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From the last report, dated January 28, 1867, we find that the number of girls then in the School was 32, and that the average number during the year had been 38. The number of applications made during 1866, for girls to enter respectable service had been about 66; and the balance at the Banker's was £22 1s. 3d. In 1860, when the School had existed a hundred years, a special fund was raised, called the "Centenary Fund," which realised £1,305 5s. 0d, for the Charity. And "in consideration of the importance of its objects, the equity of its rules, the liberality of its spirit, the benefits which it has already conferred on those who have been brought up in it, and on the community of which they have become members-in consideration also of the benefits which it is still adapted to confer," we are justified in saying that few institutions more thoroughly deserve "the support of the enlightened and benevolent friends of Education and of the Poor, of all religious denominations" than the Graham Street Protestant Dissenting Charity School.