It is curious to examine the statistics in
detail of such a vast metropolis. Every
year there are eight thousand children borri
in London, according to the Edinburg Re
view, a competent authority. Yet the ma
jority of the adult people, in spite of this, is
country born, there having been at the last
census, out of one million three hundred
and ninety-five persons, twenty years old
and hipward*,only'six hundred and forty-five
thousand born in London. Every sixteen
th person of full age is a native of Ireland,
i'here is always a permanent stock on hand
so to speak, of three hun Ired thousand
’.Marriageable but unmarried women. There
are six hundred thousand scholars,six thou
sand schools, twelve hundred places of wor
ship, and a million churchgoing people.—
Fifty thousand persons are always resident
in poor-houses, prisons, and other institu
tions, where they arc fed out of public or
private resources. Twenty thousand indi
viduals are engaged constantly in killing
and selling animal food, thirty thousand in
making and vending beverages,and twenty
five thousand in doctoring, preaching, and
managing lawsuits. To complete the c«tt
lalogue, there are thirty thousand
[two hundred thousand domestic servants,
i thirty thousand tailors, forty thousand
chair makers, and one hundred, thousand
needle women.
In Horace Mayhew’s work,and in others
of similar character,may be found statistic!,
as to bow this enormous population is fed.
