* The Seine Department (in which Paris is situated) is selected as containing the maximum density of population in France. By Urban Population is meant the total population of communes, or parishes, which contain above 2000 souls agglomerated. By the Rural Population is meant the total population of communes where the agglomerated population is less than 2000 souls. In France the country is uninhabited; the whole population live in villages. There are in France 37,510 communes: this is less than 1000 souls in every commune. Communes with a population less than 500 souls are very numerous.

The French law (in common with all systems of jurisprudence built on the foundation of the Roman Law) provides fathers and mothers with power to place their illegitimate children on nearly the footing of children born in lawful wedlock. This power, unquestionably, militates against good morals. Children so legitimated are said to be “recognized."

French Navy, 1863,-according to the Almanach de Gotha.

An account of the French Navy is given (ante) | as obtained from the Ministry of Marine at Paris; but, as that account embraces only the modern steam-vessels of the five principal classes, we

deem it best to present the exhibit of the French Navy as contained in the "Almanach de Gotha" for 1864, embracing the aggregates of vessels of all classes. That exhibit is as follows: