The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-11-23 00:00:00

THE LAST CENSUS

The number of houses in England is, inhabited, 2,758,295;
uninhabited, 162,756 ; building, 25,882. The number in
Wales, inhabited, 188,196 ; uninhabited, 10,133 ; building,
1,769. In Scotland, inhabited, 503,357 ; uninhabited, 24,307;
building, 2,760. In the islands of the British Seas, 19,159
inhabited; 865 uninhabited; and 220 building. Grand
totals for the whole of Great Britain-3,464,007 inhabited;
198,061 uninhabited ; 30,631 building,—altogether, 3,682,699
houses.

In 1831 the number of inhabited houses was 2,866,595 ;
uninhabited, 133,331; building, 27,553; total, 3,027,479.

POPULATION OF THE ENGLISH COUNTIES.
InlB3l. In 1841.
95483 .. 107937
145389 .. ]60226
146529 .. 155989
143955 .. 164509
334391 .. 395300
300938 .. 341269
169681 .. 177913
237170 .. 272202
494478 .. 533731
159252 .. 174743
253910 .. 324277
317507 .. 344995
387019 .. 431307
111211 .. 114438
143341 .. 157237
53192 .. 58699
479155 .. ' 548161
1336854 .. 1667064
197003 .. 215855
317465 .. 362717

Bedford
Berks
Bucks..
Cambridge .
Chester
Cornwall.
Cumberland....
Derby
Devon .
Darset
Durham
Essex
Gloucester
Hereford.
Herts
Huntingdon
Kent
Lancaster
Leicester. .
Lincoln
Middlesex ..
Monmouth
Norfolk
Northampton
Northumberland
Nottingham
Oxford
Rutland
Salop ......
Somerset.

1358330 ..
98130 ..
390054 ..
179336 ..
222912 ..
225327 ..
152156
19385 ..
222938 _
404200 , "..
314280
410512 ..
'196317 ..
486334
272310
336610 ..
55041 ..
240156 ..
211365 ..
1371359 ..
POPULATION OF WALES.
Males.
24,369
26,911
31,997
50,795
39 6OO
44,617
33,636
89,028
19,247
34,252
40,343
12,738
POPULATION OF SCOTLAND
Males.
89,528

1576616
131349
199055
98886
230268
249773
161573
21340
2346.4 1
436002
354940
510206
315129
582613
299770
402121
56469
260007
233484
1591574

Southampton (Hants)
Stafford ..
Suffolk
Surrey . .
Sussex.
Warwick
Westmoreland
Wiltshire
Worcester;
York

Counties
Anglesea...
Brecon ..

Cardigan .
Carmarthen
Carnarvon .
Denbigh
Flint

Glamorgan..
Merioneth
Montgomery
Pembroke ..
Radnor ....

- - -
Counties.
Aberdeen
Argyle..
Ayr ..
Banff
Berwick ..
Bute
Caithness
Clackmannan
Dumbarton
Dumfries
Edinburgh
Elgin (Moray)
Fife
Forfar
Haddington .
Inverness
Kincardine
Kinross
Kirkcudbright (Stewartry of)
Lanark
Linlithgow
Nairn •
Orkney and Shetland
Peebles
Perth .
Renfrew
Ross and Cromarty • • •
Roxburgh
Selkirk
Stirling
Sutherland
Wigtown
Barracks

47,654
78,970
23,425
16,527
7,108
16,993
9,331

. 22,505
. 34,097
102,709
. 16,071
65,735
79,234
17,253
45,306
15,804
4,194
18,838
208,369
13,766
4,556

26,564
5,122
65,339

72,725
36,442
21,957
3,972
41,070
11,307
20,424

LANCASHIRE.

Ashton and Oldham (part of)
Blackburn
Bolton
Burnley
Bury
Chorley
Chorlton
Clitheroe (part of)
Fylde
Garstanz
fl aslingden

Lancaster
Leigh
Liverpool
Manchester
Orroskirk .

