The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-07-26

Or 2S6 0S3 souls than in 1921 thirty years ago
From 1921 to 1881, there was an increase Of fully
IA per cent, Of 95 54 souls notwithstanding the
famine of 1928 from 1881 to 1871, the increase was
only 81 per cent 407 723 souls from 1871 to 1851
there has been a decrease of 20 per cent or Of
less s' tbsn Heng redoSsd Sy
unier ordinary circumstances, the population would
hsve increased only at the same rate from l34l to
1851, as 1t did from 1881 to 1884, then at this time
should have been 8 604, 900; the decrease, there
ore, of the actual population, compared to what it
should have been according to that calculation, Is
s,O6S, 206 persons.
But the decrease Of population is not less striking
han the decrease of houses OF inhabited houses
here is decrease Of PSI l04 of uninhabted houses
here is increase Of only 81, that there is
actual decrease in the number OF existing houses,
# 268, 1853 To what an extent Of clearances docs
his fact bear witness! Two hundred aud sixty.
sight thousand houses and $50 $50 people disap
peared from the surface of the land in ten years.
Of the numerous cause, which have led to this
.he east to be regretted, is the extensive emigra-
.ioT which has taken place, especially during the
las four years. The emigration commissioners
recon that the number Of Irish emigrants who
hae proceeded direct from Ireland, and from Lii
vesOol, Glasgow, and other British port5 during
the last four year, excee is 100000 while the
nulber that emigrated in the preceding four years
of be decennial period, no distinction was kept be-
TWEEN British and Irish emigrants; but if we only
fal 100 for those two years, we have total of
noes than 100000 as having emigrated in the
teyears, beyond the seas.
ut there can be no doubt that one Of the great
ca,es, if not the greatest cause, of the reduction
of be population has been the almost total cessa-
tic of iages, the great sterlity of the women
siIe 1876, the delicacy Of the children that have
beA born, and the consequent mortality Of infants
The three facts have been matter of frequent OBJ
ser,tion during the last five years. Much has
beesaid Of the general mortality, including adults;
buff we are to judge by the annual reports Of the
po-law commissioners, which contain q state ment
of ae mortality in the warehouses;, where it would
beoost likely to exist to great extent, if at all,
ware not sposed TO think that general mortality
Ia had great share in producing the remarkable
roults to which we have referred.
mother reason which is given for the decrease
othe population, is the great extent of the emf
cation to England and Scotland, particularly the
Tser But we doubt much if this has been in the
VIDE ten years much greater than in the period
fra 1881 to lSil. But If it should have been so,
tk the additional numbers thus accounted for
nut have contributed to swell the population of
GRIT Britain. But IS we howed in an article on
thelst instant, the increase of the population of
Crit Britain in the last ten years has only been at
thcats Of IL Ii per cent while in the pre- 'eding
teuears I53l to lSil) it had been at the rate Of
13) per cent in the ten years 1921 to 1881, at
theate Of IA 81 per cent; from 1911 to 1921 at
thcate Of Al2 per cent and from 1901 to 1911,
at 10 rate Of Is II per cent Thus, even in Great
Brain during the last ten years, with all the aid Of
an nusual emigration from Ireland, the increase
hasbeon at a smaller rate in the last ten years
The in any Of the decennial periods OF the present
.,oeBuy. And taking the United Kingdom as a
wbe, the increase of the last ten years has been
ind,d very small The comparison may be thus
s,ad -
sNsrs OF rus UNITEp KNoDoa-lsll 1851
Ord Britain sad the Isles 1865 ISL ..2 9i953
Trend. sl7e,l2i.. 6,5i579i
Tai United Kingdom -. 90 s3l,1S5 27,4a5 325
40 total increase in the United Kingdom has,
thefcre, been only G0i ,220 souls, or about PER
ceL This fact has a most remarkable bearing
upi the unprecedented incro ase of the consump-
tic Of all articles of general during the period
retired to. 1t has often been urged in reply to OBJ
seatiops on the rapid increase of the quantities
ofustoms and excise articles consumed, that the
pdation also was rapidly increasing. But, even
aamng that the increase had been at the great
exatio Of any former time, viz :-l5 per cont, at
wkh we have always es,im ated IL for such calcu.
ls,ns-it has been shown that the increase Of con-
supton was at a much greater ratio. Now. it turns
otthat while such an enormous and unpre ,edented
exnsion Of our trade has been going forward, the
tai increase Of the population has been but z
pe cent no fact could point more conclusively
tobe increased individual comforts which are en-.
jo,d now compared with any former period. And
scar mt least, as Great Britain is concerned, We
weld gladly believe that the slower ratio OF the
ineaSe of the population Is more attributable to
inroved habits, to prudence, and providence, than
tony other cause.
nc point of interest with regard to Ireland, Is
tb. the decrease Is great in each Of tho four pro-
Gn expected. Ii Is thus divided
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