www period its growth was steady and moderately rapid. It has been visited by some disastrous fires, which have taxed its pecuniary resources and energetic enterprise greatly; but it has successfully overcome these drawbacks, and is now undoubtedly prosperous in its condition. With regard to its comfort as a place of residence, the climate is healthy, although the inhabitants are subject to vicissitudes of heat and cold during the year, which requires care in the article of dress. They have, in fact, Italian summers and Russian winters. The the Canadian ladies lead back the imagination to the court of Versailles in the days of Marie Antoinette, or to the yet more gallant circles of preceding reigns. The English in Quebec are a high-toned and substantial people, and certainly nowhere in British America is better society to be met with than in this picturesque northern capital. The trade of the city is quite extensive, and it enjoys great business facilities. Vessels of the largest tonnage can reach the quays. The harbor, which lies between the city and the island of New Orleans, is very large and St. Lawrence is early, in winter, closed by ice; snow falls to a great depth, and the frost-spirit asserts its empire for many months. During the summer, on the other hand, the heat is sometimes almost tropical. The gentlemen and ladies of French descent, whom you meet in the higher circles of society, are even more polished than the Parisians of the present day. They have preserved the social traditions, the usages and manners of the old regime, which the new school of the revolution and the empire extinguished and replaced in France. The manners of some of commodious. McCulloch says that Quebec "engrosses almost the entire trade of the province with the mother country, the West Indies, etc., and is annually resorted to by vast numbers of emigrants who partly settle in Canada, but mostly re-emigrate to the United States. It has a regular intercourse, by means of steamers, with Montreal, and other ports higher up the St. Lawrence, and with Halifax and other ports on the Atlantic. Still, however, it must not be forgotten that, in so far as the United Kingdom is concerned, the trade with Canada and Que bec is wholly forced and factitious, and is not grammes to escape from the heat of the cities, a source of profit, but the reverse." We have thus sketched some of the principal features of this interesting city. It receives annually many visitors from the United States, but not near so many as it would were its attractions known. No tourist to the north, with a little time at his disposal, should fail to visit Quebec. Those who are projecting a foreign tour, and wish for a foretaste of foreign travel, cannot do better than to cross the line, and climb the streets of the great Canadian city. Within a comparatively short distance of Boston and New Yorkclose at hand if we reckon only time-they may place themselves in a locality which will and find health and coolness in travelling, or else comfortable quarters at the seaside or in the country. Now those who make up their mind that Canada possesses more attractions than any other place for a summer campaign, should recollect that greenbacks are not equal to gold, and that all paper money belonging to the United States is not snapped at eagerly as one would anticipate. Hotel-keepers are extravagant in their demands, and think nothing of charging five dollars per day for each person who is honored by being entertained. This is first-class price, but do not think for a moment that you are to receive first-class fare for your greenbacks. If you possess all the charms of novelty, and of a diametrical contrast to familiar scenes. The view of Cape Diamond from the St. Lawrence is alone worth the trouble and expense of the journey. The environs of Quebec, too, are quite inviting and picturesque. Here you see villages almost wholly French, and buildings which exactly resemble those in the rural districts of France; barns thatched with straw; strange farming implements, and, above all, a people who do not speak English, but use a dialect of the musical language of la belle France. Quebec and its environs are very gay in winter, but one must have a good deal of nerve to encounter the climate. But, at the present time, we have to deal with summer, warm, genial summer, and pleasure-seekers are laying out their pro make up your mind that you will, we fear that your visit to Quebec and Montreal would not be as entertaining as contemplated at the commencement of your journey. The best way is to go it blind, and make the best of all inconveniences. Think that you are on a foreign tour, and pay out your money like a hero or heroine, as the case may be. Recollect that Montreal and Quebec hotel-keepers count on Yankee custom in the summer, and would be awfully disappointed unless they received it. A native of Canada would never think of paying such sums for hotel life as Americans; so, as we have got up a reputation for extravagance, we must sustain it until travel falls off and landlords come to their senses. This applies to the wateringplaces in the United States as well as Canada. Montreal is the principal city and second port in Canada, and is favorably situated for intercourse with New York and Boston, being at the head of the ordinary navigation from the Atlantic, and at the foot of the grand chain of canals which connects the great Lakes Ontario, Erie, Huron and Superior. The city occupies a low tract of land, about two miles wide, between a considerable and very beautiful elevation, called Royal Mount, and the river, and is divided into the upper and lower town; in the latter the streets are narrow and ill-paved, and the houses, generally in the French style, gloomy-looking, having dark iron shutters. The upper town is much more agreeable; here the streets are wide, and the houses well-built, large and commodious; generally of a grayish limestone, and roofed with tin and sheet-iron, which, glittering in the sun, and combined with the effect of the lofty spires and towers of the town, gives to the latter a very imposing appearance when viewed from a distance. The town is well supplied with water, and the streets are lighted with gas. The more remarkable public buildings, most of which are in the principal street Rue Notre Dame, are the townhall, the seminary of St. Sulpice, the Hotel Dieu, a large hospital for the reception of the sick poor; the convent of Notre Dame, designed for female instruction; the general hospital, two convents, English and Scotch churches, courthouse, new jail, Government house, Nelson's monument, the Quebec barracks, the new Roman Catholic cathedral, in the perpendicular style, and esteemed one of the finest buildings in North America, and the market-house, a magnificent