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arrangement sadly needed in our English hospitals); of the Hospicio de S. Maria del Carmen, founded by private charity, for the old and incurables; of the infant school, or 'salle d'asile,' where the children are fed as well as taught ; and of the Albergo dei Poveri, equivalent to what we should call a workhouse in England, but which we cannot desecrate by such a name when speaking of an establishment conducted on the highest and noblest rules of Christian charity, and where the orphans find not only loving care and tender watchfulness, but admirable industrial training, fitting them to fill worthily any employments to which their natm^al inclination may lead them. The Sacre Coeur have a large establishment for the education of the upper classes at Chaumartin de la Rosa, a suburb of Madrid, about four miles from the town. It was founded by the Marquesa de Yilla Nueva, a most saint-like person, whose house adjoins, and in fact forms part of, the convent — her bedroom leading into a tribune overlooking the chapel and the Blessed Sacrament. The view from the large garden, with the mountains on the one hand, and the stone pine woods on the other, is very pretty, and unlike anything else in the neighbourhood of Miadrid. The superior, a charming person, showed the ladies all over the house, which is large,