THUS far we have dealt only with the itinerant dealers in fish, fruit, or vegetables; but there are still a large class of street-sellers, who obtain a living by the sale of the same articles at some fixed locality in the public thoroughfares; and as these differ from the others in certain points, they demand a short special notice here. , as to the number of stalls in the streets of London, I caused personal observations to be made; and in a walk of miles, stalls were counted, which is at the rate of very nearly to the mile. This, too, was in bad weather,—was not on a Saturday night,—and at a season when the fruit-sellers all declare that "things is dull." The routes taken in this inquiry were: — No. , from to Hatton-garden; No. , from to ; No. , from to Brompton; No. , from the Hackney-road to the Edgeware-road. I give the results.

F. denotes fish-stalls; Fr. fruit-stalls; V. vegetable-stalls; M. miscellaneous; and T. presents the total:

The miscellaneous stalls include peas-soup, pickled whelks, sweetmeats, toys, tin-ware, elder-wine, and jewellery stands. Of these, the toy-stalls were found to be the most numerous; sweetmeats the next; tin-ware the next; while the elder-wine stalls were least numerous.

Some of the results indicate, curiously enough, the character of the locality. Thus, in Fleetstreet there were , in the , in , and in fruitstalls, and no fish-stalls — these streets not being resorted to by the poor, to whom fruit is a luxury, but fish a necessity. In were fruit and fish-stalls; and in were stalls of fish to of fruit. On the other hand, there were in Ratcliffehigh- way, fish and fruit-stalls; in Rosemarylane, fish and fruit-stalls; in , fish and fruit-stalls; and in Bethnalgreen Road (the poorest district of all), of the fish, and but of the fruit stalls. In some places, the numbers were equal, or nearly so; as in the , for instance, the City-road, the New-road, , Tottenham-court Road, and the Camberwell-road; while in were , and in Cow-cross fishstalls, and no fruit-stalls at all. In this enumeration the street-markets of , the New Cut, the Brill, &c., are not included.

The result of this survey of the principal London thoroughfares is that in the (viz., from Brompton, along , , , and so the Commercialroad to ), there are twice as many stalls as in the great (that is to say, from me Edgeware-road, along the New-road, to the Hackney-road); the latter route, however, has more than - as many stalls as route No. , and that again more than double the number of route No. . Hence it appears that the more frequented the thoroughfare, the greater the quantity of street-stalls.

The number of miles of streets contained within the inner police district of the metropolis, are estimated by the authorities at (including the city), and assuming that there are on an average only stalls to the mile throughout London, we have thus a grand total of fish, fruit, vegetable, and other stalls dispersed throughout the capital.

Concerning the character of the stalls at the street-markets, the following observations have been made:—At the New-cut there were, before the removals, between the hours of and on a Saturday evening, ranged along the kerb-stone on the north side of the road, beginning at Broad-wall to Marsh-gate (a distance of nearly half-a-mile), a dense line of "pitches"—at of which were vegetables for sale, at fruit, fish, boots and shoes, eatables, consisting of cakes and pies, hot eels, baked potatoes, and boiled whelks; dealt in nightcaps, lace, ladies' collars, artificial flowers, silk and straw bonnets; in tinware—such as saucepans, tea-kettles, and Dutch-ovens; in crockery and glass, in brooms and brushes, in poultry and rabbits, in paper, books, songs, and almanacs; and about in sundries.