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254 AGRICULTURAL. DANIEL LEE, HI. D., Editor. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1559. THERE IS WORK TO BE DONE. If tlie planters and other slaveholders are to defend their property and tl.eir institution suc cessfully against the systematic warfare urged on by implacable enemies, there is much work to be done, whether they remain in the Union, or set up an independent and separate government of their own. Fanaticism has little respect for either legal rights or constitutional duties, if they chance to stand in the way of meu fighting, as they conceive, the unavoidable battles of freedom. Every where they aim to excite a spirit of revolution ; and in this country they already deny the right of slaveholders to ask, or expect compensation for the loss of property in negroes manumitted by a vote of a majority of legal electors. This doctrine is advocated by a writer in the Xorth British Review , on the sub ject of “Slaves and the Slave States,” who admits that it may not have been improper in Parliament to appropriate twenty million pounds, or one hundred million dollars, to relieve her West India colonies of the evils of slavery; yet it is idle to expect Congress ever to undertake to pay a fair market price for all the slaves in the southern states, in order to give them the blessings of liberty, and free the republic from the disgrace of holding persons in bondage.— lie says: “ Pecuniary compensation, or the purchase of the freedom of the slave popula tion, is wholly out of the question.” Agaip he remarks: “Nor, indeed, is it necessary that the United States should much longer endure the sarcasms of Europe, for there are causes at work which must lead to the emancipation of the slave. The fact of emancipation we regard an indubitable certainty.” Helper, who has been so strougly endorsed by the leaders and ablest men of the republican party, says: “Not alone for ourself as an in dividual, but for others also—particularly for tjve or six million of southern non-slaveholding whites, whom your iniquitous statism has de barred from almost all the mental and material comforts of life—do we speak, when we say you must, soonor or later, emancipate your slaves, and pay each and every one of them at least sixty dollars cash in hand. By doing this you will be performing but a simple act of justice to the non-slaveholding whites, upon whom the system of slavery has weighed scarcely less heavily than upon the negroes themselves." Such is the avowed object of a party that commanded over a million and a quarter of votes at the last Presidential election, some of whose leading journals, following the bad example of the New York Tribune , almost daily insult the South with opprobious epithets. Sympathy for John Brown as a martyr to liberty, is being ex cited in England and France by such men as Victor Hugo; and all the signs indicate a deep and morbid sensibility on the subject of negro slaverv, alike in Europe and in the northern states, which is growing in intensity and violence. So much zeal and labor against the institution should not be regarded with indifference by southern planters, and lead to no efforts to place all the facts that make weight in their favor before the reading public. Hitherto they have seemingly acquiesced in the numerous false statements that have from year to year em anated from the Patent Office, on the subject of agricultural industry both in the southern and northern states. Tlte Xorth British Review and other foreign journals derive from these gov ernment reports, statements like the following: “Free and Slave States, 1850.—Produce per acre: Wheat in the free states average 12.4 bushels: in the slave states, 9.8 bushels.— Maize in the free states average 31.1 bushels; in the slave states, 19. C bushels per acre.”— (See North British Review for November, 1857, page 247.) Since the editor of the Southern Cultivator was removed from the Agricultural Bureau to make room for one who was willing to prepare auti-slavery statistics, over a million volumes of agricultural reports have been printed and bound for gratuitous distribution, containing falsehoods as palpable and mischievous as the above, which have been voted for by scores of slaveholders in both Houses of Congress. To counteract the injurious effects of these official falsehoods, so far as it can be done, is the work now before the South. It may be delayed some time longer, although we doubt the wisdom of such delay. Tiie Southern Cultivator has advocated the import’ ance of slave labor in all planting operations for the last seventeen years; and yet we happen to know that during much of that time the salary of its senior editor was only S2OO a year,— ' while some one hundred and fifty copies of Harpers’ periodicals, whose principal editors are abolitionists, come to one post-office, that at Athens, Clark county, Georgia. This practice of starving southern publishers and fattening those of the north, will prove in the end an ex. pensive folly. No matter what may bo the in trinsic merits of the great question of negro slavery, it will hardly do to mislead and poison public opinion, by millions of official documents printed at Washington, and tens of millions of anti-slavery papers published in the free states, until nine-tenths of the people pronounce the institution a curse to the country, and a dis credit to a nation of freemen. What the slave holders have lost in this way, somebody must labor long and hard fully to regain. The lack of well-directed mental labor on southern soil, is fast making the planting states the feeble, de pendent colonies of the ever-aggrandizing, over shadowing north. The Field and Fireside appreciates the work to be donS; and it is for sovnesas hem mmm its readers to say whether its proprietor shall have a subscription I.st that will pay its ex pense.