| Oa ae i ie the Semes. 
church of St. Paul, at Rome, without the enclosure, 
height 38 feet 4 inches. 7th. The columns near the Baths 
of Dioclesian, and those of Caracalla now placed at Flo- 
rence, near the pont Trinité, of the same height as the 
preceding. | Rev. Encyc. — 
To these may be added a beautiful columnof white 
marble about 40 feet long, taken from a quarry on the 
south side of the Alps, and now lying by the side of the 
Simplon Road ; it was destined by Napoleon for the or- 
namental improvements of Milan. ctu 
12. Bibliotheque Royale, de Paris.—This library con- 
tained in 1791, only 150,000 volumes; at present it 
includes more than 450,000. In 1783, it numbered 
only 2,700 portfolios of engravings, and now there are 
5,700. Its annual increase is 6,000 French works, and 
3,000 foreign, which permits us te hope that in fifty years, 
this magnificent establishment will have doubled its literary 
and scientific treasures.—Idem. 
13. Proportion of the Sexes.—F rom a careful examina- 
tion of the register of births in the city of Paris, from 1670 
to 1821, it appears that the number of male children is al- 
Ways superior to that of females. The exact proportion 
during the last 77 years is 795,350 to 763,936, which is 
about 26 to 25, or more accurately, 1041 to 1000. This 
includes foundlings, among which there are doubtless few- 
er male children enumerated than are actually born. Tak- 
ing this fact into consideration, the proportion will be as 22 
to 21. Similar observations have been made at London 
and Naples. In the former of these cities, the proportion 
of males to females is as 19 to 18, and in the latter as 22 to 
21. It appears that in Paris the number of natural chil- 
dren has been for some time on the increase. The number 
of those which are acknowledged by their parents, was in 
1821 about two fifths of the whole. Assistance was given 
in Paris at the public expense, in 1819, to 85,150 individ- 
uals, and in 1820, to 86,870, which is nearly in the pro- 
portion of 1 to 8 of the ‘whole population. The medium 
number of deaths in the hospitals and alms-houses, is 1 to 
% The medium expense of maintenance for each individ- 
ual is from 110 to 123 francs per annum. ‘The number of 
