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fifty-four ounces of terchloride of gold, two hundred gallons 
of albumen, amounting to the whites of thirty-two thousand 
eggs, and seventy reams of paper; the issue of pictures ap- 
proaching to nearly a million, the number of stereoscopic 
prints amounting to nearly eight hundred thousand copies. 
THE FLESH AND BLOOD RESOURCES OF FRANCE.— 
Just now, when France appears by no means unlikely 
to engage in a war that will test her strength in men, 
as well as her resources in treasure, it is interesting to 
notice a calculation recently made which will enable us to 
form an idea of the capability of the country to stand a 
great drain upon its male population. A paper read at 
the Academy of Medicine on the ability of France to bear 
the pressure of additional recruiting, points out that the 
general increase of population since the beginning of the 
century, amounting to about 10,000,000 in all, particularly 
extends to the number of young men who attain the age 
of twenty. Of these, the proportion fit for military service 
in 1836 was 61 per cent.; at present it is 66 per cent. 
France, therefore, with the present population can afford to 
contribute an annual contingent of 100,000 men, but that a 
larger contingent would exhaust the country and check the 
increase of population. It will be evident from this esti- 
mate, that the resources of France are enormous, which we 
trust she will husband for purposes of peace. Although 
should war unfortunately break out, the improvements 
(what a word), in weapons of destruction used in modern 
warfare, are against, the probability of the drain upon her 
male strength being long continued. 
THE FATE OF DR. LIVINGSTONE.—The Secretary of 
the Admiralty has forwarded the following for publica- 
tion :—“ Commodore Hillyar, in a letter dated at Bombay, 
13th March last, reports that H.M.S. Wasp has returned 
to Zanzibar, from Quiloa, with Mr. Seward, her Majesty’s 
Acting Political Resident at Zanzibar, and states that the 
information which that officer had been able to obtain 
respecting the reported death of Dr. Livingstone, was 
chiefly of a confirmatory nature. Admiralty, April 5, 
1867.” The Zzmes_of India of the 13th March, states 
that the intelligence received from Zanzibar now leaves no 
doubt of the death of Dr. Livingstone. The statement of 
an Arab, named Moosa, one of the heroic traveller's trusty 
followers, who, with a few others of the expedition, re- 
turned to the East African Coast in December, confirms 
the news that their leader was murdered. It would appear 
