Its crime, unfortunately, is also in proportion to its extent.
Seventy-three thousand persons are annually taken into custody by the police, and more than one-third of all the crime in the country is committed within its borders.
Thirty-eight thousand persons are annually committed for drunkenness by its magistrates.
The metropolis comprises considerably over one hundred thousand foreigners from every part of the habitable globe.
It contains more Roman Catholics than Rome itself, more Jews than the whole of Palestine, more Irish than Belfast, more Scotchmen than Aberdeen, and more Welshmen than Cardiff.
Its beershops and gin-palaces are so numerous that their frontages, if placed side by side, would stretch from Charing-cross to Chichester, a distance of sixty-two miles.
If all the dwellings in London could thus have their frontages placed side by side they would extend beyond the city of York.
London has sufficient paupers to occupy every house in Brighton.
The society which advocates the cessation of Sunday labour will be surprised to learn that sixty miles of shops are open every Sunday.
With regard to churches and chapels, the Bishop of London, examined before the House of Lords in the year 1840, said:—