The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-02-14

| From review Of the London Directory in
| ing extract,
At the close of the reign OF Edward the
| Third, directory for all England would have
been easier TO have put together than the one
before US, for London-in 1867, with its three
| thousand pages. At the accession of Rich
ard the Second (l377) nearly five centuries
ago, the population of all England about
two millions and tenth was less than tina.
Of London alone at the present time, three
million.) Directory work for the metropolis
| must have been comparatively easy, even in
| the time Of James the First, when it con-
tanned little over $50, 900 inhabitants; about
what Bristol or Sheffield nov numbers.
| London then was 'staking START and it was
| an excellent thing for it, as the Lord Mayor
| told James when he threatened to take his
| Court to some other place, that be could not
| take the Thames with him!
| Thus watered, and other circumstances
| tending to prove, as the good French priest
said, the kindness of Providence, who always
| gives navigable rivers to Industrious, COM
mercial cities, London grew so marvelously
that when James grandson, the second
Charles, came to the throne, there we're near
ly half a million of inhabitants within aud
without the walls. Thus the London of 1860
was about on q footing with the Manchester
| of 1867. The population, and, with come
checks, the prosperity Of the city went on in
creasing In William the Third time it had
increased at the rate of 10000 year. Some
statistics are greatly in advance of these
numbers, but our own statement is, proba>
| bly,, nearer to strict accuracy. Down to the
latest period here mentioned. the merchants
of London lived, almost exclusively, in the
! city. The latter was not hive by day and
desert by night, as it is now. with some ex>
| eggeratlons in the latter half of the asser-
| ton, declared to be; and throughout that time
| the proudest merchant was he who could say
and indeed the pettiest dealer was proud
as he. if he could also exclaim-"I can qui-
city whet my knife on the threshold
of the Fleet. To lowe no man any
thing, was the golden rule for peace and
happiness.
AT the beginning Of this century, when the
first Postofce Directory was issued, the pop.
ulation was short of million; that grand to-
tai was not exceeded till about the year 1910.
In the next dozen years there was q quarter
and bodies to care for. In 1881 We numbered
nearly million and half; and in the next
ten years we're added four hundred thousand
TO the account. In ls49 we had passed the
second grand number of two millions, dou.
BILE, perhaps more than double, the popula-
! ton Of England and Wales at the time ofthe
Conquest. And in increased ratio the num-
Der has gone on, till within what is called
London we have three millions of inhablt-
ants. fighting the battle of life, or looking on
while others eight the hard fight out There
are many more men in the one city Of London
ut the present moment than there are ID the
Kingdom Of Denmark.
! These three millions arc not al classed in
the present issue Of the Postof6ce Directory,
but the most prominent ones are. In its way
| It is As perfect, or nearly rs perfect, as hu-
man ingenuity, assiduity, and earnest zeal
could make it. We need hardly say that a
contemplAtive mind will find a. much food
for contemplation in a volume like this, as in
any book that was ever published. How long
is the progress to 90 on2 Where will it end?
How will it end? A single day suspense OF
the supply of food alone for the three mill
lions, would entail confusion we can hardly
realize. A suspension for a week would be
death. The beginning of that end would
then have come. which, many think, must one
day come; but. as it is not at hand. we take
the calAmities of posterity philosophically,
and sit gaily down to dinner with-"After US
the deluge."