On the contrary, England wages war against prostitution. Is it with success? No; in this respect her cities are the worst in Europe. In that country 42,000 illegitimate children were born in 1851. It was estimated that within the five years preceding, 212,000 females had strayed from the paths of virtue, and thus taken the first step in prostitution. In 1832, London had a population of 1,000,000, and her known prostitutes numbered 10,000. Within her limits were then 3,300 brothels. At that time, in Liverpool, there were 5,000 fallen women. Of houses of ill-fame Dublin had 355; Edinburgh, 219; Glasgow, 204; Liverpool, 770; Manchester, 308; Birmingham, 797; Hull, 175; Leeds, 179; Norwich, 194. In England, in 1865, there were 500,000 prostitutes. It has been computed that the unfortunates number about 86,000 in the London of to-day. It is not surprising, then, that the constabulary of Great Britain are in despair of their power for good over this evil. “Sooner or later (they realize) the principle of individual liberty must triumph, and prostitution must become, under the shadow of general principles, as unrestricted as any other commerce, moral or immoral.” In New York City, also, the law has always attempted to repress the “social evil,” but without avail. This has been openly recognized by those in authority. In 1875, 1876, and 1877 licensed prostitution was recommended by a committee of the State Legislature, the Grand Jury of the City and County of New York, and the Commissioner of Public Charities and Correction. The committee assumed “that houses of prostitution must exist;” and its members, therefore, took it upon themselves “to earnestly recommend to the Legislature the regulating, or permitting,” or, as they phrased it, “if the word be not deemed offensive, the licensing of prostitution.” In June, 1876, the Grand Jury of the Court of General Sessions of the same county and state, made an official presentment concerning prostitution, in which they say “that however abhorrent to the views of some, any legislation may be, which appears to legalize so great an evil, still the fact must not be lost sight of that it is an evil impossible to suppress, yet comparatively easy to regulate and circumscribe.” They conclude with a memorial to the Legislature, “to adopt as early as practicable some system of laws calculated to confine houses of prostitution, in the large cities of this state, within certain specified limits, and to subject them at all times to a careful and vigilant supervision of the Boards of Health and Police.”