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Show LONDON. Tho following on London is from ft recent number of tho Leisure Hours: The metropolis of tho British empire, the largest city the world over saw, covers, wi-hin fifteen milcB radius of Charing cross, nearly 700 square miles, and numbers within these boundaries 4,000,000 of inhabitants. It comprises 100,000 foreigners from every rngion of tho globe. J t contains more Jews than tho whole- of Palestine, Pales-tine, more Roman Catholics than Rome itaelf, more Irish than Dublin, more- Scotchmen than Edinburgh. Tho port of London m every day on its waters 1,000 shipB and 0,000 sailors. sail-ors. Upward of 120 persona aro added to the population daily, or 40,-000 40,-000 yearly, a birth taking place- every livo minutes ailtl a death every eight mi nu tea. On an average, 28 milcB of streets are opened, and 0,000 new houses fcuill every year. In ita postal districts thero is a yearly delivery of 218,000,000 of letters. On tho police register thero aro tho namesof lliO.OOO habitual criminals, increasing by many thousands every year. More than one-third of all the crimo of the country is committed in Loudon, or at least brought to light thero. There aro aa many beer-shops and gin-palacua gin-palacua as would, if their fronts were placed side by sido, reach from Charing Char-ing orosB to Portsmouth, a distant ol Hoventy-thrco miles, and ;J8,000 drunkards aro annually brought bo-foro bo-foro its maomtraUH. The Bhops open on Sundays would form streets Bixty miles long. It is cstimati-d that thero are above 1,000,000 ol the people peo-ple who aro practically heathen, wholly neglecting the ordinances of religion. At least 900 additional :liurcbcs and chapels would bo required re-quired for tho wnnta of the people |