Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-07-02
POPULATION STATISTICS OF GREAT BRITAIN

The of Great Britain in 1851 has just been pub
shed in two thick volumes. The number of people
turned 81 21 967 Of whom TO- 1885, 048 males,
and 10 females thus giving the ladies the advan
tage On the night Of the 1924 sleeping
barges yesses 1872 in barns and 277 in the open
air under tents. The number of families in Great
Britain were 43l2 3ss inhabited houses seas, 347.
The towns villages &c. in Great Britain, II $50. The
British Isles 5ooi inhabited, 175 Great Britain has
upwards Of twenty-one millions, and Ireland upwards Of
six millions of souls Anglesey Jersey, and the Isle of
Man have 50,000 and Guernsey Lewis, Skye and Shet-
land 10000. These numbers however rapidly de-
scend in the remaining islands from 10 900 l0OO 500
400, 100 40, 30, 90 10; and finally, at Inchcam an
appanage of Fife there is island with only
| on it.
The Boston Courier has the following on the subject
While the United States yearly receiving hundreds
of thousands of emgrans from the British islands, it
will be not unnterestng to know something the pro-
gress OF population in that country The result of the
British Of 1851 have just been laid before Parlia
men The original returns filed millions Of scAe-
d, and the whole weight of the documents amounted
to upwards of Wht-tco tons. This enormous mass Of
eight reading dgested into volume of $50 900
pages which, being rather bulky for popular use
further abridged into three volumes of manageable
size, though none Of the senderest
Although Great Britain has lost we believe nearly a
million OF inhabitants during the past three years
yet her population has been regularly advancing from
decennum another during present century In
1901 the population of England and Wales nine mil
lions in 1911 it had risen ten; in 1921 twelve in
1881 to fourteen; in l841 sixteen and in 1851 it
amounted to eghteenpOns. The rate Of increase per
cent was greatest between 1911 and 1921 since which
year it has been steadily diminishing and the progress
sion has therefore, practically speaking been arhmeti-
cal instead Of geometrical.
The population tables with which these volumes are
chiefly occupied prefaced by report illustrative Of
the general subject This report furnishes set Of dia
grams showing the density of the population in different
parts of the kingdom; and il supplies ingenious usra-
tons calculated TO assist the reader in realizing to his
imagination the vast numbers which he is called upon
grasp Few persons, probably, would suppose that all
the men, women and children in Great Britain might
stand upon area square miles in extent and
that too, without announcement crowdng century ago
they would have occupied about onehird Of that space
half century ago, one-haf
The report gives the following statements MS the con-
sequences which have grown out Of the
increase Of population:
the last fifty years the number Of acres TO each
living has fallen from 81 81 acres in Great Britain,
and from four TO two in England and Wales As
each others neghborhood their average each
other has been reduced in two labor
been divided industry has been organized in towns and the
quantity o. produce either consisting Of or exchangeabe for
the convenience eleganec and necessaries Of life has in
the largely increased increasing rapid
rate than the population"
1t is nterestngto know in what particular localities
and under what social aud industrial circumstances po
puaon has made the greatest advances 1t appears from
the report that the towns which have rapidly in
creased during the last half century those engaged in
the manufacture Of strawpait next the watering
places the and then the great Of the cotton
manufacture which afford home to about one-ffteenh
Of the whole population Of England.
The number Of persons absolutely houseess and found
dwelling in the open air, seeking temporary lodging
for the night in barns and outhouses, is lS 000 1t viii
be observed that neither Scotland Ireland in
cuded in these statistics.
France it appears has advanced at slower pace than
England during the above period. In l79 the popula
lation Of France somewhat short Of 80 000 In
1S48 IL had not reached 36000,000. England has two
and half of land to each inhabitant France three
and half In England the supply of food has been re-
latvey well absolutely increasing during the pre-
sent century; in France il has been diminishing Both
nations have suffered from war, but in equal de-
gree 1t may be doubted however, whether this nequa
ty will account difference in their Of advance
in population.
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