With reference to the children in these colonies, Dr. Hunter says: People are not now alive to tell us how children were brought up before this age of dense agglomerations of poor began, and he would be a msh prophet who should tell us what future behaviour is to be expected from the present growth of children, who, under circumstances probably never before paralleled in this country, are now completing their education for future practice, as 'dangerous classes' by sitting up half the night with persons of every age, half naked, drunken, obscene, and quarrelsome.