clothes, £1 2_s._ 6_d._; 2 pints of rum, 10 gills of rum, and 4 glasses of beer, 16_s._; 24 glasses of spirits, 9 quarts of beer, and 7 ounces of tobacco, 14_s._ 7_d._ 15th.—16 half glasses of spirits, 10 glasses and 2 gills of rum, and 1½ ounce of tobacco, and beer, 2_s._ 10_d._; fortnight’s board, £1 8_s._; cash, £2 18_s._; spirits, tobacco, and rum, 4_s._ 1½_d._; cash, 5_s._ 17th.—Cash, 7_s._; 20 glasses of spirits, and 8 quarts of ale, 9_s._ 4_d._ 18th.—Ale, spirits, and tobacco, 16_s._ 4_d._ 19th.—35 glasses of spirits, and 20 glasses of ale, and 2 glasses of brandy, £1 4_s._ 10_d._ 20th.—Ale, tobacco, and cash, 7_s._ 24th, 25th, and 26th.—Ale and spirits, 7_s._ 11_d._, and other items, making up the amount in hand. The defendant had refused to deliver up Hall’s clothes on the plea that the man was in his debt. Now in Ratcliffe-highway such men as Glover abound. It is unnecessary then to describe the character of the tradesmen in Ratcliffe-highway, or the character of their wares. At one shop there are the enormous boots, which only navvies and sailors have strength to wear; at another there are oilskin caps, and coats and trousers, or rough woollen shirts, piled up in gigantic masses. One shop rejoices in compasses and charts, and another in the huge silver watches which Jack invariably affects. The descendants of Abraham swarm here. They sell little fish fried in oil; they deal in second-hand clothes; they keep lodging-houses; I believe they stick at nothing to turn a penny, and don’t break their hearts if the penny turns out a dishonest one. Everything has a nautical adaptation. The songs sung are nautical. The last time I was there an old woman was singing to a crowd of the “Saucy Sailor Boy” who, coming disguised in poverty to his lady love, is by her ignominiously rejected, to whom rejecting he tells of his real riches, and by whom the rejection is eagerly recalled, but in vain, for the Saucy Sailor Boy declares:— “Do you think I am foolish, love? Do you think I am mad, For to wed a poor country girl, When there’s fortune to be had? “So I’ll cross the briny ocean, Where the meadows are so green, And since you have refused my offer, love, Some other girl shall wear the ring.”