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New Zealand Mail, Issue 28, 5 August 1871, Page 8

A Whale.— Last week a young whale was ■washed ashore at Raglan, which has proved a prize for the natives who first discovered it, and they are busy extracting the oil. Population oe London. -Iu London, every eight minutes, night and day, somebody dies, and every five minutes a child is born. This great city contains a 3 many people as the whole of Scotland, twice as many as Denmark, three times as many as Greece, and four hundred times as many asGeorgetown, D.C. In its vast population of nearly 4,000,000, it has 140,000 habitual gin-drinkers, 100,000 abandoned women, 10,000 professional gamblers, 50,000 criminals known to police as thieves and receivers of stolen goods, 500,000 habitual frequenters of public houses, and 60,000 street Arabs. To keep this vast multitude of disorderly characters in something like obedience to the law, 6,000 policemen are necessary. Of the population of the city, only about 500,000 attend public worship, there being a million of adult absentees from church every Sunday.