YEARS. RATES LEVIED. RENTAL. £ _s._ _d._ £ 1838 14,418 12 8 118,540 1839 16,860 10 11½ 130,631 1840 16,780 11 11½ 141,145 1841 18,244 12 10½ 159,412 1842 19,469 11 3½ 178,060 1843 22,798 15 11½ 196,030 1844 25,272 5 0 214,357 1845 25,928 1 1 238,712 1846 28,261 2 5 260,001 1847 32,319 16 11½ 317,739 1848 35,878 9 10 332,557 1849 38,619 11 1½ 343,066 1850 41,855 2 6 374,036 1851 37,792 10 5 390,732 1852 34,554 0 34 410,617 These Tables clearly shew that the simile used by Canning— “Pitt is to Addington, As London is to Paddington—” no longer retains the force it did, when uttered by that great statesman. Few, indeed, can now tell where London ends, and Paddington begins, or define the connecting links which now unite these once distant places. Paddington, too, is becoming, year by year, of still greater importance; and at the present time there are not many who would deny to it, any more than to any other portion of that undefined place called _London_, its just share of the privileges of “The City.” When we reflect on the vast riches which in the process of time must accrue to the Church from the insignificant gift of the Boy-King to Nicholas Ridley; and when we contemplate what sums have been received, and are likely to be received by the present occupant of the See of London from that “little farm in Paddington,” which has been claimed by that See; THE FUTURE of Paddington becomes worthy of a moment’s thought.