the sum?" Details were given up to 11s.; then lie stopped. "How do you spend the other 10s.?" "In whiskey," was the reply. Mr. Chadwick expostulated. "Oh," said the man, "if you lived in such miserable surroundings you would spend 10s. a week in whiskey also." The reply satisfied Mr. Chadwick, but it indicates to me that the man was compelled to live in such a miserable hovel, not because of his poverty, but because of his reckless waste of half his earnings." It was not the dwellings caused the chink, but the cost of the drink that compelled him to live where he could live at the cheapest rate. December 2nd, 1883, a letter appeared in the Globe, headed "Help for Honest Men;" the writer stated that there were "thousands of honest men walking the streets of London, day after day, in search of employment, and they -walked in vain." I replied (Dec. 10th, 1883) that " I did not believe there were thousands of men walking the streets of London daily," and asked the writer for his name and address. I saw him, and found, as usual, it was an exceptional case. After being fourteen years in two situations, lie began business for himself, but after about six years, lie failed; twenty years in one town, an able, willing, and honest mail; instead of applying there for work to people who knew him, ho came to London, where lie is unknown, and is astonished that lie fails to be employed; forgetting that for the several vacancies lie applies for, others with a knowledge of London and its ways also apply, and, also, that, as a rule, employers do not care about engaging men who have been in business for themselves if others are to be had. About twenty persons wrote to me; I saw several, and engaged two the others had held good positions as buyers in City houses,