The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-31 00:00:00

in Shoreditc h, 83,564 the then population has grown,
'in the tea years' interval, to 109,209; whilst in Stepney
there has b( !en an increase of the &Fre:once between
90,831, as,tl 110,669. Lambeth, which in 1841 num.--
bered its 116;072 souls, counts now 139,240; but Green-
wich shoe rs a less increase, only subztituting in 1851,
99,404, for. t 'ae 81,125 population which it exhibited ten
years before..
Epsom s he )ws u slight increase, 17,248, havFalf; become
19,043.

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from 24,523 to 28,324; and Hastings from 14,836 to
21,214. Brighton has made no inconsiderable increase,
46,661 it hKi in 1841; but now it has 65,573, 36,612 of
whom are 1'43 males. Portsea island, containing 53,05&
in 1841, nu CI lb:Ts now a population of 79,676. South
ampton, wlfttsh had then 26,103, has now 34,099. In
Reading the it e are 22,175 inhabitants, where there were
19,521; in Brantford 41,305, where there were 37,053.:
Royston, Nv i.ch in 1811 had 24,930 inhabitants, has in
the present :year 26,356; and Hitchin, which then had-.
22,346, has now 24,732. Buckiagham has very,slightly:
progressed, 14,239 havinc, only grown to 14,412; Ox-
ford, instea I of 19,667, has 20,173 to exhibit; North-
ampton's 28.321 is at present 33,858 ; Eluntingdon's.
18,432 have :in ten years become 20,900; Bedford, from
31,766. has utoyed on to 35,511; Cambridge from 24,453=
el 27,803 ; Wisbeaeh, from 31,405 to 36,192 ; West
Ham, in 18:411, enumerating 26,920 persons, numbers
now 34,378; Bury St. Edmund's, where it gave 12,538,
gives 13,902„ Yarmouth, with a population of 24,086,-
in 1841, has, increased since to 26,898; Salisbury, which
in 1841 con tamed 9,490, has now only 8,931 ; and
Shaftesbury has, but very slightly, in like manner
decreased from 13,106 to 13,028. Beaminster has lost
some of its :population, the difference between 15,112
and 14,275. Axminster has also gone down to some
extent, 20,302 being its present population, 20,583
what it numbered in 1841. Lioniton as sunk
a little, frown 23,592 to 23,824. In Plymouth, East
Stonellouse, and Stoke Daneerel, whose returns are
given separately, wo find that the numbers are
respectively, in 1841, 36,520, 9,712, and 33,820 ; in
1851, 52,223, 11,971, and 38,182. The population of the
Scilly Islands, which was 2,582, is 2,027; that of Bed-
minster, which was 36.280, is 38,171; that of Bristol,
which was 64,266, is 66,781. Hereford, instead of 34 458,
gives, as the ten years' augmentation, a total of 25,158;
and Shrewsbury, for 21,518, has substituted 23,095. Star-
ford, from 20,292, has advanced to 22,785; West Brom-
wich. from 52,578 to 69,718; Stourbridge, from 47,929, to
57,360. In Birmingham the population has become
173,878, where it was 138,215; in Leicester, 50,853 has
been converted into 60,651; Oakham, which had 11,218,
has 11,508; Lincoln, which had 36,110, has 42,061;
Nottingham, returns 58,418, its number in 1841 having
been 53,091:; Derby 43,690, its number at the same
period having been 35,019. In Stockport, 85,678 has
been increased to 90,205; in Wirrall, 31,784 to 57,047.
Liverpool makes its 223,003 into 255,055, West Derby its
88,680 into :153,243. Lancaster's advance is but small-
from 34,605 to 34,660. Goole's also, is disproportionate
to the expectations of many-from 12,529 to 13,916.
York has 57,111, where it had 47,778; Darling-
ton, 21,617, where it had 21,487. In Newcastle-
upon-Tyne the population has increased from 71,844 to
89,145; in Carlisle, from 38,159 to 41,566; in Kendal,
from 34,832 to 36,564; Abergavenny, instead of 50,845,
has 59,225; Swansea, instead of 38,649, 40,951. The
advance of Llanelly is from 20,182 to 23,104; that of
Haverfordwest from 37,139 to 39,382. Cardigan enu-
merates 20,179-in 1841 it had 19,903; Breckneck 16,182
-in 1841 it had 17,701. Presteignc gives only 15,140
where it gave 15,739; Llanfyllin only 19,506 where it
had 20,450. Holyweil has 41,053, instead of 40,798;
Wrexham, 42,295, instead of 39,558. Dolgelly's popula-
tion has sunk from 13,411 to 12,915; Bangor's has
risen from 25,901 to 30,805; that of Anglesey, which in
1841, was 38,106, has risen since to 43,248.
Such are the more interesting and instructive facts of
the census, so far as regards England and Wales.
Coming next to Scotland, we learn that its population,
which, in 1801, numbered 1,608,420 souls, ha!, in the 50
years following, increased to 2,865,421, the difference
being 1,257,001. In 1801 the females were in the ma-
jority-869,829 to 739,091; their increase has been
greater than that of the males-637,679 to 619,322;
and consequently, in 1851, the proportion maintained is
1,507,008 females to 1,358,413 males. 71 is the rate of
increase per cent. in the 50 years for the whole popula-
tion-84 per cent. for the males, and 73 per cent. for the
females.

