a week for the seven,--not bad, compared with the income of very many others.

It is sad to think how many poor families get sundered and scattered about the world in a time like this, never to meet again.
And the false report respecting this family in the little shop, reminds me that the poor are not always kind to the poor.

I learnt, from a gentleman who is Secretary to the Relief Committee of one of the wards, that it is not uncommon for the committees to receive anonymous letters, saying that so and so is unworthy of relief, on some ground or other.

These complaints were generally found to be either wholly false, or founded upon some mistake.

I have three such letters now before me.