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prices were 29^d. per lb. for Egyptian and 2.3if7. per lb. for Dhollera, or nearly 

 Jtve times the prices in 1860. In 1860 we paid about £36,000,000 for cotton ; in 

 1864 nearly £74,000,000, or more than double, and more than the total revenue of 

 Great Britain, namely, £70,000,000, for one article of import alone. In 1862 

 nearly 40 J,000 operatives were thrown out of employ by the stoppage of the cotton- 

 mills, and the pauperism amounted to 240 in the 1000, who were supported by 

 voluntary subscriptions chiefly ; now the pauperism is Go in the 1000. 



Yet notwithstanding- this vast drain of money, this want of employment for 

 tens of thousands, the country flourished. The revenue in 1863-64 was £70,000,000. 

 The exports, which in 1860 (the most flourishing commercial year on record) 

 amounted to £135,000,000, and fell to £125,000,000 in 1861 and to £127,000,000 in 

 1862, ROSE to £146,000,000 in 1863 and to £160,000,000 in 1864, or £25,000,000 

 more than in 1860. And that private wealth kept pace with that of the country 

 may be gleaned from the asserted fact that in 1864 the amount invested in new 

 companies was no less than £192,000,000 of which £22,000,000 was paid up. 



So much for England and the manner in which she has weathered the storm : 

 now see the eftect on India and some other countries. In 1860 we paid for Indian 

 cotton only £3,500,000 ; in 1864 nearly £37,000,000 ; and in 1863 £36,000,000 ; 

 or including 1865 nearly £100,000,000 in three years, of which a very large propor- 

 tion was paid in hard cash. In 1860 we paid £1,500,000 for cotton from Egvpt, 

 and in 1864 we paid her £14,000,000. In 1864 we also paid about £10.000,000 for 

 cotton to the Brazils, China, and Japan. So true is it, " that it is an ill wind that 

 blows nobody good." 



Statement of the Mortality of the City of Bath. By E. T. Goee. 



The author, after a few preliminary remarks, epitomized the sanitary statistics 

 of the city and its vicinity thus : — 



General Summary of Mortality. — The total population of the city, according to 

 the last census, and including the workhouse and hospitals, may be taken at 52,500, 

 and the total deaths as follows : — Lansdown, 341 ; Walcot, 280 ; Abbey, 298 ; 

 Lyncombe and Widcombe, 214 ; Bathwick, 91. Total, 1224. To these must be 

 added, for deaths of persons belonging to city parishes, in the workhouse, 59 ; in 

 United Hospital, 67. Total deaths, 1350. Population as above, 52,500 ; deaths, 

 1350. Ratio to population, 25-714; ranging from, Bathwick, 17-28 to, in Abbey 

 district, 27-09. Of the total deaths, the numbers, at certain ages, are as follows : — ■ 

 xmder 10 yeara, 41-63 ; from 60 to 100, 2882 ; intermediate ages, 29-25. 



Mortality of Country Districts of the Bath Union, year endiny June 30, 1864. — ■ 

 Population, 15,808 ; deaths, 331 ; "ratio, 20-93. Under 10 years, 479 ; fi-om 60 to 

 100, 3003 ; intermediate ages, 22. It should be added, as a general remark apply- 

 ing to all districts both in town and coimtry, that, dm-tng the year in question, there 

 was a prevalent epidemic of scarlatina, with a heavy rate of mortality. Thus, in 

 the Twerton district, of 166 deaths, 51 were from scarlatina, and of these 29 in 

 the quarter ending March 31, 1864. In the Batheaston district, of 128 deaths, 16 

 were from scarlatina. In Lansdown district, of 341 deaths, 62 were fi-om the same 

 cause, and of these 62 were in young persons fi-om infancy to 22 years of age. 



On Crime in Enylancl and France. 

 By M. GtTERKT, of the Institute of France. 



Some remarhs on the French Calculatiny Machine. 

 By Major-General Hanxtngton. 



Statistics of Live Stock. By R. Herbert. 



On the Recommendations of the Public School Commissioners for the Distribu- 

 tion of School Time. By James Heywood, M.A., F.E.S., F.G.S., F.S.A. 

 The Royal Commissioners appointed to inquire into English public school 



education, proposed in their report the following scheme for the distribution of 



