the new room, on its completion a few weeks ago, was thrown open for public inspection in the evening at such hours as not to interfere with the studies of the readers who resort to it for purely literary purposes. Since then, however, the application for admission as readers have very largely increased; and though the average attendance in the old rooms was not above a hundred daily, several hundred new readers, introduced in the regular way, have since been placed on the books. But the attendance even now, doubled though it has been since the opening of the new and gorgeous apartment now occupied, in which I write at this moment, gives no idea whatever of the number of readers on the books of the institution. They amount, in round numbers, to thirtytwo thousand! Of course many have died, of whose death the officials have no knowledge, and their names are still retained. Some, too, who once frequented the place, are now wearing the convict's garb and toiling in our prisons and dockyards-for example, Sir John Dean Paul & Co., the felon bankers, Robson, the Crystal Palace share forger, and Redpath, the forger of railway shares. But making all reasonable deductions for deaths, emigration, etc., there are fully twenty thousand persons at this moment entitled to admission to the Reading-Room, and in a position to avail themselves of it. A very large proportion of these, of course, are persons who have not had any professional object in view in applying for admission, but who read merely for their own information or amusement. The remainder include nearly all persons connected with the periodical press, literary and scientific men at large, and a fair sprinkling of ladies; the latter of whom have now, for the first time, tables set apart for their own exclusive use, though they are not restricted to them should they prefer to sit among the gentlemen. I forget what classic writer informs us that one of the Egyptian kings, having formed the first public library the world ever saw, and invited his subjects to avail themselves of its treasures, inscribed above the entrancedoor, "Medicine for the mind." The Observer-not the Sunday newspaper, so called, but the classic of threequarters of a century ago-remarks on this that "if it be a nobler office to preserve the mind in health than to keep the body after death from corruption, it must award to him higher praise for the benefaction of the library than if he had been the founder of the pyramids." In the Egyptian Gallery of the Museum, within twenty yards of the Reading-Room, are a number of mummies, among which may possibly be that of the good old king in question. A glance at those remains generally reminds one how completely the art of embalming, possessed in such perfection four thousand years ago, has been lost to us; but if a regret on that score should intrude, one needs only to pass into the library to be reminded how amply we are compensated for the loss by our possession of the steam printing machine. A test has recently been applied to the mode of interpretation of the Cuneiform inscriptions adopted by the Assyrian decipherers, the result of which, so far as it has yet been ascertained, not only establishes the soundness of their theory and their practical skill, but seems of necessary consequence to overthrow the system of the Rev. Charles Foster, the advocate for the Israelitish origin of the Sinaitic Inscriptions. A selection was made of a long inscription, of about a thousand lines, embracing a great variety of public and private matters relating to the reign of Tilgath Pileser I, who flourished upward of a thousand years before the time of our Lord. Three lithographed copies were made and supplied to Sir Henry Rawlinson and two other gentlemen respectively, and a translation was requested from each, with the condition that there should be no communication between them-Sir Henry Rawlinson residing in London, and the other gentlemen living, one in the provinces a considerable distance from town, and the other in Dublin. A committee, consisting of Dean Milman, Dr. Whewell, Mr. Grote, and some other gentlemen of similar qualifications, were appointed to receive the translations in sealed envelops and open and compare them all together. The committee have not yet made their formal report, but the result is known to be that Sir Henry Rawlinson's version gave an unbroken rendering of the inscription from end to end in fifty-five long paragraphs, the correctness of which as a translation of the original was attested by the thorough identity with it in sense, and generally even in words, of the versions of the other two gentlemen, as far as they had gone-want of time having prevented Dr. Hinck, of Dublin, from completing his, and Mr. Talbot having left some passages blank which he had been unable to decipher. A fourth translation was attempted by a French gentleman, who was admitted to the trial at his own request, and his version also coincided, so far as it went, with Sir H. Rawlinson's; but his imperfect acquaintance with English had prevented him from making much way. Thus, then, a substantial and almost literal agreement is found between three independent translations-a fact which seems to set at rest forever all the doubts which had been expressed as to the soundness of the principles of interpretation which they adopt in common. Public attention is now largely occupied by two matters involving most important problems in art and science, and in which America must feel almost an equal interest with England. The Great Eastern steamship is rapidly