The last annual report of the RegistrarGeneral tells us plainly, and without reserve, that London is growing greater every day; and what within its present bounds, extending over 122 square miles of territory, the population amounted last year by computation, to 3,037,991 souls. In its midst, is the ancient City of London, inhabited at night hy 100,000 people; while around it, as far as radius of fifteen miles stretches from Charing- cross, an ever-thickening ring of people extends within the area over which the metropolitan police watches, making tho whole number on an area of 687 square miles round St. Paul's and Westminster Abbey 3,521,267 souls. Three millions and a half of souls ! Why, it is more than the population of half-a-dozen German principalties ; more than half that of the kingdom of Ireland ; and equal to that of all Scotland put together.—- Once a Week.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 16, 20 January 1868, Page 2
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