Miscellaneous.

Street-Sellers of Walking-Sticks.

For 12 weeks of the year there are, I am told, every day 35 stick-sellers, each taking, on an average, 30s. a week (with a profit, individually, of about 12s.); we find thus that the sum expended yearly in walking-sticks in the streets is 630 0 0

Street-Sellers of Whips, &c.

Averaging that 30 whip-sellers take 25s. each weekly (with profits of from 5s. to 10s.) in London alone, we find that the yearly sum expended in the streets in whips amounts to 1,950 0 0

Street-Sellers of Pipes (Tobacco).

If we calculate that 4 persons sell pipes daily the year through, taking each 25s. (and clearing 10s.), we find the yearly sum expended upon the hawkers’ pipes amounts to 260 0 0

Street-Sellers of Snuff-Boxes, Tobacco-Boxes, &c.

Reckoning that 15 persons trading on snuff and tobacco and cigar-boxes take 18s. weekly (clearing 7s. or 8s.), we find the sum thus expended annually amounts to 702 0 0

Street-Sellers of Cigars.

Reckoning the number of vendors of cigars at 100, and the average takings of each to be 20s. weekly, we have a yearly outlay of 5,200 0 0

Street-Sellers of Sponge.

Calculating, then, that only 50 persons (and so allowing for irregularities in the trade) vend sponge daily, and that each takes 15s. weekly,--some taking 25s., and others but 5s.--with about half profit on the whole (the common sponge is often from 200 to 300 per cent. profit), we find the outlay to be 1,950 0 0

Street-Sellers of Wash-Leather.

There are, I am assured, 100 individuals selling little or nothing else but wash-leather in London (for these traders are found in all the suburbs), and that they respectively take 10s. weekly, with a profit of from 4s. to 5s. There are, also, 100 other persons selling them occasionally, along with other goods, and as they vend the higher-priced articles, they probably receive nearly an equal amount. Hence it would appear that there is annually expended in the streets in this purchase, upwards of 5,000 0 0

Street-Sellers of Spectacles and Eye-glasses.

It may be estimated, I am assured that there are 35 men who vend these articles daily, taking 15s. a week (with a profit of 10s.), the yearly expenditure being thus 1,365 0 0

Street-Sellers of Dolls.

There are, at least, at this time of year, when the fairs are coming on, 50 doll-hawkers, who vend nothing else. Say that each of these sell one dozen dolls per day, and that their average price is 4d. each; that is just 10l. a day, and 60l. per week. In the winter time so many are not sold; but I have no doubt that 50l.’s worth of dolls are sold each week throughout the year by London hawkers alone, hence the annual outlay on street-dolls would be close upon 3,000 0 0

Street Lot-sellers.

It may be estimated that 50 men carry on this trade. Each of these may take 13s. weekly (with a profit of 7s. 6d.), so showing the annual street outlay to be 1,690 0 0

Street-Sellers of Roulette Tables.

Calculating the 2 sellers of Roulette tables take 30s. each weekly, we find the annual outlay amounts to 156 0 0

Street-Sellers of Rhubarb.

Reckoning 4 street-sellers of rhubarb and spice each taking 18s. weekly, we find the sum annually spent in the sale of these articles to be upwards of 187 0 0

Rat-Catchers.

There are, I am told, 100 rat-catchers resorting, at intervals, to London, but only a fourth of that number can be estimated as carrying on their labours regularly in town; their average earnings, I am assured, do not exceed 15s. a week; thus there is a yearly expenditure of 975 0 0

Street-Sellers of Combs.

From the best information I have gained, there are 50 persons who sell nothing but combs, the average takings of each are 9s. a week, showing the yearly outlay in the streets on these articles to be 1,170 0 0

Street-Sellers of Money-Bags.

There are at present 50 persons consisting of men, women, and children vending money-bags in the streets of London, each taking on an average 1s. 6d. daily, or 9s. per week, and so giving a yearly expenditure of 1,170 0 0

Street-Sellers of Coat-Studs.

There are, I am informed, no less than 70 persons, consisting of men, women, and children. These, I am told, take upon an average 15s. a week each, their usual profits being cent. per cent.; thus we find a yearly outlay on studs bought in the streets of 2,730 0 0 --------------------- Total amount of income £188,189 0 0

ERRATA.

