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on lambs, this season, is the largest ever known. The trade 

 has been active, the prices good. The best Down breeds have 

 brought usually over twenty-five cents a pound, but the lambs 

 received from abroad, about three thousand six hundred in 

 number, have come in poor condition, and the prices have been 

 low. Over seven thousand calves came in from the continent 

 also, and only about twelve hundred were supplied by England. 



So that the number of animals sold in London in the first 

 six months of 1862, was 116,735. The number of cows 3^054 ; 

 the number of sheep and lambs 631,672 ; the number of calves 

 8,259 ; the number of pigs 17,407. 



But wlierever we go the stranger is filled with amazement at 

 the vastness of every thing around him. The city itself is a 

 constant wonder, and if there were nothing else of interest, 

 magnitude alone would arrest the attention as the grand char- 

 acteristic of London, and it forces itself iipon the mind every- 

 where, in the streets, crowded always with moving life, in the 

 shops, endless in their number and variety, in the public places 

 of amusement, in the churches, in the evidences of rapid 

 increase of this already multitudinous population. Large as it 

 already is one can hardly resist the conclusion that it is still 

 increasing as fast as some of our own western cities. 



Tlien the impression of vast accumulations of wealth which 

 has made England so powerful, is no less overwhelming. In 

 London the signs of wealth are seen everywhere, in hundreds 

 of streets and squares. Palace after palace in endless succession 

 meets tlie eye, and splendid residences might be taken as one 

 of the leading features of this immense population. The shops 

 of Regent Street and Piccadilly make little show in comparison 

 with the indefinite number of splendid private residences. 

 Portraan Square, Belgrade, Bloomsbury and Grosvenor Squares, 

 Soho, and Portland Place, are only a few of the localities 

 remarkable for luxurious dwellings, but their names are as 

 familiar as Fleet Street, the Strand, Cornhill, St. Paul's 

 Churchyard, Pater Noster Row, and Grub Street. I was more 

 than once lost in the intricate by-ways wlicre I knew I was 

 close by Fleet Street, and the more I tried to get out the deeper 

 I got entangled. 



I always longed to visit Westminster Abbey, St, Paul's, the 

 British Museum, and other spots woven into a long chapter of 



