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Wheat went up again in Mark Lane on Monday from

three to four shillings a quarter ; the reports from France, East Prussia, and Northern Russia are most discouraging, and there is, we fear, little hope for months to come of any serious reduction. Dear bread, severe weather, and a suspension of trade have all arrived together, till we wonder how East London gets on at all. We print elsewhere a letter from a correspondent who understands the poor and who is unconnected with any charity, and his account, non-sensational as it is, reveals the depth of the popular suffering. With him, we earnestly call on the agents of the charities to take care how they lower the people's self-respect, and to substitute, where possible, work for alms.

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