- or not. Tiic readers of the New York Tribune have been willing to work hnd extend its circulation until its paying subscribers are numbered by the hundred thousand. When our enemies are thus industrious and persevering, shall our friends extend to us nothing but the most profound and blighting indifference ? Can they forget that labor alone develops the truth? —that labor alone conquers all things ? Slaveholders! there is work to be done. You are chosen defend ants in a suit that involves your property, your honor, and the welfare of your children. Can you not make a calm and united effort to place your great and common interests in the right before the world f Every apology made for slavery places it in the wrong. Men never ajiologise for the existence of good institutions, ior sound principles. An apology implies con scious wrong-doing ; it invites criticism whether the acknowledgment is sufficient. If sufficient, the least that can be expected is that the wrong ■ shall not be repeated. Anti-slavery writers take this ground: “Slave-holding is either wrong or right. If wrong, it should not be con tinued ; if right, it should be lawful as well in the northern as in the southern states.” We accept these propositions, and are prepared to show in the forum of a pure Christian conscience, that negro slavery, as it exists in the south, would be right anywhere, but is obligatory on the superior race nowhere. If the latter are unwilling to perform the oneTous duties of good masters, they may escape them by relinquishing all the benefits of slave labor. If, in any man’s opinion, the compensation given by the negro is less than a fair equivalent for the service rendered by his master, it would be wrong to compel such a man to be a slave holder. But he has no right to give his opinion the form of public law, and forbid other men employing slaves, who are both able and willing to make this kind of domestic government, and productive industry, alike advantageous to the slave, to his employer, and to mankind at large. It is not wrong to give work to a black man, re strain his vices, cultivate his morals, and teach him at once the art of agriculture, or some me chanical trade, end the humanizing, elevating principles of the Christian religion. The South should make no excuses for the existence of an institution of this character: but prove by her self-respect and wisdom, that education, science and literature are benefitted, not injured, by her present system of labor. Its best fruits aro lavished on northern commerco, northern merchants, northern colleges and medical schools northern manufacturers, and northern farmers’ to say nothing of northern publishers, editors and authors, who use the wealth and power thus acquired to dry up and utterly destroy this prolific source of northern as well as southern prosperity. Let us learn to live more within our own home resources, both intellectual and material, and we shall gain largely in strength, and in the world’s esteem. — A Description* of Tuscan - Agriculture, ky J. C. L. Sismonde, of Geneva. —Mr. Geo. F. Jones, of this State, now a student at Heidle berg, in Baden, and his brother, W. S., have kindly furnished us with a translation made by them of an instructive and valuable work on Tuscan Agriculture, written by the learned and distinguished J. C. L. Sismonde, of Geneva. The author spent several years in Tuscany, and was himself the proprietor of a lauded estate there, and engaged in farming operations. "We shall make copious extracts from this reliable au thority on the agriculture (particularly drainage, irrigation, and grapo culture,) of a people far advanced in rural arts and sciences. The read er will find in this paper, from the work named, an interesting aceount of the Tuscan method of preserving wheat under ground, after the an cient practice of the Egyptians and Assyrians, which was followed by the Romans, and intro duced by them into Spain, France, and other provinces of the empire. In storing grain for the use of their great armies, the Romans exca vated, sometimes from solid rock, the largest and best granaries known to history. When properly sealed, to exclude all air and water, nothing can injure well-dried wheat, maize, or other grain, no matter how long it remains under ground. Were it in a glass bottle, it could not be more secure and exempt from all chemical changes to injure it. —— Mules. —Messrs. W. B. Rogers, and W. R. Colcord, of Bourbon county, sold, the other day, to Messrs. Todhunter & Co., of Fayette, 43 mules, mostly broken, at the high price of $212,80. This is the highest price we have ever known for so large a lot of mules. These are intended for the Louisiana market. Col. C. R. Estill, of