The Hillsborough Recorder

Importance of the United States.

Under this head, a Liverpool paper gives the following concise view of the United States:—There are half a million of scholars at the public schools of the United States, and more than three thousand students at the colleges which confer degrees. There are about twelve hundred students at the medical schools, five hundred at the theological seminaries, and more than a thousand students at law.

There are about ten thousand physicians, and upwards of six thousand lawyers. There are about nine thousand places of worship, and about five thousand clergymen. About four thousand four hundred patents have been taken out for new and useful inventions, discoveries and improvements in the arts. Between two and three millions of dollars worth of books are annually published in the U. States. A thousand newspapers are published. There was more than one hundred steam boats comprising more than four thousand tons, navigating the Mississippi. The vessels of the U. S. by sea, perform their voyages, on an average, in one third less time than English. There are five thousand post offices, and eighty thousand miles of post roads, and twelve thousand miles of turnpike roads. There are three thousand legislators.