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and 7,752 between widowers and widows. The ages
of the males married varied from 15 to 80, and
those of the females from 15 to 75. 16 girls were
espoused at the age of 15, and 6 old women at the
age of 75. By far the greater number of marriages
occur between the ages of 20 and 25. The propor-
tion of deaths to the population is 1 in 49 in Eng-
land and Wales, and 1 in 46 in London. The
metropolis, Leicestershire, and the West Riding of
Yorkshire supply the largest number of votaries to
Hymen, and the same counties supply the largest
number of deaths. The following is a list of the
number of deaths from the principal diseases in
England and Wales in 1856, viz. :-14,160 from
scarlatina, 9,225 from pertussis or whooping-cough,
13,815 from diarrheas, 762 from cholera, 15,398 from
typhus, 8,213 from dropsy, 48,950 from phthisis or
consumption, 7,299 from hydrocephalus, 8,278 from
apoplexy, 8,497 from paralysis, 23,946 from convul-
sions, 12,803 from cardiac diseases, 21,528 from
bronchitis, and 22,653 from pneumonia or inliamma
tion of the lungs. The ages at death were 159.067
under 5 years, 16,165 from 5 to 10, 9,143, from 10 to
15, 26,654 from 15 to 25, 26,371 from 25 to 35,
25,861 from 35 to 45, 25,024 from 45 to 55, 29,353
from 55 to 65, 35,085 from 65 to 75, 28,962 from 75
to 85, 8,273 from 85 to 95, and 548 at 95 and
upwards. In Great Britain 5,179 schools were
inspected in 1856, accommodating 877,762 children;
571,239 was the average num her in attendance ;
3,455 of these schools belonged to the Church, and
the rest to various dissenting sects (including the
Romanists) and the kirk of Scotland; 165 primary
schools were built, and 6,262 enlarged or improved
in England in 1856. The receipts for the purposes
of primary education amounted to 915,3721.
(423,633/. from Parliamentary grants), and the
expenditure to 939,9101. In 1857 there were
1,224,493 registered electors in the United King-
dom-viz., 896,248 in England, 48,789 in Wales,
100,427 in Scotland, and 178,987 in Ireland; 705,745
were county and 518,748 borough electors. These
1,224,493 electors returned 654 members to form the
House of Commons, the two boroughs of Sudbury
and St. Alban's (which returned four members
having been punished for their disgraceful corrup-
tion by political extinction or disfranchisement. The
number of electors on the registers of the city of
Westminster and the six metropclitan boroughs in
1856 was altogether 120,709, out of a population of
2,033,299. Finsbury numbered 20,620 voters ;
Greenwich, 7,888; Lambeth, 20,012; St. Dilaryle-
bone, 20,851; Southwark, 10,170; the Tower Ham-
lets, 27,980; and Westminster, 13,182. The total
number of paupers in the United Kingdom in 1857
was 1,057,133, the percentage to the population
being 4-0 in England and Wales, 3-9 in Scotland,
and 0 9 in Ireland. The total expenditure on the
paupers of the whole of the United Kingdom was
7,153,7421. In England there were, in 1857, 122,845
in-door and 762,165 out-door paupers. The adult
ablebodied paupers (exclusive of vagrants or
" sturdy beggars") numbered 140,075, of whom
19,660 were maintained in-doors. The total amount

expended on the relief of the poor in 1857 was
5,898,7501,, the average rate per individual of the
population having been Bs. 51d. for " poor rates
received," and 6.3. 111 for "expenditure in relief of
poor." 1,088,5581. was the cost of the in-main-
tenance, and 3,152,278/. that of the out-door relief-
The sums actually received for the relief of the
prior from the ratepayers in the year 1856-57 was
8,139,003/., besides 301,9871. "in aid of the poor
rates." In England and Wales, in 1857, there were
17,192 pauper lunatics, and 10,501 idiots. The
average cost to parishes for tha weekly maintenance
of these wretched beings in asylums and licensed
houses was 6s. Bd. (the general average). 37,302
boys and girls, on the average, attended the work-
house and district schools of England and Wales in
the half year ended Lady day, 1857. The total
number of paupers of all classes and ages in Scot-
land, in 1857, was 115,213, in the ratio of 3-9 per
cedt. to the population. The total number of
registered poor relieved in all the counties of Scot-
land, in 1857, was 88,622. The total amount re-
ceived for the relief and " management " of the poor
was 669,853/., and the amount expended, 635,4521.
Ireland presents a remarkable improvement as re-
gards the decline of pauperism. The total number
of paupers in 1857 was only 56,010, against 73,525
in 1856, and 89,619 in 1855. The percentage ratio
to the population was only 09. The expenditure
has fallen off from 849,9511. (1855) to 619,514/.

A SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH of about 800 miles is in
course of manufacture in Scotland, to connect the
colony of Victoria with 'l' asmania.
THE yield of wine in Madeira this year will be
some 800 pipes, whereas in former years it used to
average between 15,000 and 16,000 pipes.
A LUDICROUS CRINOLINE INCIDENT occurred at the
Liverpool steamer on Wednesday last. One of the
passengers, a young lady, made her appearance just