The death of Mr. Edward Denison, the Member for Newark,
has caused a very profound impression in the East of London. Mx. Denison's public career was too brief—for he sat in the House only one session—and the modesty of his character was too dominant to enable the great world to recognize his claims. But in the East End,—especially in the parish of St. Philip's, Stepney,—his worth was known. Ile took lodgings in a quiet street in Stepney behind the London Hospital, and establishing himself there for many months in the midst of a dense and poor population, he began a systematic course of domiciliary visitation. He became a teacher in one of the dingiest rooms of one of the meanest streets of Mile End Old Town, in which a ragged-school was pursuing knowledge under very decided diffi- culties. Under his fostering sympathy this school became an attractive centre to the juvenile Bohemians of the neighbourhood ; more commodious premises had to be obtained, and ere long a spacious building was erected, in which about 200 children now daily assemble, and which further does admirable duty for the whole neighbourhood as the office of a penny bank, the work- room of a mothers' meeting, a lecture-hall, and a synagogue for special religious services, both on week-days and Sundays. Had Mr. Denison lived, there would doubtless have been other work for him to do, and, judging from his one speech in the House, on vagrancy, we recognize in him a legislative capacity of no common order.
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