The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-12-07
STATISTICS OF THE NEW WORLD.
Highly Interesting Report Of the Super.
intendent Of tho Census.
The Progress Of the Model Republic.

er-l nave nOnOr report tnat mucn the largest
portion of the topics embraced within the last census
have been pr pared for publication and that the unn
ished parts Of those contemplated by the Act q
Congress are in such state Of orwardness that their
preparation will not interfere with the printing Had
duties been limited the preparation Of the as
tcal tables, this work would have been CON.
pleted but in addition to ordinary abors this office
has performed large amount of work. in answering caa
members Of Congress State legislatures various in-
situations throughout country and the representa-
tves Of orsign governments. Many Of reports ID
to these calls have been printed by authority Of
State legislatures The uncertainty which seemed to
exist respecting the printing of the increased the
number Of these demands and induced the
Oily accede to such requests especially IS they could
be complied with without retardng the publication By
Congress.
In my last annual report presented full state
ment Of the population OF the United States together
with portion OF the returns Of agriculture and manus
features At the close Of the last session Of Congress
report made respecting the condition Of the financed
Of this Office and its expenditures from its first organza
ton to that date.
The classification Of the returns has greatly advanced
since the OF the last session of Congress-
and the condition Of the work will enable to present
statement respecting our agricultural resources, and
the relative increase Of agricultural productions and
sonal estate. education, psupersm crime internal ina
provements and other topics having an important rela
ton to the welfare and progress Of our country.
Having obtained during my visit to Europe Last year,
from the different departments official data
respecting the population Of other countries it may be
proper to make such information available to
tent this Report and therefore append tables Of the
population of several nations for differ emit periods in the
present century, with other statistics Of less interest
andmportance.
1t might seem from examination alone Of that por-
ton Of statements relating to internal improve
ments that the attention OF our people was d.
rected solely to the means OF inter communities
ton for thought and ideas and the Interchange Of NATTER
and that the entire population concentrating their
energies it were in spasmodic effort to extend rail-
ways and telegraphs the country; genersy
and pacular observation however, will prove that while
these interests have only advanced with the necessities
of our people, the subjects Of education, morals and re
gon have not only been not neglected. but have recev-
ed their due share of private attention and public
side ration.
While net Of internal improvements spreads over
country there appears to be inhabited space with
out it's schools and churches for lettering the education
rising to protect comfortably those visited with the in
frmitiss of e for the restoration Of lost impaired
formerly held to be impossible and hopeless and It
is gratifying to realize that the increase OF wealth and
not blunt o0nsbilftieH
Of our people and that prosperity has not tended OBJ
struc but enlarge the to charity and beraty
At the commencement Of the last session of Congress-
had the honor to report the number Of the
United States according to the Of 1850 and to
present table showing the rate of sixty
years from which was seen that we had multiplied e
the rate Of about three and half per per for
the whole period 1t may not be out of place here to
avail ourselves of one Of the Of statistics to exhibit
the comparative progress of the population Of the mother
country Tor portion OF the period that with full
knowledge Of her condition we may study the Of
hGrA Axr1,tI
avoid those evils un der which she has much suffered
By the Of 1851 it appears that the population
Guiding persons in the army navy and the merchant
vice. amounted to n 619 500 of whom 1857 O52 were
macs, and IA 0S2, Sl4 were females.
This population Is distributed follows, viz
England and Wales, sssi S5ssss gs$iss issszs
ireland, 10i7.7s5 si76727 s,sss.oS7 G,slS7Si
seas; -; 2.s2s 65,5n 7e4o5 1895
Navy cut Of the
kingdom,... 167604 500. l6760l
47l1i72 10 5s7,coa A,rs2sA a,6l9s6i
There exists ,al record Of the population Of Eng
land previous to the commencement Of the present
century The first enumeration of the population Of
Ireland was made in 1913. but impsrfecty WAS
the work accomplished tn t English statists place
make no use OF them a. the basis Of calculation,
SO that the only tables upon which base state
ments with reference to the progress OF Ireland from
time to time must be made with ference to the ermi-
nation Of each ten years ending in 1881 1884, and 1851
The first census Of Great Britain taken in 1901 at
which date the population amounted to 10. 567, $685.
By the census of 1871 the population Of Great Britain
and the Islands of jersey Guernsey and Man amounted
to ls66sS72 During each years from 1901 to 1851
the actual increase follows - viz 1479562-
2l32 s96-2lSs 542 2 O749- 227.43s being at the
rate Of IA is To- Ia and IL cent respectively The
actual increase OF the population in fifty years been
1887 9l7 the rate per cent in fifty years o. the an
nual rate per cent being 1877.
With respect TO Ireland and the returns of 1921 the
number Of inhabitants that period was 6sOl s27 In
1881 1907 4o-ncresse 9e5 674 rate per cent IL 49, In
1871 Us ia increase 407723 rate per S. 25 In
1851 65t5 7e4 decrease $50 a3o rate per cent 20 By
this statement perceive that the population of Ireland
ncreaied from 1874 to ls4l at the average of about
one per cent per annum, while decrease Of 1853 $50
from lS4l to 1851 indicates most appalling aimnution
OF population amounting to two per cent per anuum or
20 per cent for the entire years reduction amouut
ing to the total emigration from the whole United King
dom from 1889 to 1850.
The contemplation Of such state Of affairs is the more
melancholy when consid.r tina; the great dminuon
OF population in place Of being equazed through the Pc
Rod of ten years have occurred mainly within
or two years reduction of population, sinking the
number Of people to lower point than it in 1871
whtn the first of Ireland taken and it would
natural progress the population would have made up
1916, the year Ct famine and estimate what should be
the present population If unnatural had ops-
rated to reduce it.
The decrease extended to less than 81 counties and
cities and varied from to 81 per cent while the only in
crease vhich confined to towns and Cities
to which many probably fed to end relief The greatest
decrease occurred in the county OF Cork the population
ants in 1S4l to 55l lS2 in 1851 equivalent to reduce
ton of 2s per cent
The decrease in the several provinces follows
viz Leinster. 3O5 500 Munster, 58i344; Ulster,
$50 0S4 Connaught AG6 9i2
These startling and appalling facts, proclaim the
reality Of the suferings experienced from the
famine in ireland and it Is some consoation
feel that did preclude those efforts in
her behalf by citizens md government, without
which he desolaion would have been strong
ly marked
During ten ears, the population OF the entire king
kom Of Great Britain aud Ireland increased from % $685.
4q6 to 81 262 the rate Of little than half
million In ten years In the last atty years. England
and Wales increased 102 per cent (mass los, females
81 500 Scotland rs per cent, (males 81 females %
The population Of the United States dursg the past fifty
has increased at the rate of S37 per cent and Ia
ten years intervening between the last two censuses in
creused from seventeen and fraction millions to over
MY three millions SO per cent During the same
period Qeayrg Ireland out of vew) the population or
Great Britain increased at the rate Of IL per cent during
ten years, or 10 per cent per annum.
BY the last It appears that In the United States