The necessity for special efforts for the first object, arose out of the fact, that the colored people were allowed no parochial aid whatever, though they were required to pay their parochial taxes; hence, the support of their own poor devolved upon themselves.

The demand for vigorous action in behalf of the young, grew out of the prevailing licentiousness of slave-holding times.

The society in St.John's has been in existence since 1815.

It has a large and commodious asylum, and an annual income, by subscriptions, of L350, currency.

This society, and the Female Refuge Society established at English Harbor, have been instrumental in effecting a great reform in the morals of females, and particularly in exciting reprobation against that horrid traffic--the sale of girls by their mothers for purposes of lust.