SIE,—Is it worth your while to listen to some difficulties
In the way of accepting the scheme with this object, whieb, obvious as they are, I have not seen answered ? We are, apparently, going to make a large addition to the attractive- ness of London. We take pains in doing so that the idler and lounger shall have no temptation to turn towards town other than that which he has always found in this direction, but we are offering a prize to all industrious Londoners which surely will do much to empty the villages of their provident and hard-working inhabitants. No one will ever propose that the inhabitants of country districts shall have work found for them at a distance and their homes kept up meanwhile, with periodical journeys to and fro open to them free of expense, and lodgings in some cases more comfortable than their homes. This is to be a privilege of persons who have lived a few years in London. Is it desirable to add to the immigra- tion to the capital even members of a class looking far enough ahead to perceive the advantage of being insured against the fluctuations of trade and business ? Is it desirable, in short, to do anything to stimulate the growth of London P-1 am,
Sir, &c., A. W.
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