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Show CHRISTIAN CHAKITY. It this be a Christian country, heaven help the heathen, if they tolerate tol-erate any more barbarous customs and usages than the peopl e of Brooklyn, Brook-lyn, where there exists an institution Btylel the "Charity Commission," the management of which has recently recent-ly been investigated by the courts. This institution furnishes a home for foundlings, but the statistics of its innialei show that it is generally but the threshold to the long home which death ushers them into. According to tho Brooklyn Argus; It U "baby-fali;', reduced to its worst terms Uriue..liiig flies, bad air, four miik; while close hy are frrrva pas-tun.1?, pas-tun.1?, teajjvrvd bv breeze?, which, come whence tho.' may are l-ad.-d with the hc-iiihful suit -ir. Yet here when-uvery-Ihing favors lirV.lho kel-Un rvsiper wurk-pitiivssiy, wurk-pitiivssiy, mowing down these "i ifant;. of the bptir.fj," that he mty gather in his rich hirvysi of death. Out ot 50 infants admitted ii. seven months, bt ginr.irtg with the 1st of Februa y, L36 died, 75 per cent, in about hiif a yr, while intho Hospital wh-re the inmates are patients, he animal an-imal morU ily is -bout 9 per c nt. S me months ail the bal'ie that are brought in are carried out, box.d up, and d(jiud lienealh the sod. lnjulv, five children came, and five went. The book- balanced Stanly. Of the treatment of the hospital patients in this charity institution some shocking incidents are related. Of tbes? patients 9 per cent. die. The burial ot the babies of the unfortunates unfortu-nates is thus described: A pit is dug in Potter's Field, twelve feet de-'p and twelve feet square. Into lii is 'iU bodies may be dumped. The boxe slide down into the pit, are laid in d..ui'ie rows, in tier-, and the in-ter.-liee?-are I; U-l in with the dead children, several sev-eral of whom, as ha? It en reen, are conveniently con-veniently at band. The-e are m'Kt fact-, people uf I Iryklvn, and von in -nil n-'l travel t. Africa to'tind a liorri..lx-!a It may be remembered that Plymouth Ply-mouth Church and its $-J0,0X) a year pastor are located in Brooklyn, which has been termed "t!ie city of church ," |