378 NEW YORK COMPARED WITH GLASGOW, 



Birmingham, or Manchester, or Glasgow, the recent 

 results of home enterprise, are more true representatives 

 of the energy of the people of Great Britain than any of 

 these new American cities are of the native vigour of 

 what may be regarded as nationalised or acclimatised 

 American blood. 



Liverpool in many respects resembles New York as a 

 great shipping port a seat of commerce as well as of 

 manufactures. We might compare the growth of these 

 two cities, therefore, during the last half century, and 

 very fairly contrast them with each other. 



But Glasgow is a more thoroughly home town. It has 

 less of that foreign connection which is likely to bring 

 foreigners born to settle in it than Liverpool. Its mer 

 cantile houses have sent out countless agents, and estab 

 lished branches in many American, Asiatic, and European 

 ports, but it has received little foreign blood among its 

 citizens in return. It has done much to aid the progress 

 of other mercantile cities, but it owes its own greatness 

 to the native-born people among whom it has sprung up. 

 I prefer, therefore, to compare the city of New York 

 with that of Glasgow. 



Now, the progress in population of these two cities 

 during the last fifty years is represented by the following 

 decennial returns : 



1800-1. 1820-1. 1830-1. 1840-1. 1845. 1850. 



Glasgow, 77,000 147,043 202,426 282,134 367,800 



New York, 60,489 123,706 203,007 312,710 371,102 ? 



These numbers show that, without any of the advan 

 tages of the enormous transit-trade which may be said to 

 have made New York, Glasgow, in the increase of its 

 population, has in a remarkable degree kept pace with 

 New York. During the first thirty years of the century, 

 New York barely gained upon it the original difference 

 of 17,000 souls. During the last twenty, its comparative 



