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

FOREIG

Austrian, 5 per cent
Belgian, 5 per cent lO3
Brazilian Bonds..
Buenos A yres6 per cent —
ailian, 6 per cent.
Colombian, 6 per cent —
Ditto, I t 324
Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent Kt
Danish, 3 per .ent B2*
Greek, 1625, 5 per cent --
Mexican, 5 per cent-- 33
Ditto, 6 per cent. l 637
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct.
SHARES

Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 p)
Bristol ..nd Lxeter (70 paid) ••
46
Fasaern Counties Railway (23 vaid) ..... -86
Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ...... 466
Great Western, (65 paid)
Ditto New Shares (50 ......... 59%
London and Brighton (50 paid) 36
l.ondon and Blackwall ( paid)
London and Greenwich Railway (12115 s 4(101)
Ditto Preference, or Privilege ... l7
London and South Western (4116 s 10d rid) .58
:Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid)...
North Midland Railway (100)
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) 23%
Ditto Scrip (15 paid) ... 12%

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 Hamlet's, 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 ;
11,000 tons of butter, 13,000 tons of cheese, 10,000,000
gallons of milk, a million quarters of wheat, or 64 mil-
lions of quartern 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 bricklayers, &c., 5,416 ca-
hinet-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 chemists, 4,199 clothiers and linendra-
pars, 2,167 coach makers, 1,367 coal merchants,
2,133 coopers, 1,381 dyers, 2,319 plumbers, 907
pastrycooks, 869 saddlers, 1,246 tinmen, 803
tobacconists, 1,470 turners, 556 undertakers.
[The above si'ie - all males above twenty
years of age.] 10,000 private families of fashion, &c.
'About 77,000 establishments of t: a.li! and industry,
4,400 public houses, 330 hotels, 470 h.er snaps. 060
spirit and wine shops. There are six bridges over the
Thathes at London. London docks cover 20 ;ems ;
14 tobacco warehouses, 14 acres ; and the wine
3 acres, containing 22,000 pipes. - The two :West in-
dian Docks cover 51 acres. St.. Catherine's Docks cover
24 acres. The urrey Docks, on the opposite side,*
are also very large. Tlwre are generally about 5,000
and 3,090 boas on the river, emP!oying 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.-KnightsLenikn.