natives.

XXXIV.-BELGAUM, 1867.

Boarding School for Young Ladies-Day School.

XXXV. CALCUTTA, 1868.

Asylum for Aged and Infirm Women-Home for Children.-Immediately on being transferred from Bombay to Calcutta, Archbishop Steins applied to the Superiors at Liége for Sisters to take charge of two new foundations in his vicariate viz., one at Calcutta and one at Balasore, which they did in 1868.

XXXVI.-ENGLAND.

Boarding School-Day School-Poor School-Visiting the Sick.-Besides their private schools, in which superior instruction is given by competent mistresses, both English and foreign, the Sisters have the entire charge of the girls' poor school, at Cheltenham, which is under Government inspection.

Day Boarding School-Day School-Orphanage.-At Saint Wilfred's convent, Bond street, Chelsea, the Sisters conduct a day boarding school for young ladies, a day school for children of the middle classes, and an Orphanage, now contain ing seventy-eight girls, mostly work-house children. There is accommodation in the Orphanage for a much greater number.

THOMAS BEWICK AND ART CULTURE.

BIRTHPLACE AND SURROUNDINGS.

[THOMAS BEWICK was born at Cherry-burn House, near Eltringham, in 1753 -the eldest son of a native who was a farmer, and rented also a colliery on Mickley Bank-a man of worth and positive character which was impressed deeply in the son's organization. As a boy he could not brook the restraints of home or school, of parents or teachers; and of the rude discipline of both he received a large share. But from his earliest years he was a close observer of the habits of animals, and of the curious phenomena of nature and life. In winter evenings he delighted to listen to traditional tales and songs, which in those days abounded in Northumberland. The artistic element in his organization found expression in rude scratching of figures with a pin, on the bookboard, during church service, and at other times and places, of forced silence and quiet. The following extracts are from his Autobiography, composed after he attained the age of seventy, and published by his daughter in 1862.]

CHERRY-BURN HOUSE, the place of my nativity, and which for many years my eyes beheld with cherished delight, is situated on the south side of the Tyne, in the county of Northumberland, a short distance from the river. The house, stables, &c., stand on the west side of a little dean, at the foot of which runs a burn. The dean was embellished with a number of cherry and plum trees, which were terminated by a garden on the north. Near the house were two large ash trees, growing from one root; and, at a little distance, stood another of the same kind. At the south end of the premises was a spring well, overhung by a large hawthorn bush, behind which was a holly hedge; and further away was a little boggy dean, with underwood and trees of different kinds. Near the termination of this dean, toward the river, were a good many remarkably tall ash trees, and one of oak, supposed to be one of the tallest and straightest in the kingdom. On the top of these was a rookery, the sable inhabitants of which, by their consultations and cawings, and the bustle they made when building their nests, were among the first of the feathered race to proclaim the approaching spring. The cornfields and pastures to the eastward were surrounded with very large oak and ash trees. Indeed, at that time the country between Wylam and Bywell was beautified with a great deal of wood, which presented the appearance of a continued forest; but these are long since stubbed up.

To the westward, adjoining the house, lay the common or fell,

which extended some few miles in length and was of various breadths. It was mostly fine green-sward or pasturage, broken or divided, indeed, with clumps of 'blossomed whins,' foxglove, fern, and some junipers, and with heather in profusion, sufficient to scent the whole air. Near the burns, which guttered its sides, were to be seen the remains of old oaks, hollowed out by time, with alders, willows, and birch, which were often to be met with in the same state; and these seemed to me to point out the length of time that these domains had belonged to no one. On this common-the poor man's heritage for ages past, where he kept a few sheep, or a Kylse cow, perhaps a flock of geese, and mostly a stock of bee-hives—it was with infinite pleasure that I long beheld the beautiful wild scenery which was there exhibited, and it is with the opposite feelings of regret that I now find all swept away.

My Country Neighbors and Recreations.

These cottagers (at least those of them I knew) were of an honest and independent character, while at the same time they held the neighboring gentry in the greatest estimation and respect; and these again, in return, did not overlook them, but were interested in knowing that they were happy and well. Most of these poor men, from their having little intercourse with the world, were in all their actions and behavior truly original; and, except reading the Bible, local histories, and old ballads, their knowledge was generally limited. And yet one of these-'Will Bewick'—from being much struck with my performances, which he called pictures, became exceedingly kind to me, and was the first person from whom I gathered a sort of general knowledge of astronomy and of the magnitude of the universe. He had, the year through, noticed the appearances of the stars and the planets, and would discourse 'largely on the subject. I think I see him yet, sitting on a mound or scat, by the edge of his garden, regardless of the cold, and intent upon viewing the heavenly bodies; pointing to them with his large hands, and eagerly imparting his knowledge to me with a strong voice, such as one now seldom hears. I well remember being much struck with his appearance-his stern looking brows, high check-bones, quick eye, and longish visage; and at his resolution (upon another occa sion) when he determined upon risking his own life to save that of another man. The latter, in the employ of my father, while at work as a pitman, had lost his way in the coal workings, and was missing for perhaps a day or two (my father being from home), when our old neighbor, just described, who was also a pitman and knew the