approaching completion, so much so that preparations are already going forward for her reception at the intended port of her departure on her trial trip to America; and the manufacture of the Atlantic Telegraph cable, and the arrangements for depositing it in its ocean bed, are progressing in a way which leaves nothing to be wished for. America little imagined, indeed, that her magnificent steam-frigate Niagara would be placed in the hands of the shipwrights in an English royal dockyard, to be half pulled to pieces and reconstructed before her return to her native shore; but the alterations which are being made, for a temporary purpose of course, will not in any degree affect her efficiency on her restoration to her proper character as a ship of war. Americans will scarcely need to be told that the English people fully appreciate the moral beauty of the spectacle of the war ships of both nations, divested of their frowning batteries, employed in the peaceful work of adding yet another to the thousand conventional and social bonds which unite in the fellowship of brotherhood two people previously linked together by the indissoluble ties of kindred blood, a common language, and a common faith. Fervently does Britain pray, and heartily doubtless will America respond to the aspiration, that the peaceful lightnings of both lands, as they gleam along the caverns of the deep, may be sanctified and blessed to the promotion of a harmony which shall never be broken by the roll of their hostile thunders above its surface. And yet even this agency of peace is so readily susceptible of application for very different purposes, that the imagination will not be restrained from suggesting the possibility of its being applied to the latter and infinitely less desirable object. The very fact of a statesman having the telegraphic wire in his bureau, in London or in Washington, as the case may be, may tempt him, under the impulse of a momentary irritation, to flash across the Atlantic a retort which he would suppress were he compelled to reflect coolly on the matter for three or four days before the departure of the next mail steamer. A telegraphic communication would scarcely be sufficiently formal or dignified for a declaration of war, and that at all events need not be anticipated; but how completely would all our anticipations be falsified were the first use made by each country of the wire to recall its embassador at the court of the other! Then, again, the Great Eastern, though intended for purposes of commerce and emigration exclusively, would make a capital troop-ship on an emergency, and convey some five thousand soldiers in a body to any spot where their presence was required. Suppose they were needed in Canada, or some other province of British America-how provoking to England it would be to learn that, when she was within a day's steaming of her destination, your Niagara hove in sight, and, having taken on board her armament after laying down the telegraphic cable, carried the monster ship and the army in her capacious womb straight into New York! Of course, at close quarters five thousand soldiers would prove a formidable boarding party, but the commander of the Niagara would not play his enemy's game by engaging him yard-arm-and-yard-arm under such circumstances, but would lie off at a convenient distance, and quietly drop his shells on board the mammoth steamer, to which the latter could make no reply, not being an armed vessel. Clearly, in such a case the Union Jack must come down, unless the troop-ship be accompanied by a fleet for her protection. But, infinitely more cheering than such speculations as these is the view propounded by the Rev. Dr. M'Clintock at the Wesleyan Mission House the other evening, at a social assembly invited to receive him and Bishop Simpson on their arrival from America-his thorough conviction, namely, that war between two such nations was morally impossible-that the Almighty would not permit it-and that the statesman, whether English or American, who should advocate a war policy between them, would be a traitor, not only to his country, but to Christendom and to the world. Mr. Douglas Jerrold died on Monday, the 8th instantJune. His removal leaves a blank among our writers of wit and satire which no man who has appeared in their ranks in the present generation is competent to fill-not even Thackeray himself. As to Dickens, a more complete break-down than that exhibited in the closing numbers of Little Dorrit has not been witnessed among us for a long time. The thing turns out at last almost as great afailure as W. H. Russell's lectures on the war, which caused somebody to apply to him the other day the line descriptive of poor Goldsmith in two distinct capacities "He writes like an angel, but talks like poor Poll." New York Literary Correspondence. tlemen not of their family, in short, in every way assert their independence of restraint. Such a training," observes the writer, "truly develops a certain firmness of destroys the beautiful poetry of maidenly innocence and inexperience." AMERICA, so long the favored land of the Germans, so no longer. German prints abound in ill-natured caricatures of American life and manners. German editorsI mean of course publications and men of Germany-in-character and coolness of judgment, but it no less surely dulge in criticisms by no means gentle, on American morality and immorality. Exaggerated specimens of American "business tact" are circulated, and, in short, the press of Germany seems arrayed, bodily, against us, and intent upon causing a