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No. 410. Messenger, wage 30J. No history of drink ; 

 gambles, said to have acquired his property thus ; wife and 

 he said to have been before the court for shebeening and 

 gambling. 



The other two ' imaginary porters ' exist in the record 

 all right, only Sir Victor has taken no trouble to examine 

 the record accurately ! His careless examination not 

 providing them, he accuses me of inventing them ! They 

 are 



No. 217. Fish porter. Wages i8j., in regular employ. 

 Fits of drinking. 



No. 170. Porter. Wages 22s., in regular employ. No 

 sign of poverty here ; house tolerably clean and comfort- 

 able. Appear to be fairly temperate. 



Sir Victor Horsley's own list describes thirteen porters, 

 six sober and seven drinking ; adding the above four cases 

 we have nine sober and eight drinking, numbers absolutely 

 identical with those of the statement originally made by 

 me.^ 



^ It would only weary the reader and serve no useful purpose to go through 

 trade by trade and show that Sir Victor Horsley's criticisms are precisely of 

 the character of the above. Thus, he says, that I have made 'twelve coopers, 

 of whom eight are " sober" and four drunken, and that all these twelve earn 

 2^s. 6d. a week, whereas the actual schedules of the Report give, as we show 

 in the above table, only eight coopers of whom seven are "sober" and one 

 drinks '. Of course, I have made no such assertion that each of my twelve 

 coopers earned 28^. (id.\ it is a perfectly gratuitous misstatement on the 

 part of Sir Victor. What I have done was to state that coopers rank as 

 a 28^. dd. trade. As for the four 'imaginary' coopers with which Sir Victor 

 credits me, they arise from including, as the nearest allied trade, four isolated 

 individuals engaged in cooper's work, in wood-cutting, splitting, and turning 

 (No. 295, regular 30J., seems steady ; No. 516, regular 20^., drinks ; No. 649, 

 29J-.-37J., drinks, out of work ; No. 714, regular 255., very drunken). These 

 give precisely the eight sober and four drunken of our table. The mean wage 

 value of these four men — apart from drink — is 27^. 6df., and they belong to 

 the Group B of my classification of trades, e.g. wages between 25J. and 30i-., 

 and this is where I placed them in my letter to the Times, where the only 

 question was what class of trade did they follow. In the* quite different problem 



