NEW-YORK ORPHAN ASYLUM.-(Founded in 1807.)

The Asylum is delightfully situated at Bloomingdale, about five miles north from the City Hall, on the bank of the Hudson river; it is a handsome building, surrounded by nine acres of highly cultivated grounds, which belong to this worthy institution. The average number of male and female orphans at the asylum is about 200.

PROTESTANT HALF ORPHAN SOCIETY. Located in Twelfth-street. Established in 1835.

ROMAN CATHOLIC ORPHAN ASYLUM.-(Prince st. corner of Mott.) This institution was incorporated in 1817. The establishment is conducted by the Sisters of Charity. Average number of orphans, male and female, about 200.

NEW-YORK FIRE DEPARTMENT FUND.

The object of this institution is to relieve the widows and orphans of deceased firemen, and to assist sick or disabled members and their families. The officers of the Department are elected annually by the representatives of the fire engine, hook and ladder and hose companies, and fire wardens. Several thousand dollars are annually expended in deeds of charity under the direction of

the trustees.

SAILOR'S SNUG HARBOR.

(Situated on the north side of Staten Island.)

This noble charitable Institution, was founded by the testament of Capt. Robert R. Randall, who died in 1801, bequeathing a large landed estate in the city of New-York, the income of which, was to be expended in supporting aged and disabled sailors. It is under the direction of trustees appointed by State authority, who have within a few years caused to be erected a large and splendid edifice, consisting of a centre building and two extensive wings, two stories in height besides the basement; showing a marble front of 225 feet-attached to which is a farm of 160 acres of land.

Upwards of one hundred aged and disabled sailors, find here a safe retreat, free from the cares and storms of life. The remains of the donor are deposited in front of the main building, over whch has been erected an appropriate monument to his memory.

SEAMEN'S FUND AND RETREAT.

Office, 71 Wall-street, New-York. The Retreat is situated on Staten Island, near the Quarantine Ground.

It was

This is a hospital for the reception of sick and disabled seamen. founded by a law of the State in 1830, levying a tax on each master of a vessel of $1.50 for each foreign voyage, and $1.00 for every mariner, and 25 cents for each voyage coastwise; which entitles each individual to the benefit of the hospital, while sick or disabled.

The amount collected is about $27,000 annually-in addition to which, the Retreat has had a loan of $45,000 from the funds of the Marine Hospital, arising from alien passengers, arriving at the port of New-York.

The hospital is a valuable building, of three stories; 208 feet long by 52 wide, having wings of 34 feet in depth, and two stories high. This hospital cost $100,000, attached to which is 37 acres of ground, which cost the State about $10,000. It will accommodate 200 patients.

By a law passed March 17, 1843, "The Trustees of the Seamen's Fund and Retreat in the city of New-York, shall consist of the following persons to wit:The Mayor of the said city, the Health Officer, the President of the Ship Masters' Society and Nautical Institution, the President of the Marine Society, together with seven other persons appointed by the Govorner and Senate, four of whom shall be or shall have been shipmasters.

ALBANY ORPHAN ASYLUM.

This asylum was founded in 1830, and incorporated March 30, 1831, by the name of "The Society for the Relief of Orphan and Destitute Children in the City of Albany."

The asylum edifice, which is of brick, and of two stories on a high basement, with five acres of land, is situated about a mile westerly from the capitol. The general control of the institution is vested in a board of thirteen managers, having a President, Secretary, and Treasurer, chosen from their own number, and its domestic concerns are conducted by a Superintendent, a Teacher, and an Assistant Tracher, all females. The children are taught the rudiments of learning usual to the common schools; besides which, the girls are taught plain sewing, knitting, and such household matters as their years allow, and the boys are employed occasionally in the garden and about the other grounds. After attaining the age of eight years, they are bound out, the girls till the age of eighteen years, and the boys till twenty-one, to such persons as can furnish a committee of managers satisfactory evidence that they are suitable persons to receive them.

The children at present in the Asylum number from 50 to 60. Not a single death has occurred in the last year. Indeed, the health of this institution, for a number of years, has been truly remarkable.

The Asylum is supported mainly by donations from the citizens of Albany. During the last year, however, the pressure of the times having been such as materially to diminish the supplies from this source, Gen. Stephen Van Rensselaer, who has in his Manor House Garden, at the north part of the city, a superb Century Plant, or American Aloe, (Agave Americana,) which has been there for upward of sixty years, and which in June last gave signs of flowering for the first time, permitted it to be exhibited for the benefit of the Asylum. The receipts of the exhibition in Albany amount to $1,358.27, and in New-York, to $1,000.10. After deducting expenses the net proceeds amounted to $1,972.74, with which the managers were enabled to pay the debts and expenses of the Asylum for the year.

