Poverty! This subject has been well ventilated lately, it may be necessary occasionally to rouse public attention by horrible details, and to write and speak as if the conditions described were a faithful representation of the dwellings of the poor. In the Globe of Dec. 12, 1883, it was stated that the Rev. Stopford Brooke had, on the preceding clay, at Bloomsbury Chapel, preached on the subject of the "outcast poor of London." He was reported to have said that "among the very poor of London, wages had already been lowered to the starvation point; 3d. a day for twelve hours work was a not uncommon wage .. . also, that when large masses of men, both in town and country, were banded together, by common self-interest, to keep and get property that, for time essential well-being of the State, ought to be divided among the many, then he saw no cure but legislation.'' Disbelieving alike in any man working ''twelve hours for 3d. per day," ''or men massed together" to keep up rent, I wrote, enclosing stamped envelope for a reply, asking for the rev, gentleman's authority for both statements. I had no reply. After waiting a week I wrote to the Globe; my letter was not inserted. You can draw your own inference; mine is, that this and statements of a similar nature are mere clap-trap, sensational announcements made to produce an effect. December 25th, 1853, discussing the subject with a friend, he said, " I have just sold some houses in Bermondsey, four-roomed houses, with open space