Madison county, sold, a few days ago, to liarrison Thompson, Esq., of Clarke Co., a lot of sixty yearling mules, at the price of slls per head. W. S. Helm, Esq., of Shelby county, lately sold to James Horton, of Boui bon, one hundred and ten mules, at $l6O per head—amounting to $15,000. — [American Stock Journal. The time is not distant, when oxen will have to do most of the work of preparing land for corn, cotton and other cultivated crops. Mules now sell as high as negroes did in the State of New York within the memory of the writer. — 111 ——■—- Pasteboard Shoes. —These shoes are coarse brogans, such as sell at retail for $1 and $1.25. What is usually the sole, is, in this case, only very thin, poor leather —it may be sheepskin. The welt is very thick, coarse leather, to which both upper leather and sole are sewed or pegged; the deficiency inside is supplied by thick yellow pasteboard. The shoes thus appear to have very good stout soles. A very little wear carries away the thin skin of a sole, and the yellow pasteboard presents itself, and the cheatery is thus exposed, too late for the purchaser. We have seen all this.— Shoe and Leather Reporter. We believe some of our planters have been thus swindled the past season. NIGHTSOII AND POUDRETTE. Savannah, Pec. 19, 1859. Dr. Lee: Dear Sir .-—Materials in large quantities for the manufacture of Poudrette be ing convenient in this city, and having an idea of engaging in its manufacture, I am induced to request you will give me what information you can on the subject, its value as compared with other fertilizers and the processes of manufact ure. You will please inform me if there is any method of concentrating Stable Litter without injury to it as a fertilizer —where can proper ap paratus be obtained for pulverizing bones. I have taken the liberty of addressing you, from the fact of your zeal in developing the agri cultural resources of our section, and believe that you will not think me intrusive. Pleaso let me hear from you (by letter) at your earliest convenience. Respectfully yours, L. S. P. S. riease inform me what works I can get which treat of the above. L. S. If we supposed our correspondent’s private in terests would be injured by the publication of his letter, and its being answered in our col umns, we beg to assure him that nothing of the kind would have been done. But it relates to a matter of general interest to our readers, and we feel sure that, in case he shall undertake to col. lect nightsoil and manufacture poudrette in Sa vannah, all will wish him success. He will, therefore, permit us to explain to others, as well as him, the nature of the two principal difficul ties to be overcome in the contemplated opera tion. The first is the inconvenience and loss re sulting from the escape of very offensive gases; and the second is, the presence in faces and urine, taken together, of more than 90 per cent, of perfectly valueless water, which ought to be got rid of to furnish a rich, concentrated ferti lizer. Evaporation in the sun, either in shallow plank vats, as solar salt is made at Salina and Syracuse in New York, or in shallow clay basins, is prob ably the cheapest way to concentrate a manurial brine of this character. Os course artificial heat may be used, as is done near many cities; or dry swamp muck, pulverized charcoal, or Irish bog peat, as is largely done in Dublin, Lon don and Liverpool, may be employed to absorb the liquids. More or less of these well known absorbents is used to assist in drying the mass, and retaining the volatile substances. Cheap copperas or green vitriol yields sulphuric acid readily to ammonia, as it is formed in decompo sing night soil, and converts it into an involatile salt. Ground gypsum is used for a similar pur pose. Not over ten or twelve per cent, of cop peras or gypsum need be employed; although from 20 to 30 per cent, of the latter is often used. To grind bones rapidly requires heavy castings anu strong machinery. Mr. Bogardus’ bone mill is one of the best that we have ever seen in operation. He lives in the city of New New York. Dealers in agricultural implements and machines will give you the latest informa tion on the subject. We have paid something over sixty cents a bushel for ground bones, and not the best kind, in the city of Washington.— A fair article of poudrette is manufactured there. Before embarking much capital in the business, it would be prudent to visit Baltimore, Philadel phia and New York and seo all the processes as now performed, get the needful apparatus and, perhaps, an experienced hand at the business. There is money in it, if wisely managed; but it requires some capital and skill to turn out a first rate commercial article. Dead animals, from horses down to rats, mice and small fish, supply the richest sort of manure. Wo cannot name a cheap bcok that will give you all the informa tion you seek. By taking time to look over our library, we can give in two or three columns of our paper all the material book knowledge on the subject. In the mean time you may consult the “American Muck Book” by D. J. Browne, to advantage. C. M. Saxton, of New York, pub lisher. Boussmgault describes the French man ner of making poudrette; and Dr. Sprengel and others that of Flanders. The Flemish farmers and the Chinese mix up dried human excrements into cakes of clay—real bricks of fat manure.