In the City of London the Church does not seem to thrive. The _Church Times_ published a kind of census of fourteen of the City churches drawn up after personal inspection during service time not long ago. It gives the value of the benefice, and the number of persons actually present when the correspondent entered the church. Annual Value. No. Present. St. Bartholomew the Great, £680 40 Smithfield St. Anne and Agnes, St. Anne’s 626 25 Lane St. Michael le Querne, Foster 300 closed Lane St. Mary Magdalene, Old Fish 230 18 Street St. Nicholas Cole Abbey 270 closed St. Bennet’s, Paul’s Wharf 254 6 St. Nicholas Queenhithe, 260 11 Thames Street Allhallows, Bread Street 382 3 St. Martin Pomray, Old Jewry 410 1 St. Margaret, Bread Street 287 3 St. Peter le Poor, Old Broad 1725 20 Street St. Martin Outwich, 1100 6 Bishopsgate Street St. James, Mitre Square 300 20 Allhallows with St. Bennet, 650 9 Lombard Street £7074 162 In the City there are 105 churches, parochial and district, and in the City the superiority of the Church over Dissent is manifest. The Jews, the Greeks, the Roman Catholics, the Wesleyans, the Baptists, the Congregationalists, the Presbyterians altogether have but twenty-six chapels in the City. From the beginning of the long reign of George III. to its close—that is from 1760 to 1820—there were not six new churches erected in the metropolis.