The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-25 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 25, 1851.

LONDON AND, ITS VI,BITORS.

With at.. Vera of arriving at somaing like a fair a.
thbat• of thOVIVIiIiOR of Leadon strata during the Vita
the Exhibitionloll remain.opes, theaseinahno Committee
seimmoniested some Mari ago with -the Commissiimar of
City Politer desiring to learn the .net trails of foot pas-
semen end vehicles under ordinary circumstances. It is
probable,lothiag to the loonmerahla sources from which
we may expect an influx of population after the let of May
sea, that at the height of the summer about one million
Others will have been added to the population of London,
se that where there axe oedipal', two inhabitanta there will
be three. The density of the daily throng in the great
avenues of the nestropolis will be by this means very sensibly
increased. Where ordinarily 1,000 pueengen pssa par hour.
1,600 will then pus ; and it may be reationehly amused
that the number of vehicles will increase in a ratio COMMIX'
sure,. with the demand for them. The scene which Pie-
esdilly, the Strand, Fleet-street, and Cheapside, well
probably present about one o'clock in the day sea
in this way be partly imagined. Whether, under the en
treadles:7 circumstances of the case, street rows will be
more frequent, accidents proportionably numerous, depreda-
tions proportionably plentiful, are undoubtedly questions
which must press upon the minds of the gentlemen who
hie. undertaken the conduct of affairs throughout the pro.
Irma of the great experiment which is at hand. There can
be little doubt, unfortunately, but that the intxperthoor of
foreigners will form a profitable ground for the exeicite of
much chicanery; that visitors will be lot ked upou by the
dishonest and the profligate as easy and gulden trey. They
will probably need to be guarded against fraud rather this,
against open violence. Bow this protection eau be afforded
is a question yet to be decided upon. We have already
stated that, at present, the police authorities have co iJca of
Isensing their disposable force any itar.tosr than matting
4heir pensionin into service. Whether, however, it .41
mot be necessary to add largely to the police in the rap' city
el guides, is a point worth particular attention. The fol.
befog documents, furnished by the City Police Commis-
skmer to the Executive Committee, are important as data
upon which all who are interested in promoting the comfort
of the throne of visitors invited to the indite:rail show may
base any plans they wish to put forward.
City Police Office, 26, Old Jewry.
Sir,—ln answer to the questions which eccompanied your
letter of the 3rd of August, and for the information of the
executive c omnivore to the Great Exhibition of the Works of
Industry of all Nations, 1 an instructed by the Commis
110111 r of the City of Loncen Police Force to state that
the subject referred to has bees irequtnily investigated at
this office, sod the result is, a far as the same can be ascer-
tained, that the number of vehicles which pass daily E„,w
Church, Chespeide, is not lees than 13,796, which contain
not fewer than 62,092 persons; and that within the same
period of time there are nut foyer then 07,610 loot cos-

senners•
Ot this number of carriages it may be considered that
the g number Ia one hour is about 1,103, and of
toot passengers in the same sixes of time about 6,750, giving
a total number Of persons who pass 8411 Church, Cheep.
side, in and with vehicles and ou toot about 119,602 per-
eons per day.
Our rei OTOS jostify the following statement so to Aldgate
by the Minorite :
The number of vehicles which per daily is 9,332, con-
taining not Jews? than 20,804 persons, and that during the
same period the timbre of loot paraengers is Gb,430. Ot
the carriages the greatest number in one hour may be
computed at 795, of loot passengers id the same period
400, the total number of person*, felon, who pass
through Alegate by the Minorite is 797.34 per cay.
There are periods when these numbers would be con-
siderably greater, and upon the caution to which doubtless
your inquiry is more immediately directed, the numbers
wag probably exceed all reasonable computation.
It may not be unacceptable to the executive committee
to be informed that from returns made at the inatmce of
the conimissiouer it would appear that en the month al
May the number of persons who enter the city daily on
loot and in carriages is little short of 400,000.
The number alt constables constantly patrolling Chespeide
le 'ix, the number that patrol the part of Aldgate referred
I to bye.

I am, Str, your obedient servant,
(B:guctl) F. W. SAUNDLIti, See,
W. Digby Wyatt, Esq., 1, Old Palace-yard, Wes.cathiter.
Report of the Nun ber of Vehicles which pseud lliw
Church, Cneapside, between the hours of 6 rap. on Thurs-
day, the h,h dal of August, Batt G p.m. cc Fu day, tee 9th
day of August, 1840 ; and the Number of Pers. as is sod
with the said vehicles. Arse the Number of Foot Pea-
meson who paned during the same time.

