The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-12-01

And with each succeeding year the move
ment ncreases-that of the present time being
set down by the Times at about one thousand
per day, or 365. 900 in the year.
Taking the number Of infants born in the
kingdom at 900 900, and the deaths at two
thirds of that number,t there would remain, as
above stated, growth of 100000, to meet an
emigration of 365 900; and this alone would be
strong evidence of growing weakness and de-
| population, and yet i; constitutes but small
| portion of the truth. The new population of
600, 900 are all infants, whereas of the 600, 900
who die and the 365, 900 who emigrate, The
larger population are fully groom. Far more
than half Of them will be found to be between
the ages of fifteen and thifty-five, the period at
which the loss by death in ten years does not
exceed ten per cent, and they are replaced by
infants, the loss on which in the same pc
riod is no less than thirty per cent. Of
100000 infants there will remain in ten
years, and under the most favorable circum-
stances, only 100000; but of that number
born in the three kingdoms, there will not
probably remain more than $4,000. The
whole surplus of births over deaths is therefore
swallowed up in less than ten years; and, at the
same time, there is an export of a thousand per
day of that portion of the people that have sur
vived the dangers of childhood and are capable
of providing for themselves. The blind, the
lame, the halt, the idiotic, the dssolute, and
the aged, are left behind, together with some
eight or nine hundred thousand infants, while
the active, intelligent, Industrious, economical,
and full-grown, go abroad; and it is in facts like
these that the Times finds reason for hoping
that the worst is past! 1t is as if the father Of
family were finding comfort for the death or
exile of his grown children, able to take care
of themselves and him, in the birth of infants
requiring to be cared for by parents unable to
provide for themselves.
1t is scarcely possible, as we conceive, to
examine these facts without arriving at the con-
clusion that the tendency of every thing in
England is downwards, and that those who do
not desire to be swamped had better abandon
the wreck. She is daily substituting those
who cannot support themselves for those who
can, and, as necessary consequence, her pro-
ductive power diminshes from day to day, and
the condition of her people deteriorates. Her
whole system is now supported by the power
she exerts of compelling the farmers and plant
ers of the world to make their exchanges in her
markets, by aid of which she is constantly OBJ
tanning more from them, and giving less in ex-
change, thus taxing the agriculturists of the
world for the maintenance of her people. The
day cannot, as we think, be far distant when
the farmers and planters of this country will
open their eyes to the fact that such is the
object and the tendency of British free trade,
and that if they desire to have real freedom
Of trade they must seek it in the direction ne
cessary for relieving them from the mainte
nance of community Of daily diminishing
power TO produce commodities to be given in
exchange for those they desire to consume.
sThe census increase ia about 100000, but the
real one ia what we have given, various classes Of
persons having been included in the last census
that had been excluded from the previous ones.
This is almost the precise relation of the births
and deaths of England for the years from lS4l to
1874.