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Public Schools. 



1824. Number of boys at Eton school . 550 



Ditto at tbe Charterhouse . . . 450 



Ditto at Winchester 270 



Ditto at Westminster .... 250* 



1822> Attorneys. 



Total number of attorneys in London . 1800 

 Ditto ditto in the country 2400 



4200 



Total number of barristers in England, about . 900 



Drury Lane Theatre. 



The boxes in the new Drury Lane Theatre will 

 hold 1200 individuals; the pit, 850; the lower gal- 

 lery, 480; the upper gallery, 280; in all, 2810 per- 

 sons can be accommodated, f 



Court of Chancery Wardships. 



Amount in the Bank standing in the name of the 

 Accountant General to the Court of Chancery at dif- 

 ferent periods during the last one hundred years : 



A.D. 1726 741,590 



1730 1,007,293 



1740 1,295,243 



1760 3,093,740 



1780 7,120,537 



1800 17,565,912 



1805 ..... 21,635,719 



1810 25,162,430 



1815 32,018,209 



1820 34,208,785 



1825 . . . . 39,174,722 



* 1825, Members of the University of Oxford . . 4660 

 Ditto ditto of Cambridge . 4700 



f This estimate was made ten years ago, and is inserted prin- 

 cipally to show the relative proportions of the pit, gallery, and 

 boxes", to each other. 



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