The Press.
London, England, 1853-12-31 00:00:00

THE CANADIAN CENsus.

Tut: census reports of Canada, made up to the close
of IS:W. are just published, and disclose many fart*
of much interest. Their comrarison pith the parallel
returns from the United States, which appeared in a
recent number of the 1i11E5t4,1111%14 the unexpected
result that the population of our Canadian colonies
is expanding in number with even greater rapidity
than that of the great %Tublie. The returns,
which are necessarily vet:4y voluminous, are thux
snn►nmu•ised by the Toronto Leader:—

"The eimmis tulles furnish 1111 l valiant& information
Nu the cuutpluatP.i iurrolro 4.1 Ito dini.sent nationalities in
I Amer The comparnani cieibraves the periisl low
tosurii I 4 I I and that of 11451. The greatest
increase has taken plows. in Canadians of British origin ;
living 1013 per vent., against 27.611 in the French Comm
'Hans. The 111'‘I 1141114'st ills the lust. 1.:11$11i1d1 and
to 511; Scuteh, Kul ; and United Staters, 4.49. '('lse means
of eawryitig 1.11 liw esomparionon do 1144 exist. In addition to
the ',vagina 111011,11, there is a sprinkling of Nona Scotian*,
New Itruilow jokers, Newfoundlanders, tierissitur, Hutch,
French, and others, of whido the enumeratora obtained INI
josiiieulars.
" In Upper Canada there IM e‘esi a grcoster variety sit
Hill 41110144.5. !tilt ill 111114 respect neither Canada 010
Slnn.s HM singular. Etiiignte brings its varieties
of nationalities ; but after all tiny are nut greater than is to
finind in ninny countries its Europe. There Is, liiin•
(Wel, thim ilitb.rence betwown Canada and Europe, that in
the lutist the distinct people often settle down by those
sehes in clans, whereas liere i•Vvl)lliilig, espevially its
l•pper Canada, tends to as • 'talon. The time will
when the entire IMtpulatiou of Canada,
l•pper and Lower, will be a inure homogeneous people
thew 111:111) to-'ay. The Freud'
rare its I,..ws,r('rash's will struggle against the extinction
to huh MI races ill this aitotottion are inevitably dsommil,
lout the struggle will be a bootless one.
The essoople of I satisiana, a I.•retirla colony, purchased
from Napoleon in 11402, shows how rapid may be the
alomortotioon of a race ler certain circumstances. Half a
salstilly ago Ismisiouns woos a French Moony, witha Fis.nelo
poopulootion. 'That 1,01.401111. has IlilW lust mousy of the distinct
elsarowterimicos of its nationality, and in half century
moor.. will Is. coomplets.ly merged in the general mass of the
11111110 Si it LIM the proes..ao is shower, but
the whisk moat eventually he the Penn.. Whom Lower
evesesl to be a French colony it hoist at once and
for ever that French emigrat• which had founded the
colony. The re 1111 l not of a French colony. deprheil of all
neves% 111 l from extraneous sources, and dependent sully on
the natural means sof increase, eon 1111 l t hold its. own against
it rival illey who, lo 1141111A1 Means of increase', adds the
advantage of constant accretions from immigration.
" The Comparative increase of the religion* denosiiiiim
thous is gis ell. In the period from 11112 to I/441 Ilse Church
of England its Upper Canada increased 73.13 per cent.,
Ind the Church of Seotleml oleereamed 31432 ; the ('hutch
of Home increased 111.4 i I ; the Presloyteriasios of all kind*
the 'loom 1111 l t4stuoult of to 71.311 ; the Neale, an Methodists,
14 ; the Episcopal Methodists, 142 ; other 111etloodists, not
1104; the Baptists, 131 ; the Lutherans, 10.51;
tiro Congregatiolintliats, 48; and the /demonists mod Tan-
kers, 714.11 M, Snell lotus been the respective increase of Hoe
%onions oletionsinati 111 l I pipet 'outoola daring the period
oof nine yeam. 111 lAistrr 4 'swills the pcili of eionoptinoton
is frusta 11444 to 10451. 'floeHoman Catholics increased
311.12 ; the Church of F:nizintol, 4.31 ; the church of Sent.
land, /44; Wealo.van Methoolists, f.s; other Methodists not
partietalitrised, ; Preo-byterianoo. 1115.1711. Among the
minor ilessimiinutions the eiomposriason le carried tout.
louring the tell years ouiertsl by Ilse es isauw the popula-
tion of I 'toper Cuitoola increased 1111 i per cent. At this
rale it Wow 'limn 510551,11.* eVery ten years. This far 'out-
strips the progri ss of the United States, which, from 1040
to 1,440, ins.rrlturd uuly 651.611 per cent., mid is liver ten
times Its great as that of England and Scotland. England
"'able' in the first half of the century, 14eotland did not
suits oloaillo•• At the commencement of the century this'
litti..is sit Sys.thillii was 1.1i4N,V4), mid in it way
vu~y .!,,7ut,t4,711. It was to be expeettil that the progress in