SIB,—The reading of your article on "A Community in Caissons"
in last week's Spectator, in which you so sugges- tively and usefully moralise on the real trend and tendency of the controversy between Mr. Campbell and those whom he calls "the working classes," encourages me to send you some words of good old Hugh Latimer. Like the minister of the Holborn Viaduct—though some of his opponents overlooked
" Now what shall we say of these rich citizens of London ? What shall I say of them ? Shall I call them proud men of London, malicious men of London, merciless men of London? No, no, I may not say so ; they will be offended with me then. And you rulers and officers, be wise and circumspect and rather be glad to amend your ill living than to be angry when you are warned or told of your fault. What ado was there made in London at a certain man because he said, Burgesses, nay Butterflies.' Lord, what ado there was for that word But London cannot abide to be rebuked ; such is the nature of man. If they be pricked, they will kick ; if they be rubbed on the gall, they will wince ; but yet they will not amend their faults, they will not be ill spoken of."
These words occur in a "Sermon on the Plough" preached as long ago as 1548 in St. Paul's, and yet, perhaps, not altogether out of date in 1904 !—I am, Sir, &c., E. C. CARTER. St. Jude's Vicarage, Whitechapel, E.
RELIEF OF THE UNEMPLOYED.
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