Had We Better Adopt Them

A cable letter to a New York contem porary gives the following dreary pictur of Christmas morning in London: The present was the most dlsinal Chrlsl mas In the recent hlstory of Louduii. The mlsery of the poor in the city Is very great as there Is but little work and few opportu nltles lor gainlng Bubslstence. Thousands o the poor crowd the wharves every day to ge the opportunlty to earn the merest plltance But those who get employment at all are very few. Business Is exceedlngly dull and laborera are not In demand. As the paper publishing the letter i every day inviting America to adopt Eng üsh free-trade customs, we wonder tliat i coukl uot fiad something more inviting regarding the laboring milliong at thi center of English üfe and comrnerce Who really desires to change the present comparatlvely happy and prosperou condition of the laboring classes of the United States for the conditions describec