What London Is.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 272, 14 October 1884, Page 4

What London Is.

Tlie followiuir skt'ioh, issued liy the London City Mission will be read with interest : — " London is the greatest city the world ever saw. Babylon, Thebes, Rome, wero never so: popnl'ons ; while -the largest cicy m India at the present-, time contains less: .thfjn 1,000,000 inhabitants. Within the borders of its metropolitan and police itistuct-s. it is computed that, thero are at the present time I more than four and a -half millions of [ souls; London is four times more popnlous than Washington seven times more populous than St. Peters-, burg, nearly two and a-half times ninro populous, than Pariw, more than four,, times as- popu lous. as J3er lin, nearly five times as populous as the great city ot Pekiu v AIJL Scotland dfies .npt^equal it in-ijhe number of its people/ aiid the inhabitants' bf liiriv. Liverpools or forty Brightens would find accomodatioh within its boundavies. Every, five minutest a soul goes out of London to account before the Great Judge ; and every three minutes a new immortnl enters upon this scene of fts probation. The extent of . its^terntoiy: is never the^tine froBQ year to year. Measijriug .within the 15 miles radius of this mission's operations,, nearly 700 sqmre miles, every year new suburb*, a riso comprising m :ill some' 21,000 new houses, and 90,000 additional inhabitants, or 246' pfei'sons every day. It is at once the court, the seat of Goveriitrieht, tlie centre ! 'df' fashion^'ilie home of all the* "charities, and the general rendezvous of all thoWi'niinal and desperate classes of the kingdom. One hundred thousand winter trampsj 40,000 costers, and almost us many ptiupevs' m our unions; tnbr€>' Jews tlian are to be found m all Palestine, as many Koman Catholics as 1 are to be found m Rome itself, with a ciiininal class that would people several of our ! Parliamentary boroughs, await the zeal of many a hew apostle."