The poor are provided for wholly by voluntary contributions, which are made from house to house at stated periods. They are in a great degree sup ported in workhouses, where their own labour con tributes in some measure to their maintenance. Their food and clothing are of the coarsest kind. There are many hospitals and other charitable estab lishments for the relief and cure of the diseased ; and, upon the whole, the poor are as well taken care of as in other countries where their mainte Dime is compulsory.
By the population tables, which are accurately kept, the increase in the number of inhabitants is going on rapidly. In the year 1817, the births were 46,118, and the deaths 82,004, though, on so. count of the scarcity of corn, the greatest distress was felt; of these births the males were 23,812, and the females 22,314.
The language usually spoken in Hanover is the Plat-Deutsche, a dialect of the High German, mere pure, and less cauplicated in its construction, but treated by the learned with more contesept than it merits. As the service in the churches and the in. structien in the schools is exclusively in the High German, all the peasantry understand it, though they very unwillingly use it when they can avoid it. The higher classes pride themselves on speaking the High German with greater purity than is practised in any other part of the empire.
Hanover has two standards of money, the Leip. sigen and the Convention. The public accounts are kept in the latter. The gold coin called George
d'or is five rix dollars eight grosehen in convention money ; or, in Leipsigen mosey, four rix dollars six teen groscl;en. The other gold coin, the Gold-Gulden, is two rix dollars six growl= in convention, two dollars two grosehen in Leipsigen mone.
The long measure is the rood of fight elk ; the ell is two feet; the foot twelve inches. Six Hans verian are equal to five Brabant ells. Land is mea sured by hufen and morgens. The hide is 30 morgens, the inorgen 120 nukes, equal to 24.844 Paris feet. The morgen by which woodland is measured contains 160 ruthen. The liquid measure is the eimen, of 8.136 cubic inches, or the anker of 1.960 cubic inches. The latter ;ekes 16 stiibchens, or 32 kannera--64 quistiere, or 128 need. The weights in common use are ships-pounds, lies-runds hundreds, and s customary pounds. The ips-pOund is equal to 20 lies-pounds ; the hundred is 110 lies-pountio The lies-poand is divided into two marks, the mark into eight ounces, the ounce into two laths, the loth into four quentins. The local weights and measures vary from these the standards in all the villages of the several provinces.