PAGE 5, line 45, second column, for 9,350 read 8,850. 6, line 39, first column, for 34,209 read 28,506. line 43, for between thirty and forty thousand read between twenty-five and thirty thousand. 11, number of markets Surrey side, for 664 read 764. number of markets Middlesex side, for 3,137 read 3,147. first line, second column, for 3801 read 3,911, and for 102 read 105. 26, line 50, first column, for 75l. read 67l. 10s.; line 53, for 525l. read 405l.; line 57, for 6,300l. read 4,860l. 30, line 25, for 2l. each read 2l. 56, line 27, for 24,135l. read 23,775l. line 28, for upwards read very nearly. line 50, for 14,000l. read 9,750l. line 54, for 6,500l. read 130l. line 58, for 22,550l. read 17,400l. line 36, second column, for between 1,250,000l. and 1,500,000l. read 1,040,000l. 63, line 13, for 5,040,000 lbs. read 4,940,000 lbs. line 27, for 147,000,000 read 49,750,000. line 36, for 24,300 read 22,067. line 38, for 32,400 read 33,696. 69, line 38, for 263,281,000 read 263,261,000. 80, line 11, for 16,450 read 37,650. line 14, for 171,000 read 175,000. line 15, for 108,000 read 112,000. line 16, for 24,000 read 26,800. line 28, for 16,817,000 read 18,017,000. line 31, for 221,100 read 221,200. line 39, for 94,000 read 104,400. line 41, for 32,900 read 37,900. 95, line 37, first column, for 6,270 read 6,240. line 43, first column, for 1,960 read 1,950. line 48, first column, for 15,300 read 15,200. line 16, second column, for 333,420 read 332,400. 96, line 3, first column, for 333,420 read 332,400. line 5, first column, for 292,000 read 292,240. line 6, first column, for 626,420 read 625,640. line 6, second column, for 2,087,270 read 2,086,490. 122, table, middle column, line 12, for 524,000 read 525,000. table, middle column, line 21, for 524,000 read 525,000. table, middle column, line 22, for 1,464,000 read 1,465,000. 130, line 4, second column, for 160 read 166. 139, line 12, second column, for 123,360 read 129,360. 142, line 46, second column, for 575 read 525. 144, line 7, first column, for 150,000 read 150,768. line 33, first column, for 50 read 60. last line, first column, for 2,867l. read 2,877l. line 9, second column, for 1,183l. read 1,883l. line 11, second column, for 2,774l. read 2,474l. line 32, second column, for 210 read 160. line 33, second column, for 1,667l. read 1,617l. 158, line 17, second column, for 13,949l. read 13,950l. line 20, second column, for 520 read 572. line 21, second column, for 28,504 read 28,557. 163, line 4, second column, for 19,448 read 21,910. line 24, second column, for 12,102 read 14,586. 171, line 13, second column, for 3,031l. 11s. read 3,033l. 6s. 8d. 195, line 39, first column, for 1,452l. read 780l. 197, line 13, first column, for 3,000l. read 1,040l. 203, line 12, first column, for 300 read 100. 218, line 61, first column, for because read although. line 63, first column, for no read an utter want of. line 51, second column, for flummut read flummuxed. 325, line 48, second column, for 780l. read 3,900l. 329, line 43, second column, for 3,500 read 13,500. line 45, second column, for 700 read 2,700. line 46, second column, for 25,000 read 20,700. line 47, second column, for 250 read 207. 340, line 57, second column, for vicapicated read incapacitated. 347, line 41, second column, for 23,410 read 23,400. 370, line 15, second column, for store read stone. 377, In the table of Hawkers and Pedlars for England, Wales, and Scotland, the Total for Wales is placed below the Islands in the British Seas, but should stand above it. 388, line 43, first column, for 2,600 read 2,730. 392, last line, second column, for 384,400 read 1,872,000. 393, line 2, first column, for 3,120 read 3,900. line 5, first column, for 4,680 read 3,900. 427, line 9, first column, for 1,250 read 1,300. 440, line 9, first column, for 2,340 read 1,950. 441, line 55, first column, for 692 read 702. 443, line 39, second column, for 1,850 read 1,950. 449, line 58, first column, for 1,190 read 1,690.

INDEX.

Arts (fine), street-sellers of, 301; capital and income of, 306

Art (street), 301

Author and poet (street), experience of, 279

Ballad minstrelsy in the streets, ancient and modern, 273

Ballads (street) on a subject, 275

Back numbers, street sale of, 289

Beggar street-sellers, 363

Beggar street-seller, statement of a, 414

Beetle wafers, street-sellers of, 435

Billingsgate, description of, 64

Billingsgate market, quantity and weight of fish sold in, 63

Blacking and black-lead, street-sellers of, 425

Blind street-seller of boot-laces, 395

Blind female street-seller of small wares, 393

Blind street seller of tailors’ needles, 340

Blind boot-lace seller, life of, 405