by his side, may be seen with their little basket in hand,
purchasing the scanty quantity of necessaries they can afford,
which the time at which the man receives his wages, or his having a
good deal of work to do, or the woman's having been out charing
till a late hour, prevented their procuring over-night. The
coffee-shops too, at which clerks and young men employed in
counting-houses can procure their breakfasts, are also open. This
class comprises, in a place like London, an enormous number of
people, whose limited means prevent their engaging for their
lodgings any other apartment than a bedroom, and who have
consequently no alternative but to take their breakfasts at a
coffee-shop, or go without it altogether. All these places,
however, are quickly closed; and by the time the church bells begin
to ring, all appearance of traffic has ceased. And then, what are
the signs of immorality that meet the eye? Churches are well
filled, and Dissenters' chapels are crowded to suffocation. There
is no preaching to empty benches, while the drunken and dissolute
populace run riot in the streets.

Here is a fashionable church, where the service commences at a late
hour, for the accommodation of such members of the congregation--
and they are not a few--as may happen to have lingered at the Opera
far into the morning of the Sabbath; an excellent contrivance for
poising the balance between God and Mammon, and illustrating the
ease with which a man's duties to both, may be accommodated and
adjusted. How the carriages rattle up, and deposit their richly-
dressed burdens beneath the lofty portico! The powdered footmen
glide along the aisle, place the richly-bound prayer-books on the
pew desks, slam the doors, and hurry away, leaving the fashionable
members of the congregation to inspect each other through their