The cars have the usual attractions formerly enumerated: grin and bear it is the order of the day; scenery is shrouded in mist, night closes in with her sable mantle, and about eleven we reach the hotel, where, by the blessing of a happy contrast, we soon forget the wretched day's work we have gone through.
Here we are in the "Queen City of the West," the rapid rise whereof is astounding.

By a statistical work, I find that in 1800 it numbered only 750 inhabitants; in 1840, 46,338--1850, 115,438: these calculations merely include its corporate limits.

If the suburbs be added, the population will reach 150,000: of which number only about 3000 are coloured.

The Americans constitute 54 per cent.; Germans, 28; English, 16; other foreigners, 2 per cent.

of the population.