Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-07-23
Census OF Great Britain.

A London correspondent of the .Nationdl
Inieliigencer, gives valuable summary of the
census of Great Britain, for 1850, Itist pub
lished, from which we abridge several inter-
es,iug particulars. The volumes published,
Notwithstanding the more than two years
employed in preparing them for the press,
are said TO he very deficient in simplicity aud
harmony of arrangement. A leading Journal
says: "This cunbrous work is one of the
most confusing and perplexing it hns ever
been our LOT TO endeavor to understand" The
most striking ana important information
which it contains is the certain fact of the
continual increase Of the people since 1901,
when tho practice of taking decennul cen
sus commenced. Before that time the mum
her of people was conjectural, or nscertained
hy the loosest and most vague calculation.
AT the close of the 18th century il was sup
posed that the population doubled itself in
one hundred aud sixty years. Earlier re-
cords, however, very conclusively show that
the population took the whole of fifteenth,
sixteenth, nnd seventeenth centuries or three
hundred years, 10 double ITSELF or the pro-
gress of population previous to the fifteenth
century nothing satisfactory is known. The
hest writers upon the subject have conclud-
ed that, nt the time of the Conquest, the
population of England aud Wales did not
exceed 100000, of whom" says Sharon
! Turner, "neary three -iourlhs were in state
of slavery, and nothing could have broken
their bonds but such events ns the Norman
Conquest and the civil wars which it excited
4 aud iostercd."
! In 1901 Great Britain, which had been
peopled at least twenty centuries, contained
population of l0,9l7,4 persons in 1851
the population is ascertained to have been
2l.l2l ,967, 7,-being nearly double what il was
in 1901; therefore. during the fifty interven-
ing years the increase alone was very nearly
MS much as the aggregate population which
had accumulated IN twenty centuries. Thus
the population has done that during the last
fily years which the eleven centuries between
the landing of Julius Caesar aud that of Will
liam The Conqneror had scarcely accom-
plshed.
The 81, ,l2l ,967 people in Great Britain are
very uncqnally dispersed. In England and
Wales they are at an average distance asun
der of l08 yards. In London they are
within III yards of each other. In East
London there are lS5,75l persons to square
mile; in the district of Bellinghain, North.
cumberland, there nre only Is persons to the
square mile, or in London the population Of
square mile is more than ten thousand
times greater than that of Bellingham. IL
the towns, the people are 5 2 persons to q
squire acre; in the country, there are So
acres TO each person. Placing three person,
in every square yard, the whole population
nigh, be placed in ,476 acres.
In Great Britain there nre Sl5 towns, con
tanning lO,566,2e5 persons, and l0,403, ,lsS
J dwell in what, for the suke of distinction, il
called the country.
The territory of Great Britain consists o
500 separate islands and rocks, and reiurn
were Obtained from l75 islands or groups o
islands; the others are uninhabited Th,
totn area of Great Britain and the islands il
J the British seas is 90,03S 50, miles
Of which England contains 50,022
Scotland 3l324
Wules 1898
The Islands 304
Total 90038
The number of males and females are YER
t nearly equal, the former being l0,366,0le
the latter 10, 0,735,9l9; the excess of the latte
: being 1851 giving about 81 females q
, 30 males. This proportion has very nearl
prevailed at every census. Il will be oil
5 served that these returns, so far as published
say nothing of Ireland, the population q