Status Updates From Street Life in London

The best customers for the fish sold in the streets are, according to Joseph Carney's experience, the Jews, for they not only buy the greatest quantity of fish, but give the highest price - a peculiarity not often attributed to the children of Israel.

They can make more in selling ices in our thoroughfares than in cutting throats round and about Naples, and this, too, with much greater security to themselves.

"Unfortunately, nostalgia, fatal to so many emigrants, is more particularly disastrous in its effects on Frenchmen."

"Like all gentlemen who labour under the wings of Government, I enjoyed short hours and a very fair salary."

"Despite the traditional hoarse voice, rough appearance, and quarrelsome tone, cab-drivers are as a rule reliable and honest men, who can boast of having fought the battle of life in an earnest, persevering, and creditable manner.