No. of Humble nal
Between the Number Panora to of 1 Number
hours at , sad with Foul ran- , of
"'l'm"'_ Vehicle. cower& 1 Persona.
p.m. and 7 p.m. 851 8,318 4,000 7,303
a 669 2,713 4,120 6,963
9 531 2 913 3,110 6,313
19 381 2,913 2,070 4,203
1 11 552 1,747 1,270 3,017
1 12 mid. 210 839 290 1,110
1 mid. awd 1 Ma. 136 376 410 796
amwad 2 111 118 160 213
3 39 53 79 122
4 as 55 GO 113
3 68 101 190 ',91
• 242 473 710 1,213
7 313 394 1,070 1,666
II 373 189 1,070 2,139
9 411 1,0,0 2,070 3,910
10 929 3,633 4.410 6,073
1 11 906 1,113 5,110 9 238
1 12 sum 1,032 4,133 3,780 9,835
1 soca sod 1 p.m. 1,091 1,906 5,751.) 9,734
p.m. laid 2 969 3,631 5.0110 MO'
3 019 3,737 4,770 8,307
4 1,070 4,036 4,930 9,016
8 1,103 4,032 4,600 8,881
6 931 3,351 4,000 7,631
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Total 13,796 32,093 67,310 119,601

port of the Numbed of Vehicles which passed in Aldgats,
opposite the church, between the Sums of 6 pm. on
Thursday, the 6th day of August, sod 6 p.m. on k'riclay,
the Bth day of August, MO; sod the Number of Pawns
in end with the said Vehicles. Also the Number or Foot
Passage's who passed dm* the muss time.

Number; No of . Number Total
Between the 1 '
•PereueB la of Number
of
hews of eal with Foot l'as. of
Telthals* Vehedee. wagers. Penes&
6P. mg P.m. 321 1,348 4,090 3,438
470 1,276 4,e00 3.478
6 :
311 981 4,100 8,331
• 1 311 643 1,380 3.413
10 1 141 601 1,410 1,041
1 II mid. 96 349 670 909
1 Ed& ead am. 93 243 260 493
&MR. 63 1111 220 338
77 103 120 213
117 113 170 123
147 120 310 330
139 371 620 1,001
391 424 1,230 1,634
419 602 1,130 2,733
301 842 3,140 3,94
1 677 1,123 3,610 4,733
1 1 691 1,361 3,341 4,906
1 I US 631 1,326 1,810 3,114
1 seas pas. 791 1,468 4,100 9,368
p.o. 803 1,214 3,3111 4.366
678 1,484 8,230 4,734
623 1,478 3,930 On
411 1,493 3,340 4,432
140 1,876 4,240 9,636
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Total I %en I Mae I $,430 l ;9,1t4
Whether the lodging capasitke of London are equal te
the probable demand, is a point on which it is highly desir-
able to come to home sound understanding. Already agencies
are forming in every quarter of London to golds foreigner*
to fit epartmenta on tneir arrival; a " Foreigners' Purvey
end Registry '• has been opened, to negotiate bete sea hi. 1
Myers and London lodging•house keepers; hotel keepers
are contriving beds in every imaginable nook and corner uf
Nair establisam,nts ; people who let lodgings are dreaming
of an approaching harvest of gold ; and wine Is flowing into
the London docks in extrwedinary quantities for the Exhl
bitton visitors.
Brewers are preparing for extraordinary carom ; eating-
house keepers are enMging their boxes; butcher* are telling
of the probable rise in meat; Oskar* are preparng to bake
extra batches of bread; M. Boyer is buoy at Gore-house;
theatrical managers are preparing "a bless of triumph," or ,
at the very least an " unprecedented attraction ;" co:oam
of artists are panting leagues of panorame; every news-1
paper is advertising extraordinary supplements; in short,
salve preparations are going forward to feed and acme
visitors ; bat up to this time We question as to how they are
le be lodged has received very little atlention. That in spite
of the excitements which will greet thew on all sides, they
will require a certain quantity of sleep nightly, is a probe- I
Witty which few will be inclined to dispute. This being
admitted, the next point to be ascertained is, for how many
visitors can London provide sleeping room, and this of .1
inexpensive kind, se the majority of visitors will be of the
industrious class& For cheap lodgings we must un-
doubtedly look to cheap neighbourbeons—to Camden Town,
Hampstead, Vauxhall, Walwortk, Camberwell, the Old
II Kent-road, Kennington, Greenwich, Finsbury, Hackney,
; and ft is absolutely necessary to discover how mail 'M-
OMS these seighboarhoods could sappert at a reasonable rate.
Whether It would not be:politic on the part Os provincial and
=travelling clubs to agitate for the establishment in
of a peat *weal offize, empowered by the Royal
Caniesioners to make a survey of metropolutn lodaings
adapted to the wants of working men, is a point which they
would do well to consider at once. That visitors of the
middle rank in life will be subjected to extortionate demands
M the part of lodgingliouse keepers, there is already too
Misch ground to Mr. It is difilcult to arrive at say
exact estimate of the impending increase in the rents
erd lodgings; but, judging from inquiries we have
serried on ix many respectable qoartets, this increase well
amount to hill 10 per cent. above their ordinary value. That
this increase may not exceed all reasonable bcunds, it is
aesessary that visitors, rind particularly foreigam, should be
enabled to ascertain exactly the number of lodgings London
as provide, and the room remaining vacant from time to
Yak All than necessary points ed kaisammiet can only be