Washington telegraph., 1853-11-02
Curious Facts.


\ London leliar in 'lg SaH9nai inielil-
lsneor oontaina -ome very remarkable facts
respecting the rarulalion Of Great Blitnin /:
The returns af Great Britain. afenf,lirg
ia the census Of lsin, have at length been
published in pari in two very thick fl'o
volumes. The lhaf of collecting tli, in.
formation was Immense G21 supsfinlenl.
ant registrars. .. l90 registrars. and s0.6lO
ennmefaloI, wefe employed in England
and Males. and IN Senlhnl l.nl0 ,upfrin.
dsals. aud I>la enumcraiurt Jailui~,
masters of wofk.han.es, cr., um.hanses. no.
val and military officers. clergyman. school.
mas'ef., and officers Of public institutions.
all assisted in supplying hi. infafmaiion-
Ry til. large artay af workers the wliulc Of
the population fclaFns of Great Efi|aiu were
collected in uur day "a Tint ihe nero ox.
rHnsa of procuring lie returns Was eamIar.
ali.ely small Tha remainder q. Inc time.
fnm Tint LAY 10 ile beginning If the pre-.
eai month. was occupied with arranging the
feinms fr the rfess aud in printing tLem.
Sven millions q faams wcre printed. and
llia weight Of all tie papers sent ffum the
eenlral uili'c exceeded aly.iwo tons. Tho
masl striking aui important Information
which il contains is ihe crriail iaet Of lla
continual increase af tie pcop's .iufs lsnl.
wien the practice aI laking decimal census
commenced Prinr ia that time ii numhgr
af Iraplc wa. canieeinral ur aseerIaincd ly
the la4sa,i and masi ,aguc calcuiatioa. At
the elusn ol the eishiaenth century it wa.
snfra.e,i that the population doubled in one
hundred and .iSty years Eirlief feeorl.
however very canrlu.ircly ,luw ihat The
population lnol the whole If the fifteenth
sixteenih aud seventeenth centuries. ar lhrcc
hundred yrsts. In double itself. 0t the
progress of population rrogiou. 10 the &C.
ioenih century nothing satisfactory is known
The beet writer. upon the subject have con.
eluipl that, q, the time Of the conquest. the
population Of England and Wales did no,
exceed > .n0O.uen ''ef whom. .uys sharon
Turner. nearly thrcc.,omihs were in
s'atc of slavery. and nothing could have
broken their bonds hut such events as the
Norman conquest and the civil wars which
tt excited and foscrcd. In lS0l Great
Britain, which had then been rcoplrd nj
least twenty centuries contained rnpuh.
ton uf l6,9l7 lS3 persons in lS5l the
ramhiion is asrcrtai.cd to lave been u.
III 96I-hcine nearly double Of what il
was in lSnl therefore. during The liiy in.
'crvcning year, the increase alone was very
nearly =, much a. the aggregate population
which had accumulated in twenty centuries.
Thu. the population has done thr during
the last fifty wears which the eleven ccrtu.
ric- between the landing or Julius Cr.ar
nid William the Conquoror had scarcoly
accomplished At the same time il might
easily hr shown that the wealth of the
country has been increased ftsicr than its
population The 2ll2l .o67 people in
Great Britain are very uncqualy dispersed.
In England and Wales they are nj mn aver.
age distance asuuder Of los yards. In
London they are within ~ yards of each
other In Fast London there are lS5 7jl
persons 10 a square mile; in the district Of
Bellinghnm Northumberland. there are on.
ly Is To square mile. or in London the
population of a square milc is more than
ten thousand times ercn'er than that Of Bel.
lineham In the town. the people are . .
persons to square acre, in the country
there are sacfes to each person. Placing
three Persons in every square yard, the
whole population might be placed in LAG
acres ln Great Biinin there are SIS
towns containing 1856, 2Ss persons, aud
IL. i03, 10 dwell in what. for the sake Of
distinction, is always called the country