432 Miscellanemis Iiiielligenre. 



In the kingdom of Denmark there were born in 1820, 32,376 

 children, amono^ whom were 3,089 natural children. The number 

 of deaths was 23,532. At Copenhagen the births were 2,225, 

 including 852 natural children; the deaths 1,162. 



5. Census in America. 



(5. Observatory at Abo in Finland. —The emperor Alexander 

 has erected a magnificent observatory at Abo, in Finland, the 

 direction of whicli has been given to the celebrated astronomer 

 Balbeck. 



7. Rewards for Discovery in the North.— In the new Longi- 

 tude Act, which is the 58th of Geo. III. amended, it is assumed 

 that no ship has gone beyond 81° of N. lat, and 113° of W. long. 

 within the arctic circle. The rewards proposed in it are, 



^5,000 to any subject of Great Britain, who shall reach the 

 longitude of 130°, from Greenwich, within the arctic circle. 



£10,000, besides the above, for the North-West passage into 

 the Pacific. 



£1,000 for reaching 83° of North latitude ; and a similar sum 

 for 85°, 87°, and 89°, respectively. 



8. Convent of St. Bernard. — A subscription has been en- 

 tered into at Geneva, to be applied to the purpose of repairing 

 and warming the convent on the Grand St. Bernard. It appears, 

 that its inhabitants, who are known over the whole of Europe, as 

 having saved many a wanderer from destruction, amidst the 

 snows and precipices of their inclement mountain, suffer severely 

 in their health, from the damp and cold which prevail in their 

 crazy mansion ; they have, therefore, the strongest possible 

 claims upon the charitable traveller ; and we trust that the 

 British will not be backward in lending their aid 

 alleviation of their sufferings. The Helvetic Soci 



tributed the sum of 600 francs towards eflfectin 

 objects. 



Subscriptions are received by Messrs. Decandollt 

 tini, bankers, at Geneva. 



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