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MAY 17, 1834

THERE are about four hundred and fifty different trades carried on in London. The shoemakers are the most numerous class, and the tailors next; the former, above twenty years of age, amounting to 16,502, and the latter to 14,552. The carpenters amount to 13,208, and if the cabinet-makers are in- cluded, to 19,629. The bakers, butchers, bricklayers, and blacksmiths, come next; but they average little more than a third of those trades.