pile, fronting the wharf. The educational means of the city comprise a French college, a university, founded in 1821, with five professors, and open to persons of all religious denominations; a Roman Catholic theological school, and several classical and scientific academies. There are also a library and reading-room, a natural history society, a mechanics' institute, savings'-bank, and other useful associations, and the largest banking houses in British NorthAmerica have their head offices here, several of which are situated in the Place d'Armes. The harbor, which is formed towards the St. Lawrence, is secure, and the wharfs, more than one mile in extent, are large, massive structures of wood, exceedingly convenient for lading or unlading vessels; and, by the employment of steam-tugs, the difficulties presented in the navigation of the St. Lawrence by the rapids, are entirely overcome. Being at the head of marine navigation proper, the city is the port for the great chain of river, lake and canal navigation which extends westward to Fond du Lac and Chicago, a distance of about 1400 miles, embracing the largest extent of inland water communication in the world. The Lachine canal, the first in the link, extends from Montreal to Lachine, cuts across the southern point of the island, and avoids the Lachine rapids. The Beauharnois canal extends from the village of Beauharnois to Hungry Bay, and passes the rapids of the Cascades, Cedars and Coteau. The Cornwall canal, commencing at Cornwall and ending at Dickinson's Landing, passes the Long Sault rapid. Farrand's Point, Rapid Plat, Point Iroquis and Galops Rapid canals are short and detached. The Welland connects Port Dalhousie on Lake Ontario with Port Colborne on Lake Erie. The grand trunk railway connects the city with Portland, Maine, and all the principal places of Canada; and the Montreal and Plattsburg, extending to Lake Champlain, gives it communication with New York. The population of the city, which in 1856 was 75,000, is now estimated at about 90,000. The orient pearls that on her swan-like neck Are paled by beauties all their own outvieing, Glow like a beacon-light above a wreck, In whose embrace a thousand hopes are lying, The circlet on her brow,-like her sad eyes, Tearful and bright, glows with unconscious splendor, That gives the crowning charm to sacrifice, And clothes the victim in a light more tender. What is the pomp of state, the show of wealth, Where the heart's interest in all is wanting? "Tis but the splendid effigy of health [ing. In courtly balls that gaunt disease is haunt VIEW ON THE BOSPHORUS. The Bosphorus is a narrow strait which connects the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmora. It was formerly so called, either because Io, after being metamorphosed into a cow by Jupiter, passed over it, or because it is so very narrow that an ox could easily swim it, it averaging from one-half a mile to two miles in width, and is but about seventeen miles long. The shores are elevated and very picturesque, on the Asiatic side the cities of Constantinople and Scutari, with the castles of Europe and Asia, on the other the towns of Pera and Therapia. The view presented in our engraving, on page 17, is from the Asiatic side of the Bosphorus.. It gives, however, little more than the outline of the form of the country, with a little picturesque town, nestling in among the thick foliage that crowns the bank. The background of hills, sweeping up from the Bosphorus, are luxuriant with tropical growth, and the air, which cannot be depicted, is redolent with the odor of spices and fragrant blossoms. Galata, Pera and Therapia are sightly objects to navigators of the Golden Horn, and numerous villas give the scene great picturesqueness. Turkish towns are beautiful at a distance, which lends the enchantment. The houses are low and generally ill-built, consisting of wood, earth, and, in some cases, of rough, unhewn stone, the latter forming the foundation and rising to the height of eight or ten feet, on which is reared a superstructure of wood supported on curved beams which rest upon the masonry. A low projecting roof, surmounted by a cupola which commands a view of the distant country, covers the whole. The windows are strictly closed with a lattice-work of cane, in the centre of which the wife of the Turk, excluded from the public view, endeavors to see what is passing on in the world without. The city of our engraving presents a combination of much beauty, viewed from the opposite side, which a nearer inspection might impair. No place could be more finely situated than the subject of our sketch. Commanding a view of the "Golden Horn," opposite, the harbor of Constantinople, filled with the commerce of nations, the great city, with its brilliant mosques and oriental grace, and a shore of cultivation and luxuriance as great as its own, it might well challenge the world to show a more desirable location. The Bosphorus, directly beneath the eyes of its people, presents a display of activity that they admire without imitating; the Turk takes his ease and smokes his pipe, content to be second or further removed in the commercial race. The great seraglio is situated on the Bosphorus, at Point Serai. This is the palace of the Sultan, which has the Bosphorus in front and the Golden Horn on the left. The seraglio, with its gardens and groves, includes a large square, and is washed by the sea for two-thirds its extent. A NEW ZEALANDER. We present the picture of a chief of New Zealand, who in costume almost realizes that of Nayti, namely, a cocked hat and a pair of spurs, but yet with native modesty he is covered with tattoo. This is the fashion in New Zealand, and our friend in the picture may be regarded as being in full costume, whether for the boudoir or society. The fashion is permanent and never can change, or cannot conveniently unless the man be skinned, which would be a matter of some inconvenience to him. The New Zealander described by Macaulay, who is to sit on the arch of Westminster bridge and contemplate the ruins of London, will probably be covered up a little more on account of the weather, but the present has been the native costume from the beginning, and the leopard can change his spot about as soon as he can change his. As far as men are natural, they are constant to original customs, like the grasses and flowers; it is the departure from nature, as well as good taste, that sustains capricious fashion. The natives of New Zealand are supposed to belong to the Malay family, and furnish, perhaps, the finest specimens of savage men. We refer to the distinguished individual depicted in proof of this. The men are tall, strong and active; the women often handsome, and both sexes are almost uniformly well-shaped. Such dresses as are worn are |