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Lyttelton Times, Volume III, Issue 109, 5 February 1853, Page 4

The Population of England is a length beginning to assume new conditions. It is at this moment actually decreasing ; yet marriages multiply, births increase, and life is lengthened. According to the returns of the Registrar-Gene-ral, 100,813 persons died in the quarter ending June, and 125,112 emigrated, giving a total abstraction of 225,925 persons. The number of births was 159,136, leaving a balance against the national population of 66,789 for the quarter, or at the rate of a quarter of a million annually.

Prtnce de Joinville in England. —An article published in the last Revue dcs Deux Mondes, and attributed to the pen of the Prince de Joinville, though bearing the official signature of M. V. de Mars, has been attracting considerable notice in Parisian circles, and deserves to attract a great deal more in those of London. It is a secret history of the French squadron in the Mediterranean from the period immediately preceding the Syrian war, up to the present time, and proves to the satisfaction of all who read it, how jealous our neighbours (those of them at least who stand forth as the organs of their naval service) still remain of the preponderant influence of England in that sea of which they have not the monopoly. The curious revelations which are made in this article as to the burning desire of the French officers and men to come to blows with ours, even at those times when the two squadrons were supposed to be acting in concert, and as to the manner in which orders from home are obeyed by French admirals, are well worthy of attention. Tiie jealousy which they feel as a corps against England, and the dislike which i.s inherent in them for everything British, pierce throughout in a manner impertinent to us ; and, if these lucubrations are really by the person to whom the)' are assigned, they are unworthy a man who owes so much to England's hospitality.—Globe.