The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-09-28 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.

MTMOILLAN6OOII BTATISTIOL-A light blue-book of
300 pages contains *me miscellaneous statistics of the
United Kingdom, from which we take the following
figures. They are compiled by Mr. A. W. Fonblanque,
o f the Board of Trade, and the latest return refers
to the year 1856. There were in that year 22,080,449
persons living in England, Wales, and Sootland-vie,
10,802,279 oieles, and 11,278,170 females. England mid
Wales contained 19,045,187 of these souls, and Scot-
lend 9,035,262. There were 759,201 births, 448,962
deaths, and 179,824 marriages. There were 614,802 legiti-
mate, and 42,651 illegitimate births in England and
Wales, an+ in the inetro_polia 83,787 legitimate and
3,646 illegitimate births. The proportion of illegitimate
to legitimate was lin 140 and 1 in 230. The propor-
tion of marriages to the poptilation was 1 in 119 in
England and Wales, and lin 100 in London. In England
and Wales at large 129,960 marriages were between
bachelors and spinsters, 7,163 between bachelors and
widows, 14,462 between widows and spinsters, and 7,752
between widowers and widows. The ages of the males
married varied from 15 to 80, and those of the females
from 16 to 75. 16 girls were espoused at the age of 15,
and 6 old women at the age of 75. By far the greater
number of marriages occur between the ages of 20 and
23. The proportion of deaths to the population is lin
40 in England and Wales, and lin46 tn London. The
Metropolis, Liiscestershire, and the West Riding of
Yorkshire supply the largest number of votaries to Hy-
men, and the same counties supply the largest number
of death,. The following is a list of the number of
deaths from the principal diseases in England and
Wales in 1856, vie :-14,160, from eierlitina, 9,225 from
pertussis or whoopingoough, 13,815 from dierrhosa, 762
from cholera, 15,398 from typhus, 8,218 from dropsy,
48,960 from phthisis or aonsumpidon, 7,299 from hydro-
cephalus, 8,278, from apoplexy, 8,497 from paralysis,
23,946 from oonvuleions, 12,696 from „rdmo
21,528 from bronebitie, and 22,663 from pneumonia or
Inflammation of the lungs. The ages at death were
159,067 under 5 years, 16,165 from Sin 10, 9,148 from
10 to 15, 25.55 t from 15 5025, 26,371 from 25 to 35,
25.561 from 35 to 45, 25,024 froni 45 to 55, 29,353 from
65 to 65, 36,085 from 65 to 75, 72,962 from 75 to 855
8,273 from 55 to 95, and 548 at 95 alitawards. In
Great Britain 6,1.79 schools were ins' in 1856, 40.
commeglitinx 877,762 children ; 571, was the average
numb., attendance;in 9,455 of these schools belonged
to the church, and the not to various dissenting Me
(including the Romanist+) and the kirk of Scotland;
165 primal.y schools were built, and 8,283 or
Improved in England in 1856. The receipts (f4ol.2:dpktr-I
pose of ymimLry education amounted to 2915312!
(2423,533 from Parliamentary grants), and the expendi•
-
ture to 2938,910. In Ireland there were 5,215,157
national 'shoots at work at the end of no, and the aver.
so daily istandanos varied from 969,410 to 266,011.
There wAr• 168 4ricultural national salmis at work in
1856. The reoelgta on &MOM of primary *duration
11110111Itid $0 m. 04 and the expenthturetoll2Bl,4B6.
hot" ,vl!./14* PYS°. • '

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