Ladies' Division of the Social Purity Society.

Formed March 21, 1883.

President—Vacant.

Vice-Presidents—Mrs. W. B. Andrews and Mrs. J. C. Woods.

Secretaries—Mrs. Charles Birks and Mrs. E. B. Black.

Treasurer—Mrs. John Colton.

Committee—Mesdames H. J. Lnmbert, D. O'Donnell, O. Copland, A. W. Webb, J. Dunn, S. Mead, J. A. Hartley, A. Crooks, J. H. Marshall, M. Goode, Jas. Smith, Tas. Robin. S. D. Clyde, J. Lyall, E. W. Way, R. Searle,—Lcc, Misses Spence and Chewings.

The House of Lords Committee on the Protection of Young Girls.

The Select Committee of the House of Lords, appointed in consequence of the revelations as to the foreign traffic in British girls, have just presented their report. Their recommendations are as follows :—

1.	That it be made a serious misdemeanor for any person to solicit or endeavour to procure any woman to leave the United Kingdom, or to leave her usual place of abode in the United Kingdom, for the purpose of entering a brothel, or prostituting page 20 herself, in parts beyond the seas, whether he shall or shall not inform the woman of such purpose.
2.	That upon every birth certificate issued at Somerset House of the birth of a woman who would at the time of issue be between 20 and 30, there shall be stamped in red a conspicuous notice, in French, to the effect that these certificates having sometimes got into improper hands, and been used abroad for fraudulent purposes, foreigners are warned to require evidence that the person producing a certificate is really the person named in the certificate.
3.	That the age up to which it shall be an offence to have or attempt to have carnal knowledge of or to indecently assault a girl be raised from 13 to 16.
4.	That the age of unlawful abduction (24 and 25 Vic., cap, 100, sec. 55). with intent to have carnal knowledge unlawfully, be raised from 16 to 21.
5.	That it shall be a misdemeanor for any person to receive into any house or into or on to any premises occupied or possessed by him, or of which he has the management or control, any girl under the age of 16 years for the purpose of her having unlawful sexual intercourse with any person, whether such intercourse is intended with any particular man or generally.
6.	That a police magistrate shall have power, upon application of a police inspector, and on his affidavit that ho has reason to believe that some girl has been so received, and is then in such house or premises, to grant a warrant to such inspector to search the house or premises, and to bring before him any person offending as aforesaid, and also the girl, and if the magistrate shall commit any person for trial for such offence, he may also bind over the girl to appear as a witness on such trial.
7.	That the soliciting of prostitution in the public streets be made an offence, and the police authorised to act accordingly, without proof, that it is done "to the annoyance of inhabitants or passengers."
8.	That the police be authorised to make application under the Industrial Schools Amendment Act, 1880, as to the children therein mentioned, and that any magistrate before whom a girl under the age of 16 is convicted of soliciting prostitution, may, if it shall appear that she has no friends able to provide a suitable home for her, remit her to a refuge or industrial home until she attains the age of 16.
9.	That the court or magistrate may direct any charge, trial, or application, under Nos. 3, 5, 6, 7, and 8, to be heard in private.