There are undoubted signs of the beginning of a revival of trade; but in the meantime the distress through lack of employment is far more severe and widespread than it has been for many winters past. The Lord Mayor's Fund, which was opened at the instance of the King, is for London slone—that is to say for the county of London—and does not: therefore extend to those vast regions of Greater London which lie just outside the county boundaries, and which ara inhabited by hundreds of thousands of working men. In the East End of London, for instance—in East Ham and West Ham—the distress is perhaps more acute than in any part of London proper, and Tottenham, to the North-east, is also suffering severely. Fortunstely private enterprise has come to the rescue. An immense being raised by the "Daily Telegraph" and another, naturally not quite so big, by the discussion as to the manner in which the funds are being employed, and it is impossible that there should not be good deal of waste. The professional charity mongers are reaping rich harvest; but the real necessity is so great that the charitable rightly feel that they cannot withhold their bounty lest some of it should get into the wrong pockets.
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