es's, Lyceum,
Astley's, Her Majesty's, Drury Lane, Grecian Saloon, Albert, Britannia,
Bower, Earl of Effingham. Literary Institutions shut up. The Great
Globe itself is a doubtful property. That beautiful building, the
Panopticon in Leicester-square, was a failure, and the Adelaide Gallery
has long been closed. An attempt was made to form an educational
association in Charing Cross, where, by means of a library and cheap
lectures, the popular mind could be improved and instructed and amused,
but the attempt did not succeed; dancing, drinking, theatrical
representations,--most of them adaptations from the French,--music, are
the only pleasures which a London population cared for. Even as in the
old Hebrew days, Wisdom lifts up her voice in our streets, and no man
regards her testimony.

And now to guard all this wealth, to preserve all this mass of industry
honest, and to keep down all this crime, what have we? 5847 police,
costing 434,081 pounds, 13 police courts, costing 67,006 pounds, and
about a dozen criminal prisons; 69 union relieving officers, 316 officers
of local boards, and 1256 other local officers. We have 35 weekly
magazines, 9 daily newspapers, 5 evening, 72 weekly ones. Independently
of the mechanics' institutions, colleges, and endowed schools, we have
14,000 children of both sexes clothed and educated gratis, and the
National and British and Foreign Schools in all parts of London, and
Sunday schools. We have Bartholomew's Hospital, relieving, in 1856,
in-patients 5933, out-patients 78,443; Guy's Hospital; St Thomas's, with
4531 in-patients, outpatients, 34,281; St George's; the Middlesex, last
year relieving 2268 in-patients, and 16,844 out-patients; the London, the
King's College, the University College, and many more. In the Cancer
Hospital last year 2500 patients were treated: then there are Bedlam, the
Foundling Hospital, the Philanthropic Institution, the Magdalen. In the
report of the Statistical Society of London it is stated that 14 general
hospitals in London possess an income from realised property to the
amount of 109,687 pounds; annual subscriptions, 17,091 pounds; donations,
16,636 pounds; legacies, 10,206 pounds; and their miscellaneous sources
of income to 1996 pounds. The total income of all these hospitals from
every source is 155,616 pounds; and the annual contributions of the
public amount to 45,929 pounds. In addition to the above hospitals there
are in this metropolis 3