The Sun.
London, England, 1830-01-21 00:00:00

FRENCH STATISTICAL ACCOUNTS,

The following are the principal results of the returns
made to the French Government on the population
of Paris and the departments, and the consumption
of the capital, as stated in the Annuaire.
There were born in Paris during 1828, in mar-
riage and in private houses, 9,609 boys, 9,094 girls ;
—out of marriage, 2,608 boys, and 2,555 girls. In
the Lying-in hospitals for married women, 262
boys, and 261 girls ;—in the Lying-in hospitals, for
unmarried women, 2,738 boys, and 2,574 girls.
Total of births, 29,601; of which 15,117 were
boys, arid 14,484 girls.
This number comprises 2,291 acknowledged, and
8,184 abandoned natural children. There have
been in the same year 5,970 marriages between
bachelors and spinsters; --.7353 between bachelors
and widows;-749 between widowers and spinsters ;
—and 210 between widowers and widows. Total,
7,282. Deaths in private houses, 6,930 men, 8037
women ;—in the civil hospitals, 4,093 men, 4,492
women ; —in the military hospitals, 597 men, 1
woman ;—in the prisons, 29 men, 45 women. There
have been deposited in the Morgue, during the year,
279 male, and 54 female corpses. Total number of
deaths, 24,557.
During 1828, the small-pox destroyed 176 per-
sons, of all ages tied both sexes.
During the same year, there were consumed at
Paris 960,117 hectolitres of wine; 30,920 of
brandy; 6,352 of cider; 117,131 of beer. In
edibles, 71,382 cattle ; 13,895 heifers; 63,667
calves; 366,229 sheep; 83,125 hogs; 3,283,727
killogrammes of viands a la main; 1,298,523 killo-
grammes of airy cheeses. There has been sold at
Paris 4,283,632 francs-worth of sea fish, 970,393
francs-worth of oysters, 611,569 francs-worth of
fresh-water fish, 8,542,721 francs-worth of fowls and
poultry, 9,863.519 francs-worth of butter, and
4,510,169 francs-worth of eggs. There have entered
Paris, 9,480,714 bottles of hay, 14,073,187 bottles
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469,209 legitimate boys, and 440,219
legitimate girls. The number of natural male chil-
dren was as high as 36,098, and that of natural
female children as 34,670, which gives the total
number of births at 980,196. There were 255,738
marriages, and 791,125 deaths, male and female.
The population has therefore sustained an increase
of 189,071 individuals. The result of the observa-
tions made on the number of births of both sexes,
from 1817 to 1827, is, that the births of boys have
exceeded those of girls by a fifteenth. To learn
whether climate had any influence in that respect,
30 departments mete considered separately. The
same result was found all over France, which proves
that the excess of the number of male over that of
female births does not depend in any sensible de-
gree upon climate. With regard to natural chil-
dren, the number of girls approaches more closely
that of boys.

We are informed, from very good authority,
that the smugglers on the Sussex coast have beea more
successful this winter than for many winters. In the
neighbourhood of Rye more tubs have been run in one
month than in any winter for the last seven years past;
out of 3,000, only one solitary tub was captured.—
Brighton Guardian.