London

London is the greatest city the worJd ever snw. liabyloii, Thebes, Rome were never so popnlons, wliile the largest city iu ludia at the present time eontninsless ,han a million ïnhnbitants. Witliiu tlie jorders of tlie metropolitnn and pólice listriets, n eircle oí fifteen miles, it is coinp'ited there re nt the present time ipward of foiir million persons. Londou s three times more popnlons than New i'ork, four times more popnlous than 8t. Petersburg, twice as populous ns Constnntiiiople, with two-thirds more peo)le in it than Paris, and one-fourth nore than even the hiving nmltitudes of 'ekin. All Scotlaud buit eqwals it in the mmber of ite people, and liidf as many 'orksliiremen ngaiu as are nwmbered in lieir own cotiuty oonld find accommodaion witkiu ita eircle. Every eiglit mintes of every day of every year a sonl ;oes out of London, and in every ftve niuutes )f day of every year a uew nmortal enters upon this scène of its irobation. It is at onee the eourt, the at of Oovernment, the center of fashou, the home of all the chanties, and ie general rendezvous of all the crimial ; 1 11 1 desperate characters of the Uiiit1 Kiugdom.