FACTS ABODT LONDON.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 38, 23 February 1884, Page 7

FACTS ABODT LONDON.

The following 1 i» taken from a circular issued by the Society for Providing ileligious Services in Theatres, Misson liooms, &c , in London :: — u Behold now this vast city : A city of refuge, tho mansion- house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with His (God's) protection." — When Milton wrote this passage the population of London by the best estimate was much less than half a million ; and the two metropolitan comities of Middlesex and Surrey, with a population of 387,000 in 1000, and 803,000 in 1700, wcr« then inhabited by not more than 650,000 people. It is tho greatest city the world ever saw. Population of Paris, 1,088,806 ; Vienna, 737,285 ; Berlin, 1,0-19,171 ; New York, 1,097,503 ; Home. 286,920 ; Bombay, 044,405. (Uegistrar-General) The population of ancient Rome is said to have been 1,020,000, and of Nineveh, 800,000 to 900,000. It has an influence with all parts of the world, represented by the yearly delivery in its postal districts of 295, 803,300 letters. It covers within the fifteen miles radius of Charing Cioss nearly 700 squares miles. It numbers within these boundaries 4,534,000 of inhabitants. , Of this vast multitude upwaids of half a million belong to the " industrial class," and nearly a quarter of V million are " domestic servants." ' • it contains more country-born persons than, the counties of Devon and Gloucester combined, or 3/ per cent of its population. It has a rateable annual -value of property of" £24,50J,410 ; has on an average four tires every day among its 500.000 houses j has a birtn in it every four minutes ; has .a 4eath in it eyeiT

six minutes *, has 23 J pjrscms every day,, stud 84,000 jwinttally, added to its population within the circle named ; has nine ai-euiunts eveiy day in i.ri 7\JuO milod of street? ; has 71 miles of new streets opened, and 21,589 now Louses uuilt in :t every year ; has a vast not-work of upwards of 21d4 miles of piping; for its drainage, sewers, &c ; h;is 2v>oo miles of piping for its gas snpply of 55,000 lamps, <&c. ; Ims 1000 snips and 9000 sailors in its port every day ; has 1 0,0 )0 Hindoos, Chinese, 'Africans, and other natives of the East annually entering its docks ; has 89 975 persons annually taken into custody by its police ; lias more than oue-tliird of all the crime in the country committed in it ; has 25,000 persons living in its common lodginghouses ; has 43,286 persons annually I committed for drunkeness and disorderly conduct by its magistrates, representing more than one-half of the crime of the metropolis. It consumes on an average every day 129,000,000 gallons of water ; it consumes on an average, through timithticld Market alone, 4,867,1G21bs of meat, poultry, and provisions — probably onehalf of the entire consumption ; it conj Humes on an average every year through Billingsgate Market alone, upwards of 100,000 tons of fish. It is further estimated that it comprises 100,000 foreigners from every quarter of the globe ; it contains more itomau Catholics than Borne itself, and more Jews than the whole of Palestine ; the Jewish Chronicle estimates the number of Jews in London as 30,854 ; the total number in Palestine is estimated to be 12,000. It contains more Irish than Belfast ; the census returns give 91,171 only as born in Ireland ; the population of Belfast is 174,412 ; but the London born poor Irish retain their national characteristics for several generations ; according to Cardinal Manning's secretary the number is over 200,000. ti, contains more Scotchmen than Aberdeen ; the census returns give 41,029 only as born in Scotland ; the population of Aberdeen is 88,125 ; the remark ;is to the Irish, however, applies, though in a less degree. It contains more Welshmen than Cardiff ; the census returns give 22,202 only as born in Wales ; the population of Cardiff is 39,530 j the same remark applies. It has as many beer-shops and gin j palaces, the frontages of which would, if placed bide by side, stretch from Charing Cross to Chichester, a distance of 02 miles ; estimate for total number, 14 000, with an average frontage of only ten yards. It has as many paupers as would more than occupy every house in Brighton ; it has upwards of a million of habitual neglectors of public worship ; it has GO miles of open shops every Lord's day. It has need of 1000 chapels and churches.