The Managers are-Archibald McIntyre, President; John I. Wendell, Ira Harris, James Dexter, Rev. Wm. James, John Q. Wilson, Marcus T. Reynolds, Ichabod L. Judson, James D. Wasson, Eli Perry, Lawson Annesley, Members; John G. Wasson, Secretary; and Dyer Lathrop, Treasurer.

ST. JOSEPH'S ROMAN CATHOLIC ORPHAN ASYLUM.

This Asylum was founded in 1832, and incorporated April 12, 1842. It is under the immediate care of "The Sisters of Charity," subject to the general authority and direction of a Board of Managers. The Asylum edifice is on Lodge-street, in the rear of St. Mary's Church. The number of children now in this asylum is between thirty and forty, who are taught the rudiments of common learning, needle work, ordinary household affairs, &c. Besides the children gratuitously taken care of, female boarders are received and instructed for pay, as one of the means of supporting the institution.

The officers are Thomas Gough, President; Owen Murray, Vice-President; John Tracy, Secretary; Peter M. Morange, Treasurer.

BUFFALO ORPHAN ASYLUM.

Incorporated April, 1837. The object of this Institution is to provide an asylum for orphan and destitute children. It was first formed in 1835, by a few charitable and benevolent ladies, and is supported by voluntary contributions. The asylum building is situated on Niagara-street, and now contains 50 inmates.

Albert H. Tracy, President.

Henry Hamilton, Secretary.
William Madison, Steward and Collector.

NOTE. In addition to the above Institutions, there are numerous other insti'tutions in the State, which have necessarily been omitted for the want of correct information.

N. Y. STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.

This society was organized at an Agricultural State Convention, in Albany, in February, 1832, and the same year was incorporated. Until 1840, its proceedings, embracing many valuable papers on American husbandry, were published in "The Cultivator," a paper established by the Society, and placed in charge of the late Judge Buel, as conductor. At its annual meeting, in 1841, the society determined to make a more vigorous effort to prosecute its objects, and appointed a committee to apply to the Legislature for aid; whereupon that body appropriated $8,000 annually for five years. This sum was apportioned among the counties as follows, but was not to be paid until the several respective societies should raise an equal sum by voluntary subscription.

With this aid, the society, which had struggled for several years for existence, at once rose in public favor. Its first Fair was held at Syra. cuse in the autumn of 1841, and was well attended. Its second Fair was held at Albany, September, 1842, at which there was a more extensive exhibition of improved farm stock, implements of husbandry, &c., than was ever before made in this country on a similar occasion. The socie ty's next Fair is to be held at Rochester, in September, 1843.

The officers of this society, for 1843, are as follow:

James S. Wadsworth, Livingston, President.

L. B. Langworthy, Monroe.

H. S. Randall, Cortland Village, Corresponding Secretary.
Luther Tucker, Albany, Recording Secretary.

Ezra P. Prentice, Albany, Treasurer.

ADDITIONAL MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

C. N. Bement, Albany.

H. D. Grove, Buskirk's Bridge.
Alex. Walsh, Lansingburgh.

J. McD. McIntyre, Albany.

Thos. S. Hillhouse, Watervliet.

Since the passage of the law above named, subordinate societies have been formed in the counties of Albany, Cayuga, Chautauque, Columbia, Chemung, Clinton, Cortland, Delaware, Dutchess, Erie, Essex, Genesee, Greene, Herkimer, Jefferson, Kings, Lewis, Livingston, Madison, Monroe, Montgomery, Niagara, Oneida, Onondaga, Ontario, Orange, Orleans, Oswego, Queens, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Suffolk, St. Lawrence, Schenectady, Seneca, Steuben, Tompkins, Washington, Wayne and Yates.

These societies report to the State Society, and an abstract of their doings is embraced in the Annual Report of the latter, which is published by the Legislature.

NEW-YORK STATE TEMPERANCE SOCIETY.

This society was organized April 2d, 1829. March 6th, 1832, the first number of the Temperance Recorder, (the present organ of the society,) was issued. Since that time, and up to February 1st, 1843, the number of publications issued by this society amount to 15,067,964. The receipts and disbursements of the society, since its organization up to February 1st, 1843, amounted to $160,159.36.

