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From another table we have selected the following statements of the expectations of life, to a person at the age of 20, in different places; these, it will be seen, are highly favourable to Bristol and Clifton.

London, 29.87
Northampton, 38.43
Bristol, 88.17
Clifton, 85.28
Chester, 86.48
Philadelphia, 29.61
Breslaw, 34.15

A third table acquaints us with the number of persons living at the age of 20, out of |000 born, in the following places:─

London, 325
Northampton, 440
Bristol, 509
Clifton, 589
Breslaw, 461
Vienna, 287
Berlin, 324

From another table which Mr. Rankin was so obliging as to lend us, we have calculated the annual number of deaths at certain periods of life, in this city, which are as follows:─


Ages 1 21 40 50 60 70 80 90
Deaths 371 15 25 25 31 29 21 4

It is to be lamented that, in consequence of the present mode of keeping public registers, the first table does not afford us such valuable results as might otherwise, have been derived from such a document. The deaths being registered at the places of burial, no estimate can be formed of the proportionate