. I remember her fair and beautiful, richly apparelled
and sumptuously fed; but the drink has been her bane, and will be, till
one of these calm summer mornings she will be carried insensible to the
nearest hospital, thence to be buried, unwept and unknown, in a pauper's
grave. Away from this moral dunghill. In a few hours the police will
have retired, the debauchees will have gone home to bed, the
oyster-houses and gin-palaces will be deserted, the place will have a
serious and quiet business air, and bishops will ride past it in their
cushioned carriages to make speeches at meetings for the promotion of the
Gospel in foreign parts. As we go up Regent-street we see the lamps
being extinguished, and the milk carts going round, and the red newspaper
expresses tearing along to catch the early train, and the green hills of
Hampstead looking lovelier than ever. In the sober light of day our
night in the Haymarket will seem unreal, and when we shall tell our
experiences, we shall be told possibly that our picture is overdrawn.

THE CANTERBURY HALL.

"Give me the songs of the people, and you may make its laws," said old
Fletcher, of Saltoun, with a knowledge of human nature which statesmen do
not frequently possess. Necessity is a stern taskmaster, and the workman
in the factory, and the clerk in the counting-house, and the shopman
behind the counter, are generally compelled to stick pretty close to
work, and to the eye of the observer present very much the same
appearance. They come at certain hours, they go at certain hours, and
perform their daily toil with a certain amount of effectiveness and
skill. Very little credit is due to them for this--their livelihood
depends upon their being diligent and active--and hence I know little of
the individual by merely witnessing him toiling for his daily bread. I
must follow him home; I must be with him in his hours of relaxation; I
must listen to the songs he sings and the jokes he attempts; I must see
what is his idea of pleasure, and thus only can I get at the man as he
is. Even his church or chapel goings I cannot take as indications of his
real nature. He may go because his parents go, because his master goes,
because his friends go, because he has been trained to go, because
society expects him to go,--for a hundred reasons all equally vain in the
eyes of Him who searcheth the heart and trieth the reins of the children
of men; but no man is a hypocrite where