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London, England, 1853-02-22 00:00:00

water, enough for 800-ton ships) ; the Lower Po-o]

where about 240 colliers mostly lie in tiers, leaving a
fair way of not less than 300 feet in the stream for ship
ping and steamers up and down, is 1 mile long to the
Regent's Canal, Ratcliffe, and 280 to 320 yards broad,
with 13 to 18 feet ; Limehouse Reach thence, round
Cuckold's Point, on Surrey side, to Deptford Yard, is 14
mile by 300 to 450 yards, with 15 to 18 feet ; and Green-
wich Reach, past the hospital, is 1% mile, with 11 to 18
feet. Mean depth off London Docks 21'3 feet, and off
Sheerness only 3.1 feet snore, in a course of 50 m. St.
Katherine's Dock, of 24 acres, below the Tower, on site
of the parish or precinct of St. Katherine's Hospital
(now at Regent's-park), was made by Telford 1826-8
(when 1,250 houses were pulled down), at a cost of
1,827,1131., and has 11,,z acres of wet docks, dock gates
by Bramah, dock ho., large warehouses for 110,000 tons
of goods, and a quay where the General Steam Naviga-
tion Company's steamers lie ; revenue (1846) about
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Queen's Pipe,' or chimney of the kiln, where the
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There are warehouses and sheds for 220,000 tons of pro-
duce, besides new ones for tea (built 1844-5 for 120,000
chests), wood, &c., and large wine and spirit vaults for
60,000 pipes and hhds. beneath ; and the company's ca-
pital is 4 millions. Two basins at Limehouse serve for
the Regent's Canal and R. Lea cut. The. West
India Docks, of 204 acres, across Isle of Dogs, are at
Poplar ; East India, of 32 acres, at Blackwell ; the
Commercial, or Greenland, or Surrey, and the East
Country, or timber, docks, of 55 acres at Rotherhithe.
What are called legal quays for small craft, stretch
1,464 feet from the bridge to west side of Tower ditch ;
and there are numerous sufferance wharfs on both sides
of the river. (See omnibuses, &c.) In 1846, 2,847 sail
of 581,878 tons (of which 731 were under 50 ton each,
179 of 48,996 tons were built in the colonies, 92 of
49,261 tons in East Indies, 60 of 11,376 tons in foreign
ports), and 287 steamers of 55,910 tons (90 being under
50 tons each) belonged to the p•rt ; and the tonnage
inwards and outwards, including repeated voyages, was
`coastwise' 21,101 sail of 2,670.654 and 10,936 of
757,088 tons (besides 1,192 steamers of 349,317, and
1,181 of 346,932 tons)-from and to `colonies' 1,603
of 490,446 and 1,202 of 444,108 tons (besides 10
foreigners of 3,709 tons outwards)-from and to 'foreign
ports' 2,792 of 449,987 and 1,415 of 235,970 tons (be-
sides 2,394 foreigners of 370,380 and 2,317 of 354,236
tons). Imports are reckoned to be worth Botl 0,000,000/.
yearly ; export (1845), 11,078,164/. Ta customs
10,885,1561. ; in 1,268, they were 1501., and 500,0001.
in 1641. About 12,820 cargoes of coal entered 1845,
averaging 270 tons per cargo. Steamers run up and
down from the bridge to Westminster (for id. Id. 2d.),
Lambeth, Chelsea, Richmond, Hampton Court, Green-
ich, Blackwell, Woolwich, Gravesend, Southend,
Sheerness, Herne Bay, Margate, and other places on
the river ; also to Aberdeen, Belfast, Cork, Dublin,
Dundee, Edinburgh, Hull, Inverness, Newcastle, Ply-
mouth, Falmouth, Waterford, Yarmouth ; and abroad
to Amsterdam, Antwerp, Boulogne, Bremen, Calais,
Dunkirk, Hamburgh, Havre, .liarlingen, and Niewe
Diep (Holland) Ostend, Rotterdam, &c. Excise district
comprises the City, Westminster, Southwark, &c., the
parishes up to Whitechapel (in the old bills of mortality
as at p. 107), with Marylebone and St. Pancras (the
suburbs belong
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and is divided into 12 surveys ' and 42 dis ,
1835, the total traders (26,315) included 10,152 dealers
in tobacco 7,624 in wines and spirits, 6,298 in tea,
of
244
brewers, 396 makers of tobacco, 109 of soap, 55
brick, 6 of paper, and 208,2661. was collected on soap,
115,8141. on licences, 90,3231. on auctions, 53,404/.
paper, 15;739/. bricks, 9,024/. glass, 5,423/. malt, Sze."

London .and' Provincial Medical Directory for
1853. Churchill.
This is a work of the greatest value to the pro-
fession, for the use of whom has been more im-
mediately compiled. Of all the annuals of this de-
scription which have come containsuner our
a notice, it
of
is
one of the most complete. It register
rofession in Eng-
all the members of the medical p
land and Wales, arranged first in the alphabetical
order of their names, with their qualifications, and
next in the order of the towns in which they are
settled, giving in the metropolis even a street direc-
tory'. Besides this, there is a list of all the mem-
bers of the recognised medical bodies of the hospi-
tals and schools of medicine in different parts of the
empire of the dispensaries and infirmaries, and
also oethe medical publications, besides a mass of
other information, general and. professional. The
compilation evinces great labour and talent ; and
we are assured that this will prove to be one of the
most useful class publications of the day.

LONDON SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OP YOUNG
FEMALES.—On Friday, Sir Brooke W. Bridges, Bart.,
in company with a number of gentlemen, visited the
asylum belonging to this charity, at Tottenham, previous
to the annual dinner on the 25th inst. The secretary
reported that there were at the present time a inmates,
that several had been sent to service, and that 500 had
received the benefit of the institution. In audition to
this, he also stated that nearly 400 improper houses had
been suppressed, and several procurers punished. After
the.establishment had been inspected, and much satis-
faction expressed, the company separated.
[ADVERTISEMINT.}—The attention of all classes has
been attracted to the undeniable virtues of Parr's Life Pills,
and a vast majority of the people have evinced their unqua-
lified approval of the high character awarded this medicine,
and are daily becoming more and more convinced of the as-
tonishing efficacy of this renovator of the human race. Parr's
Tills are strongly.recommended to those who are suffering
from headache or indigestion, whether arising from constitu-
tional inaction, binary disarrangement, or over-indulgence
at the table, as they have never been known to fail in
affording immediate relief. Sold by E. Edwards, 67, St.
Paul's Chttrchyard ; Barclay and Sons, Farringdon-street ;
Sutton and Co., Bow Churchyard ; Hannay & Co. & Sanger
Oxford-street ; Baxter, High Holborn ; Preston and Sons,'
medicine. Price
PLrioncedon3;ida.n,d2sb.y9arn.,ossut
dresfpameciltaybpleacdkeeatlse:Von.
each.