Brooke's boxes, at that time, would have filled the whole house; and here they are in 1852, drawing our metropolitan stars to their boards.

Their population has increased twenty-fold, and now exceeds sixty thousand; a splendid harbour, a lighthouse, piers, breakwater, &c., have been constructed, and the place is daily increasing.

Churches rear their spiry steeples in every direction.

Banks and insurance offices are scattered broadcast.
Educational, literary, and benevolent establishments abound, and upwards of a dozen newspapers are published.

Land which, during my visit in 1826, you might almost have had for the asking, is now selling at two hundred guineas the foot of frontage for building.