ABSTRACT
It will be with the Free Trade mania, as it has been with the concessions to Popery. The Commissioners themselves, the authors are told, talk of something like five millions, not all at one time, but in succession, average addition to the population of the metropolis, during the period of the exhibition, being set down at half a million. But if only one-fifth part of the numbers stated should visit the British metropolis and this the authors conceive to be far from improbable, there will be a crowding together of human beings which it is impossible to contemplate without the most serious apprehension. Although there are, no doubt, in this metropolis wretches as abandoned and depraved as anywhere else in the world, yet, taking our population as a whole, it is unquestionably under a greater moral as well as religious restraint than the population of the Continent.