The following named gentlemen are the present officers of this society: Hon. R. Hyde Walworth, of Saratoga Springs, President.

John Power, D.D., New-York,

Hiram Corliss, Greenwich,
Garrit Smith, Peterboro,
Ben Johnson, Ithaca,

Oliver Teall, Syracuse,

Ashbel W. Riley, Rochester,

Philip Phelps, Chairman,

Ira Harris,

Azor Taber,

Dr. B. P. Staats,

Rev. I. N. Wyckoff, D.D.,

B. T. Welch, D.D.,

Erastus Corning,

Bradford R. Wood, of Albany,

S. W. Dana, of Troy,

Vice-Presidents.

Executive Committee.

Archibald Campbell, Treasurer.

Otis Allen, Recording Secretary.

Oliver Scovil, Corresponding Secretary and Office Agent.

Israel Smith, Auditor.

Office, 81 State-street, Albany.

STATE INSTITUTIONS.

STATE LUNATIC ASYLUM.

(Situated one mile west of the centre of the city of Utica.)

This Institution was founded by an act of the Legislature, passed March 30, 1836. The work was commenced in the spring of 1838, when the foundations were laid according to a plan contemplating the erection of four buildings, each of five hundred and fifty feet front, placed at right angles to each other, facing outwards. They were to be connected at the angles by verandahs of open lattice work, and each building was to be three stories high exclusive of a basement and attic. The surface enclosed by the foundations measures thirteen and a half acres, of which the buildings are to occupy two and a half acres. The whole grounds include a productive farm of about 130 acres.

One of the above buildings was finished according to the above plan in 1842. It is of the Grecian Doric order of architecture, and is constructed of a dark grey limestone, quarried at Trenton, about eleven miles distant from Utica. This edifice was ready for the reception of patients in January, 1843. It will accommodate about 300 of them.

OFFICERS.-Charles A. Mann, Dr. C. B. Coventry, Alfred Munson, Thomas H. Hubbard, and Nicholas Devereaux, of Utica; Jacob Sutherland, Geneva; Theodoric Romeyn Beck, Albany; David Buel, Troy; Abraham V. Williams, New-York; Managers. Edmond A. Wetmore, Utica, Treasurer. Amasiah Brigham, Superintendent and Physician. Henry A. Buttolph, Assistant Physician. Cyrus Chatfield, Steward. Mrs. C. Chatfield, Matron.

Although the edifice now occupied, was not ready for the reception of patients till January last, yet the board of managers was organized as early as April 19, 1842, and their first of the series of Annual Reports required by law to be made by the Managers to the Legislature, bears date February 6, 1843. From this report the following particulars are gathered.

The establishment is supplied with water from a large well dug for the purpose on the premises, and fitted with a force-pump, worked by horse-power, which raises the water to a spacious reservoir in the attic of the centresegment of the edifice, from which it is distributed by pipes whithersoever it is required. The pump can be worked also by hand. The well is 34 feet deep, by 16 feet in diameter for the first 23 feet, and 8 feet from that point to the bottom. The pump tube is of iron, with a two-inch bore, and carries the water from the well to the reservoir, a distance of 450 feet.

The building is warmed by furnaces in the basement, and the heat is transmitted by flues. The cooking, washing, and kitchen-work is all performed by what is called a cooking-range and boilers connected with it.

The salary of the Superintendent is $2,000; and the institution is fortunate in having been able to secure for that post a man so eminently qualified for its difficult, delicate, and responsible functions as Dr. Brigham. The salary of the Assistant, the Treasurer, and the Steward is $500 to each, and of the Matron $200.

The use to which the Asylum farm will be put, beyond the keeping of such swine as may be fed by the offal of the establishment, and the few horses and oxen needed for service, will be chiefly the grazing of cows to supply milk, which will constitute a principle article of diet, and a large supply of which will, therefore, be required. An extensive garden for esculent vegetables, fruit, &c. will also be cultivated; and the care of this, and of the farm, will furnish ample opportunity for that moderate and cheerful labor, which forms so important a portion of the curative treatment at such institutions. Mechanical employments will also constitute a part of the system.

According to the United States census of 1840, the whole number of lunatics and idiots in this State is 2,340, of whom 739 were at public charge. This would give, on the whole.population of 2,428,921, one lunatic or idiot to every 1,038 persons. But the Secretary of State, in 1841, reported 803 lunatics at the public charge. The highest number of both lunatics and idiots, above stated, however, is undoubtedly much below the truth. From fuller data, de