Descending to the southern counties, it will be seen
that Dumfriesshire Las now a population of 78,025,
which is an increase since 1801 of 23,428 ; Kirkcud-
bright, now 43,274, increase 14,063 ; Wigtonshire, now
43,109, increase 20,191 ; Ayrshire, now 188,524, in-
crease 104,317 ; Banffshire, now 16,547, increase 4,756 ;
Renfrewshire, now 158,651, increase 80,150 ; Dumbar-
tonshire, now 44,724, increase 24,014; Lanarkshire, now
530,989, increase 383,297 ; Stirlingshire, now 85,556,
increase 34,731 ; Linlithgowshire, now 29,262, increase
12,125; Edinburghshire, now 258,215, increase 135,618;
Peeblesshire, now 10,582, increase 1,847 ; Selkirkshire,
now 9,797, increase 4,409; Roxburghshire, now 51,570,
increase 17,849 ; Berwickshire, now 36,277, increase
6,071; iladdingtonshire, now 36,387, increa;e 6,401 ;
Fifeahire, now 152,747, increase 59,004 ; Kinross-shire,
now 8,913, increase 2,188 ; Clackmannanshire, now
22,921, increase 12,063.
In the northern counties, the progress made in the
half-century has been .-Perthshire, from 125,583 to
139,190 ; Forfarshire, from 99,053 to 174,368 ;
Kin-
cardingchiro, from 26,349 to 34,739 ; Aberdeenshire,
from 121,065 to 214,448 ; Banffshire, from 37,216 to
53,829 ; Elginshire, from 27,760 to 38,616 ; Nairn-
shire, from 8,322 to 9,918 ; Inverness-shire, from
72,672 to 96,165; Argyllshire, from 81.277 to 88,460 ;
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46,824 to 82,159.
In the increase per cent. in the several counties for
these fifty years a considerable difference is to be
seen. Whilst the rate in Lanarkshire is 260 per cent.,
that in Argyllshire is but 9; Ayrshire is at 124 ; Dum-
bartonshire at 115, and Clackmannanshire at 111; whilst
Nairnshire is at 20; Perthshire and Sutherlandahiro both
at 11.

In Kirkcudbright the increase per cent. of males c, s
well as females has been 48; in Forfarshire also it has
boen equal-76. In the remaining counties the increase
of females has exceeded that of males.

