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children of those public functionaries who shall have left their 
families in poverty. Besides these donations, Co 
Moltke has enriched many benevolent institutions. —Jdem. 
Mutual Instruction obtains great success in this country. 
They count one hundred and ey schools in which this 
method has been introduced. — Idem 
5. Steam-Boats.—In the month of October (last year) the 
steam-boat Francis, the first which has navigated the Danube, 
made its first passage from Vienna to Pesth, and from Pesth 
to Vienna, with a cargo of 1500 quintals.—Idem. 
6. Prussia.—The population of the Prussian states, which 
in 1719 was 10,799,954, gave in 1822 a census of 11,494,173 
inhabitants. —Idem. 
7. Prague.—This city contains 96,618 inhabitants of 
whom 80,794 are Christians, 7824 Jews, 6500 soldiers, and 
a are ‘foreigners. In the year 1820, there were in the 
, 736 marriages, 4199 legitimate births, and from 1400 to 
16 illegitimate ; 3683 deaths. among which 191 were still 
born ; 3 1328 died within the first year, 6 suicides, and 14 
s only by small pox. The most common maladies are 
rheumatisms, Sikecse of the lungs, dropsies, vane pa and 
mental alienations.—Jdem 
8. Werman.— Goethe.—On the 28th of August, 1823, the 
friends of Goethe celebrated the 74th anniversary of this 
honour. Several poets brought their tributes in stanzas and 
sonnets, in which they expressed their oa a for the tal- 
ents of their friend and master. The two physicians who 
attended Goethe pera his dangerous illness, were crowned 
by the company.—Idem 
9, SwitzerLann.— Zurich.—This city possesses eight so- 
‘cieties, each of which, at the epoch of the new year are in the 
abit of publishing a memoir on some subject appertaining to 
the natural, civil, or literary history of the country.—. 
