THE GREATEST CITY IN THE WORLD.

Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 10, 11 July 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE GREATEST CITY IN THE WORLD.

London is the greatest pity, the 'world pver saw. It covers within the 15 miles' .radius of Charing, dross 700 sqiiare miles, It^umbjßrs \v;ithinr thepe b^indafles.s,'ooo,ooo of inhabit tauts. 1c comprises> ovei\ -2,000,00.0 foreigners from every, quarter- of the, globe. It contains more Roman Catholics than; E^ome itself,; more Jews than the whole of Palestine ; more .Irish ' > than Dublin ; more Fcotchmen than Edinburgh ; more Welshmen than~Oardiff-j- more- coun-try-raised persons. than the/counties of Devon, Warwickshire and Durham combined. Has a birth iij, i,£ every five minutes, j ,has a death in it every eight minutes ; ■ has seven accidents, every day; in its 8000 , miles, ,, of street ; t has ou 'an . average .40 miles of streets opened and 15,000 new houses built in every year. • . In 18?3 there were added. j22, 110 new houses to the vaat aggregate ,of dwellings which is called the metropolis, thus forming 1 368 new streets and one new Square, coveriug a distance of 66 niiitra aud 84 yards. It is difficult to form any mental picture fft>m these figures. Brighton 1 , the queen of watering-places, in 1881 had 20;379 iuhabited houses, so that London in 1883 added to itself a town bigger than Brighton. It would require two Cambridges, or Oxfords, or Baths, to represent the additions made to London in a- single year. • London has 46,000 persons annually added, by birth, to -its population ] has Over 1000 ships and 10,000 sailors' in its port every day ; has as many beer shops and gin palaces as would, if plac.ed side- by side,' stretch from Charing Cross to Portsmouth, a distance of 78 miles; has 38,000 drunkards annually brought before itsmagistates; has 70 miles of open shops every Sunday; has influence with all parts of the, world represented by a yearly delivery iv its postal districts ef 298,000,000 of letters. Twelvo hundred trains pass Olapham Junction every day, and the underground railway runs 121 1 trains every day. The Lond'jp omnibus com-

punies havo 1020 'buses, which carry i 56,000,000 passengers annually. Ib is more dangerous to walk the streets of London than to travel by railroad or to cross the Atlantic. Last year 130 persons were killed and 2000 injured by vehicles in the streets. Thero are in London nearly 14,000 police, 14,000 cabmen, 15,000 persons connected with the post office. The cost of gas for lighting London annually itf £600,000. London has 400 daily and weekly newspapers. Last year there were 2300 fires. The ancient and famous City of London was 6rst founded by Brute; the Tvojan, in the year of the world 2832, so that since the first building it is 3006 years o'd. The drainage system of London is superb, and the death rate very low.