The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-04 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF LONDON.

London is the largest and richest city in the world;
occupies a surface of thirty-two square miles, thickly
planted with houses, mostly three, four, and five
stories high. It consists of London city, Westmister,
' city, Finsbury, Marylebone, Tower Hamlets, South-
wark, and Lambeth districts. The two latter are on
the south side of the Thames. It contains 300
churches and chapels of the Establishment; 364
Dissenters' chapels ; 22 foreign chapels ; 250 public
schools ; 1,500 private schools ; 150 hospitals; 156
almshouses, besides 205 other institutions ; 550
public offices ;
.14 prisons ; 22 theatres ; 24 markets.
Consumes annually 110,000 bullocks, 776,000
sheep, 250,000 lambs, 250,000 calves, and 270,000 pigs;
1 l ,000 tons of butter, 13,000 tons of cheese, 10,000,000
gallons of milk, a million quarters of wheat, or 64 mil-
lions olquartern loaves, 65,000 pipes of wine, 2,000,000
gallons of spirits, and two million barrels of porter
and ale. Employs 16,502 shoemakers, 14,552 tailors,
2,391 blacksmiths, 2,013 whitesmiths, 5,030 house-
painters, 1,076 fish dealers, 2,662 hatters and hosiers,
13,208 carpenters, 6,822 bllcklayers, &c., 5,416 ca-
binet-makers, 1,005 wheelwrights, 2,180 sawyers
2,807 jewellers, 1,172 old clothesmen (chiefly
Jews), 3,628 compositors, 700 pressmen, 1,393
stationers, 2,633 watch and clock makers, 4,227
grocers, 1,430 milkmen, 5,655 bakers, 2,091
barbers, 1,040 brokers, 4,322 butchers, 1,586 cheese-
mongers, 1,082 chtmists, 4,199 clothiers and linendra-
pers, 2,167 coach makers, 1,367 coal merchants,
2,133 coopers, 1,381 dyers, 2,319 plumbers, 907
pnstrycooks, 869 saddlers, 1,246 tinmen, 803
tobacconists, 1,470 turners, 556 undertakers.
[The above are all males above twenty
years of age.] 10,000 private families of fashion, &c.
About 77,000 establishments of trade and industry,
4,400 public houses, 330 hotels, 470 beer shops, 960
spirit and wine shops. There are six bridges over the
Thames at London. London docks cover 20 acres ;
14 tobacco warehouses, 14 acres ; and the wine cellars
3 acres, containing 22,000 pipes. The two West In-
dian Docks cover 51 acres. St. Catherine's Docks cover
24 acres. The Surrey Docks, on the opposite aide,
are also very large. there are generally about 5,000
vessels and 3,090 boats on the river, employing 8,000
watermen and 4,000 labourers. London pays about
one-third the window-duty in .England, the number
of houses assessed being about 120,000, rated at up-
wards of five millions sterling. The house rental is
probably seven or eight millions.-Knight's London.

On Saturday night, shortly after ten o'clock, a fatal
fire broke out in the dwelling-house of Mrs. Montague,
situate in Brompton-square, Brompton. It appears
that about ten o clock the servant put the youngest
child o' Mrs. Montague to bed in the front attic,
leaving a candle burning on a chest of drawers. Soon
afterwards an alarm was given of the house being on
fire, when upon Mrs. Montague's mother go!ng to
the apartment she discovered the interior enveloped in
flames. With great courage she rushed through them
and seized the infant from the bed, but in returning
both of them were frightfully burnt, in fact to such
an extent that the child died in an hour or so after-
wards The grandmother remains in a most deplorable
condition, and is con:iidered in imminent danger.
The fire was not extinguished until the whole of the
furniture in the room was consumed.

A STRANGE STORY.—A strange story is in circu-
lation, that the son of a Scotch Peer, having been
harshly used whilst a youth by his father, fled and
entered as a common seaman on board of a man-of-
war, where be was known by the name of Peter.
Whilst in this capacity, he often amused his shipmates
by telling them that he should some day become a
Lord, and that, when he did, they should all be wel-
come to his castle. At length the old Lord died, and
his son took possession of the estate, and many of
his shipmates are said to have since resided with him,
an old tower being fitted up for their accommoda-
tion. One of his sisters in his absence had married
a Spaniard, and is now residing in ttpain, and his
Lordship has left Scotland on h visit to her. Before
he went, however, he offered a sum to any man who
should discover a youth, named " George, ' to whom
his Lordship in early life had become attached. This
man George is said to have been discovered a few
days since at Worthing, and it is supposed that he
will soon make an attempt to reach his Lordship.
Such are the reports in circulation ' • but we do not
vouch for their accuracy.—Brighton Herald.
It is not perhaps generally known that many of the
iron masters are generous enough to allow from
2s. Cd. to 10s. a week to several old workmen, when
quite unable to do anything. Anthony Hill, Esq.,
of Plymouth iron-works, used to exhibit a benevolent
example in such acts until the Union of 1831. It is
said that he has not given so much since that me-
morable twisting epoch. William Crayshaw, Esq.,
gave 10s. a week to old Rees Beynon for sonic vea, s
up to the time 'of his death. Other masters, it seems,-1
act similarly.—Monmouthshire Merlin.