What a City!

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 20, 1856

What a City!—A ragged-school association, in a public appeal, state that there are in London 1,400,000 who never attend public worship, 150,000 habitual drunkards, 150,000 open profligates, 20,000 professed beggars 10,000 gamblers, 30,000 destitute children, 3,000 receivers of stolen goods. More than ten thousand young men under eighteen years of age are annually committed for theft in Great Britain.