12 DECEMBER 1868, Page 3

Mr. George Peabody has given another £100,000 to the poor

of London. This makes £350,000 given to London, and £150,000 to Baltimore, or half a million in all. There is nothing to be said that we see in praise of munificence like that, save that English millionaires leave a foreigner to show them the path of duty. The money is to be expended as before, in the better housing of the poor. Correspondents complain that the poor are not housed, that clerks and such like get the new rooms ; but they forget that those clerks vacate other accommodation, so diminishing the pressure on the poor.