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public offices, its police regulations, its revenue ; population, which is about 66,000 ; 

 its houses, about 4000 in number ; education, &c. The inhabitants and sojourners of 

 this " free city " appear to be subject to harsh restrictions. A butcher is not allowed 

 to sell above a certain quantity of meat ; persons in service have to register them- 

 selves as such to the police, and give notice on leaving their employ ; a stranger seek- 

 ing work must quit the city in three days if unsuccessful ; no person can marry until 

 he satisfies the authorities that he possesses sufficient capital. The consequence of 

 this impolitic restriction is that one in every six children born is illegitimate. State 

 lotteries prevail, some of them displaying more ingenuity than honesty ; but this does 

 not apply to Frankfort. The indigent poor are looked after in their own dwellings, 

 but poor-houses are provided for the houseless operative citizen or the sojourner. 



On the Statistics of Hospitals for the Insane in Bengal. 

 By Lieut.-Col. Sykes, F.R.S. 



It appeared from the report that there are four asylums in Bengal which are under 

 the charge of the government authority ; the rate of mortality in them is lower than 

 that of the lunatics in the English asylums, and they appeared to be managed in a 

 very oeconomical manner. The cures and discharges in all the hospitals in 1839 was 

 31 '7 per cent, and the deaths 162 per cent. In 1840 the cures and discharges were 

 3M per cent, and the deaths 12-2 per cent. Little restraint is imposed upon the 

 patients, who for the most part are engaged in horticultural and agricultural pursuits. 



On the Statistics of Old and New Malton. 

 ByVfiijLiAU Charles Copperthwaite, F.S.S.,the Borough BailifFof Malton. 



The paper commences with a history of the parish, and then directly proceeds to the 

 local and geographical situation of Malton, its extent, boundary, river, &c., the statis- 

 tics of its streets, number of houses in each, the number of gas-lights, the value of its 

 houses, &c. The second section, division and tenure of property. The third section 

 describes the population and vital statistics, with its increase and decrease at relative 

 periods. The population in 1831 was 5377, whilst in 1841 it had declined to 5317. 

 The registers of births, marriages, and burials were referred to, and a number of tables 

 were produced to show the progress of mortality. It appeared that in 1810 the ille- 

 gitimate children averaged 6*3 per cent. ; in 1820 they were 6*7 per cent. ; in 1830 

 they were 8*7 per cent, ; and in 1840 they reached 9'4 per cent. The paper proceeded 

 to give details of the occupations of the inhabitants in 1831 and 1841 ; the rate of 

 wages paid to those employed in agriculture and handicraft ; a full description of the 

 agriculture in the parishes of Old and New Malton ; the quantity of acres under the 

 several descriptions of culture ; produce of the farms ; the rents paid, which were 

 stated to average ]l. 15s. an acre including tithe, and, including taxes, &c., 2l.0s. 6d,; 

 the rotation of crops ; the produce per acre ; the working power ; live stock ; produce 

 of butter, wool, &c. ; drainage ; description of soil, &c. It was stated that the tenants 

 under Earl Fitzwilliam, the principal landowner, hold at will, but that some farms have 

 been in the occupation of the same family for above a century. The average of the 

 holdings is 70 acres. Mr. Copperthwaite's paper stated that the allotment system had 

 been amply tried in Malton. There were 41 who occupied each a quarter of an acre ; 

 54 who rented half an acre, and 26 who held an acre. There are 23 public-houses 

 in New Malton and 1 in Old Malton, also a Temperance Hotel and some beer-shops. 

 The paper then noticed the Temperance Society, which was stated tohavehad a bene- 

 ficial effect ; the several benefit societies, the secret orders, the savings' bank, the cha- 

 ritable institutions of the town, the extent of pauperism, the cost of relief under the 

 old and new systems, the income and expenditure of the working classes, entering 

 minutely into their domestic oeconomy, the extent of markets, and the state of educa- 

 tion. It appeared that there were 1407 children between the ages of 3 and 15 years 

 resident in Malton ; of this number 1096 were in course of education. The paper 

 next noticed the Mechanics' Institute, the public libraries, news-room, the religious 

 persuasions of the inhabitants, and their places of worship. 



