THINGS IN GENERAL,
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Coombe's work on the "Consttuton of Man, ? contains several statistical tables collated from the different parish registers of England and other sour ces. which clearly prove that the average duration of life is about 15 per cent greater than it fifty years ago The causes assigned for this astonishing fact, the superior comforts of the poorer classes the diffusion of knowledge subjects of physiology. better morals, and temperance. Probably intemper- ance IS amore active cause of premature death and crime than any or all others. The following table from an English paper, of the comparative return of crime in Ireland for the last four years clearly proves this fact, and should be powerful stimulus to the temperance exertions of phanthropsts every where. Unhappy Ireland is setting example for the world, and her clergy demand the profound reverence and gratitude of all nations, for their be exerons in this noble cause.