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Show Tlie Guinness Girt. The magnificent gift of Sir Edward Guinness may be accepted without any fear that it will demoralize the clasa which it is intended to benefit. The 200,000 which are to be invested for the better housing of the London poor will, be, in tho most unfavorable event, an ex- J tension of the Peabody scheme, which : has been found in practice not to have done much for the destitute population1 that lives upon cas'lty labor. The neal ! and con: fortable tenements have been ! occupied by respectable and thriving j artisans, and very great has been Lhj : benefit which they have received. But j the object of Sir Edward Guinness is to I provide decent homes for the class below ! them to let the tenements at rents with-) in the means of the poorest. Yes, but t these are the persons who have no means j at all no regular means, none that will j insure the periodical payment of even" the smallest rent. That Sir Edward, Guinness' gift will do much good cannot j be denied; but it will require very cautious cau-tious handling to make it do just that kind of good which is intended. St I James Gazette. I |