The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-28 00:00:00

INCREASE OF POPULATION.

While 150,584 children were born and registered
in the summer (porter, 91,600 persons died ; leaving.
excess cf 58,984 in the population. The excess of
births over deaths in the first nine months of the pre-
sent year has been 170,411, which is probably more
than equivalent to the actual increase of the popu-
lation.

IL is well known that up to a late period there has
been a constant immigration of the Irish and Scotch
into England, which appears to have been fully equi-
valent to the emigration of the English into the colo-
nies and to foreign parts ; but no exact statistical in-
formation on this subject exists.

85,603 emigrants left the ports of the United King-
dom at which there are Government
officers in the quarter ending Sept. 30, 1851.
4,378 6 , 51tOr
oamG week.l emigration
1-r3h,,i
563
is
at the rate of 930 a day ;
sailed from Irish ports,
English asgow and
Greenock, and 67,262 from three
namely, 10,062 from London, 2,799 from Plymouth,
54,401 from Liverpool. Many of the Irish emigrants
are returned at Liverpool. Of the
totalTh
number,
A
68,960 emigrants sailed to the United Se tat es,
emigration9,26B
to British North America, 6,097 to the Australian
colonies, and 1,278 to other places.
has hitherto been greater in 1851 than it was in
the corresponding quarters of 1850.*
The present movement of the population is in
I
many
o
respects remarkable. The free admission of grain,
fruit, and meat since the scarcity is equivalent
an
addition to the country of a vast tract of fertile soil,
which calls for cultivators, and, as the land is abroad,
for agricultural emigrants who prefer the cheap
though distant lands of America to the high-rented
farms of Ireland, no longer possessing a monopoly for
its produce in the English market. The fact deserves
attention, that while the United Kingdom has been
importing food in unprecedented quantities, it has
been sending out swarms of emigrants from the popu-
lation, of which the marriages and births promise to
keep up a perpetual and increasing supply.
PRICES OF PROVISIONS, &C., IN THE QUARTER ENDING
SEPTEMBER 30, 1851.
Average price of Consols, 961. 10s.
V 4 A,verage price of wheat per quarter in England and
ilatee, 40s. 7d.
Quarters o
Quarters of
of wheat sold in the 290 cities and towns
in England and Wales making returns, 971,276.
o/ne consumption at chief ports of Great Britain,
wheat and wheat flour entered for
1,183,523.

.. gate ladr.kteo.tss
God.
5d.; mutton, 3
Average prices of meat per pound at Leadenhall
and New
gate
(York regents) per ton at Waterside-mar-
ket, the carcase), beef, 3d. to
Southwark, when the supply of old potatoes
ceased, 90s. to 1103.

STATE OF THE PUBLIC REALM
~
The health of different
widely, and the difference is greatest in summer: In
the'lo summer quarters of 1841-50 the mortality in
506 506 districts, comprising, when the census was
10,126886 people, was at the rate of 18.15 in 1,00.
..
parts of the country aitre..7l;
annually ; while in 117 districts, ,comprising the chief
towns, and 7,795,882 people, the mortality
rate of 25 iu 1,000 annually. Thus, at Jest 7 in every
ar-
-25. deaths whicn occur in towns are the result of
9tici,l causes, The mortality in the quarter ending
September, 1851, was at the rate of 23 and 17.93 in
was at the

* Return with which the Registrar _..rfavoured by the Emigration Cow General has
missioners. At the
been
time return WEli made it was not quite complete.