Star.
London, England, 1823-10-29 00:00:00

PARISIAN STATIST ICS.

The Joernal des Debate gives several extracts from
certain Statistical Researches regarding the City of
Paris and the Department of the Seine," published by
:order of M. de Chabrol, the Prefect. The following
circumstances are sisme of the most interesting :
The City of Paris pays annually to the State eighty-
one millions of francs—a sum equal to half the revenue
of the whole kingdom of the Netherlands. Of this sum
$8,000,000 are paid in direct, and 19,000,000 in inch.'
sect taxes ; 16,000,000 are received for Crown pro-,
Petty, acts of registration, and stamps; six millions are
'derived from the lottery, five millions from the gaming-,
houses, and four millions from the Post Oflike. Each
individual, taking the population at 713,009 persons.
pays 114 francs, and without the gaming-houses, 108
.francs. Paris, under the principal relations of finance
and political economy, is a tenth of the whole of France.
The number of houses and chimnies on fire in Paris is:
Chinudes on Ate. Houses on Are.
314 133
524 146
631 170

In 1818
In 1819
In leso

The value of the different buildings insured by the
Company for mutual insurance is 860,000,000 francs:
there ate five other Companies. The corps of firemen
consists of 568 men : it ought to be augmented. The
damage sustained by fire every year is upon an average
one twenty-three thousandth part of the value of the
houses. Paris contains 560 bakers, 355 butchers, 265
poi k-butchers, 927 restaurateurs, innkeepers, cooks, and
chophouse-keepers, 325 pastry-cooks, custard-makers,
and confectioners, 2,333 retail dealers in wine, 1,466
retail grocers, 1,767 fruiterers, many of whom arealso
gardeners, ,281 corn-chandlers, 787 lemonade-sellers,
416 brandy-merchants, 52 milkmen, &c. In all, 9,761
dealers in articles of sustenance for human life. There
are besides, 1,749 milk-women standing in the public
streets. The women who have sheltered stalls in the
market•places and public streets are about 3,000.

THE NORTHERN EXPEDITION. Considering how
little remote, comparatively speaking, the situation is in
which Captain PARRY spent the two last winters, it is
surprising that no accounts from him reached us. His
wintering ground is only about 700 miles from Fort
Churchill,. a station of the Fur Traders, and not, we
believe, much more than half this distance from the re-
motest parts visited by the hunters. By the migrations
of parties of Esqvimaux, with whom he often commu-
nicated, it might have been expected that he would have
been able to transmit intelligence to Montreal. We have
no doubt it will turn out that he made attempts of this
kind. From the subjoined notice it will be seen, that
had anything detained this adventurous navigator
longer, we should have had accounts of him within a
very few days of the time at which he actually appeared.
It has been sent us by a Gentleman in Leith, who re-
ceived it on Saturday from his Correspondent, a factor
at Hudson's Bay. Such a notice would have been ex•
tremely welcome a month ago:—" A party of Esqui-
mans that visited Churchill Factory flat. 58.45. long.
W. 94.) this summer, report' their having heard that
some of the more distant bands, who seldom or never
see Churchill, had observed two ships in summer 1822,
perhaps about the month of August. These we think
must be Captain PARRY and his colleagues, and, as far
as we know, they have not been heard of in any other
part of the world."—Scotsnaan.
Duaux, ()Groan 23.—Tuesday morning, twelve
Commissariat wagons, laden with 4:70,000 of the silver
coinage formerly in circulation here, left the Bank of
Ireland, to be put on board his Majesty's cutter BASE.
LIM, now at Kingstown Harbour. They were accom-
panied by a detachment of the 10th Hussars. At four
o'clock in the evening, the same waggons and detach-
ments returwnl to the Bank with £lOO,OOO, of the new

silver coinage, which had been brought to Kingstown
by the cutter. _ _

At Sherborne fair, on Monday week, a man by the
name of Edward Nevi's,' was committed to Dorchester
Castle, by the Rev. JOHN PARSONS, to practise on the
treadmill for one month, for unlawful gaming.
An experiment has been tried in the Hotel Dieu, at
Paris, to cure the hydrophobia, by the injection of
warm water into the veins of the patient. The remedy,
however, 'has proved ineffectual. The Etoile of Sunday
announces that the patient, in whose case it had been
tried, is dead.
In the late battle which took place at Agrapha, be-
tween the Turks and Greeks, and in which l3ozzaris lost
his life, this warrior chose 250 of his best troops, and
towards midnight, when the Turks were buried in the most
profound sleep, he penetrated into the middle of their
camp, having killed the sentinels of the advanced posts.
When he reached the tents of Kioja Bey, and of Ismael
Bascha Pilassa, two Chiefs, he mane them both prisoners-
Then giving the signal agreed on to the Greeks, they
fell on the Turks on all sidel. The carnage lasted more
than two hours, and was terrible. In the darkness se.
veral corps of Turks and Albanians engaged each
other without being sensible of their error. The defeat
was complete, and the loss of the Turks estimated at
more than 5,000 men. The Greeks remained masters
of the enemy's camp, in which they found all the artil-
lery, the military chest, and considerable quantities of'
provisions and ammunition, of arms, and wealth, the
fruit of pillage and of Asiatic luxury, besides several
thousand horses, and 7,000 head of cattle.