The Sun.
London, England, 1851-06-27 00:00:00

HOLLAND.

THE HAGUE, JUNE 23.—The First Chamber of the
States General has taken an important step—it has
rejected (and not adopted, as it was falsely stated),
after a lively discussion, and by a majority of 19
against 15, the project of law adopted by the Second
Chamber by a majority of 32 against 28, allowing,
by way of indemnity, an annuity of 2,000 florins to
the members of the former First Chamber, which has
been dissolved according to the second additional
article of the constitution, although those members
had been named for life.
The Government has answered to the observations
'made in the sections to the project of laws settling
the exercise of the right of popular meetings and as-
sociations. At the same time Government has in-
troduced some modifications into its project.
The Agromenic Congress of the Netherlands was
opened at Geos on Wednesday last. The King waspresent at the first sitting, as well as at the experi-
ment made upon agricultural instruments. The day
after his Majesty visited the Exhibition of Agricul-
tural Products, now open in this little Zealand town

STATISTICS OF NEWSOUTII WALES.
etficial document, containing the statistics of New
South Wales, including Port Philip, from 1840 to 1849,
has just reached this country, and furnishes an in-
teresting view of the progress of that colony. With
regard to population, it appears in the ten years
nearly to have doubled, the toted in 1840 having
been 129,463, white in 1849 it was 246,299, of
which number 101,470 were females. The proportionate
excess of males was much greater in 1840 than at pre-
sent, but the rapid diminution of the disparity is not to
he attributed so much to the greater evenness of the sub-
sequent immigration as to the extended duration of
female life compared with that of the other sex, and to the
fact of the children born being more nearly balanced.
Of 75,481 births since 1840,38,310 were males, and
37,171 were females, while of 25,821 deaths among the
entire population, 15,978 were males and only 9,843 were
females. In deatlk amongst adults the number of men each
year is nearly twice that of women, owing doubtless in a
great degree to habits of intemperance. The number of
marriages in 1849 was such as to indicate the returning
prosperity of the country. After the commercial revulsion s
and the check to immigration they had fallen from 2,511 to
about 1,800, from which there was little variation until
1849, when the total was 2,365. The year of the
largest immigration was 1841, when it reached 22,483.
The lowest year was 1846, after the land and bank-
ing disasters, when it fell to 402. In 1849
it was again large, and amounted to 19,340. The
total immigration since the feundation of the colony
appeers to have been 107,403, of whom 82,933 wets
dispatched at the public expense ; the total paid from
the territorial revenue from 1632 to 1849 having been
1,309,4471. Since 1839 the religions of the public
emigrants have been recorded, and there appear to
have been 46,869 Protestants, 23,337 Catholics,
and 79 other denominations. As regards the cur-
rency of the colony, there have been great varha•
tions. In 1840 the coin in the banks was 397,5811.,
and after having risen in 1845 to 855,166/.. it again de-
clined to 643,4581,, at which it stood in 1849. The
schools have increased in the ten years from 167 with
9,040 scholars to 553 with 25,682 scholars. Of these
558 schools 222 are supported in whole or in part
by grants from the Colonial Treasury, amounting
to 16,7961. per annum, the number of pupils
being 15,426, of whom 6,553 are Church of England,
2,586 Presbyterian, 1,678 Wesleyan, 219 Indepen-
dent, and 3,313 Roman Catholic. The number of
lunatics in asylums on the 31st of December, 1849,
was 315 male (chiefly convicts), and only 98 female.
With respect to crime, the convictions for felony,
notwithstanding the population has nearly doubled,
have decreased from 662 in 1840 to 543 in 1849, and
those for misdemeanour from 170 to 125. There were
eight executions also in the former year and only four
in the latter. Litigation likewise seems to have de-
creased in a manner still more satisfactory, the cases
tried in the Supreme Court having been 555 in 1840 and
only 160 in 1849. The declared value of the imports in 1849
arse 1,793,4201., and of the exports, 1,891,2701., of a hich
1,238.5591. consisted of wool, and 249,9321. of tallow.
The shipping entered inwards numbered 898 vessels, with
219,967 tonnage; the total outwards being 907 vessels,
with 214,056 tonnage. The revenue aas 575,6921.,
and the expenditure 516,533/. The land limier
cultivation, exclusive of gardens and orchards,
is described as follows : - Wheat, 90,706
acres, producing 1,917,253 bushels ; maize,
23,368 acres, 276,641 bushels; barley, 10,350 acres,
169,292 bushels; oats, 8,378 acres, 179 258 bushels;
rye, 203 acres, 2,951 bushels; millet, 18 acres, 134
bushels; potatoes, 5,289 acres, 14,229 tons; tobacco,
458 acres, 4,244 cwt. ; grasses, 42,842 acres,
47,554 tons;-total, 181,612 acres. This, as
compared with the return for 1840, shows
that the greatest increase in cultivation as
been in grasses, potatoes, barley, and oats, while in
maize there has been a decrease. Besides these pre-
ducen, however, there are now 1,127 acres of vineyard,
yielding 101,063 gallons of wine and 1,781 gallons of
brandy, the quantity having been steadily increasing
since 1843. The tendency to an increase in live stock
is shown mostly in sheep and horses, and the totals
ere-e-horses, 4 21,859 ; horned cattle, 1,810,213; pigs
58,674; end sheep, 12,102 540. The number of ani-
mals slaughtered in 1849 for tallow was 743,513 sheep
and 45,050 horned cattle, besides 250 hogs for lard.
The boilin,.;--down houses have increased within twelve
months from 62 to 95. The number of milts for grain
is stated as follows :-In 1340, steam, 26 ; water, 23 ;
wind, 34 ; horse, 14. in 1849-steam, 70 ; water,
41 ; wind, 28 ; horse, 29. The progress of the
laud sales is also subjoined :-1840, 316,626/. ;
X 8,41, 90,337/ ; 1842, 14,574/. ; 1843, 11,297/. ;
1844, 7,402/. ; 1845. 18,4511. ; 1846, 27,000/. ; 1847,
62,8011; 1848, 47,2621.; 1849, 85,7341.; and the mort-
gagee registered upon land, in 1849, in Sydney were for
198,479/, while at Port Phillip they were tn. 116,1571,
after having been 270,413/. The amount of debentures
issued by the local Government outstanding on the 31st
qz, December, 1849, bearing interest at 3,,i(1. per diem,
and Payable either in London or the colony, was 75,0001.

