to population, one-eighth; as to pauperism,
one-twelfth.

London has 10,500 distinct streets, squares, circuses, crescents,
terraces, villas, rows, buildings, places, lanes, courts, alleys, mews,
yards, rents. The paved streets of London, according to a return
published in 1856, number over 5000, and exceed 2000 miles in length; the
cost of this paved roading was 14 millions, and the repairs cost
1,800,000 pounds per annum. The Post Office employs 3200 officials in
London alone. London contains 1900 miles of gas pipes, with a capital of
nearly 4,000,000 pounds spent in the preparation of gas. The cost of
gas-lighting is half a million. It has 360,000 lights; and 13,000,000
cubic feet of gas are burnt every night. Last year along these streets
the enormous quantity of upwards of 80 millions of gallons of water
rushed for the supply of the inhabitants, being nearly double what it was
in 1845. Mr Mayhew says, if the entire people of the capital were to be
drawn up in marching order, two and two, the length of the great army of
Londoners would be no less than 670 miles, and supposing them to move at
the rate of three miles an hour, it would require more than nine days and
nights for the average population to pass by. To accommodate this crowd,
125,000 vehicles pass through the thoroughfares in the course of 12
hours; 3000 cabs, 10,000 private and job carriages and carts, ply daily
in the streets; at the present time there are upwards of 800 omnibuses
running along various routes in the metropolis, and of this number 595
are the property of a single and mostly foreign proprietary, the London
General Omnibus Company. 600 omnibuses, with horses and harness and
goodwill, were purchased by the company for a sum of 400,000 pounds, or
for very nearly 700 pounds for each vehicle. The 595 omnibuses of the
company ran in London, in the week ending 31st of October, 1857, not less
than 222,779 miles, or nearly ten times the circumference of the globe,
and they carried not less than 920,000 passengers. Assuming that the
remaining one-fourth of the London omnibuses, not belonging to the
company, carried an equal proportion, we shall have, as the travelling
portion of the population of London, 1,115,000 persons. 3000 conveyances
enter the metropolis daily from the surrounding country. In the year
1856 the total revenue derived from the duty on omnibuses within the area
of the great metropolis amounted to 74,270 pounds against