London.

Cromwell Argus, Volume VI, Issue 298, 28 July 1875, Page 7

London.

The Le'wire flour .says:—The metropolis of the British Empire, the l:i<-gest city 'the world ever siw, covers,, within fift-en miles radius of Charing Cross, nearly sev>n hundred square miles, and numbers within these boundaries four millions of inhabi bants. It comprises a hundred thousand foreigners from every region of the globe. Tb/' port of London has every day on its waters a thousand ships and nine thousand sailors. Upwards of a hundred and twenty persons are added to the population daily, or forty thousand yearly, a birth taking place every five minutes, and a death every eight minutes. On an average, twenty-eight miles of ptrects are opened arid nine thousand new houses built every year. In its postal districts there is a yearly delivery of 238,000,000 of letters. On the police register there are the names of a hundred and twenty thousand habitual" criminals, increasing by many thousand every year. More than onethird of all the crime of the country is committed in London, or at least brought to light there. There are as many beer-shops and gin-palaces as would, if their fronts were placed side by side, reach from Charing Cross to Portsmouth, a distance of seventy-three miles, and thirty-eight thousand drunkards are annually brought before its magistrates. The shops open on Sunlays would form streets sixty miles long. It is estimated that there are above a million of the people who are practically heathen, wholly neglecting the ordinances of religion. At least nine hundred additional churches and chapela would be required for the wants of the people.