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LONDON (POPULATION). 



3,950,608. In 1798, the importations of sugar and 

 ruin far exceeded tliose of any preceding year, as did 

 likewise the revenue of the customs, which amounted 

 to the sum of 5,321,187 ; in 1799, it had increased 

 to 7,226,353, West India 4$ per cent, duty in- 

 cluded; but next year it fell to 6,468,655. The 

 official value of the imports in 1800, was 18.843,172, 

 and of the exports 25,428,922, of which 13,278,494 

 was in British merchandise. Their real value ex- 

 ceeded 68,000,000, nearly two-thirds of the value 

 of the trade of the whole kingdom. The number of 

 vessels belonging to the port in that year was 2666, 

 carrying 568,208 tons, and 41,402 men. Comparing 

 this number with the number returned in the begin- 

 ning of the last century, the increase is truly astonish- 



A RETURN of the NUMBER and TONNAGE of SHIPS that have Entered the Port of London with Cargoes from Foreign Parts, dis- 

 tinguishing the Countries whence they have arrived, during the Years 1830, 1831, and 1832. 



ing. On the quantity of tonnage it ia nearly in th 

 proportion of six to one ; and on the amount of men 

 and ships, upwards of four to one. The East India 

 Company's ships alone carry more burden, by 21,166 

 tons, than all the vessels of London did a century 

 ago. In 1806 the value of the imports and exports 

 ot London was 36,527,000 ; in 1819, 46,935,000; 

 in 1825 it had increased to 96,936,000 ; and in the 

 year ending January, 1829, to 107,772,805. Tl;e 

 number of coasters which entered the port in 1814, 

 was 15,139, in 1821, 18,915, and in 1827, 17,677. 

 Of vessels employed in the foreign trade there were 

 4012 British, and 1534 foreign. 'Ihe following 

 Table exhibits 



The port of London extends from London Bridge 

 to Deptford, a distance of four miles. The West 

 India Docks, stretching across the isthmus forming 

 the Isle of Dogs to the Middlesex side of the river, 

 were opened in 1802. They consisted originally of 

 an import and an export dock, the former containing 

 about thirty and the other about twenty-five acres of 

 water, exclusive of basins. To these have recently 

 been added the South Dock, formerly the City Canal. 

 The warehouses at the W r est India Docks are of vast 

 extent. The London Docks, also of very great 

 extent, are situated at W T apping. The tobacco ware- 

 house belonging to them, covers a space of nearly 

 five acres. There are also the St Katharine's Docks, 

 adjoining the tower ; the East India Docks, at Black- 

 wall; and the Commercial Docks, on the Surrey side 

 of the river. Owing to the competition of the dif- 

 ferent companies, all sorts of dock charges are now 

 reduced to the lowest level, and hardly one of the 

 concerns can be said to be profitable. The dividend 

 on London Dock stock in 1833 was only 2^ per 

 cent. 



Population. The population of London, in general, 

 has for a long period been rapidly augmenting, but 

 that of the city, separately taken, and especially in 

 the parishes within the walls, has greatly decreased 

 since the beginning of the last century, owing to the 

 widening of the streets and tii- erection of public 



buildings and warehouses, instead of dwellings. In 

 1700, the city of London, within the walls, contained 

 139,300 inhabitants; in 1801, it contained no more 

 than 78,000, and the number has since dimin- 

 ished. 



The health of the metropolis is said to have been 

 in a gradual state of improvement since the middle 

 of the seventeenth century. It is now more than a 

 century and a half since the plague has shown itself 

 in London ; and three diseases which used to be 

 epidemic there the bloody flux, ague, and sea- 

 scurvy have ceased for above a century to be so. 

 The cholera was less fatal in its ravages in London 

 than in many places of the British empire. In 1750, 

 the average rate of mortality in London was 1 in 

 21 ; in 1821, according to Dr Birkbeck, it was not 

 more than 1 in 40. The christenings and burials in 

 London during the year 1834, are reported to have 

 been as follows : 



Christened J Mnlw. 13.*' 

 ~ Females, 13,615 



Total, 27,216 



i Males, 10,811 

 Buried Females, 10,868 



Total, 21,679 



The following table exhibits a view of the popu- 

 lation of the metropolis in 1811, 1821, 1831, and 

 1841, with the increase or decrease for the last ten 

 years, according to the government schedule. 