thorough revolution of sentiment among the Germans against the United States. Many of these anti-American squibs are of course from pens whose holders never saw what they describe. But occasionally one speaks out his own experiences and the inferences he has drawn therefrom. And then it is not unusual to meet with here and there a stubborn trutha sharp criticism upon some social fault, which it can not do us, the faulty ones, harm to read. In a recent essay on " American society," which I take from a Berlin paper, there are, amidst much exaggeration, some such stubborn truths. The writer says: "Little girls move about and assume the airs of grown young ladies; and young boys, scarce out of their breechcloths, pay them as serious compliments, and treat them in as stately a way as though they, the boys, were fullblown cavaliers. Scarce are the girls in their teens, when they take upon themselves all the liberties and privileges of ladies long in society. They make and receive calls, give parties, go out in the company of gen "Most American young ladies who frequent society," says this audacious critic-for whose opinions, be it observed, the present writer by no means desires to be held responsible-" have an air as though they had been already a couple of times engaged. They are cool and supercilious, haughty and heartless. They assume the most absurd privileges, and claim for themselves, as toward the opposite sex, a degree of exemption from the ordinary amenities of pleasant social intercourse, which makes their presence necessarily a burden to sensible men, who shrink from carrying respect so far as to become adulation. Accordingly we find in America that young men frequent the society of ladies more for the sake of the excitement of the dance, and of crowded unsocial gatherings miscalled parties, than for the sake of pleasant intercourse. And we find, too, that the chief enjoyment of young men of means, who have access to the 'best' female society is not found in such society, but in social gatherings confined exclusively to men. these gatherings they make up for the 'privations' they have endured in the company of their over-assuming lady friends. In "In fact "--I quote further, at the risk of reprimand from some fair lady reader-"the young ladies are the tyrants of American life. To them every thing is sacrificed-for their enjoyment all is ordered-till they marry; and then their scepter departs forever. Not that they are less tyrannical; but the married woman at once enters into a great war with others of her sex and station. . . . With all their republicanism there is no people more innately inclined to exclusiveness, and other aristocratic vices, than the Americans. In his business relations the male American is sufficiently liberal. But at home his reign is at an end-and there he sees and knows only the small coterie whom his wife or his daughters choose to recognize. At his business he works in the freest spirit. At home his society is made up only of those who come up to the mark his wife and daughters have set, as to riches or ancestry, or what not. The higher classes of this republican country aim to have not only their own exclusive social circle, but their own churches, their peculiar streets, their special summer resorts, from which-churches and all-the poorer people are sought to be religiously excluded. And this spirit reigns not only in the larger cities, where such distinctions might be naturally looked for; but no sooner has some little one-horse town of the interior succeeded in assuming the title of 'city'-an assumption made usually on the very slightest possible foundations than those of its lady inhabitants who can arrogate to themselves the superiority of wealth, straightway take upon themselves to form an exclusive circle, within whose bounds no one gains admittance who has not that magic key of wealth to open the doors withal." I will quote no more at present from this writer. His comments on American society are sometimes unfair. But once in a while, it must be admitted, he comes not far from some very pertinent truth. In literature there is not just now much doing in New York. The dull season is approaching. Authors, publishers, and readers alike take a rest during the heated term. Yet the press is by no means idle. It must be kept going to supply in time the recurring want for something new. I have spoken in a previous letter of Dr. Livingston, the great African explorer. His book, so long waited for, will soon be ready for the numbers who are eager for its perusal. The Harpers, who have secured the plates for this country, are getting it ready as fast as possible, and will, I am informed, publish it simultaneously with its publication in England. Dr. Livingston has the true idea of the dissemination of Christianity. "Commerce, civilization, Christianity," are his watchwords. Had he gone out merely as a disseminator of Christian doctrine, he would not have produced the effect he has done; he would have accomplished little more, in fact, than have done the numbers of mere traders, who have gone among savage tribes simply for the sake of filthy lucre. To state the abstract Christian doctrine is only the merest beginning of the great work of converting a heathen people. To show that people the results of this doctrine, in our civilization, and to open their eyes to the great fact that only Christianity can ever elevate them in their social, political, and commercial relations, and that there is no true Christianity without civilization, without commercial enterprise and