BRITISR STATISTICS.—We have this week possessed ourselves of a copy
of the first printed part of Mr. Marshall's Statistical View of the Resources and Condition of the British Empire. The part before us is a Mpographical and-Statistical display of five thousand of the principal towns and parishes in England and Wales, numbered and arranged in reference to their productions,—as, for instance, the first page exhibits all the parishes and townships in the counties of Durham, Northumber- land, and Cumberland, in which coals are raised ; the next-shows all the parishes and townships in the counties of Stafford, Salop, &c. in which coal and iron are raised ; and another exhibits at one point of view all the places in the West of England in:which the woollen manufacture is carried on. In like manner, all the districts of production are exhibited, showing in one line the number of inhabited houses, of families, and the total population of each town and parish, as returned to Parliament at each of the three periods 1801, 1811, and 1821,—distinguishing first, the proportion, in 1801 and 1821, returned as employed in agriculture ; second, in trade, manufactures, or handicraft ; and third, those-not com- prised in either of the two preceding classes ; the annual value of the real property in each town and parish assessed to the property-tax in 1815 ; the amount expended in each for the maintenance of the poor, annually, on an average of three years at each of two periods ending at Easter 1815 and the 25th March 1824, with the number of persons in each parish receiving parochial relief, distinguishing the number in workhouse and those relieved permanently from those relieved occa- sionally—and also the number of persons in friendly societies, and the amount of charitable bequests annually at the disposal of the parochial officers in each town and parish. In this part of the work, every town and parish is exhibited which contains any significant proportion,of manufacturing or trading inhabitants ; the places not enumerated being small parishes, hamlets, tythings, or townships exclusively agricultural. There then follows a list of upwards of ten thouSand towns and parishes, arranged alphabetically, showing the total population of each at each of the three periods 1801, 1811, and 1821, with reference to its number in the topographical arrangement ; whereby the locality, extent, and re- lation of every place is ascertained. The four thousand additional places included in the alphabetical arrangement, are referred to the ad- joining or nearest place specified in the topographical arrangement. The object of this part of the work is stated, by the compiler, to have been to furnish the means of ascertaining, with as much precision as the com. plicated nature of British society admits of, the proportion of the popula- tion engaged in or dependent for subsistence upon each great branch of production ; and a summary of the inquiry is exhibited on a single page.
TEPID SWIMMING Rvrn.—This improvement in the luxury of bathing is likely to render that healthful and invigorating practice more general than it has been, as the temperature of the water (about 70°) pre- vents any of those unpleasant effects which cold bathing, and even the warm bath, produce on some constitutions. It is equally agreeable, also, in winter and in summer. This bath is situate in the York Road, leading from Waterloo to the Westminster Road : it is of a commo- dious size—fifty by twenty-five feet, and is fitted up with dressing- boxes, &c. The water, which is soft, is supplied from a spring on the premises, and is slightly impregnated with magnesia. It is warmed by passing through the boiler of a steam-engine; and is quite clear, the whole body of water being changed about once in every twenty-four hours. A powerful jet of cold water in the centre of the bath may be made to act at pleasure, so as to combine the stimulating effects of a shower-bath with the more comfortable luxury of warm bathing: The sensation is most agreeable.
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