The preliminary statistical statement contained in the Registrar-General' quarterly returns, shows that last Inter to be first used is one of those kept in stock for emergencies; and if it is decided later on to make the direct service permanent, a more powerful instrament will be sent out from home. expected that the trial service will be ready by the 28th instant. A year's birth-rate in England and Wales report has been in circulation recently was the lowest on record. 'The death-to the effect that the Great Northern rate was also the lowest recorded, but Telegraph Company purposed selling as the latter decrease, compared with tome of its cables to the Japanese the ten years' average was 1.7 per Government; this, we are authorized to 1,000 of population, as against a de-state, is not true. cline of 2.1 per 1,000 in the birth-rate,
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