Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-09-05

Thus 1t appears that forty per ceat of the Total
number of deaths in Paris take place in hospitals.
BY the statistical returns it is shown that for the
last twentyseven years the ratio of the whole po-
pulation to The number of births is 334 to l, which
gives the mean duration of life for that period to be
thirtythree years. Before the revolution the ave.
rage duration of life was only 279 years the pre-
sent average is an increase of 10 per cent on the
length of life since the revolution.
From 1917 to ls43 the total number of males
born in Paris was l3,477 ,4s9, that of females was
l2,6SO,776, being an excess of 81 per cent. of
males over females.
Some curious facts are stated with respect TO the
statistics Of the press in Paris. Journalism is car
ried TO an extraordinary extent in that city. Not
only is the number of newspapers considerable,
but the average circulation is much greater than
that of the London journals. They are issued at a
much lower price, and are much more extensively
read. The annual subscription to the principal
daily papers is only 40 francs, about 81. There
are more than 800 reading-rooms or /" Cabinets de
Lecture" established in Paris, in which all the
journals of Paris all the periodicals of the day. the
popular romances and pamphlets, and other works
of current interest provided; the admission TO
these is about cents per day. The number of
Journals in Paris is about forty, Of which nearly
half are published daily, and dedicated to politics
and general intelligence. The lecture-rooms, in
many of which discourses are delivered grafuit-
0usiy, form another great attraction. OF these,
the lectures on astronomy, by the celebrated ARAGo,
and those on mechanical philosophy, by the Baron
CHARLES DUPIN, are the most celebrated, and are
attended by audiences of six or seven hundred per-
sons of both sexes and all ages, from the youth of
sixteen upwards.
There are about twenty-four theatres within the
barriers OF Paris permanently open, most of them
every night, including Sunday. Several Of these
are directly supported by the State, and are of
course, in some degree subject to Government con-
troll. The police regulations in these theatres are
excellent, and in the audience part Of Paris thea
tire there is, in fact, nothing to offend the eye or the
ear of the most fastidous moralist. There are
more than twenty Libraries in Paris open TO the
public daily, without any restriction whatever. The
facilities for using these Libraries are only equalled
by the accommodations furnished to readers of
every description. The number of readers is i'm
mense. The means of improvement in the fine
arts afforded 10 the people of Paris are also wor-
thy all commentator. II is calculated that not
less than $4,000 Of the lower orders of Paris en-
JOY themselves on every festival day in making
promenade of the magnificent collection of Yer
sailles, or oil the museum OF the Louvre. Those
who, IN London, il is to be feared would be found
at the gin-shop, are here found famarzing their
eye with the productions of the most celebrated
painters, or wandering among the antiquities of
Italy, Greece, and Egypt. The lamentable dis
crePancy between the startling facts which we have
herein first stated and these latter ones we will not
attempt to account for. Such results could not be
anticipated. We have in both instances made our
statements upon undoubted authority, and must
leave the moralist and the political economist to
solve the difficulty and to reconcile the contradiction