Prescot

Preston
Rochdale
Salford
Stockport (part of)
Todmorden (part of)
Ulverstone

Warrington
West Derby
Wigan
Worsley

Females.
26,521
26,384
36,383
55,687
41,468
44,674
32,911
84,434
19,991
34,968
47,919
12,448

Females.
66,984
37,972
49,169
27,414
39,428
18,999
49,599

FREE TRADE FALSEHOODS.—The sufferings which un-
fortunately at present exist in many of the manufacturing
towns are made the themes of grossly exaggerated tirades in
favour of free trade. Birmingham has been represented to
and assignments are daily
forty-
be miserable enough ; but Sheffield. in particular was said to
be literally depopulated and ruined. "Whole streets of shops
and houses remain tenantless. Trade comparatively is at a
events.stand- s ti 1,1; h
e Bankruptcies,priprison
iis
chfailures,with
occupiedlie/citry shilling debtors,
and the artisans who have saved a few pounds are selling their'
few sticks of furniture to enable them to emigrate." But
find that—" In
mercury, we
and reckon-
ingwhat is the truth. According to an able and authentic
analysislB3 i Sheffield
contained in t
five inmates to
.each house, the population would be
heSheeB,e3l3dl
91,655. This is within 37 of the numbers given in the census
of that year, the actual population being 91,692. In 1811,
the census shows a population of 110,891, and, suppos-
ing these to be divided into families averaging five in
number, as in the year 1831, the inhabitants of Shef-
field would be found occupying 22,178 houses. Now.
what is the actual number of houses occupied accord-
ing to the late returns ? Not 22,1/8, but 22,753 -
i so that
instead of there being • whole streets of !muses tenantless,'
as compared with the state of things in 1831, the people of
Sheffield occupy 575 houses over
and above what they would
have occupied (allowing for the increase in population) had
their condition been neither better nor worse than in 1831.
That there is a great number of empty houses in Sheffield is
quite true, and it would be strange were it not so. Since
1831, at which time only 19 houses out of 20 were tenanted,
the actual increase in population required the building of
3,840 houses, taking the families at five, as in 1831, whereas
we have built 6,731 houses. In 1831, we had houses capable
of containing, at five to a family, 4,570 souls more than the
actual population, but we have now houses sufficient to
domicile 18,989 beyond the numbers given in the recent
census—in other words, we have built houses for 14,200
people beyond what were required."

The total population of England, according to the census
just completed, is 7,321,875 males ; 7,673,633 females—total,
14,995,508 ; that of \Vales, 447,533 males ; 463,788 females
total, 911.321; that of Scotland, 1,246,427 males ; 1,382,530
females—total, 2,628,957 ; and that of the islands of Jersey,
Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, Herm, Jothon, and Man, 57,598
males ; 66,481 females—total, 124,079. These numbers,
including 4,003 males, and 893 females, ascertained to have
been travelling by railways and canals on the night of June
6, make the grand totals 9,077,436 males; and 9,587,325
females. The population, therefore, of Great Britain,
amounts to 18,664,761 persons.
The returns only include such parts of the army, navy,
and merchant seamen as were at the time of the census
within the kingdom on shore.

The increase of the population, as compared with the re-
turns of 1831, is at the rate of 14.5 per cent. for England ;
13 per cent. for Wales ; for Scotland, 11.1; for the islands
in the British seas, 19.6 ; making the increase for the whole
of Great Britain 14 per cent., being less than that of the 10
years ending 1831, which was 15 per cent.
In 1811 the increase during the previous 10 years in
England, was 14k per cent. ; in Wales, 13 per cent. ;
and in Scotland, 14 per cent. In 1821, the increase for
England was 174 per cent.; for Wales, 17 per cent; and for
Scotland, 16 per cent. In 1831, the increase was for Eng-
land, 16 per cent.; for Wales, 12 per cent.; for Scotland, 13
per cent.; and for the islands in the British seas, 15.8 per
cent.