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Show London ''Times." We aro indebted to Samuel G. Read, of tho London newa depot, west of tho theatre, for the London JYmei of December 17th, from which we glean the following items: The Lords Commissioners of the Treasury have under consideration an application to have the Tower opened to visitors on Mondays and Saturdays free of charge. During tho month of November the port sanitary committee of London inspected 1,756 vessels, 206 of which required cleansing, had destroyed several parcels of clothing of sailors who had died of contagious diseases and had found several samples of drinking water brought from abroad, 40 per cent, of which was unfit for human consumption, Tho Shakers' community at New Forest lodge, near Lymington, to the number of 20 men and 111 women and children, were recently ejected from their residence by the Bheriff in behalf of the mortagee. They refused re-fused shelter, staying in tho road all night singing and praying, during a heavy enow and rain and a strong , easterly wind. It was feared that soveral would succumb to the fearful oiposure. Miss Emily Faithfull writes to the editor in behalf of her institution, the "Industrial and Educational Bureau of Ladies," in reference to many ee-vere ee-vere cases of "cruel privation; furniture fur-niture seized because they have not the wherewithal to pay the rent of rooms ; sickness, and no means to obtain what the doctor orders; sora who are simply starving for want of work, others who have subsisted On dry bread for days, with no fire to cheer them, and but little hope of obtaining ob-taining employment, from circumstances circum-stances for which they are far more to be pitied than blamed, but for which the system under which they I have been received ia really at fault." j Misa Faith full appeals to the publio for charity for such cases, which she j says "cannot be dispensed until such Bufl'erers are succeeded by women : who have been taught that all work U dignified and noble; and that not only is work honorable in a man, but that idleness is discreditable even in a woman." Miss Faithfull's address is 50 Norfolk-Bquare, Hyde-park. Christmas appeals for charity are made by the Newport-Market Refuge and Industrial school, Soho ; Beil-court Beil-court Mission, Cripplegste, British Lying-in hospital; Destitute Children's Child-ren's Dinners society; East London HoBpital for Children and Dispensary for Women ; East London Nursing society ; Great Yarmouth Smacks' Home and Fishermen's Reading Rooms; Hurnerton Ragged Schools and Gospel Mission ; Lamb and Flag Ragged schools ; London Diocesan Deaconesses' Institution ; Miss L. Twining's Homes for Workhouse Girls aud Infirm and Incurable Women Wo-men ; Mothers' Meeting ; Regent-street Regent-street Refuge for Fallen Women ; Roman Catholics of Central London; Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent of Paul; Royal National HoapUl for consumption con-sumption : Society for th Rfdifif of Distressed Widows ; South London Ragged Schools; St. Andrew 'j Water-Bide Water-Bide Church Mission ; St. Giles' Christian Mission ; St. Luke's Berwick-street Sick Kitchen and Children's Child-ren's Dinners; The Sifters of Charity, 43 Hope street; The Warspite Training Train-ing Ship of the Marine Society for Poor and Destitute Boys. All these are mentioned in the Times before us, and will give a faint idea of the enormous system of London Lon-don charities and the glaring inequality in-equality of condition into which the population all great cities fall. A meeting of the Society of Arts on the 16th was devoted to a discussion discus-sion of the protection of inventors. Both the English and the American patent laws were attacked the former form-er on account of its cumbersome details de-tails and the latter because it probably prob-ably errs on the side of too minute classification, "thus needlessly mutiply-ing mutiply-ing patents for Bingle inventions, thereby increasing the cost of examination ex-amination and protection to the pat |