The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-30 00:00:00

PARISIAN STATISTICS.

On Thursday last M. de Rarnbuteau, Prefect of the
Seine, presided at the Electoral Assembly, which had
been convoked for the purpose of re-electing a cer-
tain number of members of the Chamber of Com-
merce of Paris. The Prefect opened the proceedings
by a speech, in which he first directed the particular at-
tention of the assembly to several questions f. total in-
terest, which demanded a prompt adjustment de next
placed before them a statement of the financial and
commercial situation of Paris during the first 11 months
of 1841. The proceeds of the octroi or tolls in that
interval amounted to 28,000,0001., or upwards of
1,000,0001., more than in the corresponding period of
1840. The consumption of meat had experienced a
diminution of 3,083 oxen, 5,058 calves, and 2,419 sheep,
which was partly compensated by an increase of 1,319
cows, and of 107,343 kilogrammes of pork.
The Parisian trade continued in a most flourishing
condition. The number of failures had decreased.
The investments in the savings' banks, which, from the
Ist of December, 1839, VI the 30th of November,
had been 31,839,000 francs, amounted, for 1841, to
83,900,000, and the reimbursements, which rose in 1840
to 35,766,000 francs, did not exceed 25,020,000
francs ; and 32,000 additional pass books were delivered
n 1841.

There occurred in this last year a great diminution
in the number of articles pawned in the Mont de Piete,
viz., 100,000 articles, or 1,000,000 of francs less, than
in 1840. The goods exported from Paris during 1841
amounted to 138,177,806 francs, which is an increase
of 15,856,852 francs as compared with 1840. In 1832
those exports did not exceed 66,911,055 francs, and
previous to 1830 they never went beyond 80,000,000.
The export of articles of Persian manufacture had in-
creased in the proportion of 52 per cent.
Notwithstanding the alterations made in the tariffs
of the United States, that country had received
from Paris articles far an amount of 9,500,000 francs
more than in 1840. The exports to Great Britain
and the German Customs Union had likewise increased.

Tho Prefect then communicated to the assembly the
result of the last census, from which it appears that Paris
now contains, exclusive of the garrison, 912,000 souls,
and the rural districts of the department of the Seine
238,696 ; total, 1,150,729 souls. Since 1833 the
sums expended by the city on the hospitals amounted
to nearly 50,000.000 francs. The primary schools,
which in 1832 did not exceed 50, and only cost
184,000 francs per annum, are now 106 in number.
They receive 37,831 pupils, and figure in the municipal
budget for a sum of 934,547 francs. M. de
Hambuteau afterwards presented to the Chamber
kd Commerce an expose of the works completed or
in progress of execution during the last eight years.
The buildings intended for the embellishments of Paris
had cost the city in that interval, independently of the
funds voted for the same purpose by the Chambers, a
sum of 26,000,000 f.; 22,000,000 f. were besides expended
in widening the streets, 5,916,000 f. in opening quays and
establishing wharves; 7,000,000 f. in improving the roads
of the department, 1,500,000 f. in cleaning and em-
banking the small river of Bievre, 1,500,000 f. in orna-
menting the Place de la Concorde, &c. Notwithstand-
ing all these expenditures the City was enabled to pay
off prior debts to an amount of 21,000,000 f., thereby
reducing the debt of the capital from 65,709,2481. to
44,596,577 f„ which latter will be entirely cleared i❑ 1851

WEST INDIA STEAM PACKETS.
POST-OFFICE NOTICE.
The following important notice was posted up yester-
day at the General Post-office, St. Martin's-le-Grand,
and the branch receiving-houses, Verc-street, Oxiord-
street, Charing-cross, Borough, and Lombard-street.
" General Post-office, Dec. 29.
" On and from the Ist of January next, the mails be-
tween the United Kingdom and the West Indies, Mexico,
Cuba. Scc. which have hitherto been conveyed by her
Majesty's jackets, will be forwarded twice in &ery month
the contract steam vessels of the Royal Mail Steam-
packet Company.
"These mails will be made up in London on the Ist
and 15th of every mouth, and will be forwarded from
Falmouth.
" In addition to the places for which it has been the
practice to make up Mails under the existing arrange-
nients, it is intended that in future branch packets shall
touch with Mails at the following ports, namely, Para-
taaric (Surinam), St. Juan de Nicaragua, Maracaibo,
and Bahia-Honda.
" Newspapers to and from the two first places will be
liable to a charge of two-pence each ; and those to and
from Maracaibo and Bahia-Honda will be forwarded free
of postage.
" The steam-packets will also touch at New Orleans,
Savannah, Charleston, New York, Halifax, and Nova
Scotia ; but no letters or newspapers will be forwarded
from tha United Kingdom for those places, unless spe-
cially addressed, By West India steam-packets.'
" On the letters addressed to any part of South Ame-
rica, Mexico, Havannah, and other islands not British
possessions, the postage must be pre-paid, or they can-
not be forwarded.
" On the return voyage the packets will touch at Ber-
muda and at Fayal, and a branch packet will proceed
twice in every month from Fayal to Madeira.
" The 'ray steam-packet, for the West India and
!lexico Mails of the Ist of January. 1842.
" The Thames steam-packet, for the Mails of the Ist
of January, 1842, touching at Surinam, Demerara, Ber-
bice, and Tobago, via Falmouth.
" The Mails for Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian
Islands, Egypt, and India, by the Oriental steamer, via
Falmouth, will be made up on Friday next, the 31st
instant (to-morrow), and for Egypt and India, by the
Overland Mail, via Marseilles, on
4fitt, January,eth
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" Her Majesty's brit; Pigeon,
and Buenos Ayres —, via
Falmouth.
" The Britannia steamer, for the North American Mail
of the 3d of January, 1842, via Liverpool."

DISTRESS AT CHAPEL•EN-LE•FRITIL—We
are sorry to say, that the only cotton-factory that was
working; at Chapel-en-le-Frith stopped last week. This
factory to Messrs. Ashton and Co., of Hyde,
who, through depression of trade and other inconve-
niences, stopped all their works, both at Hyde and
Chapel-en-le-Frith : consequently, upwards of 150
hands have been thrown out of employment at Chapel-
en-le-Frith, who were altogether depending upon
Messrs. Ashton for support. This is a heavy blow for
the industrious poor of Chapel-en-le-Frith at this incle-
ment season of the year.—Derby Reporter