The daily union., 1846-09-02
CURIOUS STATISTICS OF PARIS.
1t appears that thirty-two and half per cent OF
The children born in the capital Of France are ile-
yitmate. The births i'm IS4A were.


Thus it appears that forty per cent. of the total
number OF deaths IN Paris take place in hospitals
BY the statistical returns it is shown that, for the
last twenty-seven years. the ratio Of the whole pop
ulaton to the number of births is 33.4 to l, which
gives the mean duration of life for that period to be
thlrty-three years. Before the revolution the aver
age duration of life was only 81, years; the present
average is increase of 10 per cent on the length
of life since the revolution.
From 1917 to 1S43 the total number of males
born Paris was l3 AT, ,4S9, that of females was
1860 776, being an excess Of 6! per cent of males
over females.
Some curious facts are stated with respect to the
statistics of the press in Paris. Journalism carri-
ed to an extraordinary extent in that city Not on
ly is the number of newspapers considerable, but
the average circulation is much greater than that OF
the London journals. They are issued at much
lower price, and are much more extensively read.
The annual subscription to the principal daily pa
pers is only 40 francs, about 81. There are more
than 300 reading.rooms "cabineB de lecture" es-
tablished 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
are 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
ecture-rooms, in many Of which dlscourses are de-
vered gyaiuiiosy, form another great attraction. OF
these, the lectures astronomy, by the celebrats I'd
",
Baron Charles Dupin, are the most celebrated, and
are attended by audiences Of six or seven hundred
persons 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 theatre
there is, in fact nothing offend the eye the ear
of the most fastdious morast. There are more
than twenty Libraries in Paris open to the public
daily, without any restriction whatever. The facil
tiles for using these libraries only equaed by
the accommodations furnished to readers Of every
description. The number of readers is immense.
The means of improvement in the fine arts afforded
TO the people of Paris are also worthy oil commen-
dation.
IL IS calculated that not less than $4,000 Of the
lower orders of Paris enjoy themselves on every
festival day in making promenade Of the magnif-
cent collection Of Versailles or OF the museum of
the Louvre Those Who in London, it is to be feared
would be found at the gn-shop, are here found fa-
mIharlsing their eye with the productions Of the
most celebrated painters or wandering among the
| antiquities of Italy, Greece and Egypt. The lam.
enable discrepancy between the startling facts
which we have herein first stated and these latter
ones, we will not attempt to account for Such re
suits could not be anticipated. We have, in both
instances made our statements upon undoubted au
thority and must leave the moralist and the poiti
cal economist to solve the difficulty, and TO reconc,
| the contradiction