as hers, with its bright
hopes and joys; but they are gone, and with an aching heart and pallid
brow she plies her daily task. Is it wonderful that, wanting coals or
something better than dry bread, the shirt or the waistcoat should be
pawned? Is it not more wonderful that such bleak and hopeless poverty
should be so honest as it is? And yet from such poor forlorn, forgotten
women as these, proceed the profits which pay for dazzling window and
gorgeous pile. Is it strange that the city missionaries for last year
show an increase of fallen women in their districts of 1035?

Bear in mind also that corporal labourers are shorter lived and endure
more physical evil than the mental labourers. The coal-whippers'
work--the most wasteful, unscientific, and pernicious expenditure of
human muscle ever devised, writes Dr Chambers--overstrains the fibres of
the heart, and the organs become diseased. Painters again are liable to
palsy and colic, from the use of white lead. The tailor sits till the
stomach and bowels becomes disordered, the spine twisted, the gait
shambling, and the power of taking the exercise necessary to health
obliterated. Shoemakers and bootmakers suffer equally from a constrained
position and the pressure of the last against the stomach. Heart-burn
and indigestion are so common among them, that a pill in the Pharmacopeia
is called the cobbler's pill. Then there is the baker's malady, which
carries off a large proportion of its victims. Dressmakers are
peculiarly subject to the attacks of consumption; workwomen constantly
suffer from varicose veins.

There are two worlds in London, with a gulf between--the rich and the
poor. We have glanced at the latter; for the sake of contrast let us
look at the former. Emerson says the wealth of London determines prices
all over the globe. The revenue of the corporation of the city of London
for 1856 was 2,595,216 pounds 16_s._ 4.5_d._ In 1853 the money coined in
the mint was 11,952,391 pounds in gold, and 701,544 pounds in silver.
The business of the Bank of England is conducted by about 800 clerks,
whose salaries amount to about 200,000 pounds. The Bank in 1857 had
26,683,790 pounds bank notes in circulation. In the same year there were
about 5 millions deposited in the Savings Banks of the metropolis. The
gross Customs revenue of the port of London in 1849 was 11,070,176
pounds. 65 millions is the estimate formed by Mr M'Culloch of the total
value of t