13 APRIL 1833, Page 13

An advertisement announces, in recommendation of a public- house, that

it is free, shutting-up, and situated in a thronged low neighbourhood. It is an ill wind that blows nobody any good : here we see a crowded population of the lowest of citizens recom- mended on the score of their closeness and lowness. The fact is, gin and vileness and poverty are close companions. The refuse of the stable and the jakes are turned to richness of soil ; and here the bad habits and misery of society are held out as the source of wealth.