CITY OF LONDON HOSPITAL FOR
DISEASES OF THE CHEST.
On the site of the spot where once stood the house of
Bishop Bonner, and in close contiguity to the handsome
park which has recently been devoted to the health and
recreation of the labouring classes of the east of Lon-
don, it is proposed to erect, under most distinguished
auspices, a hospital which, like the sister institution at
Brotnpton, shall afford some prospect of recovery from
that direst of all disposes to which the British constitu-
tion is subjected—consumption.
Established in 1848, in confined and temporary pre-
claims upon their benevo-
lence rapidly increasing, and in very short period they
unanimoiasly determined to. extend their efforts. and to
construct a building of their own. The foundation -stone
of that building was on Wednesday_ laid by his Royal
Highness Prince Albert, US6istif,,d
_bythe Earl of Car-
s of Morton,
lisle, the President of the hospital, the._,lgriethops
of Lon-
don, St. Asaph, and Oxford, the E
Hardaicke, and Abercorn, the Marquis of VV9treinster,
the Lord Mayor and Sheriff:, and a distinguished circle
of guests.
T 1 building, which is from the design of Mr. °rajah,
and has been contracted for by
t'; h. It is to be
feet long by 40 feet w and 50 feet a4,ide, Mr. Myers,, will be 2t4
in the Queen Anna style, three stories high, of re, brick
with steno facings. There will be a campanile tall!
Centre, and altogether the structure will bear a 8
ora
leltl!
resemblance to Chelsea Hon
:ital. At present it
prises no wings, but it is hoped that eventually the-
,e
may be added, as it will enable its accommodation to be
extended to from 80 to 200 pationts. It stands upon a
gravel foundation. The estimated cost is 10,4001., and
the period of completion about twelve months from the
prercnt time.
In addition to the plan of the hospital, Mr. Joseph
Paxton exhibited a design for a sanitarium, in which
the patients might take exercise during both winter and
minima.. By a process of artificial filtration, the purity
of the atmosphere is secured, and a novel and ingenious
plan is adtppted for securing an equable and pure tem-
perature. The outer air le admitted by tunnels to the
centre of the building; it then ascends a shaft twelve
feet high, where it is heated and dispersed over the
building, some of it again to re-appear, the remainder
to escape from the roof. This building it is proposed
to construct of glass, and to stock it with such rare
plants as are known to give out the greatest quantity
of oxygen, Mr. Paxton's prieciple being, -that it is ne-
ceasaaaa in this manner to feed and stimulate the lungs
as it is necessary, to feed and invigorate the body.
The additional cost of this erection would be about
4,0001.

His Royal Highness examined the plans with atten-
tion. and expressed his approbation of the design.
The Prince having, amidst universal plaudits, taken
his place upon the patform, where the stone was pre-

;LE addressed his Royal Highness
as follows:—May it please your
ing that the Divine blessing wiil
in this undertakirg from more [T-
illy aware of the value of your
I will endeavour in the briefest
the nature of the work which we
ice, and the motives which have
Le favour and honour of so august
ask for it because it would ap-
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under the term of tt diseases of the chest," may
amount to nearly one-third of the whole number of

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