he produce conveyed into and from London. The gross rental as
assessed by the property and income tax is 12.5 millions. The gross
property insured is 166,000,000 pounds, and only two-fifths of the houses
are insured. The amount of capital at the command of the entire London
bankers may be estimated at 64 millions; the insurance companies have
always 10 millions of deposits ready for investment. 78 millions are
employed in discounts. In 1841 the transactions of one London house
amounted to 30 millions. In 1840 the payments made in the clearing house
were 974,580,600 pounds,--an enormous sum, which will appear still
greater when we remember all sums under 100 pounds are omitted from this
statement. All this business cannot be carried on without a considerable
amount of eating and drinking. The population consumes annually 277,000
bullocks, 30,000 calves, 1,480,000 sheep, 34,000 pigs, 1,600,000 quarters
of wheat, 310,464,000 pounds of potatoes, 89,672,000 cabbages. Of fish
the returns are almost incredible. Besides, it eats 2,742,000 fowls,
1,281,000 game. Exclusive of those brought from the different parts of
the united kingdom, from 70 to 75 millions of eggs are annually imported
into London from France and other countries. About 13,000 cows are kept
in the city and its environs for the supply of milk and cream; and if we
add to their value that of the cheese, and butter, and milk, brought from
the country into the city, the expenditure on dairy produce must be
enormous. Then London consumes 65,000 pipes of wine, 2,000,000 gallons
of spirits, 43,200,000 gallons of porter and ale, and burns 3,000,000
tons of coal; and I have seen it estimated that one-fourth of the
commerce of the nation is carried on in its port. On Boxing Night it was
estimated that 60,000 persons visited the various theatres and places of
amusement in London. In 1856, 361,714 persons visited the British
Museum; 161,764, Hampton Court; 344,140 went to Kew Gardens. The total
number of bathers in the Serpentine were 20,000 persons. On the last
Derby, the South Western Company alone conveyed 37,700 passengers. In
London in 1853, according to Sir R. Mayne, there were 3613 beer shops,
5279 public houses, 13 wine rooms. The theatres and saloons licensed by
the Lord Chamberlain are, the Haymarket Theatre, Adelphi, Olympic,
Princess's, Strand, Surrey, Queen's, Soho, City of London, Marylebone,
Standard, Pavilion, Victoria, Sadler's Wells, St Jam