but I think it is true, or at any rate it contains a portion of truth, so far as regards Ratcliffe-highway, a stroll in which place is sure to shock more senses than one. In beastliness I think it surpasses Cologne with its seven and thirty stenches, or even Bristol or a Welsh town. Ratcliffe-highway lies contiguous to the commerce and the port of London. The men and boys engaged in navigating merchant vessels belonging to ports of the British Empire were in 1851, 240,298; and of this multitude a large portion at some time or other resides in Ratcliffe-highway. In 1856, 826 vessels, with a tonnage of 498,594 tons, entered the port of London. Jack, when he’s ashore, resides here, and Jack ashore is the weakest and simplest of men. As an illustration of the way in which Jack is done—whether in any provincial port or London, for crimps are the same all the world over,—let me refer to a case heard at the Tynemouth Police Court towards the end of last year. A man named Glover, the landlord of a low public-house in Clive-street, a crimp and sailors’ lodging-house keeper, was summoned under the 235th and 236th clauses of the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854, charged with having taken into his possession the moneys and effects of James Hall, a seaman, and with having refused to return and pay the same back to Hall when requested to do so. It appears, after being engaged in the Black Sea in the transport service during the late war, Hall, who had to receive £30 15_s._, took up his quarters at Glover’s, and made him his “purser.” Glover charged him 14_s._ a-week for his lodgings, the same as the Sailors’ Home, but at the end of 16 days he told him that his money was all gone, and bought the plaintiff’s neckerchief of him for 1_s._, which he also spent in drink. The sailor, finding himself destitute, had applied to the authorities, who summoned Glover. Glover, in his defence, stated that Hall had spent his money in drink and treating, keeping a couple of bagpipers to play to him all the time he was on the spree. Glover produced the following extraordinary account against Hall:—“Dec. 9th.—20 pints of rum, £2 6_s._ 6_d._; 20 quarts of beer, and 15 ounces of tobacco, 15_s._ 10th.—8 glasses of rum, and 2_s._ 6_d._ borrowed money, 4_s._ 6_d._ 11th.—Borrowed money, 2_s._ 6_d._; 5 pints of rum, 5 gills of rum, and 15 quarts of ale, £1 12_s._ 6_d._; 6 ounces of tobacco, 2 glasses of gin, and 2 gills of brandy, 6_s._ 6_d._ 12th.—Cash, 2_s._, 15 pints of rum, and 28 gills of rum, £3; 4 quarts, half a gallon, and 22 gills of beer, £1 3_s._ 9_d._; 15 glasses of rum and 11 glasses of beer, 9_s._ 3_d._; pint of brandy and 16 glasses of gin, 8_s._; 36 ounces of tobacco and 3½ glasses of gin, 12_s._ 4½_d._ 13th.—18 pints of rum, 15 gills of rum, and 26 quarts of beer, £3 4_s._; 26 bottles of lemonade, and 28 gills of beer, £1; 14 ounces of tobacco, 6 glasses of gin, 6_s._ 2_d._; 12 glasses of gingerade, and cash 5_s._, 8_s._; 1 week’s board, 14_s._ Paid for