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hingdom; and of marriages solemnized in each of the
four quarters,2f, tllo Yolir.,Feskectively ; also of re-
marriages, Marriages of -Minors, and of persons mar-
ried who wrote their names. The other divisions
relate to births, deaths atm their de..rease), life tables,
and health of towns. These are followed by tables th
marriages, births and deaths in the several counties of
England (in 1841), distinguishing males and females,
and by other documents and correspondence having re-
lation to the same physical statistics of districts and
towns.

We have no room to-day for some results to which
we had intended to call attention, among those which
are arranged under the returns from the 324 statis-
tical districts into which England is divided for the
general purposes of this registry. In the meantime,
however, we shall quote the following passage, as
suggesting an important modification in the, of late,
generally received doctrine that the duration of life is
caleris paribus, in a very high degree greater in
women than in men. The degree in which the
difference has been overrated appears to remount to
the age of the ingenious but defective calculations of
the older economists, 'made in times when there
existed so few authenticated data, and those data so
ill combined, on which to found the theory of those
calculations ; and to the first attempt of BUFFON, and
other naturalists, prior to the better instructed
efforts of the ;omits who succeeded them, to estimate
the vie probable of our species, under given
conditions of social life, in its existing forms.
Yet the reformation of the tables of our Life
Assurance Offices, founded on this assumption of the
superior longevity of women, and the consequent re-
duction of premiums in their favour, is but of com-
paratively modern introduction. To show how the
assumed excess may be demonstrated, Mr. GRAHAM
has prepared a table of which he says—

" The Expectation of Life' in the annexed table
was calculated separately for males," females,' and
persons.' . . . At first the expectation of fe-

male lives is more by two- years than that of males
at twenty, it its 40.81 years, that of males being
20.02 ; during the whole period of life, after the first
year, the difference in the expectation does not exceed
1.17 year. This difference is important ; but tie
table disposes of the highly exaggerated opinions as
to the superior vitality of the female sex derived from
partial observation. I am informed that the lives of
females assured are not longer than those of males,
which might have been expected, as, at Assurance
offices, their state of health is less strictly investigated."
In some highly interesting calculations, which ap-
pear to have been most carefully conducted, and to be
very fairly set out by Mr. GRAHAM, he points out a
few remarkably falsified conclusions, which had been
previously arrived at by the late Mr. RICKMAN and
by Mr. FINLAISON, (the calculator of the Government
Annuity Tables,) and the Commissioners for conduct-
ing the last Irish Census. We advert especially to
an extraordinary misapprehension of Mr. RICKMAN
as to the minor waste of human life in the population
of Liverpool ; and to a similar error on the part of
the Commissioners as to the differences of duration of
life between the Irish and English people. But we
must postpone the very interesting illustrations we
have selected, under these heads, to a future oppor-
tunity.

The intelligence from Madrid, which is to the 11th
instant, adds little to that which we have extracted
from the Paris papers. The disarmament of the
National Guards was taking place generally through-
out the provinces, and met with very little resistance.
At Seville two battalions refused to give up their
arms ; but whether they were ultimately successful
is not stated. A number of Deputies, of what is
called the " old majority," had presented an address
to the QUEEN, expressing their devotion to the
Throne. The QUEEN thanked the Cortes thus repre-
sented (in other words, the Re np Cortes), for their
support, and praised the energy of the Government.
The same party also moved an address to Queen
CHRISTINA, thanking her for returning to Spain.
They should also have- voted a similar ad-
dress to Louis PHILIPPE. Accounts from
Murcia state that the insurgents of Carthagena had
retired from Murcia, carrying off all the public
moneys, together with large sums exacted from the
wealthy inhabitants of the place. The QUEEN'S
troops occupied it on the Bth.
At Madrid the Three per Cents. were done at 29
5-16 at 60 days, and 281 for cash, and the Five per
Cents. at 201 at 60 days.

