STATISTICS OF LONDON.
The following statistics of London may interest some of our readers. They are extracts from papers of the London City Mission :
London covers, within the fifteen miles radius of Charing Cross, nearly 700 miles. It numbers, within these boundaries, 4.000.000 inhabitants.
'it comprises 100,000 foreigners, from every quarter of the globe. It contains more Roman Catholics than Borne itself, more Jews than the whole of Palestine, more Irish than Dublin, more Scotchmen than Edinburgh, more Welshmen than Cardiff, and more country bom persons than the counties of Devon, AVarwickshire, and Durham combined. It has a birth in it every five minutes, a death in it every eight minutes, and seven accidents every day in its 7,000 miles of streets.
It has on an average twenty-eight miles of new streets opened and 10,000 new houses built in it every year. It lias 1,000 ships and 9,000 sailors in its port ever}* day. It has 'as many beershops and gin palaces as would, if placed side by side, stretch from Charing Cross to Portsmouth, a distance of seventy-three miles. It has as many paupers as would more than occupy every house in Brighton. It has an influence with all parts of the world, represented by the yearly delivery in its postal districts of 238,000,000 letters.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 98, 14 August 1876, Page 2
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