FACTS ABOUT LONDON.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1811, 14 February 1884, Page 4

FACTS ABOUT LONDON.

The following is taken from a circular issued liy the society for Pioviding Eelisrious Hen ices in Theatres, Mission Rooms, £c ,in London :- — *• Kfiiold now this \.vfct eii.y : A city, of refuge, the Diansion-lioU'O of libeity, encompassed and surrounded with His (Go'!'.-) protection." — When Milton wrotj tliis passage the population of London by the best estimate wis much less than half a million ; ami the tuo metiopolitan conntics of Middlesex and Surrey, with a population of 357.000 in 1000, and 8:i3,000 in 1700, were then inhabited by not nioi c than 630,000 people. It is the tjieatest city the world ever saw. Population of Paris, 1 ,888,806 ; Vienna, 737.353 ; Berlin. 1,049,171 ; New York, 1,097,-364; Rome 286,926; Bombay, 644,403. (Register-General.) The population of ancient Rome is said to have been 1,000,000, and of Nineveh, 800,000 to 900,000. It lias an influence uith all parts of the world, represented by the yeaily delivery in its postal districts of 295,803,300 letteis. It covers within tlie fifteen miles' radius of thai ing Cross nearly 700 square miles. It numbers within these boundaries 4,334,000 inhabitants. Of this vast multitude upuaulsof half a million belong to the " industual class," and nearly a quarter of a million are " domestic servants." It contains more country-born persons than the countries of Devon and Gloucester combined, or 37 per cent of its population. It has a rateable annual value of property of £2t,501,410 ; has on an average four fires a day among its 500,000 hoiues ; has a birth in London every four minutes ; has a death in it every mx minutes ; ha" 230 persons e\ery day, and 84,000 annually, added to its population within the ciicle named ; has nine accidents eveiy day in its 7000 miles of streets ; has 71 miles of new stieets opened and 21,539 new houses built in iteseiy yoat ; has a vast net- work of upwaids of 2. 184 miles of piping for its diainage, scueib, &c. ; has 2,000 miles of piping foi its pas supply of 55,000 lamps, &c ; has 1,000 slnp-j and 9,000 sailois in its poit every day ; has 10,000 Hindoos. Chinese, Afi icans, and othei nati\ed of the Risfc annually entering its docks ; has 89,975 poisons annually taken into custody by its. police ; has more than one third of a'l the crime in the country committed in it ; has 23,000 peisons living m its common lodginghouses ; has 43,280 peisons annually committed tor driinkcness and disouleily conduct by its magistiates, lepicscntiug moie than one halt of the crime of the metropolis. It consumes on an average e\eiy day 129,000,000 gals, ot water; it consumes on an aveiago, thiough Striithfield Market alone, 4,867,102 lbs. of meat, poulciy. and pro\ imous — piobably onehalf of the entire consumption ; it consumes ou an nvcMge e\eiy year through uillinssgatp M.nket alone, up wauls of 100,000 fcomof Hsh. It is fuither estimated that io comprises, 100,000 from every quarter of the globe ; it contains mote tfonrun Catholics than Rome itself, and more Jews than the whole ot Palestine ; the Jewish Chronicle estimates the number of Jews in London as 36,171 only as born in lieland ; the total number in Palestine is estimated to be 12,000 It contains more liish than Belfast; the census returns give 91,171 only as bom in Ireland ; the population of Belfast is 174,412 ; but the London bom poor liish letaiu then national cbaiactei istics for seveial gcnciatioiis ; aueouling to Caidinal Manning's seen tary the number is over 200,000 It contains nioie Scotchmen than Abeideen ; the census returns give 41,029 only as born in Seoti unl ; the popu latiou of Abeideen iiSS, 123; the same lcmaik as to the Irish, however, applies, though in a lessdcgiee. It contains more Welshmen than Cauliff; the census lelu i.s give 22,262 0n1y as bom in Wales ; the population ot Cat did is 39,436; the same lomaik applies. It has as mmy boor-shops and gin palates, the fi outages of which would, if placed bide bv stietth from Chaiing Ckss to Chtchcstu, a distance of 62 miles ; estimate for total number, 14,000, with an aveiage ftontage of only ten yards. It has as many paupers as would more than occupy e\eiy house in Brighton ;it has upuauls of a million of habitual neglectois oi public Worship ; it has 00 miles of open shops every Loid's day. It has need of 1000 chapels and chinches,

Thk purposes to winch ifc is proposed to devote the Tasmanian loan aie stated by the Mini->tei ot Lands to be as follow ■> : — Knilways, €710,000; railway surveys, £300 ; maul loads, £27,000 ; main budges, £12,200 ; biatich roads, £j5,420 ; branch bud lies, £4700 ; jetties, £2800 ; telegraphs. £40G0 ; tracks, £1000 ; bm'riings, £59,100; miscellaneous, -C 430 0; making n> all. £S92,SSO. Tuhu: aic about 1600 persons employed in gold mining in Tasmania, who in 18S2 pioducvd 49, 122 o/, of gold, of the value of £187 338. The dividends paid by gold and tin minim,' companies amounted to &241,91-") — a falling ofF as compaied with ISSI of £20,159. The decrease is accounted for, however, not so much by smaller yields— although there Mas a temporal y falling off -as by a decline in the pi ice of t-n. Hutu Gixuir, the lepresentative of German hi the commercial treaty negotiations, has made a fie.sh repoit to his Gavemmout, and now awaits instructions fiom Beilin befoic presenting it to the Pcite. It is understood that Geimany insists equally with England upon receiving the most-favoured nation tieatment. ANmvYouk giil has made 1.30,000 doK by a single oil transaction. A can of it exploded and kilted her rich uncle "1 say, Faddy, that is the \\ orst-looking horse that I h;i\e e» er seen in harness. Why don't you fatten him up?' Pat him up, is it? Fmx, the poor baste can scarcely carry the little mate that's on him now," 1 reqlied Paddy. As a marked and refreshing contrast to the prevailing icadmess to seek the shelter of the Banpuiptcy Coiut, a case of real Sason piincipli- and sturdy independance lias been brought under our (New Zealand Times) notice, and cannot be too widely bunted. In 1877 a young man of steady and industiions habits commenced business in Wellington, and — to make a long story shot t— came to gtief. Unlike the usual run of unfortunates, instead of rushing off to " file," he immediately cast about for a billet, and set to woik ro pay off his liabilities. A mony the amounts he has since ticked off as having paid 10s in the pound, are the following tiifles:— £Bo and £60 to his two pi in ci pal creditors, and another £100 made up of a number of small amounts ; and this has been done, too, out of the ordinary wages of a journeyman in about thiee years, and by a married man at that. Tiik completion of the defences of the eastern frontier of Prussia continues to be pushed forward with the utmost vigour. All contingencies are being provided for, and no details are neglected. Gunboat, are stationed on the Vistula, and moveable ironclad turrets, formidably armed, have been constructed at Thorn, the fortifications at which place surpass even those at Metz. At the Agricultural College in Canada the students defray their college expenses by farm work. They work five hours a day in summer and three and a half in winter, and are paid for every hour's work. One term in the summer is devoted entirely to farm work. An American doctor, of Cleveland, Ohio, lately made the experiment of administering chloroform to a sleeping little child, from whose hand it was necessary to extract several pieces of broken glass beforesewing up the wound. /Phis' plan answered so well that he ' thinks it is ' likely to become a popular way of chloro-jforming-emalLchildren, as by it* adoption