Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . onable dances of the period were the waltz, intro- duced in 1813 by Madame de Lieven ; the quadrille, broughtfrom Paris by Liidy Jersej after the Peace: Lancers, a varia-tion of the quadrille, introduced about 1820: the sprightlygaloi>pade, and after 1830 the polka. London. Between 1831 and 1881 the population of London increased from an average of 22 to an average of 51 per acre. The districtsin which th


Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . onable dances of the period were the waltz, intro- duced in 1813 by Madame de Lieven ; the quadrille, broughtfrom Paris by Liidy Jersej after the Peace: Lancers, a varia-tion of the quadrille, introduced about 1820: the sprightlygaloi>pade, and after 1830 the polka. London. Between 1831 and 1881 the population of London increased from an average of 22 to an average of 51 per acre. The districtsin which the growth has been most remarkable are:— [1 67. .1. F. MoHoy. T/ir M, (;n>- Liiihj Jllixxhif/fnn, 181IG. For LadyHolland, <?/. Trevelyan, Life of Macanlaij. I., and the Grevillc Memoii:i.\ 18321 District. SOCIAL LIFE. 1 Populiition P ipulatiou per acre 1S3I. pel acre 1S81. 9 106 12 86 9 74 4 56 () 42 3 20 Broiuley-ljj-Bow PadilingtouKeiisiugtoii . .Fulliam CamberwpU ...Hainpstead Bow, Stratford, Bromley, Clapham, Tottenham, Canonbury were still villa^es in 1831, while Brixton, Kiiburn, Chalk Farm, KentishTown formed no part of continuous London. Islington had but. LITERAllY LADIES, BY DAXIEL MACLISE, Mafia:iiK\ ::ii.) one Street; Westbourne Grove, Notting Hill. Campdcn Hill. EarlsCourt, were country districts. The Bayswater Iioad and Tyburniahad lately become fashionable building sites now that criminalswere no longer hanged at Cumberland Gate. In 1820 Moortieldsand Spatields still had some green acres: Woburn, Tavistock,and Gordon Squares were laid out in market gardens. Amongthe improvements of the reign was Regent Street with theQuadrant and Waterloo Place, planned bj Nash to connectCarlton House and Pall Mall with the new liouse which theRegent proposed to build fir himself overlooking RegentsPark. The A\higs, who were horrified at all Georges extravagant 136 PEACE, RETRENCHMENT, AND REFOBM. (1815 1832 building seliciues, vowed that they wou


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