The preceding Table, calculated by Mr. Rickman, may be easily made intelligible by an example: as, in the case of BEDFORD, in which it appears that there was one burial in each fifty of the population in 1800 (63,393, p. 548); one baptism in each thirtyfive, and one marriage in each 113, of the population. So of the proportion of baptisms, burials, and marriages, to the population in the five years ending 1810, 1820, and 1830.

From the bottom line of the table it appears the number of burials, in the whole of England, has decreased from one in forty-eight of the population in 1800, to one in fifty-four of the population in 1830. This diminished rate of mortality accounts for the increase of population, notwithstanding the contemporary diminution in the number of births from one in thirty-six in 1800, to one in thirty-seven in 1830, and of marriages from one in 123 to 129.

These facts testify in the most conclusive manner to the increasing intelligence and improving condition of the people during the last thirty years.

The next Table will show a remarkable change in the nature of the disorders producing the greatest number of deaths in the metropolis during the last sixty years. About thirty years ago one-third more children died of convulsions than at present. Smallpox destroyed half as many again, and teething onethird more, than they do now. Hooping-cough, asthma, cancer and apoplexy, have increased, but leprosy, scurvy, cholic and rickets, have nearly or entirely disappeared. The decrease in fevers, the stationary number of suicides, and the increasing number of those dying of age and natural decay, corroborate our preceding observation of the improving state of society.

XII.-MORTALITY OF THE METROPOLIS.

DEATHS, and the Causes of them, within the Bills of Mortality for Four regular Periods, from 1770 to 1830.

XIII. TABLE OF CHRISTENINGS AND DEATHS

Within the Bills of Mortality, for Four Periods, at Intervals of
Twenty Years, with the Returns for 1832.

In 1831 the burials were 25,337, being an increase of 3692 over the preceding year. In 1832 the burials were 28,606, being an increase of only 3269, So that the increase of mortality was less in the latter than the former year; yet in 1832 there died of cholera 3200, in 1831 only 48.

In Paris the cholera was much more destructive; the deaths there in 1832 were 45,675, the births 26,364; of the former, 19,000, nearly one half of the whole number, was occasioned by the cholera. The arrondissements, in which the mortality was greatest, are the most unhealthy quarters of Paris, where the streets are narrow, and the houses very lofty.

XIV.

MORTALITY IN MANUFACTURING TOWNS,

Showing in every 10,000 persons buried, the proportion dying under 20 and 40 years of age.-Parl. Rep. on Factories Regulation Bill, Sess. 1832.

So that a considerably smaller proportion of persons die in the metropolis under twenty than in the manufacturing towns of Yorkshire and Lancashire. At Norwich, where the domestic manufacture pre