I am Thomas Jones, a native of London, and the son of Thomas Jones, who was long employed as a clerk in the eastern counties’ department of the Southern Railway. I was born in February, 1830, and consequently am now thirty-seven years of age. I was educated at a little school in the Gray’s Inn Road, and passed through a course of practical training in a merchant’s office in Cheapside. I have spent a portion of my life at sea, as a surgeon on board a Chinese junk, and I have lived for a short time in Sydney, as a free settler of New South Wales. I am now residing in London, and purpose remaining in this part of the world, if I can find employment. I am unmarried, and think of living and dying
