Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1857-07-09
to believe, are of the number of whom Hood
wrote
M " Mad with life's history,
Glad to deaths mystery,
Swift to be hurried,
Anywhere, anywhere,
Out Of the world %,


According to the last reports. there were in
London, $4,000 vagranis admitted in one year |
into the casual wards Of the work houses.
Here we have always in our midst l07 bur-
glars ITO house-breakers, 38 highway robbers,
773 pickpockets, 1857 Eeaksmen or common
thieves, III horse stealers, I4l dog-stealers, 8
forgeTs, % coiners, sl7 utterers of base coin,
l4l s,siadless, ls2 cheats, s4a receivers Sf
stolen goods, 2,76S habitual rioters, ,2O5 va
grants, so begg ing letter writers, Sc bearers of
begging-letters, 6,37l prostitutes, beside 470
not otherwise described, making altogether
total of $500 criminals known to the Police
These persons are known to make away with
t42,O per annum the prison population at
any particular time is 5000, costing for the
year fl7O,OOO. Our juvenile thieves cost US
.G300 piece.
Mr.. limbs calculates the number of pro-
fessonal beggars in London at 35 900 two
thirds of whom are Irish. Thirty thousand
men, women and children are employed in the
costermonger trade; besides. we have, according
10 Mr. Mayhem, 1000 street sellers of green
stuff, 1000 street sellers of eatables and
drnkables, 200 streets sellers of stationary,
4, 900 street sellers of other articles, whose
receipts are three millions ser ling, and whose
incomes may be put down at one million.
Let us extend our survey and we shall not
wonder that the public houses, and the gn-pal-
aces, and the casinos, snd the theatres, and the
penny galfs, and the lowest and vilest places
of resort in London are full. In Spitaields
there are 10000 weavers, with but los. per
week there are 22,479 taiors 80 ,sO5 shoe
makers ; 43,926 milIiners 81 ,2lO seamslres-
ses 1869 bonnet-makers and ,277 cap-ma-
kers
| What hard, wretched work is theirs
There are two worlds in London, with gulf
between-the rich and the poor. We have
glanced at the latter Tor the sake of contrast
/ let US look at the former. Emerson says the
wealth of London determines prices all over
the globe. In l847 the money coined in the
Mint was f5, 5,l58 ,440 in gold, fI25,7 ,73O in
silver, and $500 III copper.
The business of the Bank of Eng land is
conducted by about 800 clerks, whose salaries
amount to about fl9o,o00 The Bank in
1850 had about twenty millions of banknotes in
: circulation. In the same year there were about
five millions deposited in the savings banks Of
the metropolis.
! The gross customs revenue of the port of
! London in l849 was ELI 070, ,l76 sixty FIVE
millions is the estimate formed BY Mr. McCul-
luch of the total value of produce conveyed
into and from London. The gross rental, as
: assessed by the property and income tax, is
twelve and half millions.
The gross property insured at EGG 900 900,
and only two-fflhs of the houses ate insured.
The amount of capital at the command
! Of the entire London bankers may be
estimated at Ga millions the insurance COM
panles have always 10 millions of deposits
ready for investment 75 millions are employed
in discounts. In l84l the transactions of one
London house had amounted to 80 millions. In
1885, the payments made in clearing house, we're
; 945 miions-an enormous sum, VIII ich will ap-
; pear still greater when we remember that all
y sums under fl00 are omitted from this state
ment. A ii this business can not be carried on
a without considerable amount of eating and
, drinking. The population consumes annually
i 277OOO bulIocks 10000 calves, l4SO,OOO
sheep. "a 900 pigs, 900 600 quarters of wheat
$40 AGA 600 pounds of potatoes, 80 .672 ,OOC
!, cabbages, OF fish the returns are almost in
n credible. Besides, it eats 2,742 900 fowls
1881 COO game, exclusive of those broueh
i. from The dfferen, parts Of the United Kingdom
C from 70 to IS millions of eggs are annually i'm
ported into London from France and olhe
S countries. About 5000 cows are kept in tn,
IS city and its env;rons for the supply of milk anc
J. cream and if we add to their value that o
n cheese and butter and milk brought from ,h'
country into the city, the expenditure on pro
G consumes IS 900 pipes of wine, 100000 gal
at Ions of spirits, 43 200 900 of porter and ale
y and burns 600 900 tons of Goals and hav
te seen it estimated that one fourth of the com
re merce of the nation is carried on in its port
p On boxing night it was estimated that go 90
persons visited the various theaters and place
es of amusement in London.
OF In London. in 1853, according 10 Sir R
DO Mayne, there were 3,6l3 beer shops 5,279 put
he lie houses, and l3 wine-rooms.
is And now, to guard all this wealth, to preser
lg all this mass of industry honest, and to ke
down all this crime, what have we 6,3f
police costing E373 06s l3 police court
costing E45 $50 and about dozen Grimm
90 PRISONS 90 union relieving -oficers 3l6 officers
i've local boards, and 1856 other local officers.
he We have 35 weekly magazines, daily new
l6 papers, 5 evening, and 70 weekly ones.
os depeudenily of the mechanics Institutions, G.
leges, and endowed schools, we have l4,O
sep children Of both sexes clothed and educal
ar gratis, in the National, and British and Folei
ov- schools in oil parts of London, and Sund'
out chools..
un The more direct religious agency may be
II timated as follows In the Hand-bo
the Places of Worship" published by Low
the 1851, there is list of 37l churches and CHI
in els in connection ~i,h the Establishment
ess number of church sittings, according 10
ac- Mann, is 469, ,lS4; the independents have abb
TO lao places of worship, and i00,4S6 Sitting
Of the Baplists, 1870 chapels, and aecommodat
ed for 81, ,2S4 the Melhodisis, l54 chapels,