M Introduction. Y first knowledge of the neighbourhood of Chequer Alley was nearly thirty years ago, when a student at Hoxton. Not a few of my fellow-students, who then on Sunday mornings faced the rough groups in Whitecross Street, have passed to "that city so holy and clean," where the contrast of place and inhabitants will not diminish the beauty of their position when they stood amid those depraved and ill-clad gatherings. Subsequently, when in the City Road Circuit, it was my pleasure to watch some of Miss Macarthy's early labours. Already, she had been enabled to find an entrance into the Alley, open a Room, and gather a congregation for the Local Preachers, who gladly went to preach to them. In what strange circumstances, with what exceptional incidents, and under what |