perfecting and rendering cheap useful manufactures, has been shown by a mass of repeated facts that are incontrovertible, drawn from ac counts of actual sales, traced back to the time duties were first imposed. There have also been held by the Institute three annual Fairs, at the Masonic Hall in the city of New York. The effect of these Fairs in exciting ingenuity, and in producing an American feeling among the citizens of the Metropolis, and doing away unreasonable prejudices which narrow illiberal minds had too successfully diffused, has been efficacious beyond anticipation. The Fair of October 1829, was admitted to be the most splendid exhibition of the kind ever witnessed in the United States. The number of visitors was more than 30,000, and the number of specimens exceed ed 3000. The members of the Institute have exercised great discretion in ex cluding every thing like political party spirit, and every attempt to in troduce it, has been uniformly frowned upon. Much of the good which has flowed from this association may be attributed to the sound discre tion which dictated this course. The following are the present officers. They were elected May 13, 1830. Appointed. COURTS. SUPERIOR COURT OF THE CITY OF NEW-YORK. This Court was constituted in 1828. 1828 Samuel Jones, Chief Justice. 1828 Josiah Ogden Hoffman, 1828 Thomas Jackson Oakley Associate Judges. 1828 1828 Charles A. Clinton, Clerk. David P. Hall, Reporter. STATED TERMS.-First Monday of every month at the City Hall. 1821 Richard Riker, Recorder. Richard Hatfield, Clerk. STATED TERMS.-First Monday of every month at the City Hall. These courts are holden every day except Sunday at the City Hall. 12th Ward, James Flanagan, and John Doughty, Harlaem. Robert L. Jaques. NEW-YORK CITY TEMPERANCE SOCIETY. Smith Thompson, President. Rev. Joshua Leavitt, Corresponding Secretary. NEW-YORK CITY TRACT SOCIETY, Sidney E. Morse, Corresponding Secretary. Q MECHANICS AND TRADESMEN'S SOCIETY. Annual meeting, 2d Tuesday of January. 1 Brigham Howe, President. Benjamin Demilt, 1st V. Pres. Philip Henry, 2d V. Pres. Joseph C. Hart, Secretary. Robert Provoost, Collector. Reuben Odell, Messenger. NEW YORK BENEFICIAL SOCIETY. L. Taylor, President. Franklin Cooley, Vice President, William W. Holmes, Secretary. Ambrose S. Wickoff, Assistant Secretary. Thomas Hall, Treasurer. Thomas Baring, Bergen Hanks, Inspecting Committee. NAUTICAL INSTITUTION. Annual meeting, first Thursday in January, Alexander Thompson, President. Miles R. Burke, 1st V. Pres. Henry Russell, 2d V. Pres. S. M. Whitney, Secretary. D. M. Hitchcock, Physician. Progressive Population of the City of New York. Years. 1830 207,021 40,935 The greatest increase of population in this City was between 1820 and 1825, a period of five years. This increase, it will be seen, was 43,780; an average annual increase of 8,756 inhabitants. |