Ratcliffe Highway, to Cannon-street; thence northward along the centre of Cannon-street, Cannon-street-road, and the New-road, to the Whitechapel-road; thence eastward along the centre of the said road, and of Mile End-road, to Grove-road; thence northward along the centre thereof to the Eastern Counties Railway; thence eastward along the northern line of the said railway to the river Lea; thence southward along the said last-mentioned river to the river Thames; and thence westward along the boundary of the said river Thames to the said eastern entrance of the London Docks aforesaid.

Union Hall Police Court.-The space included within the following boundary (that is to say), from Dockhead, in a line running northward to the river Thames; thence westward along the said river to Waterloo Bridge; thence southward to Vauxhall Bridge; thence south-eastward to and along the New-road, and Bridge-street, to the Oval at Kennington; thence to and along the New Camberwell-road; thence eastward to and along Church-street, Camden-terrace, Paradise-place, and High-street, and thence to Ebenezer-place; thence northward to and along Pomeroystreet, to the Dover-road; thence to and along the Kent-road to the boundary line between the parishes of Rotherhithe and Bermondsey; and thence along the said boundary to the river Thames, and thence along the river to Dockhead aforesaid.

Greenwich Police Court.-The parishes of Greenwich, St. Nicholas Deptford, that part of St. Paul's Deptford which is within the county of Kent; the parishes of Lewisham and Lea, in the county of Kent; and Rotherhithe ; that part of St. Paul's Deptford which is within the county of Surrey, and the hamlet of Hatcham, in the county of Surrey. Woolwich Police Court. The parishes of Plumstead, Woolwich, Charlton, Eltham, the liberty of Kidbrooke, and the hamlet of Nottingham, in the county of Kent.

Hammersmith Police Court.-The parishes of Fulham and Kensington (including so much of Brompton as has not been assigned by any Order in Council to the police court, called "Queen-square Police Court," and such part of the parish of St. Margaret, Westminster, as adjoins the hamlet of Hammersmith, and also that portion of the parish of Chelsea, commonly called Kensall-green, situate to the north side of the said parish of Kensington), the hamlet of Hammersmith; and the parishes of Acton and Chiswick, in the county of Middlesex.

Wandsworth Police Court.-The parishes of Wandsworth, Putney, Battersea, Tooting, Merton, Wimbledon, Roehampton, Barnes, and Clapham, together with so much of the parish of Streatham as comprises Upper Tooting and Balham Hill, in the county of Surrey.

Civil Jurisdiction.

The local courts of civil jurisdiction in the metropolis, besides the Palace Court, the County Court of Middlesex, with its improved jurisdiction, the Mayor's and Sheriffs' Courts in the "City," and the Bailiff's Court of Record in the "Borough," are the Courts of Conscience or Courts of Requests. These are the only courts for which the metropolis is nearly throughout divided into districts. The most ancient is that of the "City," and its jurisdiction does not extend beyond the bounds of that central district. Next after this was established the Court of Re

quests for Southwark, the jurisdiction of which extends over the whole of the Eastern Half Hundred of Brixton. On the west it meets that of the Wandsworth Court of Requests, which comprises the whole of the Western Half Hundred of Brixton, and on the east that of the Greenwich Court, which comprises the Kentish portion of the metropolis. To the north of the Thames, without the city's limits, the western portion of the town is included within the jurisdiction of the Westminster Court of Requests; the eastern, under that of the Tower Hamlets; and the northeastern, under that of an old manorial court, regulated by charter and statute, which is held at Hackney.

II. PUBLIC WORKS.
Sewerage.

For the purposes of drainage, the metropolis is placed under the jurisdiction of seven different Commissions of Sewers, the limits assigned to each of which are hereinafter stated. The sums expended give the nearest approximation to the yearly income of these Commissions, which generally make their levies at intervals of several years, so that the returns of any one year afford but very imperfect data for estimating their average income. The direct taxation for sewers thus estimated, appears to be little, if anything, short of 100,000l. per annum.

The details relating to the drainage of the town, originally comprised in this paper, will now, however, be found in the following, on the Sewerage of the Metropolis, which the writer was requested to prepare against the meeting of the 18th of March last, in enlargement of this branch of his subject, upon which the attention of the public is now so anxiously fixed.

Paving, Lighting, and Cleansing.

