the carriage of articles to the fishery stations; and 91 steam-boats
have passed through the canal, all within the period abovementioned.


_Medicine._

A respectable contemporary journal gives the following calculations on
the relative state of the medical profession in London and Paris. The
French have long objected to the multitude of our professors, and the
drugs they employ; and it would seem by this comparative statement that
their objection is not ill-founded:--

In _London_ there are 174 physicians, or 1 physician to 700
inhabitants; 1,000 surgeons, or 1 surgeon to 1,200 inhabitants; 2,000
apothecaries, or 1 apothecary to 600 inhabitants.

In _Paris_ there is 1 physician to 1,300 inhabitants; 1 surgeon to
6,000 inhabitants; 1 apothecary to 4,450 inhabitants.

Being in the proportion of 1 physician in Paris to 5 in London; 5
surgeons in London to 1 in Paris; 7 apothecaries in London to 1 in
Paris.

Supposing, on an average, each of these persons to receive
1,000_l._ a year, the whole income of the medical profession in
London would be 3,474,000_l._ annually.


_Poor Rates._