The Moniteur of Saturday contains the following
telegraphic dispatch from Spain :

" iheQueen's troops entered Murcia on the Bth, amid the
acclamations of the people. The authorities had resumed
their functions. General Roncah was, on the evening of the
7th, at St. Jean d'Alicant, with a part of his division. The
rest of his force was at Asp& An insurrectional movement
has just broken out in Portugal near the Spanish frontier."
We give the dispatch as it appears, but at the same
time place little confidence in any statements, except
mere facts, which cannot be long concealed ; for th,
Liberal press in Spain is so completely put down, and
the Post-office so controlled by the Government, that
no impartial intelligence can be expected from that
country. The home intelligence in the Paris
papers is not of much importance. It appears
from what took place in the Chamber of De-
puties, on Thursday, that more - money and
more men are wanted for Algeria. On that day
Marshal SOULT presented a Bill demanding a credit
of 7,673,589 f., as a complement destined for the pay
and other expenses of 15,000 men to he added to
the army in Africa, of which the effective force was
to be 75,000. The Noble Marshal, in his prefatory
observations, remarked that when the Chambers had
,fixed on 60,000 men as the number of troops in
Algeria, it had been with the understanding that, if a
larger force were required to strengthen and conso-
lidate' their conquest, the number of troops
should be increased. It was now certain that 75,000
men would be necessary for the coming year, and the
Government, therefore, without hesitation, applied for
the required addition of men.
Most of the papers advert to the . conviction
of Mr. O'CoNNELL, and to the debate on the state
of Ireland in the House of Commons. On
the former subject the Paris Globe says—" The
verdict has not in the least surprised us. It is clear
that the agitator raised masses of the people, orga-
nised them, represented to them that the English
Government was their enemy, and thus prepared all
the elements of civil war. O'CONNELL, therefore, is
justly condemned, and his acquittal would have been'
an annulment of all the laws of order by which the
British empire is ruled. Nevertheless, two grand
questions still remain open; first, whether Ireland
has not good grounds of complaint—and next, whe-
ther England has done nothing to deserve reproach.
The agitator hail a perfect right to proclaim the griefs
of Island, although lie had no right to raise the
country, and organise the means of creating a civil
war. Ireland has every right to complain of the
manner in which she has been treated by England.'
But even the Opposition journals express little sym-
pathy for the traversers. Mr. O'CONNELL very pro-
perly declined the aid of M. LEDRU ROLLIN and his
party, and for that they cannot forgive him. In ad-
verting to the speech of Lord J. RUSSELL, the
Journal des Debats says—
" The speech of the leader of the Opposition was such as
might have been expected from him—simple, firm, and oc-
casionally full of irony and bitterness. Ile attacked, for he
could not do otherwise, the two great evils of Ireland—the
exclusive supremacy of the Protestant Church, and the con-
nexion between tenant and landlord ; but on those two points
he could not specify or determine any remedy. Nor is he
more explicit when he speaks of the kind of social war going
on between those who possess and those who cultivate the
land. All, in fact, that he says is, that he is obliged to ac-
knowledge that for so profound, so hr,-eterate, so ancient an
evil, he knows ofno direct remedy."

The following piece of information appears in the
Journal de Havre, and we have little doubt will prove
prove too true.::—" The Elizabeth whaler has arrived
in ninety days from Otaheite, brings intelligence that
the French, on pretence of some infraction of the
treaty, by which it agreed to afford protection to that
island, had deposed Queen POMARE. The French
Rear-Admiral DU PETIT Tuouus had taken posses-
sion of Otaheite in the name of the King of the
FnENcn, and the national flag was hoisted in token
of sovereignty."
The Journal des Chemins de Fer, in contradiction
to the statement of the Journal des Travaux Publics,
which we have already given, says that the superior
commission on railroads, appointed by tho Govern-
ment, has decided on recommending that there shall
be two branches to the coast from the northern line
at Amien,s, viz.—to Boulogne by Abbeville, and to
Wahl by arras. Our Copteropuritry at* that the