Every portion of the metropolis is necessarily included under some trust for the purposes of paving, lighting, and cleansing; but of the limits assigned to such trusts as are not parochial, we are without any information whatever. Their income and expenditure are equally unknown, and a great service would be rendered by any member of Parliament who should move for returns in detail, by which means the proceedings of the whole would be brought under public cognizance. Some idea of the vast sums which annually pass through their hands may be formed from the cost of paving, cleansing, and lighting in the city alone, for which the sum raised by rates, in the year ended September, 1842, was 35,0981. 2s. 6d., and the sum expended 41,945/. 6s. 7d. Supposing that the average expenditure on these objects in the rest of the metropolis were only one-half what it is in the city, in proportion to the population, it would amount to no less than 329,500l., making a total in the metropolis of about 371,5007; and it may safely be estimated at 400,000l.

Supply of Water.

The metropolis is supplied with water by nine principal and two smaller companies, whose districts of supply are described below. Subjoined is also a table of the water rental of the eight largest, and of their

expenditure, in 1833, as returned to Parliament in the year following. Supposing that the ninth of any magnitude, viz., the Kent Waterworks, to have had a water rental equal to that of the Southwark Waterworks, the total water rental of the principal works, in 1833, must have been about 292,400l.; and, supposing the water rental in 1843 to bear the same proportion to the population of the metropolis in 1841, that the water rental of 1833 did to its population in 1831, we find the probable amount of last year's water rental to have been 344,2387.

New River Waterworks.-All the metropolis north of the Thames from Charing Cross, Tottenham Court-road, and the Hampstead-road on the west, to the Tower, Shoreditch, and the Kingsland-road, with Dalston, on the east.

East London Waterworks.-All those portions of the metropolis and its suburbs which lie to the east of the City, Shoreditch, the Kingslandroad, and Dalston, together with outlying hamlets in the county of Essex, as far as West Ham.

Chelsea Waterworks. The parishes of St. John and St. Margaret, Westminster; and the contiguous suburban parishes and places, which lie to the south and west of Charing-Cross, Pall-Mall, St. James's-street, Park-lane, and the Uxbridge road, as far as Kensington Palace, Brompton, and Chelsea.

Grand Junction Waterworks.-The great square of town included by Oxford-street, Princes-street, St. James's Park, the Green Park, and Hyde Park; the Park-square districts, between the Edgeware-road, the Uxbridge-road, and the Regent's Canal, and a considerable district in the angle between the western end of Oxford-street, and the southern end of the Edgeware-road.

West Middlesex Waterworks.-All lying west of the Tottenham Court-road and the Hampstead-road, and north of Oxford-street, the Edgeware-road, and the Regent's Canal, from the point at which the latter reaches it westward, with the exception of the district in the angle formed by Oxford-street and the Edgeware-road, which is supplied by the Grand Junction Waterworks. Likewise Bayswater, and the suburban parishes of Kensington, Fulham, Hammersmith, and Chiswick.

Southwark Waterworks.-The greater part of the borough of Southwark.

Lambeth Waterworks.-A large portion of the parishes of Lambeth, Newington, and Bermondsey.

South London, or Vauxhall Waterworks.—The outer portions of the metropolis, south of the Thames, and east of the Ravensbourne.

Kent Waterworks. -Parts of the parishes of Rotherhithe, Deptford, St. Paul and St. Nicholas Greenwich, and Woolwich.

Hampstead Waterworks.-These are old works which supply a small district about Kentish Town.

Paddington Waterworks.-These are some springs belonging to the Bishop of London's estate, which supply the immediate neighbourhood.

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Receipts and Expenditure of the several Water Companies of the Metropolis, in the Year 1833.*

Parochial Endowments and Assessments.

The statistics of Public Instruction and Charity in the metropolis, in so far as they are left to parochial endowments and poor law assessments, are contained in the following tables. But, besides the sums which there appear, general charities to the amount of 297,946/. 17s. 11 d. per annum, according to the statements of the Charity Commissioners, are vested in the corporation and other trustees, including the gifts vested in the Companies, and the Royal or Corporation Hospitals. Of this amount, 70,655. 16s. 5d. is expended upon educational purposes; and 227,2911. 1s. 6d. in the relief of physical suffering and pecuniary distress in various forms. We have, however, no complete statements of the voluntary gifts of the Corporation and the several Companies, which are very large; of the noble voluntary charities of the metropolis, of general application; and of the numerous voluntary, parochial, and congregational charities.

*Abstracted from Returns contained in the Reports on the Supply of Water to the Metropolis in 1834.

Annual Value

Royal Hospitals.