— Remember these two facts: A substance that is in volatile can not bo smelt ; and one that is in soluble can not be tasted. Perhaps we will write out and publish an entire lecture on night soil in all it forms, agriculturally considered. Bous singault, Johnston and Stoekliardt are our text book on manures and their chemical relations. To produce the food of plants in the best possi ble condition for the farmer, requires far more study and practice than most men suppose ne cessary. How will you remove every drop of water from a barrel of urine and leave behind every particle of matter but pure water? We know no way “to concentrate stable litter,” that will pay in common practice. Almost ev ery day we haul sixteen hundred pounds of worthless water four miles to get four hundred of stable manure, which costs at least a dollar and a quarter. Vaccination of Cattle. —The Medical Times says that in Holland there are assurance offices for catt'e’s lives. One company has all its as sured cattle vaccinated as a preservation against contagious pneumonia. Another company in oculates only when the disease has invaded the animals’ stalls. The third company does not vaccinate at all. It has been calculated that the first company has lost 6 per cent, of cattle, the second 11 per cent, and the third 40 percent. Professor Simpson’s Caustic. —The new caustic recently introduced by Professor Simp son, of Edinburg, consists of an ounce of highly dried sulphate of zinc, mixed with a drachm of glycerine, and applied as a paste to the diseased part. It quickly produces its effects, and a few applications are deemed sufficient to effect a cure. One great advantage which this caustic is said to possess is, that it acts only upon parts denuded of cuticle, therefore the fingers are free from its influence. It has been successfully used by the human surgeon, but we question if it will prove sufficiently powerful for veterinary purposes. Os the efficacy of the chloride of zinc, we can confidently speak.— Veterinarian. Chinese Tea Plants. —A Washington cor respondent says : “ Tiie tea plants imported from China by direction of Secretary Thompson, and now in a greenhouse on the mall, are to be distributed in January next, among the different Congressional Districts south of the thirty-sixth parallel of latitude. Four different circulars on this subject were last week sent to every Rep resentative from those Southern Districts. One j asks the name of a gentleman in that District, who will receive and cultivate the plants free of charge. The second directs how they are to be | cultivated, and what returns are to be made. — In the third are •the blanks to be filled up and returned to the Agricultural Bureau ; and the fourth comprises the report of Mr. Fortune, an English gentleman, who procured the plants in China. Let it not be forgotten that the first experiment in raising tea in the United States was ma de in South Carolina.” That the tea shrub and its leaves may be grown as easily as the mulberry tree and its leaves at the South, we entertain not a doubt • but whether the leaves of the latter can be at this time profitably converted into silk, or the leaves of the former into commercial tea, is quite a different question. Many families, however, can produce their own tea, provided the climate and soil impart to the leaves the desired aroma and theme. - — m . -*•+. Milledgeville, Dec. 20, 1859. Dr. Lee : I sowed, some weeks since, a lot of orchard-grass seed, which came up finely, but was cut down by the frost about ten days since. I have still four bushels of the seed, which 1 wish to sow. Had I better sow now, and risk the cold—or wait till spring? Will it do to sow the seed in the spring ? Please answer, and oblige Your subscriber, J. H. N. We are in doubt what answer to give to your question. It the ground is low and moist, and likely to heave by freezing, we should wait till early spring-, but if the laud is dry, we should sow at once. Last December we sowed some six acres to orchard-grass seed, and got a good stand—and it is pleasant to see how well sheep do this winter on this winter grazing. - [For the Southern Field and Fireside.] THE METHOD OF PRESERVING WHFAT IN TOSCANY. Wheat is preserved in Tuscany in a manner as extraordinary as it is advantageous, in exca vations made under ground, which are called buche. It is there kept, from one year to an other, perfectly sound, protected from all acci dents and from all insects, without requiring ex pense or care. Before putting it in the store house, it is necessary to dry it well in the sun. In order to find a substitute for the burning rays which dart upon Tuscany, it would be, without doubt, necessary in other climates, to place the wheat in a stove, or in an oven, after having ta ken out tho bread. Their conservatories or buche, are oval excava vations, capable of containing from twenty to a hundred and fifty sacks of wheat. Those into which I have descended, are dug in a vein of thick potter’s clay, of a yellowish red, which never having been removed, and not composed of layers, does not permit the water to filter, and is impervious to animals. They have all been built under covers of tile, and on small hills where the waters do not