ABSTRACT
The shifts to which many hare been reduced to provide for keeping body and soul together are most humiliating and distressing. The shadow of the Constitution which Mr. Chaplain Bates praised so much, and which he called a ‘grateful’ shadow, he treats with great solemnity. A very few weeks ago a friend rushed into my parlour, throwing himself into a chair, and covering his face with his hands, in great distress. An instance of ravenous hunger in London will be long remembered. Of the crowds of famishing objects in the streets and highways, speaking piteously to the passengers’ eye, three or four poor seamen were collected under one of the alcoves of Westminster Bridge.
