.ALL-NIGHT COFFEE-STALLS.
IT° THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Whilst looking down the Spectator in our public library yesterday, I read with pleasure the thoughtful little poem by Mr. P. Neuman on what the Mill Hill boys intend doing about placing a "Settlement" near the spot where young Ur. Spicer was " done to death" by some London roughs. This set me thinking. I have another suggestion to make, and that is,— give the police power to clear away from our London streets the all-night coffee-shop man and his stall. They are not 1--,Wanted, and Oily harbour the.svorstof night-birds. Tbe.early morning carriers—newspaper, post-office, or market worker- are-already catered for at the respectable licensed houses that open earlyaear, our main railwarstations and markets. As regards.thelittle huts that one Meets with on our leading high- roads, say fi;ie.miles out of the Ketropolis, these need not-le interfered "with. They are a boon to 'the waggoner on his way to the" early London markets.—I am; Sir, &c., , A MEMBER or THELONDON SOCIETY OE CQAIPOSITOII Homey, JUne CM.
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