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TIE GREAT WEsT.-The following ex- tracts from the speech of the Hon. J. J. Har- din, of Illinios, show at glance the impor- tance as well as the resources of the Great West. We have no where seen, says the Cincinnati Gazette, more comprehensive statement of facts on the subject of which he treats, than those compiled by him; and as a matter for future reference they are of great value for their authenticity and correctness: In 1840 the population of the Western

 States was 6,376,972 In l840 the population of the Atlantic

 States was 10,686,3Sl The area of the Western States, in

 square miles is 839,93O The area of the Atlantic States, in

 square miles, is 449,65O

 The increase of the Atlantic States from 1850 to l840 was at the rate of l6 per cent

 The increase of the Western States during the same period was at the rate of 73 per cent

 The increase of the Atlantic States from 1910 to 1840 was as 100 to 1734

 The increase of the Western States from 1910 to 1S40 was as 100 to 591.4.

 It will be thus found that whilst the Allan tic States have not doubled in thirty years, the Western States have, in the same time, augmented nearly six fold.

 In some of the new States the increase far exceeded the general average; for instances, the decennial increase of Mississippi was l75 per cent, of Missouri l73 per cent, of Illinois POP per cent, and of Michigan 555 per cent.

 In 1850 the population of the Atlantic and Western States will be very nearly equal, ii they progress ill population in the same ra- to that they have done for the last ten or twenty years, and at every succeeding census the relative strength of the west will increase on the Atlantic States.