These tables are from the Annales de Chimie, and were furnished by the Prefect of the Department at the Bureau des Longitudes. They differ from those published in the Journal de Pharmacie, the number of deaths there given surpassing the number here by 262.

The number of deaths from the small-pox were, in 1817, 740, according to the Annales de Chimie, and in which the ages are enumerated; but the Journal de Pharmacie gives the number at 486.

The number of ascertained suicides, in 1817, was 197; and of the 272 deposited at the Morgue, probably one half may be added to these.

10. General Population and Territory. The table of population and territory of the present civilized world, as lately exhibited, gives to China 200,000,000, and 1, 200,000 square miles of

territory; to Great Britain 20,000,000 of population, and 100,000 square miles; and to the United States 10,000,000, and 2,500,000 miles; and the total of the whole world is, of population 435,800,000, and of territory 9,687,000 square miles; so that the United States have the largest home territory of all the nations except Russia. China is not included in this, because it contains many parts barbarous and helpless. Britain possesses 150,000,000 of subjects in her colonial empire, and posseses a dominion equal to nearly one-fifth of the whole surface of the globe.

11. Prizes offered in France. The Society for Encouragement of National Industry in France have offered the following prizes: improved manufacture of sewing needles, 3,000 francs; dressing of flax and hemp without soaking, 1,500 francs; new method of silvering the back of mirrors, 2,400 francs; dyeing wool scarlet by madder without cochineal; for artificial diamonds and precious stones, 1,200 francs; preservation of alimentary substances according to M. Appert's process, 2,000 francs; best mode of salting provisions, 2,000 francs; construction of a country windmill, 4,000 francs; for planting the Northern pine, 1,000 francs; for planting the Scotch pine, 1,000 francs. These have been offered before, and are not yet merited.

The following are other prizes:-for the completion and perfection of the moria, (a machine for raising water,) 1,000 francs; for the construction of a new water-wheel, 3,000 francs; a mill for cleaning Indian corn, 600 francs; for the establishment of wells for obtaining water by filtration, two prizes, 1,500 francs and 3,000 francs; preparation of materials adapted to the arts of engraving, 1,500 francs; a substance that may be cast in a mould like plaster of Paris, and of greater durability, 2,000 francs; manufacture of Russia leather, two prizes, 1,500 francs and 3,000 francs; to the maker of the hydraulic press, that shall have been substituted for the common presses of oil and wine, 2,000 francs.

The amount of prizes offered by this Society for the Encouragement of the Arts amounts to 76,600 francs.

12. George Bidder, Zerah Colburn. -George Bidder of Morton, Hampsted, who possesses such ready and surprising powers of calculating, is at present in London. It is perhaps not generally known, that he asserts the ability of communicating his method to others, and of enabling them to perform the same things as himself. Zerah Colburn also made the same statement; and from the developement of part of his method, there is no doubt it can be done, but it would require an excellent memory, and probably would not be very generally applicable to use. To mathematicians, engineers, and others, however, it would present great advantages; and it should be known, that both George Bidder, and Zerah Colburn, have offered to disclose their methods, on condition that they be remunerated in a respectable manner.

For December, 1818.

Barometer

Wind

Low High Morn. Eve. Morn. Eve.

29,20 29,37 W

Thursday....

29,55 29, 49

44 29,74 29,60 SE

29.78 29,70 W

29.30 29,40. WbS

29,60 29,78 W

Wednesday 9 29 40

29,91 29,96 NE

29,42 29,39 WSW

9 34 50

29,75 29,60 WbS

Thursday 10 37 44

30,07 30,08 NE

Sunday.. 10 38 50

29,74 29,47

Wednesday

29,51 29,80 WSW

Friday

11 34 41

30,07 30,10

Monday..

11 39 42

29,60 29,60

WSW

Thursday.. 11 37

29,80 29,78 W

Saturday

12 33 41

30,10 30,08 NE

Tuesday

12 33 46

30,00 30,00 WSW

Friday

12 44

29-53 29,41

42

30,09 30,10 NE

NE

Wednesday 13 37

48

29,87 29,87 SW

SW

Saturday

13 33 44

29,61 29,61

WbS

WbS

Monday.. 14 36 41

30,10 30,12 NE

N

Thursday.... 14 34

52

29,75 29,70 WSW

Sunday

14 29 39

29,87 29,91

NW

W

Tuesday.... 15 36 39

30,09 29,94 NUE

NE

Friday

15 37

48

29,83 29,70 WbS Wbs

Monday.

15 26 44

29,90 29,70

W

SW

30

29,90 29,98 NE

NE

Saturday 16

33

41

30,10 30,11 W WSW

Tuesday

16 39 40

29,49 29,30

S

S

33

30,00 29,90 W

SW

Sunday

17 35

47

29,27 29,18 W

W

Wednesday

17 42 49

29,22 29,40

SW

SW

18 27 39

29,70 29,83 SW

NW

Monday..

18 37 41

29,30 29,53 W

W

Thursday

18 38 47

29,40 29,44 WbN

SSE

19 27 36

30,10 30,10 W

SSW

Tuesday

19 33 40

29,69 29,59

W SSW

Friday

19 36

48

29,08 29,24 S

Wbs

47

29,95 29,85 SW

SW

Monday... 21 42 45

Wednesday 20 32 37

29,46 29,40

W

SW

Saturday

20 31 46

29,68 29,70

W

S

30,00 30,20 WbS

WbN

Thursday.... 21 33

40

29,25 29,40

W

W

Sunday

21 39 45

28,98 28,89 WSW

NW

37

30,39 30,39 WbN

NE

Friday

22 32

46

29,40 29,13 W

SW

Monday.

22

37

43

29,65 29,79 NNW

WIN

36

30,37 30,25 NE

WbN

Saturday 23 33

39

29,48 29,60

SW

SW

Tuesday

23 34 39

29,50 29,50 SE

W

Thursday.. 24 22 31

30,19 30,13 SW

Sunday..

24 32

29,46 29,25

Wednesday

24 30

29,42 29,46

25 26 38

Saturday..

30,02 29,93 SW

Monday..

25 33

29,30 29,02

Thursday... 25 19 38

26 32 34

29,80 29,80 SE

Tuesday

26 31 39

29,31 29,37 SW

27 35 40

30,00 30,17 SE

Wednesday

Monday.... 28

Thursday..

29 26 36

30,56 30,56 NE

Wednesday.. 30 25 33

30,42 30,40 WbN

Saturday

Thursday.... 31 27

30,37 30,37 W

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