n their number as
530. Then there are 100 temperance meetings held weekly. May we not
hope that all these institutions have some effect, that by means of them
some are reclaimed, and many saved?

The more direct religious agency may be estimated as follows. In the
Handbook to Places of Worship, published by Low, in 1851, there is a list
of 371 churches and chapels in connexion with the Establishment; the
number of church sittings, according to Mr Mann, is 409,184; the
Independents have about 140 places of worship and 100,436 sittings; the
Baptists, 130 chapels, and accommodation for 54,234; the Methodists, 154
chapels, 60,696; the Presbyterians, 23 chapels and 18,211 sittings; the
Unitarians, 9 chapels and about 3300 sittings; the Roman Catholics, 35
chapels and 35,994 sittings; 4 Quaker chapels, with sittings for 3151;
the Moravians have two chapels, with 1100 sittings; the Jews have 11
synagogues and 3692 sittings. There are 94 chapels belonging to the New
Church, the Plymouth Brethren, the Irvingites, the Latter-Day Saints,
Sandemanians, Lutherans, French Protestants, Greeks, Germans, Italians,
which chapels have sittings for 18,833. We thus get 691,723 attendants
on divine exercises.

Those who know London life will know that I have not glanced at its
darkest side: any man of the world will tell you infamies which I may not
name here. I do not go so far as Mr Patmore, and affirm that in the
higher ranks of life a young man is obliged to keep a mistress to avoid
being laughed at; but I can conceive of no city more sunk in
licentiousness and rascality than ours. Paris, Hamburgh, Vienna, may be
as bad, but they cannot be worse. The poor are looked after by the
police--visited by the city missionary; their wants and woes are worked
up into newspaper articles, and they live as it were in houses of glass.
It is true that one half the world does not know how the other half
lives; but it is not true in the sense in which it is generally affirmed.
Who ever has an idea that a pious baronet, taking the chair at a
religious meeting in Exeter Hall, will prove a felon; that that house,
eminent in the mercantile and philanthropic world, will sanction the
circulation of forged Dock warrants; that that manager, about to engage
in prayer at a meeting of directors, will turn out to be the manager of
the greatest swindle of modern times? Who sees a dishonoured suicide in
the patriotic Sadleir, or in the philanthropic Redpath