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whole of Great Britain has been augmented from 5,475,000 to 

 13,888,000, or 254 per cent., in the same time. The whole popula- 

 tion of the kingdom has increased, therefore, with still greater celerity 

 than that of the metropolis. The total number of inhabitants of all the 

 parishes, whose churches are situated within eight English miles, mea- 

 sured directly from St. Paul's Cathedral, amounted to 1,031,500 in 

 1801 ; to 1,220,200 in 1811 ; to 1,481,500 in 1821 ; and in 1831 

 to 1,776,556, or to more than one million and three quarters, a twenty- 

 fifth part being added in each case as a moderate allowance for the 

 great number of British seamen belonging to the registered shipping 

 at anchor in the river Thames, for soldiers quartered in the Tower, 

 and various other barracks, and for the transitory population, always 

 arriving and departing so irregularly as to prevent their enumeration, 

 in a city where no police regulations exist respecting strangers and 

 occasional residents. We may remark, in order to illustrate this enor- 

 mous population, that the whole number of inhabitants of the great 

 county of York amounts but to 1,371,296; and if to this be added the 

 entire amount of the county of Warwick (336,988), the aggregate will 

 still fall short, by nearly 70,000, of the souls actually existing in the 

 metropolis, within the limits alluded to. Let us, therefore, imagine 

 all the inhabitants of these two counties driven by some common im- 

 pulse to assemble near the hills of Severus; — the people of Leeds, 

 Sheffield, and Hull; — all the busy population of the Wapentakes of 

 Agbrigg, Morley, Strafforth and Tickhill ; — the innumerable town- 

 ships, the sokes and the boroughs: in a word, the whole of the inhabi- 

 tants of the three great Ridings of York; — Birmingham too, and the 

 many parishes and hamlets of Warwick, — an awfully immense multi- 

 tude, animated by a common feeling, but still the mighty aggregate 

 less than the total amount of London ! The mind, when attempting 

 to form a scale of this sort, to aid its feeble energies, becomes indeed 

 overwhelmed with the consideration. Or could we, to put the subject 

 in another point of view, visit during the present year the different 

 towns and cities of the empire, — traverse our modern Athens, the 

 immense cotton manufactories of Manchester and Glasgow ; — Bir- 

 mingham, converting every metal to a useful purpose ; — Leeds with 

 all its woollens ; — Norwich with its crapes, and Nottingham with its 

 stockings ; and afterwards move on to the great commercial seaports 

 of Liverpool, Bristol, New and Old Aberdeen, Newcastle, Hull, and 

 Dundee ; or lastly pass to the two great naval arsenals of Plymouth 

 and Portsmouth, where the wooden walls of Old England are seen 

 reposing, as Mr. Canning once eloquently observed, on their shadows; 

 — and could we gather together in one great mass all the inhabitants 

 of these different towns, — the old and the young,— men, women and 

 children of every rank and denomination, the overwhelming assem- 

 blage would still fall short, by above two hundred thousand souls, of 

 the immense population of London. Surely the labours of the statis- 

 tical inquirer are not useless, when they unfold to us realities like 

 these. 



In order to compare London with Paris, Mr. Rickman has taken 

 the population of the department of the Seine, as included in a district 



