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SPANISH POSS'NS.

Cuba

Porto Rico

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11,000 800,000 Cape Haytien Tabre Geffard, Emperor 14,000 450,000 San Domingo Gen. Bargas, Capt. Gen.

43,385 1,500,000 Havana

Lt. Gen. Manreano, C.G. 500,000 San Juan .... R. Echaque, Capt. Gen.

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STATISTICS OF THE GLOBE.

The earth is inhabited by about thirteen hundred millions of inhabitants, viz:

360,000,000 of the Caucassian race;
550, 000, 000 of the Mongolian;
190, 000, 000 of the Ethiopian;
200, 000, 000 of the Malay races;

1,000,000 of the American Indians.

All these respectively speak 3,064 languages, and possess 1,000 different religions.

The amount of deaths per annum is 33, 333,333, or 91,954 per day, 3, 730 per hour, 60 per minute, or one per second. This loss is compensated by an equal number of births.

The average duration of life throughout the globe is thirty-three years. One-fourth of its population dies before the seventh year, and one-half before the seventeenth. Out of 10,000 persons only one reaches his hundredth year; only one in 500 his eightieth; and only one in one hundred his sixty-fifth.

Married people live longer than unmarried ones, and a tall man is likely to live longer than a short one. Until the fiftieth year, women have a better chance of life than men; but beyond that period the chances are equal.

Sixty-five persons out of one thousand marry. The months of June and December are those in which marriages are most frequent.

Children born in spring are generally stronger than those born in other seasons. Births and deaths chiefly occur at night.

The number of men able to bear arms is only one-eighth of the population.

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It is estimated that there are some (14,000,000 persons of African descent on this continent, viz:

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POSTAL INFORMATION.

RATES OF POSTAGE BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN AND OTHER FOREIGN COUNTRIES.

The standard single-rate to Great Britain is 1-2 oz. aviordupois; to France and the Continent (by French mails) it is 15 grammes, or 1-4 oz. avoirdupois. The asterisk (*) indicates that prepayment of the rate to which it is affixed is optional; in all other cases prepayment is required.

Letters not
exceeding
1/4 ounce.
Letters not
exceeding
1⁄2 ounce.

Newspa'rs.

England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

[By the new postal convention, printed matter may now be
transmitted in the mails between the United States and
Great Britain at the following charges:

Newspapers and circulars, under 2 oz., in weight, each 2 cts.
Books, per single rate of 4 oz., 6 cents.

Pamphlets and other printed matter over 2 oz., per single
rate of 4 oz., 4 cents.

Samples of merchandise, seeds, &c., per single rate of 4 oz.,
8 cents. No packet is allowed to exceed 24 inches in
length by 12 inches in breadth and 12 inches in thickness.
These rates must be fully
will not be forwarded.y prepaid in stamps, or the package
and packets may be regis-

tered at an extra fee of 8 cents-to be prepaid.]]
German States and Free Cities, including Austria, Bavaria,
Baden, Bremen, Brunswick, Frankfort, Hamburg, Hano-
ver, Lubec, Luxemburg, Mecklenburg, Oldenburg, Prus-
sia, Saxe-Altenburg, Coburg-Gotha, Meiningen, Weimar,
Saxony and Wurtemburg.

By Prussian closed mail.

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