PRESIDENT :

Her Royal Highness Princess LOUIS OF HESSE,
Princess Alice of Great Britain and Ireland.

VICE-PRESIDENTS:

VIZIANAGRAM.

His Highness the Maharajá of
TRAVANCORE.

Rt. Hon. Lord NAPIER AND ETTRICK, His Highness the Maharajá of
K.T., late Governor of Madras. |
Rt. Hon. Lady NAPIER AND ETTRICK.
Right Hon. Sir BARTLE FRERE, late
Governor of Bombay.
Right Hon. Lady FRERE.

His Highness the Maharaja of
BURDWAN

His Highness the Maharajá HOLKAR.
His Highness the Rajá Saheb of
DRANGDRA.

M. R. R. STREENWASSA ROW SAHIB,
Jaghérdar of Arnee.

Sir MUTU COOMARA SWAMY, Member
of the Legislature of Ceylon.
Sir ALBERT SASSOON, C.S.I., of
Bombay.

TREASURER;

TERRETT TAYLOR, Esq., The Mythe, Stoke Bishop, Bristol.

HONORARY SECRETARY :

Miss CARPENTER, Red Lodge House, Bristol.

HON. LOCAL SECRETARY:

ALAN GREENWELL, Esq., 1 Westbourne Villas, Clifton, Bristol.

CORRESPONDENTS:

Lady BowRING, 7 Baring Crescent, Exeter.

J. H. BREMNER, Esq., Manchester.

Mr. JOHN CASH, Coventry.

Rev. RUSSELL L. CARPENTER, Bridport.
Mrs. CLARKE, Headington, Oxford.

J. W. DowSON, Esq., Norwich.

Rev. Canon GREENWELL, M.A., Durham.
PHILIP MANFIELD, Esq., Northampton.
Professor MAX MÜLLER, Oxford.

JEROM MURCH, Esq., Cranwells, Bath.

ARTHUR RYLAND, Esq., Birmingham.

Mrs. MORGAN B. WILLIAMS, Uplands, Swansea.

COMMITTEE.

The Right Worshipful the Mayor, C. J. THOMAS, Esq.

SAMUEL MORLEY, Esq., M.P., London.

KILLIGREW WAIT, Esq., M.P., Worcester Terrace, Clifton.
Dr. BEDDOE, Lansdown Place, Clifton.

Mrs. BEDDOE

Dr. GOODEVE, Cook's Folly, Stoke Bishop.

LEWIS FRY, Esq., Goldney House, Clifton.

W. A. LEONARD, Esq., Hampton Road, Redland.

Mrs. LINTON, All Saints' Road, Clifton.

Rev. Dr. PERCIVAL, Clifton College.

WM. TERRELL, Esq., J.P., Southmead, Westbury-on-Trym.
Miss VENNING, Redland Hall.

Miss WINKWORTH, 21 Victoria Square, Clifton.

W. E. WHITWORTH, Esq., 23 Cornwallis Crescent, Clifton.

AMUEL WORSLEY, Esq., Arno's Villa, Clifton.

[B CHARLOTTE BUCHANAN KER, 10 Worcester Terrace, Clifton.

THE visit of Miss Carpenter to India is the cause of a great deal of comment in the native press. It would be unreasonable to expect an unanimity of opinion as to the value or necessity of the reforms which she wishes to bring about, and for the proper-establishment of which she has ignored distance, age, and the many ties of home.

It is universally admitted that in India there exist many abuses from which a more advanced civilization is comparatively free.

To set on foot institutions of a reformatory and elevating character requires an enlightened public opinion, and such there cannot be in a country like India just emerging, as it were, from her dark ages. Hence it is imperative above all things that the attention of the more thoughtful of the people should be called to the mode in which, and the institutions by which, we of the West attempt to counteract those evil influences from which no society is free, and to alleviate the distress and misery which appear to be the lot of a certain portion of mankind.

To do so, however, requires either a lengthened visit to