_Pennsylvania Hospital._--The expenditures of the Pennsylvania Hospital the last year were about 55,000 dollars. The number of patients during the year ending April 22, 1820, was 945. The deaths were 52. Persons relieved 81. Cured 428. Remain 209. Eloped 23. _Salt water._--The whole western country seems to be _under_-flowed with salt water. Some late borings through the rock, at depths of from 259 to 317 feet, at Cannonsburg, Pa. have been completely successful. _Fire at Savannah._--An advertisement from the London Phenix Fire Office states, that the loss occurring in Savannah, by the great fire of January last, swept away every thing that had been received for premiums during twelve years, and as much more. _British Revenue, &c._--The _ad valorem_ duty, on British manufactured goods, exported from Liverpool, amounted, for the first quarter of the year 1819, to upwards of 13,000_l._ For the first quarter of 1820, the amount was only 5,700_l._ A great falling off, indeed. Average price of grain in England and Wales, from the returns up to the 15th April--Wheat, 69s. 2d.; Rye, 41s. 9d.; Barley, 36s. 5d.--[Grain at these prices would afford a fine market for the surplus product of the United States; but England will not receive our bread stuffs; she prefers to keep up, and to a most unreasonable extent, the market for her own agriculturists.] _Origin of Almanacks._--The ancient Saxons used to engrave upon certain square sticks, about a foot in length, the courses of the _moons_ for the whole year, whereby they could always certainly tell when the new moons, full moons, and changes, should happen; and such carved sticks they called _Al-mon-aght_ (_all-mon-heed, i. e._) the regard or observation of all the moons. There is in St. John's College, Cambridge, a Saxon almanack exactly answering to the above description. _Iron Boat._--A London paper of May 4, says, that a passage boat, of malleable iron, now plies on the Forth and Clyde Canal, in Scotland. It is called the Vulcan, and succeeds to admiration. The length is 63 feet; beam, 13 feet; depth, 5 feet; draught of water, when launched, 22 inches abaft, and 19 inches forward--when fitted with cabins, &c. 37 and 25 inches--when laden with two hundred passengers and their baggage, under 48 inches, on an even keel. The weight of iron employed was 12 tons 11-3/4 cwt. which is less than a wooden vessel of the same dimensions. The iron is of the kind called scrap. _A Great Eclipse of the Sun_ will take place on the 7th of September next. This eclipse will be visible over an extent of more than four millions square leagues, a surface nearly equal to a sixth part of the earth, and resembling a kind of oval of about 7500 leagues in circumference, comprising all Europe, the western part of Asia, all Africa, as far as to Monopotapa, and a part of North America. The eclipse will last three hours.