Literary and Philosophical Intelligence, 



264 



The Height of Snowdon has l)een 

 detenninwl by IMr. M'ollaston's Ther- 

 inoinctrical Barometer, and the follow- 

 ing are the results : — 



9NOWDON. 



Height by thermometrical bavo- Feet. 

 meter from the nortli eud of 

 Caernarvon Uuay to the sunsniit, 3546.25 



Ditto trigouometrically, accord- 

 ing- to General Roy - - - 3555.4 



Ditto barometrically, according to 



General Roy ----- 3548.9 



MOEL ELIO. 



Height by the thenuometrical 



barometer from the north end 



of Caernarvon Quay - - 2350.55 

 Ditto trigonometrically, according 



to General Roy - - . . 2371 

 Ditto barometrically, accordhig 



to General Roy - - - - 2391.8 

 FRANCE. 



France, by the last census, and by 

 documents furnished by the Board of 

 Statistics, contains 29.217-40;") souls. 

 Births in Paris in 1819—24.844, of 

 which 8,r)41 were natural children: 

 <leaths, 22,072, including 3.51 children 

 who died of the small pox : still-born 

 children, 1..1.")2 ; marriages, (5,236. Po- 

 pulation of Paris, 713,705. 



In an official document relative to 

 the statistics of Paris, the charitable 

 establishments are dividwl into hospi- 

 tals and aliiis-houses. The hospitals 

 devoted to the recepticm of the sick, 

 are 13 in number, the Hotel Dieu, St. 

 [.lOuis, Lff Pitie, La Charity, St. An- 

 toine, Necker. Cockiu. lieaujon, tlie 

 Venereal, In.t Enfdns Mala/lex. the Uoyal 

 House of Health, the Hou.se of Health 

 in the street St. tlaccjues, and the Lying- 

 in Ho.spital. 



The ahn.shou.ses for the reception of 

 the aged, in (inn, and orphans, are 9, 

 la Sal petr it-re, Bic{'tre, incurables for 

 men, inenrables for women, Les Meua- 

 ge.s, Mont Rogtie. Orphans and Sainte 

 Perino. Thf-e is also a jNirticular es- 

 tablislimeiit for fotiudiings. 



Anumg the aniiouncements of new 

 works in French, is La De.icriniinn 

 Pitfnrcsq'te. he. or a Picturesque De- 

 scription of Sicily, in sixty plates, fo- 

 lio and litliDgraphed, from designs 

 taken .on the spot, by M. Lnsson, ar- 

 chitect. The first number of this pu!>- 

 licatinn, which is acfcmpanie 1 with an 

 illustrative text, has just appeared; 

 it is no less interesting to antiquarian 

 amateurs than to artists, for without 

 excepting the voyage of St. Non, now 

 A'ery scarce and the price exorbitant, 

 it is allowed to be far superior to every 

 work that has hitlierto appeared on 

 Sicily. 



.\pril I, 



The Roj'al and Sj)ecial Sch(Kd of 

 liiving Oriental Languages in Paris, is 

 to have its establishment completed by 

 tlie creation of a professorship for mo- 

 dern, and anotlier for the vulgar Ara- 

 bic. These two languages are of no 

 less imi)ortance in commercial and po- 

 litical transactions than in literary la- 

 bours. The individuals pionioted to 

 these newly created chairs, are entitle<l 

 from their known talents, and from 

 the facility Avith which they speak 

 the respective tongues, to the honour- 

 able appointments they have received 

 from his Majesty. One is M. Hase, 

 professor of Modern tireek, and the 

 other Biiether, professor of the vulgar 

 Arabic. 



SWrTZERL.WD. 



It appears from a census furui.slied 

 by the respective bailiwicks, that tb.e 

 entire populati(m of the Tyrol and the 

 Voralberg. in 1819,amounfed to 782,082 

 inhabitants, of whom 3.}4,(K)0 were 

 males, and 377iOOO females. The Vo- 

 ralberg contains 81,966 individual.s. 

 Comparing this list with the inhabi- 

 tants of the Tyrol, in 1808, who then 

 anmunted to 618,893 souls, (without 

 including the Voralh(?rg and the new 

 bailiwicks of Zells on the Ziller, of 

 Hopgarien and of Wiiidish Matre) that 

 notwithstanding several unfavourable 

 circumstances, there has been an actual 

 increase of 6149 individuals, or ofnearly 

 one hundredth part in the space of 11 

 years. What appears most striking is 

 the excess of females above the males, 

 by 23,804. 



RUSSIA. 



lu all Russia, in the year ISU? there 

 were born 



. . 786,810 males, 

 71 1,796 females. 

 And there died 



423,092 males, 



40r>,469 females. 



Of which, under 5 years 208,954. 



60 vears of age 68-723 



70 ■ .. .. 38,764 



80 .. .. 1(5,175 



90 .. .. 2,108 



100 .. .. 7S3 



ll.*) .. .. 83 



120 .. .. 51 



125 .. .. 21 



130 .. .. 7 



135 .... 1 



140 .... 1 



SPAIN. 



According to the last census taken in 



Spain, it appe;irs that the actual popu- 



lution amounts to 13 millions, iuclud- 



