TABLE II.

NUMBER OF DEGREES TAKEN AT CAMBRIDGE, FROM 1830 TO 1840.

[From the Grace Book of the Senate.]

TABLE III.

MATRICULATIONS AND THE FIRST DEGREES, AT CAMBRIDGE, INCLUDING NOBLEMEN'S DEGREES, FROM 1820 TO 1839.

From this Table (III.) of the Matriculations and First Degrees at Cambridge, from 1820 to 1839, it follows, that the average number

of Matriculations in each year is 434, and the average number of the First Degrees, including noblemen's degrees, is 321, and hence nearly one-third of the Students matriculated leave the University without taking any degree at all. Some Students leave the University at the end of their first year, others in the second; and the number of places at table required in the hall of Trinity College is considerably less for the second year men, or third year men, than for the freshmen, showing that many Students have left after the first year.

TABLE IV.

OF THE PROPORTION OF STUDENTS INTENDED FOR LAY PURSUITS AND FOR THE CHURCH, IN TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

Hence only one-third of the Students admitted into Trinity College, Cambridge, go into the Church; and two-thirds go into the law, into parliament, or into other lay pursuits.

CURRENCY RETURNS.

WE find that the new form of the Bank of England returns adopted in the first Number of the present Volume (for March, 1845), in accordance with the changes made by the 7th and 8th of Victoria, c. 32, requires some explanation to a portion of our readers, so as clearly to establish the connexion between this new series, and the tables in the old form. This can scarcely be done in fewer words, or more perspicuously, than by the Economist newspaper, of the 7th of December, 1844, which thus converts the first column of the table at p. 95 into the old form of return, under the several heads of circulation, deposits, securities, and bullion.

First, Circulation. In the account under the new form, which we are about to convert, the amount of notes issued to the Banking Department is 28,351,2957. From this we must first deduct the notes on hand, which would show the circulation to be 20,176,2707.; but as in the old form bank post bills were properly included in the circulation, we must add that item, 1,030,3547, which would thus

show a circulation of 21,206,6247., as meant under the old form,

"Second, Deposits.-Under this head the new form of the account only separates the public deposits from the others, which make jointly

£.

3,630,809

8,644,348

12,275,157

"Third, Securities.—In the old form the shareholders' capital was not included, nor the securities which the Bank held as representing it. The present account includes both, and we must therefore add together the whole of the securities presented in it, and deduct therefrom the amount of the proprietors' capital, to arrive at the amount of securities held independent thereof. Thus

Securities held against the circulation and deposits 21,837,450

Fourth, Bullion. The former accounts of the Bank included under this head all coin and bullion in its possession. To make a corresponding account we must add several items. Thus

"It will now be seen that we have disposed of the whole fourteen items presented in this new form of account, except one-the rest,and that will be exhibited in constructing the account into the old form. Thus

"The balance between these liabilities and assets being 3,564,7297.,

and constituting the item, rest, in the new form before us."

Memoranda towards the Agricultural Statistics of Norfolk. By Sir John P. Boileau, Bart., F.R.S. (Read before the Statistical Section of the British Association at Cambridge, 21st June, 1845.)

THE following short statement of the results obtained by a committee of magistrates appointed to inquire into the Maintenance and Employment of the Agricultural Poor in the county of Norfolk in 1831, may be acceptable to the statistical section, and serve as a basis for comparison with the present time.

The substance is embodied in the report made by the committee through their chairman, Mr. Edmond Wodehouse, M.P. for the county, to the Quarter Sessions, in October, 1831.

The county of Norfolk contains 680 parishes. Returns were obtained from 426, the remaining 254 not being compelled to reply to the questions sent them by the committee declined answering; but as these agricultural parishes are of similar average extent to those which made returns, the 426 may be assumed as a fair evidence for calculation of the whole 680 of the county.

The total number of acres contained within these 426 parishes amounts to 664,867, of which 471,339 are arable.

The total number of Labourers usually employed thereon is 23,058, of which 18,277 may be called able-bodied labourers, i. e., above 20 years of age, and 4,781 above 14 and under 20 years of age. From hence it follows, in round numbers,

1. That the number of Labourers of all kinds, men and boys, employed upon 100 acres of all kinds is 31.

2. That the number of Labourers of all kinds, men and boys, employed upon 100 acres of arable is nearly 5.

3. That the number of Labourers, above 20 years of age, employed upon 100 acres of all kinds is 2, or about 1 to 36 acres.

4. That the number of Labourers, above 20 years of age, employed upon 100 acres of arable is 35, or about 1 to 26 acres.

And the conclusion to which the committee came, appears fairly borne out, notwithstanding a very contrary opinion previously prevalent, viz. :

"As far as the committee are enabled to form a judgment, there does not appear to be, upon the whole, any material surplus of Labourers beyond what the cultivation of the soil may be fairly said to require. In many cases, undoubtedly, there is a most inconvenient number, either residing, or legally belonging, and in many of these the rates appear to be considerably increased by the claims of various tradesmen, such as bricklayers and carpenters during the winter months."

I regret that I cannot obtain the special parochial returns from whence this report was made, and from which I have generally deduced the comparative amount of Labourers to the 100 acres. Many interesting facts might thus have been drawn out, but the papers appear to have perished.

20, Upper Brook-Street,
June 4, 1845.

JOHN P. BOILEAU.