accumulate. Before putting the wheat in them, they are covered with a doubler of straw ; for this purpose, a thick rope is formed, three, inches in thickness, which is placed all round upon the ground spirally, each course resting on the preceding, in the same manner as the bottles of the country are cover ed. The cavity is finally filled with wheat; the neck of this kind of bottle is corked with two straw mats, which are placed upon the grain; and above with a large round stone, which closes it tightly. After having placed the stone, it is watered with some buckets of muddy wa ter, in order to close all the interstices ; then it is covered with a half foot of earth, which levels the place with the rest of the soil. There are few individuals who possess con servatories ; but they may be buried under cover of many kilns ; the proprietor of the kiln is re sponsible for your wheat; he incurs all of the necessary expenses of putting it in, and taking it out, and ho offers you the choice, of returning to you as many sacks as he has received from you without taking anything for himself but what is found over; or to return all of the wheat which comes out of your conservatory, receiving four cents per sack for storage. As the grain swells in the conservatory about three per cent., the first contract is better for him than the se cond. The conservatory remains shut, and is never opened until you wish to part with your wheat, when it becomes necessary to empty it at once. After having uncovered it, and removed the stone and the matting, there will be found at the entrance a third of a sack about half mouldy, which has been moistened by the muddy water which was thrown on top of the stone ; it be longs' to the proprietor of the conservatory, and is not counted ; what is found below, is perfectly dry, without any odor of confinement, or of heat, without a single grain being attack ed by weavils; moreover, when it happens that a conservatory is filled with wheat which has begun to heat, the coolness of the earth imme diately reduces the fermentation, and kills all of the insects to be found there. Nevertheless, the wheat which is at the bottom, is not so fine; it is swelled by water and has a slight odor of mouldiness. The millers are careful to mix all that is taken out, so that the inferiority of what M at the bottom, is not perceived in a large heap. As soon as a conservatory has been emptied, the lining of straw is removed ; it having ac quired a musty smell is no longer preserved ; the hole is well swept, and it is closed both with the stone and earth which is put over it, until the moment arrives for filling it again. — nw< Hard Cement. —The following cement has been used with great success in covering ter races, lining basins, soldering stones, &c., and everywhere resists the filtration of water. It is so hard that it scratches iron. It is formed of ninety-three parts of well burned brick, and sev en parts of litharge, made plastic with linseed oil. The brick and litharge are pulverized ; the latter must always be reduced to a very fine powder; they are mixed together, and enough of linseed oil added. It is then applied in the manner of plaster, the body that is to be cover ed being always previously wet with a sponge. This precaution is indispensable, otherwise tho oil would filter through the body, and prevent the mastic from acquiring the desired degree of hardness. When it is extended over a largo surface, it sometimes happens tc have Haws in it, which must be filled lip with a fresh quantity of the cement. In three or four days it becomes firm.— Scientific American. [For the Southern Field and Fireside.] CORN FOR SOILING. Oglethorpe Couxty, Ga., Dec. 9. Dr. Lee: I see in your paper of Octo'ber ], that J. J. Shannon, Esq., of Paulding, Miss., is asking which is the best plant to be grown for soiling in summer ? He remarks that he has never tried broad cast corn for that purpose. If so, he has failed to try the best plant, for said purpose, that can be grown in the Unite<LStates; for it will pro duce four times as much per acre as any other, and, if the land be made good, two or three crops can be made in one year on the same land. I have seen cut per acre, on my father’s farm in Virginia, over thirty tons of green broad-cast corn in the proper state for soiling. Mr. S. says the most fear he lias about it is that it would be difficult to cure. Such is the fact Jwlien not properly shocked; but when pro perly put up, it is easily cured and makes the best of feed for stock. I have never yet seen any fodder spoiled when properly put up.