prosperity, without national vigor to prove all this, I take to be the chief and glorious work of an enlightened missionary of the Gospel. In this way he reaches, not individuals but nations, and brings under the holy influence of the cross a continent, in the time it would otherwise take him to win a small tribe. This I take to be the meaning of "making to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness." And this has Dr. Livingston done. At a late meeting in London, he said: "In speaking to mercantile men in this city, most of whom are self-made men, I need not make any allusion to the commencement of an enterprise which, I have not the smallest doubt, will yet be a glorious one, although I may not live to see it. All that I wish to see in Africa is, the beginning the dawn of the future-because I believe that that future will be glorious. The capabilities of Africa are exceedingly great, and I believe that commerce has not yet done any thing like half its work. It is just beginning to extend itself, and Christianity is just beginning with her work for the future." Speaking of the condition of the interior of Africa, he gives an anecdote, which reveals a laughable Yankee trait in these benighted Africans: "I have seen children sold for about twelve shells. In the center of the country you may get a slave for two shells. At the coast these shells are very cheap, but in the center of the country they are quite as valuable as the Lord Mayor's badge. In order to show his great friendship for me, one of the great chiefs came to me during the night. He did not wish to show his friendship before his people; he wanted to give me a proof of his friendship somewhat in the same manner in which you now honor me. He entered my little tent, and took out a small shell and hung it round my neck, and said: There, you see a proof of my friendship, and when the path for commerce is made, let it come through my town."" Many of your lady readers have no doubt read with interest Mrs. Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Bronte, and will remember the statement there made of Bramwell Bronte's unfortunate affection for a lady of quality. To every body's surprise, Mrs. Gaskell's attorney makes in a late English paper a most explicit retraction, on the part of his client, of the entire story, and acknowledges that it originated in a mistake. The circumstances are stated with so much circumstantiality in the book, that really more than so meager an explanation is due to Mrs. Gaskell's own character; and her friends look anxiously for a more extended setting forth of the circumstances which caused so serious a mistake. Dr. Barth's three volumes, describing his explorations in the interior of Africa, will shortly be published by Messrs. Harper & Bros. Two more volumes will complete the account. These will be published late in the fall. Very soon we may expect our maps of Africa to present a more lively spectacle than the melange of "desert," and "unexplored," which now fills all but the mere coast lines. The generation now growing up may hope to witness the very general Christianization of the land of Ham. Those of your readers who found the large and handsome edition of Com. Perry's Japan Expedition too costly for them, will be pleased to learn that the Appletons have published an abridged edition, containing all the most interesting matter, and the illustrations, but omitting the scientific portions, which have less interest for the merely general reader. The abridgment has been made by Dr. Robert Tomes, who, it is but just to say, is the real editor of the larger work, Rev. Dr. Hawks hav ing contributed little more than his name to the titlepage. Dr. Tomes is a modest man, and would scarce say himself what it is but proper his friends should say for him. character, long reckoned among its ablest and most successful contributors, foreigners resident in America. And to cap the climax, it is a fact that during the Presidential campaign of last year, one of the chief Native American I must close my letter by a few items of literary gos- organs, the most ultra perhaps of all, was under the sole sip. Constantine Lemonides, a Greek, who a few years ago set the learned of Europe agape by his extraordinary forgeries of Greek Palimpsests, has suddenly turned up in Munich, where he has set up a monthly journal, the "Memnon," devoted to the elucidation of Egyptian hieroglyphics, and the extension of our knowledge concerning the ancient Egyptians. Should he find himself short of "copy," the ingenious fellow would scarce hesitate to get up a few papyri himself. I see in a Sandwich Island paper that the book of Mormon has been translated into Hawaiian. The London Athenæum shows, in a late pungent criticism, that nearly two hundred pages of the sixth volume of Sir A. Allison's History of Europe are copied, with very slight verbal alterations, from Mr. Kay's work on Affghanistan. Mr. Alexander Smith, who has lately committed matrimony, has just published in England a new poem. The subject is, "Town and Country Life." Tennyson is just getting out a new poem also. The subject is one of his earliest favorites, "King Arthur;" being, in fact, a further contribution to his unfinished epic, "Morte d'Arthur." M. de Cassagnac, a spirited French author, has just published a work entitled, "The History of the Fall of Louis Philippe, of the Republic of 1848, and of the reestablishment of the Empire." The book will make a sensation in Europe. It makes some curious revelations. For instance, it seems that General Changarnier, M. Thiers, and