The Sun.
London, England, 1863-03-30 00:00:00

STATISTICS OF FRANCE.

The population of France in 1861 was 37,382,000
persons, which, according to the present area of
that country, including Savoy and Nice, making a
total of 209,420 square miles, gives a mean popula-
tion of 179 persons to the square mile. The popu-
lation returns show a decennial increase of only 2.23
per cent., while the increase in England and Wales
during 1851 and 1861 was 12 per cent., the density
of population being 344 persons to the square mile.
Under the Lead of agriculture we find the grain
crops, 28.30 ; other miscellaneous cereals, 5.00 ;
artificial meadows, 5.00; fallow, 10.80; natural
fields, 9.50 ; vineyards, 4.10 ; orchards, chestnut
forests, olive and mulberry groves, &c., 0.20 ; pas-
ture and waste lands, 13.50 ; forests, rivers, and
lakes, roads, houses, and uncultivated, 23.60. Under
the head of wheat we find that the total quantity
raised in 1861 was 25f million quarters. The total
number of live stock in 1861 was—horses, 3,000,000;
donkeys, 400,000; mules, 330,000; horned cattle,.
10,094,000 ; calves, 4,104,000 ; sheep and lambs,
35,000,000 ; goats and kids, 1,400,000; swine, in-
cluding sucking pigs and wild boars, 5,400,000. Few
facts in these returns are more striking than those ex-
hibiting, on one hand, the vast extent of uncultivated
country in France, and on the other, the great num-
ber of cattle imported for food. During the years
from 1856 to 1860 these averaged in France 628,200,
while during the same period in England they only
averaged 303,500. Under the head of wine, the
mean annual production, taking the average of 15
years, is 1,1)89,000,000 gallons ; of which 67 per
cent. is consumed in the country, and 33 per cent..
exported. The production of silk has greatly di-
minished. The average production from 1846 to
1852 was 53 million lb., while from 1858 to 1861
it was only 26A- million lb. The quantity of
coal raised in 1861 was about eight million
tons, and the average price 10s. id. per ton..
The total quantity of iron and steel produced.
was 1,695,000 tons. The increase in steam-
power is very remarkable. In 1847 this was re-
presented by a total horse-power of 145,007, while
in 1859 it was 513,092. The tonnage of steam-
vessels has increased in the same period from 21,134
tons in 1847 to 33,690 tons in 1859. The railways
at the latter end of 1861 extended to 6,269 miles,
and the number of letters conveyed by the Post
office has more than doubled between 1847 and 1861.
There is a great increase in the quantity of tobacco
manufactured by the Faench Government, amount-
ing, as compared with 1847, to no less than 22
million lb. Other articles of home consumption,
such as sugar, salt, &e., also exhibit a large in-
crease ; but the result of all the returns is, that
while the resources of France are almost inex-
haustible, they remain most imperfectly developed.

APOTHECARIES'-HALL.— The following gentle-
men passed their examination in the scier.ce and
practice of medicine, and received certificates to reaotise, on
Thursday, March 26.—John Page Pulian, Dartam ; Henry
Seekamp Ward, Horncastle ; Thomas Lamson Craister,
Lorrain
Leeds ; Francis Blake Hutchinson, Lon ; Frederick
Page Atkinson, St. Thomas's Hospital; G. Ireland R.
sell, Gravesend ; Henry Charles Wine, Bristol ; Thomas
Baker, Birmingham ; Samuel Lloyd, Smethwick; Robert
Sidney Stone, Bath; Jas. Allen, Hale, near Liverpool,
A GREAT CINGALESE WEDDING. A
%dep..on cor-
respondent writes :—" Colombo has been enlivened
by a grand Cingalese wedding. The bridegroom is reported
to be very wealthy—worth £3oo,ooo—and the bride had
about £20,000 of her own. The marriage took place a few
miles out of town ; a hundred Europeans were present, and
endless numbers of natives, The band of the rifle regiment
was there discoursing sweet music. The wedding cake was
quite a sight—seven feet high and five feet in circumfer..
cnce. The bride's dress cost, lam afraid to say how mud],
being o rnianented to a great extent with rich and precious
stones,
chiefly pearls and amethyks, The presents were
splendid—one of them very peculiar and recherche, namely,
seven thousand sovereigns laid out on a side table, the gift
of the bride's beloved papa! All this wealth has been made
by coffee—coffee, like mercy, twice blessed."

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