New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-09-20

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statistics Of Ireland.
The Nation OF the 10th ult gives some interesting
extracts from the voluminous Report Of Capt LAR
CON- who was the principal compiler of the Cen
sus Returns. last taken. Of Ireland. We extract
some facts
The most important subject OF course is persons.
The populaiion in q Is given as consisting OF s0l9
SO males and 4l55.54s iemales-in all sl73,l24.-
The females were, therefore, il0th per cent. more
than the males The rates OF increase from 1921 10
1881 had been IA per cent. on the population whie
from 1881 10 ls4l il was only II per cent Captain
LARCoN accounts for this without admitting that the
decrease was real. Fir,t the army IN Ireland were
omitted properly in ISL. and included improper
lvl in 1881. some of the enumerators IN 81 were
paid by the heads they returned ana therefore prob
ably over rated and the Census OF s2l was first
attempted and likely TO have been Incomplete but
the chief cause assigned is gralioni2s,45l per
sons seem to have emigrated to the colonies from
Ireland during the ten years ending 6iS June, lsil
lO4sl4 went TO Great Britain 5000 enlisted IN the
Royal and 5.os9 in the Indian army
Thus altogether j72.ioi persons, mostly IN their
prime, We're withdrawn
Deduciing the army in ls3l-viz 29.ic6. and
adding 70. 4O2 recruits and 10000 emigrants. from
ls2l to 1881 the computed populations, in 1881 and
1871 would stand. 7sJ4.3l7 and -7i7,jss respective
~ the increase would be s93,27l and the rate OF
increase nearly II per cent which, making due
allowance for any defect in ls2l and any excess in
1881. seems To indicate pretty Uniform rate 81 M
crease ~ the f.red portion Of The p0PHlafi0H.
The following table shows the total number OF
houses m the years sol, 1881 and 1871;
ls2l 1881 1871.
Inhabited l,li26o2 l2i9sl6 lbs $50
r-niob.bi,ed. Built. 1921 4oS4 $40 sS,5
The increase in the number of houses between
l.2l and 1881 is 6lo per cent, and from s3l To
ISL per cent IL will be seen that the number of
houses building in 81 is very small but there is no
reason to suppose that any real pause in building
has taken place during the last ten years, or is now
taking place.
The definition OF the term family to be gene
rally understood aud OF easy application for the pur
pose of a census is more difficult than the usually
accepted meaning OF the word would lead one To
conclude BY DR. Johnson, il is explained as those
who live in the same house'-a definition which 4,
obviously incomplete. In the early census returns
Of Great Britain, there appears TO have been much
misunderstanding on this head
In ls3l the rule both in Great Britain and Ireland
was that those who used the same kitchen aud
boarded together. We're to be considered one family
and an individual either occupying a house, or liy
ing as a lodger, but not boarding with the family
was considered to be a distinct family.
The rule we adopted substantially the same
as these namely, that by a family to be under.
stood either one vdual living independently ina
house or part of a house ON his or her of
support several individuals related to each other.
with the addition Of servants visitors living to
gether in the same house or part of house upon
one common means Of support On this principle
the number of families IN the returns has been com
piled The following table shows the total numbers
at the undermined periods
ls9l. l-9l lsil.
" .on. 10 naF 1apilv S' p@' 5is 56l 555
OccuPArIoS;-Strange to say, the number en-.
gagged in agriculture appears to have increased. %
per cent of the families occupied at it in lsJl
and 60 per cent in lsil. In the last year the per
centagc in manufacture and trade was "a per cent,
leaving 10 per cent idle or unclassied.
EMIGRATION TO BRTAIN-There were only
81 552 English and ,5sj Scotch in Ireland on 9Th
June, lsil while there were at the time pa.
l2s Irish in England l2632l in Scotland J27G in
Wales. and 1881 in the Channel Isles-in ALL 40.
$50 Irish in Britain
GENERAL EMIGRATIOS.-Of214O4 7 persons who
embarked from IRISH ports. II III were males and
% go females - 22j went to British America.
1878 to the States. 1853 to Australia. and f9i to
the West Indies The total Liverpool emigration
was 1872 73- chiefly we should think 10 the States
SURFACE-Morc than half6ith per cent OF the
island was then arabic and over 80 per uncuti
waited Water occupied per cent, towns ., and
plantations less than ?
SrocK-Horses are numerous especially in Lcin.
ster. and most especially in Wexford where they
are more numerous than the farms Throughout
the country, they are two to every three farms
The cattle appear about two to each farm, be
tween FIVE and fifteen acres and increase TO an ave
rage of thirteen 10 each farm above thirty acres.
Sheep, as may be supposed, vary considerably in
the small farms They generally appear two to
each but on the larger farms the numbers vary
from to - to each farm The average in Ulster is
s. In Galway it is far above the average having =
to each farm.
Pigs are, on the whole. less numerous than nigh
have been expected There is nearly one to every
farm in the smallest class They rise to five to each
Of the largest class.
Poultry do not as is commonly supposed prepon-
derate in smaller They increase in the different
classes Of farms from FIVE to each in the lowest up
TO :. Is, and % to each In the highest.
Asses are most numerous in the larger farms. In
those under 30 acres they are 10 every 10 farms
In those fran 10 - acres about to 3 farms and
in those above 80 acres to every farms
MARRr.GEs-" These tables, made for popula
ton of more than 1000 OO0 are remarkably con.
frmatory Of the results obtained from an enumera
ton in Belgium, Of less than half that number by
~ Quetelet. who. by bringing the aid Of extensive
mathematical requirements 10 the subject of stats
tics has gone far TO place It within the domain Of
the exact sciences On this subject he has arrived
at the conclusion that the unmarried two thirds
of the community, that the unmarried are most nu-
merous in the rural d.stricts-that there are more
males than females unmarried-and that the num-
Der OF widows is double that Of wldOwers 10 which
we may add that widows and widOwers are most
numerous in the civic districts
~ Let al who have ihe wonderful Ourang-Ou-