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Show -WING IN LONDON AMD NEW YORK. Mr. Loais J. Jennings, formerly alitor of the New York Times, and now the special London correspon-Jentof correspon-Jentof tho IV" rlj, writes an interesting interest-ing letter to the latter paper showing the comparative cost of living in Loudon Lou-don and New York. In reference to rcnta he says lhat Iho difference- is greatly in favor of London. very good house, with eight bedrooms, dining, drawing ami reception rooms, can bo had in Kensington, a fashion able suburb, for $000 per year. A comfortable house with hix rooms, and garden '(rout and rear, can bo had at Duhvich, four miles from Lon don bridge, for $lHo per yaar; aud Mr. Jennings dues nut kno.. where a housa anything like it entild be found wilhin twenty miles of New York for three times that money. Rents, such as are common iu New York, of from $1,200 to ?3,000 a year, would sutfica to Jure a mansiou in tho moat fashionable parts of London, Lon-don, and the class there which can afiord lo pay i'oOO or 000 a year for a bouse is exceedingly limited. Tlie wages for in do.ir servants, Including In-cluding a weekly allowance of Is. 6d. for washing, and a shilling lor beer, range horn $50 to U0 per year, cooks getting the largest sum paid. Here again London has the advantage advan-tage over tho American metropolis, since in the latter city tho wages of cooks range from $P2 to t'2o per month. Clothing is much cheaper iu London Lon-don than in New York, and the price of fashionable dresses are lower by ai least one-third, and often ono-hall". Goal, if anything-, is a litth ehcfq -ei, but burns out considerably soooner than the American product. lierf in London is one shilling per pound and the best stakes thirty one cents, which ia a little cheaper than in our large northern cities. And liro let the fact be recorded that Mr. Jennings, himself an Englishman, goes squarely back on "tho roast beef of old England," and expresses the belief that Now York beef is heller than the London article. English mutton, however, he contend.', con-tend.', is decidedly belter than American. It ia about twenly-i twenly-i seven cents per pound, while it sell; ja little higher in New York. Fowh are very scarce and fetch pair. The best butter is two shillings per , pound, while in our cities it is considerably con-siderably higher. Game ia much dearer iu Loudon lhau in New York, but as a rule provisions of almost every kind are much cheaper. Peaches which are so common with us, coat twenty five cents each in gold in Louduti, and consequently none but the rich can indulge in them. Taken altogether, Mr. Jennings ihink.i thai a family ol a;x or seven persona cm li"c very cumloriaMy in or near Iundon for XlO (say Co) a week, nut including rent. Tnia would cover a reasonable tspetidHur;; oh "extras," such as newspapers, postage, To livo on a similar t-. tle iu Now Yurk would asl $lu) a week. He is quite sure thai 1,000 a year in London which is whai io general ly called a middle-claes incomewould in-comewould go further than $10,000 a year wuuld in New York, when rent and all other expenses are taken into account. |