Jews Of New York

-According to thereport of the agent of the Society for ameliorating the condition of the Jews, their number in this city, including children twëlve years old, is about twelve thousand. In every hundred of that population, there are estimated to be 32 Germans, 11 Americans, 8 Polanders, 7 Prussians, 6 Dutchmen, 5 Portuguese, 4 Englishmen, 3 Frenchmen, 2 Austrians, and 2 Spaniards. Upwards of half of tliem arepedlars; many of them are merchants and brokers; sorae are petty dealers in dry goods, others in liquors; there are among them, also, shoemakers and tailors, and a few butchers. More than one half of them are poor; some so znuch so as to require assistánce of their brethren. Many are in comfortable circumstances; but vry few are wealthy; compared with their brethren in Germanyand England. There are two children. under twelye years of age, on an average, to bacK family. TJiesc are tanght the Hebrew letters very young, and can generally read prayers in that language, when ciglit yoars old; without, however, in most cases, understanding the import of what they read. It is estimated that . of the poorer clnsses, nearly all of whom read the language fluently, not one intwenty reads it understandingly. The Jews here, . have Sabbatli schools, which are taught on Saturday. They have also schools on the other days of the week, in which their children are taught Ilebrew, Germán and English, by Jewish instructors. A few send their children to the Public Schools and to Christian.Sabbath schools. They have nine synagogues in the city, thvee of which are vvell attended. They manifest a strong atfachment to their fuith. - N. Y. Jour. Com. mOÏ3 - Forty-ibur thousand and forty-five persons passed through the Thames Tunnel in the last week of August. Ann Aiinon, Nov. 3, 1843. Wheat sells here at 53 cents per bushel. Four retails at $3,25. Beef is worth from 2 to 3 cents per pound. Pork from 3 to 4 4 cents.