Of the cities and boroughs, a few had at the time of
this years' enumeration no houses building at all-Wig-
town, New Galloway, Kirkcudbright, Renfrew, and
Liulithgow, for instance. In the same case were An-
atruther Wester, Kinghorn, Culross, and Cromarty.
Glasgow had, houses inhabited 12,006; uninhabited,
182; building, 143. The population 333,657, of whom
174,982 were females. The population of Dumfries is
stated at 11,106; that of Kirkcudbright at 2,774; Wig-
town, 2,230; Kilmarnock, 20,913; Bothe6ay, 7,106;
Renfrew, 2,942; Paisley, 47,951; Port Glasgow, 6,996;
Dumbarton, 5,411; Lanark, 5,305; Stirling, 12,357;
Linlithgow. 4,189; Edinburgh, 158,015; Jedburgh,
3,614; Selkirk, 3,313; Peebles. 1,982; Lauder, 1,105;
Haddington, 3,883; Dunbar, 3,038; Dunfermline, 13,861:
Perth, 23,814; Dundee, 78,829; Inverbervie, 934;
Aberdeen, 71,945; Banff, 6,042; Elgin, 6,336; Nairn,
3,420; Inverness, 12,715; Cempbelltown, 6,829; Ding-
wall, 1,966; Tain, 2,588; Dornoch, 599; Wick, 6,722;
and Kirkwall, 3,331.
The population of the Islands in the British Seas, as
enumerated on March 31, 1851, is 142,916-.66,511 males,
and 76,405 females. The increase here in the thirty
years, from 1821 to 1851, is 53,408, 89,508 having riser
to 142,916. The number of males was, in 1821, 41,733.
that of females, 47,775. By an addition of 94,778 in the
former case, and of 28,630 in the latter, the figures are
now-females, 76,405; males, 66,511. The population
of the islands is respectively-Jersey, 57,155, instead of
i (as n 1821) 28. ,600 ; Guernsey, 34.645, instead of 20,827. '
Man, 52,116, instead of 40,081. The general rate of in-
crease, therefore, in the thirty years has been sixty per
cent., whilst severally the rate of the three islands has
been Jersey, 100 per cent.; Guernsey, 61 per cent.; and
Man, 30 per cent. In Jersey, the increase of males has
been 102, that of females, 98 per cent., but as the females
had in 1821 a majority-15,554 to 13,056-their number
is still higher than that of the males, by the excess of
30,795 over 26,360. In Guernsey, likewise, the males
have increased at a higher rate per cent. upon the num-
bers of 1821 than have the females-64 to 60; and here,
too, they are still in the minority, as they were in 1821.
Of males there were then 9,519, and are now 15,598; of
females there were then 11,308, and are now 18,047.
In the Isle of Man, however, the preponderance is with
the women, who have increased at the rate of 32 per
cont., while the males have advanced at 21; per cent. The
number of females is here 27,563; that of males, 24,553.
The gradual increase of population in these islands in
the three decennial periods since 1821, when the num-
bers were 89,508, has been shown by the difference in
each succeeding enumeration; the first, 103,710; then,
124,040; and this year, 142,916.
The census of Ireland, of which as yet but an abstract
is given, presents some more startling features than
those of our prosperous country. The contrast here is
between the population of 1851 and that of 1841, and
the result of the comparison is to prove that there has
been, in the ten years, a total decrease in the cumber
of persons in Ireland of 1,659,330, the population having
been, in 1841, 8,175,124, and being now only 6,515,794.
Moreover, the date of the present census being GS days
earlier than that of the preceding, 5,841 persons should
be added to the gross population of 1841, that being the
number of harvest labourers who, it was ascertained,
had left Ireland previous to
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In the absence, however, of
regis-
tration of births and deaths Ireland, the necessary
adjustment, in consequence of the change of period at
which the two censuses were taken, cannot be arrived at.
It would seem, from the document before us, that the
population has now sunk below what it was in 1821, for
Ireland had then 6,801,827 inhabitants, whereas she has
at present only 6,515,794. In 1831 she had 7,767,401.
Her next rise was, in ten years, to 8,175,125, and by
this descent she has gone back to 6,515,794. Unfortu-
nately the return of emigration from the United liing•
dom appended to the census does not distinguish the
emigrants born in Great Britain from those born in Ire-
land. The statistics show the decrease, but do not ac-
count for it.