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Once more the inhabitants of London are suffering from the inconvenience, that a darkened atmosphere naturally causes. This darkened atmosphere usually commences towards the end of October, and continues off and on sometimes to the end of February--that is, for a period of some sixteen weeks we partially and at times wholly deprive ourselves of the full benefit of the sun's rays, and live in a state of artificial darkness; and when we consider how very little daylight there is during the winter months (even under the best of conditions), it is surely very foolish to reduce the daylight, and create darkness in place of the daylight.

Is anything being done to remedy this state of affairs?