New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-11-20
Population of the British Empire Bmisra.
ton TO Australia and the United states.


Rarely have human calculations or human
foresight been rudey exposed than by tho events
Of tie asi lew years. Our aye imagined that IL past
the caanii. aud errors Of former tmee, and pciscd
the records % ancelt generations with min yled scn
ment Of incredibly end compassion But cur own turn
was close at hand Mt all our political economy nor
commercial resoUc could IA from the sisiia
ton OF worse than MEDIEVAL iamne not all our SAM
ty science ,tcct the sources or ascertain the ma
tUre II mysterious and deadly plague and never were
mics numerous or politics more unsettled than
since it hos become the fashion 10 ridlce thc idea oil
war. There now appears TO be impending revolution
more pcTCus still. Among the thousand social ques-
ti,ne which have occupied the attention Of statesmen.
the single which included is that which IA
likely overpower all the rect. Half legislation
ind all felrs have proceeded The supposton that
these Islands must necessarily suffer from an excess OF
population md that neither work nor wages social place
nor politics function, could be long provided Tor such
an abundance of claimants We are actually threat.
ened with something very like danger from the Oppo-
size quarter and at this very moment for the FIRST time,
perhaps within mans memory, the population OF Grea
Brifnn Is rapidly decreasing.
We yesterday published the usual quarterly rcurn
OF bTthe, marrGgee and deaths, carrying this periodi-
cal OF progress up to the end OF Sopenbcr
We have used the term "progresr mechanically. and
and NOT, we trust, without considerable de yrce
OF gcnei prCrreiy but TO the relative state OF our
population us compared with former records, IL Is
wholly inapplicabc There at least sixty thou
snnd lever people in the British Isles the 2)th Of
September than there had been on the oath OF June.
Az happened, the deaths bore rather larger pro
poi "a an uhunl 10 t1e Dlfthi
pated visitation Of Asatic pestilsncs was, fortu
naiey, not experienced, the total deaths from cpl.
demic osuses exhibited an increase. Tho point Is in
ieresnR enough 20 suggest n cursory statement oil tho
facts actually noled In the i've summers ending with
that OF 1852 the deaths from cholera Ia London were
rspeg lively 153 1857 hs was the fatal year ofSfp1
81 las ami lz7 that this mOrtaty from this peculiar
disorder during the recent season, when such lively APP
preheni ions entertained, was not only less than
lat year iy 30 per cent but lighter even than la lsfd
Account must be taken too OF the Increase Of p0pua
keh the
more favorable The remark however, takes ~ back
to cur more immediate subject for In future If things
proceed tbey are proceeding At present. the keysrar
G.nernl will have 10 correct his averages In very
different sense and allow for dimnution instead OF an
increase
In the quarter under consideration the births
l5 1893 ana the deaths 100 49, leaving balance In IA
yor OF lie liquidation OF J0696 but in the same perof
there sued from these shores at those ports where
GCvtrumt MT emigration officers are Established no lever
than 100 6 persons thst the gain above pschei De
comes at once loss OF 5s5i0. Making allowance Tor
thsse departures which escaped registration, we may
very sofey the total emigration ut not Ices than 600
perio fact which implies not only that our populs
ion decreasing but that II Is decreasing more rspiy
than IL ever vel increased total oil some 20OOU or
2 O0a ye8r represented the greatest ordinary amount
of gsin Ia thu particular but the loss the other SIDE u
now upward Of lOoOoo IN sniRs 9usr.sr, ai,a thn
Quarter we mny be pretty sure, viii be len nteraoy
1ebjnd by the quarter 10 come. We shall probably
he within the marx IN saying that our population wi
for acertain period dminnh In the same ratio as mas
heretofore lflCfff GU bhu "
Icing addtd the same amount viii be sa6Tae>a
Tie great H. how long this drain will be con
tnuedg We can only ssy tnat there appears a. YET D"
sign whatever Of cessation or abatement Ihefe Is No
doubt Lui that people len the country In octo1e
than LETT ia September, and ~ little that more arc ~
pAl,ng in thir present ninth than departed -. s'"'eH'
Only the other day Ye published notification that the
Government! Ep. grafton Copimbsoners having hXel on
Souismpcn a eI6t, hal stipulated Tor tne co1sruc
ticu OF species Of barTlcOon at each terminus OF te
,,fiN Railway. capable Cl CsnruunS SDtJ
etoiq1ants who were 10 be cleared OH WIN ex1 loInl
mar lscily and quckncss, and repiacei % e'h eiln
ants fora petsaee Tns opening Of ln7 -, year, az
cordnq 10 Inc announce nlen was expected % c0mmu
ncae strong additional impulse 20 the traffic, snd, ~
Ausfrtha will at least take all we can send, u IL
bard 10 Gx any limit 10 the displacement. The
enects indeed already u in alm0st every branch
OF everyday business, ard the experience Of another
vetr under these strange conditions will 20 far TO teach
W bow soon what " relief may assume the char
acter Of exhaustion. A. many men not employed
In he amy navy and militia all taken together,
now leaving England eyery six months
reneri bic feature Of the event Il The diversion os
tie euisrsiing ftrMm from the westward 20 the south
ward The population Of the American Union l. likely
t. fufer in proportion what may be some day New
Uuion j. likely 70 gain ~ We, the attraction, pruci
pev no doubt through family ties Of the United States
suH prepordcfaie snd they received 6IJ.9 engranis
outot TIC 1896 These, however, were mainly from
tie port Of Liverpool, and the expectations from this
quarter corsit Chiefly Of Ifish When we turn 10 Lon
was the detnati0n Of fewer than IL 9J6 Of the mum
bar, ead we may reckon perhaps, ON nj least cor
refpOnding proportion Of the 3,l2j who sailed from
Pkmcuih The eject Of the diversion will tell also
ucn oursiyes in tie difference Of the clsses which wl
be aiued by the difference Of attraction The raah to
AuitIsla h not consnfuted by the impulses OF famine
wretehedness or despair. 1t arises from deliberate
preference Of one held TO another, and we should
Irobsbiy not be wrong in concluding that at least one
half OF the 1900 persons who lat quarter iei.
Londcn fer the godhelds had already posn,on ho,c
or les sealed either Many large IN
Tsn5s unexpecteiy promoted 70 the duties Of
serjoTp snd vacancies in abundance sniL 10 IA an Gun
pretend to conjecture where me ~, VA en ah. esS
-, s.s 81 revolution which IL almost convert
ssan cd ccun,ry into young one which tends 70 de.
press cspsl srd TO elevate labor which will Pr, Prss1
AZ diseo Gun, end candidates Of presnan w'sn WEI
LclgL tie burden OF psupcris, eAtngush lhe spfnss
n oesli.ra ard open fair avenues OF aaysncelaeal ~
Ell ,Ie mode elssses Of society Even 'ne sssS'n