A memoir was lately read ...
A memnoir was lately read in the Academy of Sciences at Paris. by a Dr. Villermre, " On the mortalitv in France in the class iri easy circunstances, compared with wyhat takes plate alnong the ir.ligent." In two arrondissements of Paris7 the first and the twelfth, be makes it appear, the former, which is inhabited by rich persons,h3sa mortality of one in5O; andthelstter,whichis in. habited by poor, has a mortality of one in 24, there being nu other assignablecausefor thisenormous difference than wealthand poverty. Heftund the deaths in Ruede la Alortellerie,where poorpeonlc are crowded together in unhealthy lodgings, four times and a half as nu- merous as in the Qosys of the Ide St. Louis, where rich people live in large and well!ventilated apartments. He also shows that the mortality in the hospitals rises or falls with the rate of wages of tho.e who enter them. Of jewellers, conipositers, &c., thiere die in the hospitals Iin 11. Miiliners I in a Shoemakers . . . I in 7 Masons . 1 in 6 I,abourers . iin 5 The poorest of' all-rag.gatherers, &c. I in 4 Soldiers, who are the bestoffr, . I . 1 in 20 THE LATE MTU.RDER NEAR KENDAL.-Otr readers will recollect that a shocking marder was perpetrated at llilntkorp, in Westmorland, a few weeks ago. Yesterday erening Taunton, the Bow.street officer, wlho has been engaged in investigating the busi- ness, passed through this town. We understand that he had appre_ hended a person named Hayes, a watchmaker, against whom some sUspicions circunistances appeared but asno sufficientevidencecould be obtained to warrant his conimitinent, he was discharged on Thturs- day.y-Atacaerster Gewardiri . Saturday. tAdvertisement.]-AIADA.SIE CA-3PAsA.-The French edition of The Jozurnal Ainecdotiquc of Madame C(mpoa, published Lhis day by Mr. COLBURN, New Burlington-street, contains various anec- dotes that have been suppressed in the Paris editior, besides cx- tracts fro33 her correspondence, her thoughts on education, &c. The public should theretbre be particular in giving their orders for tiiis comiipletc edition. |AdvertiNcrment.p.ENtGL.tSH GENTLE-MAN.-On Sunday, the 19th inst., a new journal. tinder the style and title of The Englizh Gellekmat. will be first published, by Edward Dixon Pouchee, at No. 7, Brvdges-street, Covent-garden. To be had of every news- vender, price t. LAdvertiseMent.]-A NEW MAi'E.-A very valuable mnine will be opeied under the auspices of Government To-merrow, Dec. 1f , whe;: the Lottery draws, and two prizes of 290,0001. must be decided' The risk of adventure is insignificant, hasten, or you lose the onp portunity of gaining 20,0001. for 41. 19s, and 1,25O1. for onlv 9s. e. LAdvertisementJt-PIDDING and Co. having eclipsed all the otLer offices by extraordinary events which have occurred at the Ilcky corner, No. I, Corrhill, so rmany having rmore than once gained 20,00tlL. prizes there, and several havirg obtained four or five .apitalus ithit a few nonth,, it is not %aprisieg that, on the approach ofa drawing dlav, ptirchasets give adecided preference to their office. To-morrow, Dec. 16, the two first prizes will -each have 20,0101. additional, and those who are unsuccessful In ob- taining these or oine other capital, may afterwards rcceive back neaTly all their purchase-mooney, wvhnther their number bedrawn or not, i' brotight beforc the 26th of December to the lucky comer, No. 1, Cornhill. tAdvertisement.]-If voa purchase a ticket at HAzmn3 and Co's, tilv will return vou 181. iar it. ifnot entitledtooneof the two Twenty Thousands which toust be drawn (besides 1,000 otlier prizes) To- miorrow. The return for shares Y.ill be in proportiorn; so that the risk of a whole ticket is onlv 41. 191.; for a sixteenth, only Ss. 6d. The scheine coutrins tvo o' 30,01J014 two of 2),t00l.; &C., and no blanks. Time lor returmi till the 26:h of Deemmber. Hazard and Co. have sold in the last two montlhs prizes of 20,3001. and 30,0001. at their coffices, Royal Exchauge.ate, 26, Cormhill, and 324, Ox- ford street, end of Regent-street. [Advertisement.1 -The mcost eminent of the faeulty have acknow.. ledged that the first production of the age is ReVLAND'S .MSACASSAi, OIL, now in sueb universal use, amd its invaluable pro- perties so highlyand justly appreciated, not only by the discerning population ci this our enlightened country, but bv the patronage of Royalty .hroughout the whole of the civilized muiverse. It restores in redundancy the tresses ravaged from the head of beauty by fever, anxiety, or accauchlenicnt; and in aU cases, from whatsoever causte arisingir, where this graceful ornamente t fals into decay, operates as zn int'311ibSe sptcie. Particular caution is neesscary in purchasing, to ask for Rowlandi's Maacasar Oil, anld to observe the signature, " A. Rowrland and Son, No. ?U), lletron.earden."'