— Com, wo all know, can protect itself from the rain better than any other crop. In our climate we can have green corn to soil on, from the first of May until December following, in any ordi nary season. I have tried the Chinese sugar-cane, and must agree with you, Mr. Editor—it is poor stuff', and nothing but half-starved stock will eat it. Yours truly, O. W. Bailey. PLOWING BY STEAM. There appear to be scarcely any limits the pur poses to which steam may bo applied. It pro pels us over water and over the land. It extin guishes our fires„and makes our bread. It sup plies the strength of human muscle in almost ev ery department ot manufacrures. It pulls up by the roots the stumps which the woodman’s axe has left. While we write we listen to its music as it raises bricks and mortar to the top of the up-rising walls of a hotel. Its sinews never tire, and it never eats. It is probable that it will ul timately be applied to almost every purpose which muscle, either animal or human, now sub serves. It will be almost to banish draft horses, oxen and all other animals now employed in teams and carriages from existence. This will save the food which they must neceesasily con sume, and consequently add the land requisite for the production of such food to that which yields the food of man. This will increase the capacity of every country to produce the means of human subsistence. Steam may also be the solvent of the labor question; for if the trees can be felled, the stumps dragged out, the ground plowed, the grain sowed, the corn, cotton, etc., planted, the harvests gathered, the grain thresh ed, corn husked, cotton picked, ginned, taken to market, made into cloth, into clothing, etc., etc., and all by steam, where is the necessity of hu man hands and human sinews? If a man can jump into his steam gig or buggy and whirl around town or out into the country over hill and dale by steam where is the necessity for a horse? That it will be used for all these purposes, and a thousand more, appears to be hardly problemat ical. It is making rapid strides, and what it has done is a sure index as tQrwhat it will do. Sev eral attempts have been made to apply steam to carriages on common roads, and though not yet with entire success, we have no doubt that com plete success will be the final result. Indeed, in the ages to come iron fingers mov ed by steam will print the papers for the mil lions to read, as steam now moves the presses that human hands formerly did; and for aught we know the Editor in his sanctum will put his thoughts on paper by steam, whole sentences at a dash. What a saving of labor, wear and tear will that be! Oh, for the good time to come, when this nuisance of being compelled to write single words, not to speak of single letters, shall be re ferred to as illustrative of the terrible drudgery which people.of old times had to endure 1 There is one point, however, beyond which steam will hardly go. It will never be able to supply brains. That parricular part of the “ labor ques tion ” will have to remain. But a truce to this. We have a step forward in the victorious career of steam in its success ful application to plowing. A-steam plow has been invented, tested, and it has triumphed. The inventor is Joseph W. Fawkes, of Christiana, Lancaster county, Pa. Its operations were wit nessed by a great crowd of people near Chicago at the late Fair of the National Agricultural So ciety, and its Grand Gold Medal of Honor award ed to the inventor by the unanimous recommen dation of the Society’s Committee. The prize of $1,500 offered by the New York State Society for a successful steam plow, was also awarded him. The machiue is of course yet in its crude state, like the first steamboat of “ poor John Fitchbut crude as it may be, it plowed three and a half acres per hour at the Fair, and did it beautifully. It drove eight plows. Its weight, including water and fuel, was ten tons, and its cost $4,000. Such a weight would be too great for the soft soil of Louisiana, but who doubts that, with the improvements which time and ex perience will produce, it will be reduced in weigty and cost, and made nearer perfect, so that it can operate in any soil ? We do not. There was an other plow exhibited, invented by one Walters, but it failed, having met with an accident. Last year a prize of £SOO was awarded by the Royal Agricultural Society of Great Britain to John Fowler, Jr., of London, for a steam plow, and a prize of £SO to the same by the same this year; but in the opinion of tho Committee of the United States Agricultural Society, this steam plow of Faw kes’ is greatly superior in every res pect. One of the machines is to be built for somebody in New York, and from this com mencement, the steam plow will doubtless grad ually prolong its furrows till every farm in the country shall have been plowed by it. Onward is the word, onward! —[Kew Orleans Bulletin. - OF POPULATION IN ENGLAND AND FRANCE. The London correspondent of the Xational In telligencer furnishes’the following interesting facts relating to the relative and absolute increase of population in tho two most powerful nations of Europe: The tvt o great elements of England’s prosper ity are the almost astounding increase of her population and the more than proportional in crease of her commercial capital. Respecting tho former, wo are told by the report of the Re gistrar General for tho three months which end ed last September that, on an average during those three months, tho people of England in creased 695 in number every day. This was the average excess in the number of births over the number of deaths through the period of ninety two days; and he calculates that in the United Kingdom tho increase amounted to 1.042 daily. At tho ordinary rates of mortality 347 will ar rive daily at the age of twenty. “ The youth of the country,” says the Registrar, “are growing at such a rate as to add a battalion to its strength every two or three days.” Some of the increas ing multitude are indeed always emigrating.