M. de Falloux, all proposed coups d'etat to get rid of the republican constitution. These gentlemen kept quiet, however, and allowed Louis Napoleon to take all the blame of the nefarious act. An English literary journal cuts into Edinburgh, the "modern Athens," after the following fashion: "Edinburgh once had a powerful place in periodical literature. What is the fact now? The title is the only connection the 'Edinburgh Review' has with the place of its birth-publisher, editor, and contributors being alike English; 'Blackwood's' native staff of contributors is reduced to an individual; 'Chambers' has dropped out 'Edinburgh' from the title as no longer characteristic of their 'Journal,' while the 'North British Review,' the only younger serial that seemed to promise well, yielding to the influence of the place, is at this very moment in a state of suspended animation." editorial management of a rank foreigner. All which is only a verification of the Scripture saying, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country and in his own house." It is gratifying to notice the progress of Protestantism in France, as reported by M. Fisch, of Paris, at the recent anniversary in London of the Evangelical Continental Society. A great change seems to have taken place in the political press of Paris, and the two principal daily papers have come strongly to advocate Protestant principles. The Journal des Debats has openly espoused the cause of truth, and declares that there is no hope for France unless she becomes Protestant. Recently in a leading article, the editor, who, by the way, is a man of superior talents and energy, contrasts France and England, and very conclusively shows that the superiority of the latter over the former is plainly attributable to Protestantism. Writers of history as well as editors are taking up the same strain; and while once it was so much in vogue for historians to speak in high terms of praise of the Church of Rome, and with contempt of the principles of the Reformation, now this is all reversed. The present writers of history are aiming to make it appear that France never was so prosperous, in all respects, as when she was a Protestant country. Yet we are not to suppose that such indications as these would pass unnoticed by the Romanists of France, or fail to incur their opposition. Accordingly we have news of a new Catholic association having been formed at Paris, under the patronage of Monseigneur de Segur, a prelate of the Pope's household, for the express purpose of opposing the march of Protestantism. The founders of this society appear to be much alarmed at the multiplication of Protestant schools and churches, which they attribute to the efforts of foreign Bible societies. They complain dolorously of the rampant progress of heresy in many parts of the country, and that a Protestant Church has been established in Avignon, the city of the Popes. "The weapons with which the new society proposes to fight are very harmless and perfectly fair. They ask all well-wishers to their cause to send money and information to Monseigneur de Segur, and undertake to offer up prayers every day for the conversion of Protestants, and the confusion of the enemies of the only true faith." It is a great pity that "mother Church" had not always restricted herself to means and measures so innocent and appropriate for the conversion of those whom she esteems apostates and heretics. In such an event what rivers of fering and agony had been spared-and what an enormous reproach upon Christianity had found no existence! This is all true, no doubt. And yet, on the other hand, it might be mentioned that not a single one of the Lon-blood had never been shed-and what an amount of sufdon journals, daily, weekly, or monthly, but has more or less Scotchmen as editors or contributors. Some of the papers are entirely edited by Scotchmen or Irishmen. Taken collectively, the English periodicals are in a vast minority, either as to talent or numbers. It is a singular fact, that in our own city of New York the great majority of periodical writers are foreigners. One of the best dailies has actually not a native of the United States on its editorial staff. All of the most flourishing journals are in great part edited by foreigners. It is no less singular that Putnam's Magazine, which boasted so loudly of its pre-eminently American We take occasion to add, that the Emperor finds it to his own profit to lend his aid toward Papal supremacy in France. In addition to the efforts above alluded to, a recent undertaking is a vast literary work, consisting of the "history of the worship of the Virgin Mary in France, since the origin of Christianity till the present day, to be entitled, 'Historie de Notre Dame de France." The Emperor contributes largely in money toward this object. Items, Literary, Scientific, and Religious. LIFE AND TIMES OF JOHN WESLEY.-We see such a work announced as forthcoming in England from the pen of George Smith, well known in this country as the author of those learned and able works, "The Patriarchal Age" and "The Hebrew People." The work will, no doubt, be republished immediately in this country. We shall greet its appearance, and we hope it may go far toward supplying what has been a want long felt by the better class of mind among us in relation to the founder of Methodism. Our readers will remember that we expressed our views upon the subject in the Repository some time since. Those views have met with a wide con Nor in currence in our journals and among the leading minds in the Church. Few are aware of the great amount of rich material belonging to the times of Wesley and relating to the early Methodistic movement, which has as yet been put in no tangible shape for popular use. deed were we ourself-though we had most of the works, pro and con, relating to Wesley and his career as a reformer-till we came into possession of a series of biographical and miscellaneous collections, bound in several volumes. But more of this at another time. CINCINNATI WESLEYAN FEMALE COLLEGE.