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. --i2et). Encyc. Nov. 1830. 



7. Kingdom of Wirtemhurg. — 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 1,084, 

 of whom 673 were Protestants, 403 Catholics, 1 Greek, 7 Jews. 790 

 were men and 294 women, 1037 were condemned to more than 3 

 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 : — 



59 furnaces. 



690,000 284 



About fVths of this is used for home consumption, and the other 

 ^o^ths are exported. — Brewster''s Journal. 



9. Russian Universities. — The University of Petersburg which 

 contained in 1826, 30 pupils, had in 1829, 177. The number of stu- 

 dents in the eight governments of its arrondissements, was 10,200. 



