It will be seen that it takes to pay for a part of our imported luxuries, all of the products of our fisheries which we are enabled to export, all of the exports of our Northern farmers, including Pot and Pearl Ashes, and our eight millions of dollars in specie and bullion. ANNUAL PRODUCE OF MINES AND MANUFACTURES IN GREAT BRITAIN. Hats and Caps 10,000,000 50,000 7,500,000 30,000 12,000,000 20,000 The other principal items of manufacture are beer, spirits, soap, candles, refined sugar, furniture, starch, dye stuffs, &c. POPULATION OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE IN ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD. Great Britain, Ireland, and the neighboring islands, 27,020,000 Colonies in Europe, such as the Ionian Isles, The whole of the above territories cover about 1,800,000 square miles. NATIONAL DEBT OF GREAT BRITAIN. This debt amounts to three thousand eight hundred million dollars. This enormous amount has been accumulated by borrowing money, and anticipating each year's revenue to pay the interest. The debt is of two kinds, funded and unfunded. The unfunded debt consists of deficiencies in the payments of government, for which no regular security has been given, and which bear no interest; and of bills, or promissory notes, issued by the exchequer, to defray occasional expenses. When debts of this kind have accumulated, and payment is demanded, it becomes necessary to satisfy the demand, either by paying the debt, or affording the creditors a security for the principal, and regular payment of the interest. Recourse has been always had to the latter method, and a particular branch of the actual revenue is mortgaged for the interest of the debt. The following table shows the principal, and annual charge of the debt at sever, al periods: At beginning of French wars, 1793, 239,350,148 9,208,495 At close of French wars, 1817, 840,850,491 32,038,291 792,306,442 29,461,582 CRIME IN GREAT BRITAIN. According to a return recently made to Parliament, it appears that the total number of persons committed for trial for various criminal offences, both against persons and property, in England and Wales, amounted, in 1838, to 24,094, of whom 16,785 were convicted; in 1839, to 28,443, of whom 17,832 were convicted; and in 1840, to 27,187, of whom 19,927 were convicted. The number of persons committed for trial in Scotland, in 1838, amounted to 3,418, of whom 2,679 were convicted and outlawed; in 1839, to 3,409, of whom 2,615 were convicted and outlawed; and in 1840, to 3,872, of whom 2,945 were convicted and outlawed. In Ireland the number of committals amounted, in 1838, to 15,723, of whom 9,609 were convicted; in 1839, to 26,392, of whom 12,049 were convicted; and in 1840, to 23,822, of whom 11,194 were convicted. INTEMPERANCE AND LUXURY OF By the following table may be seen the amount expended annually in Great Britain, for intemperance and luxury : Customs and excise on spirits, British and Foreign, Malt and Hops, $36,745,062 23,266,504 8,204,698 15,830,275 1,677,575 1,967,809 694,222 1,072,293 $89,448,638 MILITARY AND NAVAL FORCE OF THE PRINCIPAL EUROPEAN STATES. STATISTICS OF MUSCULAR POWER. Man has the power of imitating every motion but that of flight. To effect these, he has, in muturity and health, sixty bones in his head, sixty in his thighs and legs, sixty-two in his arms and hands, and sixty-seven in his trunk. He has also, 434 muscles. His heart makes sixty-four pulsations in a minute; and therefore, 3,840 in an hour, and 92,160 in a day. There are also three complete circulations of his blood in the short space of an hour. In respect to the comparative speed of animated beings |