I must not forget to mention a very interesting series of twenty-four stereoscopic pictures by Mr. Alfieri, illustrative of "The Potter's Art." Mr. Jabez Hughes and Mr. Meagher were both exhibitors of very excellent and useful apparatus--cameras, camera-stands, and rolling-presses. Now I think such an exhibition as I have but partially described cannot fail to have produced a pleasing and beneficial effect on the minds of all who saw it, and ought, on the whole, to have given infinite pleasure and satisfaction to both exhibitors and visitors. Yet I think I heard one or two growls of discontent about the hanging from someone whose pictures or whose friend's pictures were not on the line; but I think I may safely say there never was a case of hanging yet that was not objected to by one individual at least. Even the hangers of the Royal Academy do not escape censure, and they are supposed to have far more skill, taste, and experience in hanging than the volunteer hangers of the late photographic exhibition. I think, however, that the hangers performed their duties both conscientiously and creditably, especially when it is considered in how very short a time the work had to be done. Anyone who felt aggrieved, and expressed himself churlishly on that point, must surely have been in that unenviable state which the French very adroitly designate _Être marqué au B_. After these reflections I felt too drowsy to reflect any more, and was barely awake enough to subscribe myself--Yours very truly. _November 10th, 1868._ * * * * * The Refunding of the Balance of the Goddard Fund--The Photographers' Provident Society--A Ferocious Doorsman--The South London Dinner--A Christmas Carol.