-It is now about seventeen years since this noble institution was first projected. And from its first organization its progress has been steadily and uniformly upward, till it justly ranks among the very first female colleges in the land. It is thoroughly organized and graded-into some eight or nine departments-from the primary to the senior. At the head of each department is an experienced teacher, and the institution seems to be composed of so many different, and, in some respects, independent schools. Few schools in the country-whether east or west-can present such a corps of teachers or such an army-some four or five hundred-of pupils. It is patronized without distinction of sect, whether Jew or Christian, and its fame-built upon the firm foundation of practical success-is wide-spread and well established. Rev. P. B. Wilber, of the Cincinnati conference, has presided over the institution from its origin, with a unity of aim and a steadiness of purpose, rarely equaled among the educators of our country. A marked feature of the institution is the Lyceum-a literary association, over which Mrs. Wilber presides with great ability and success. The public meetings of the Lyceum never fail to draw crowded houses, and it has produced some writers of decided talent. A movement is now on foot to raise $50,000 in the city alone, to liquidate the debt and improve the buildings of the institution. Methodism in Cincinnati-abundant in resources as it is-will be dishonored if the plan is not made to succeed. Now is the time for our men of wealth and of worldly prosperity to act. Its Alumnæ Association comprises some of the finest educated talent in the country. Bishop Morris is President of the Board of Trustees. OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY.-Few of our colleges have enjoyed more uniform prosperity than this. It has an able faculty, with an able leader at their head. No board of instruction could work with greater harmony or with more uniform success. We are glad to know that the current income is now equal to the expenditures. Hereafter, no doubt, funds will be needed to endow new professorships, erect new buildings, and to improve and beautify the grounds. But the institution may now be said to be substantially endowed. A more tasteful library building is not to be found in the country; and, indeed, all the appurtenances of the college denote good taste, and a vigorous and healthy growth. In a distant part of the village, imbedded in a beautiful grove, is the Ohio Wesleyan Female College, comparatively new, but largely patronized and giving great promise for the future. THE TRACT SECRETARY.-We perceive that the Rev. F. S. De Hass has been transferred to the New York East conference, and become the assistant of Dr. Floy in the tract department of his office. Thus we have at last virtually a tract secretary. From our own editorial experience we have no doubt of the necessity of some such arrangement. No man can really edit such a monthly as the National and attend to indispensable ministerial duties without finding full employment for his hands. Brother De Hass is well known as an energetic, untiring agent. REV. JOHN A. COLLINS.-The sudden death of this eminent minister sent a thrill of sorrow through thousands of hearts. His name had become a household world in our Israel. As an impromptu speaker and debater he was equaled by few if any in the Church. He was prompt, energetic, fearless-always acting, we believe, from convictions of justice and right. His loss will be long and widely felt in the Church. Our personal acquaintance with him, though brief, had led us to cherish for him high respect and affection. THE NORTH-WESTERN UNIVERSITY.-The classes in in this institution. Dr. Foster has removed to Evanston the course of college studies have already been organized and entered upon the duties of the presidency, but still retains his ecclesiastical connection with the New York conference. INTERESTING STATISTICS OF THE UNITED STATES.The United States are composed of thirty-two states and nine territories. They contain an entire population of 27,000,000, of whom 23,000,000 are white. The extent of sea-coast is 12,600 miles. The length of the ten principal rivers is 20,000 miles. The surface of the five great lakes is 90,000 square miles. The number of miles of railway in operation is 20,000, which cost $70,000,000. The length of canals is 5,000 miles. It contains the longest railway on the globe-the Illinois Central-which is 784 miles. The annual agricultural productions are worth $200,000,000. Its most valuable production is Indian corn, which yields annually 400,000,000 bushels. The amount of registered and enrolled tunnage is 4,407,010 tuns. The amount of capital invested in manufac tures is $600,000,000. The annual amount of internal trade is $600,000,000. The annual value of the products of labor-other than agricultural-is $1,500,000,000. The annual value of the income of their inhabitants is $1,500,000,000. The value of farms and live stock is $500,000,000. Its mines of gold, copper, lead, and iron, are |