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BUFFALO BILL'S WILD WEST IN LONDON.

The attendance of visitors to this extraordinary exhibition of the realism of life on the frontier seems to increase with each day's performance. The grand stands are packed long before the hour of commencement, and the throng elsewhere on the grounds is, in its size, a spectacle of crowded humanity worthy of remembrance. There has never been in or near this city any attraction of any sort which has had, "rain or shine," such an uninterrupted succession of immense and constantly-increasing audiences, and, it can be truthfully added, no attraction which, in subject and in the realisms of its illustrations, is more deserving of patronage.

It is not a matter of wonder, then, that, after witnessing Buffalo Bill's "Wild West," Mark Twain should have become "enthused ," and written to the famous scout, Mr. Cody, these lines: -

"I have now seen your 'Wild West' show two days in succession, and have enjoyed it thoroughly. It brought vividly back the breezy, wild life of the great plains and the Rocky Mountains, and stirred me like a war-song. Down to its smallest details the show is genuine - cowboys, vaqueros, Indians, stage-coach, costumes, and all; it is wholly free from sham and insincerity, and the effects produced upon me by its spectacles were identical with those wrought upon me a long time ago by the same spectacles on the frontier. Your pony expressman was as tremedous an interest to be yesterday as he was twenty-three years ago, when he used to come whizzing by from over the desert with his war news; and your bucking horses were even painfully real to me, as I rode one of those outrages once for nearly a quarter of a minute. It is often said on the other side of the water that none of the exhibitions which we send to England are purely and distinctively American. If you will take the 'Wild West" show over there, you can remove that reproach."

"The Wild West," with its wonderful gathering of vaqueros, cowboys, hunters, Indians, sharpshoters, and its transcripts of real life in the far West - -the robbery of the Deadwood coach - hunting the buffalo - the Indians' attack on the settler's cabin and their repulse - and a score of other illustrations - make up a panorama of events which are but pages in the history of the American frontier.

The number of visitors during the past week aggregated - according to the returns - a total of 193,960 - and the present week doubtless will go beyond 200,000, in the actual estimate.