and other large towns who not only will not, but cannot, live decently. They do not know how; and it will require great care and persistent effort to train them into better habits. Cleaning and purifying their present haunts by Act of Parliament may make the dwellings better fit for human habitation, but how can you keep them so, whilst, as things are, their present human inhabitants are hopelessly unfit to occupy them? The result would be wholesale evictions, and scores of wretched beings will be forced to exchange a filthy home for none at all, and there will be such an amount of acute misery, that it is horrible to contemplate. We must, therefore, proceed cautiously in clearing out the dark corners of our huge cities. We must prepare the people for a change. The majority are not better than their present surroundings, or they would exercise more energy or self-denial to get out of their present habitations; and it is as well to remember that they are not fit for, and not disposed to inhabit, houses that will deprive them of their "present dirty way of living; " and it will be only very gradually that they can become so. This is a truth which should be well considered before we spend a lot of money in buying land and building houses for the people.

As people become more educated, they will have more exacting ideas on the subject of house accommodation; at present it surprises many that the approval of the new order of dwellings that are springing up in London, and other large towns, is by no means universal. It is a matter of education against old habits; self-respect desiring privacy against the Bohemianism of overcrowding. The progressive culture of the class, better sanitary knowledge, a different idea of comfort and home, will soon conquer