Number of Houses in the Unitkd Kingdom. —By a parliamentary return juat issued, tbe number of inhabited h >nses in England is staled to be 2,753,295; tbe number uninhabited, 162,725; and the number building, 25.882. Iu Wales, the number inhabited ia J 18,196; uninhabited. 1-JSJ; building, 1.769. In Scotland, tbe number nf inhabited houses is put down at 503,451 ; uninhabited. 25,295 ; building, 2,765 ; miking a total of about 3,454,101 inhabited, 198,049 uninhabited ; and 30,634 houses building throughout tbe United Kinodom, Ireland excepted, which is not in tbe retnrn. *' Flattering Preference. —Two natives of the Marquesas ( Cannibal) island*, have been carried to France- The story runs, that on tbe voyage one of their fellow pa»sngers asked whieb they liked best the French or tbe English* "The English,” answered tbe it an, stoic king his lips, •* they ate the feties*-"
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Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 33, 21 March 1844, Page 3
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