The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-04-21 00:00:00

EUROPEAN P.AUPERIS.III

de Villeneute Bargemont (aiicie,i pr'efe.t) has 'Published
alriork oti the statistics of pauperism in Eurdpe, to 'which be
gives the title of t` Christian Political EcOnottry," • He esti-
•mates the indigentjtopalation of Eurdpe at. 10A7;33.3 aidivi
'duals out of 226,4.1,200, the whole population.' He thus distri-
butes them * • •
Efigland contains' abOut'3,9oo;ooo' poor, 'being one-sixth of
the'whOle'populatibu; Which' 11 fateti'at 23,-100.000. The agri-
cultural and the manufacturing,populatlon are' in- the ratio of
two to three ;• and•the work performed •try •maelrittery eltmetli
that of 180,000;000- workmen. In-London there ;are shout
1(6,000 poor net I,,3so,ooo•inhabitants, In Liverpool.; 27,000
out of 80,91):- • In Cork, 26,000 out of 60,000. • In Sunderland,
14.000 net of 17,000. . • - ••' • •
, In Germany, where' the-employment• is ehiefly ag,ricultaral,-
there are about -680,060 porit;-or one-twentiet-h of the whole po-
pulation.• • Tbe agricultural population is three times greater
than. the•matrufactering: • . • ' • •
oor-and
in:•Atistria-the-propertien'between the;p• the;.generai•
population is lin 25. or 1,280,000-out of 32,000,000. Here the
agricultural Populatitin coMpisred WithigtO •fnoixtufacturing,
in the ratio of 4to I. Denmark is nearly on a par with Austria,
the pcor• being 1 in 25, apd agricultural ernployment.4. to 1
more than rnaoufacturing. - In Spain, out of a popnlation of
13,9(10.01X) inhabitants, 410.0(X) are poor, or I,3pth. Thc agri-
cultural population is here 5 to
.I more than the manufacturing..
In .Flanee there are about 1,600,600 poor. out of. 32,000,000. i-
nhabitants, or 1 in 20,: and the agricultural population. compared;
with the 'manufacturing 4' t. if: This proportion, however, of.
course varies according to the-different. localities. • M, de Vii-
leneuve has•divided France into three regions or zones of Pau-
perism, containing abotkt.2o departments, 40,062,769 inhabitants,
and 770,626 poor, showing that 1,30 th of the population are
destitute.. . • .
In-Italy the proportion is Lout of 2- poor. The entire popu-
lation is 19,044,0(i0,.the numbers of the poor;750,000, and the
agricultural population is five times greater than the rriatiufac-
luring. Belgium and Holland are about on. a par with Eng••
land; -the ratio between; the entire population and the poor 7 to
1, and that of the manufacturing and awgrieh abouttCultural i
3tz.,260v Ta:hi
population of Portugal is 3,530A)0, of which
poor, or 1 in 25, and agricultural is,five times greater than manu-
facturing., Prussia:containsl2,7BB,ooo inhabitants of which
425,000 are poor, a proportion of lin The agricultural po-
pulatiorl compared with the rnanufacturing is here also 5 to I.
Russia in Europe contains a population of 52,500 000' of which
525,(X./0 are poor, being a proportion of lin 160. Manufac-
tures are here at a low ebb,: the manufacturing population as
compared with the agricultural is only 1 to 14. The populatiOn
of Sweden is 3,866,000, out of which 154,000, orl-25th, may be
eonsidered poor. Agriculture is here 4to 1 greater than manu,
I factures. Switzerland has a population of 1,714,000, of which
17,000 are destitute.