Dr. Norman Macleod, lecturing on Monday at Glasgow, made a
most remarkable statement. There are no less than seventy-five officers of the Guards who aid in the work of visiting and relieving the poor of London. They belong to a regular society for the purpose, and the secretary writes to Dr. Macleod that they are foremost in going down day by day to relieve the poor in the most squalid districts. If that statement be correct—of which we have no doubt—it is the most remarkable testimony yet offered to the social advance which has commenced in England. When Guards- men pocket their dignity that Bethnal Green may be happier, the hereditary bitterness of class against class seems in a very fair way of removal. A soldier of the same order, the order which cares whether its gloves fit, Captain Jackson, is one of the most untiring and successful among living philanthropists, has, perhaps, done more to reduce the average of crime and punishment in the Army than any other single man.
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