304 Foreign Literature and Science. 
I have examined the list of patents (brevets d’ invention’ 
from July 1, 1791, to July 1, 1825, and the following are 
the results :—For the 32 northern dep. 1689 patents—the 54 
sonthern dep. 413 patents. 
The University of the kingdom decrees to all the colleges 
of Paris and Versailles, an immense number of prizes of three 
grades, according to merit. The almanac of the Univer- 
sity contains the names and birth place of all the suc- 
cessful candidates. After subtracting all that were born in 
Paris, in order to avoid giving too great an advantage to the 
north, the following is the result :—Rewarded pupils of the 
31 northern dep. 107—54 southern, 36; that is, one third. 
And what is more, of these prizes 37 were of the first degree; 
and of these, 33 were assigned to students of the north. 
Of the pupils of the polytechnic schools, for 13 consecutive 
years, [ have found that of 1933 admitted, 1233 are from the 
north, and 700 from the south. 
The Academy of Sciences, to which all France gives this 
testimony, that it chooses its members with independence, 
and consequently with equity, from all the savans of the 
kingdom, presents a result still more favourable to the inhab- 
itants of the north. Of the 65 members who compose the 
I have reserved, as the last object of comparison, thase no- 
ble rewards which the government grants, at the periodical 
exhibition of the products of national industry. The follow- 
ing at the exhibition of 1819, was the proportion of the prizese 
32 dep. of the nerth, 54 dep. of the south, 
Gold Medals, _ 63 a= 26 ng 
Silver Medals, 136 45 
Bronze Medals, 94 36 
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The exhibition of 1823, gives still more striking results. 
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