176 Miscellanies. 
which in the latitude of 68° the amateurs of Botany may form an idea 
of the beauty and variety of the flora of a vast country, situated be- 
tween the tropics.— Rev. Encyc. Nov. 1830. 
7. Kingdom of Wirtemburg.—On the first of Nov. 1826 the pop- 
ulation of this kingdom was 1,517,770 inhabitants, of whom 1,055,132 
profess the evangelical and 462,857 the Catholic worship, 9,100 are 
Jews, 463 menonists, and hernhuters. 
In 1827 the University of Tubingen was frequented by 800 stu- 
dents of whom 90 were foreigners. In the same year there were in 
the kingdom, in 59 Gymnasia and Latin Schools 2,303 Students, in 
1,400 primary protestant schools, 160,000 students, in 787 primary 
catholic Schools, 30,000 Students. Of new works there were published 
in the same year 149, public Journals 48, Le nombre.des enfans nat 
urel fut, 7,475 sur une population de 1,540,000; civil prisoners gee 
of whom 673 were Protestants, 403 Catholics, 1 Greek, 7 Jews. 
were men and 294 women, 1037 were condemned to more than . 
months imprisonment and 7 to death.—Idem.. 
8. Iron Trade of Great Britain.—(Repertory of Arts.) The whole 
iron made in Great Britain has been as follows :— 
1740, 17,000 ae from 59 furnaces. 
1788, 68, “ 7 
1796, 125,000 « 
1806, 250,000 «« 
1820, 400,000 * 
1827, 690,000 + “ 284 = 
The iron produced in 1827 was made as follows :— 
South Wales, 272,000 tons, from 90 ¥ 
Staffordshire, 216,000 « “ 95 Hs 
Shropshire, 78,000 « : 3l © 
Yorkshire, 43,000 « “ 24 o 
Scotland, 36,500 & 18 . 
North Wales, 24,000 « “ 12 vt 
Derbyshire, — 20,500 « ee 14 vs 
690,000 284 
About ;5ths of this is used for home consumption, and the other 
ysths are spacaied. —Brewster’s Journal. 
9. Russian Universities.—The University of Petersburg which 
contained in 1826, 30 pupils, had in 1829, 177. The number of st 
dents in the eight governments of its arrondissements, was 10,200; 
