The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-10-19
CURIOUS FACTS.

London letter in the National Intelgen-
Ger contains some very remarkable facts re-
speeding the population Of Great Britain.
6 The returns OF The population of Great
Britain, according 10 the census Of 1850, have
at leasih been published, in part, in two very
thick folio volumes. The hhor of collecting
this Information immense 62o superln-
tendent registrars, ALDO registrars, and 5000
cnumerators were employed in England and
Wales, and in Scotland ,010 superintendents,
and 1873 enumeraters. Jai'ers, masters oil
warehouses, custon-houses, naval and military
officers, clergyinen, sconl-lnaters, and officers
of public Institutions, all assisted III supplying
this Information. By this large array OF woik-
ers the whole of the population returns oil Great
Britain were collected in one day, SO that the
mere expense of procuring the returns was
comparatively small. The remainder OF Inc
time, from that day 10 the beginning OF the
present month, was occupied with arranging
the returns for the press, and in printing them
Seven millions Of forms were printed, and the
weight Of all the papers sent from the central
Office exceeded ffy-two tons. Tbs most s'ri-
ing and important information which 1t con-
tans is the certain fact of the continual m
crease Of the people since 1901 when the prac-
tce of taking decimal census cammenc' d
Prior TO that time the number of people was
conieciural, or ascerained by the lo'sest ana
most vague calculation. At The c'ose Of ne
eighteenth century, il was supposed that TIE
population doubled in one hundred and sixty
wears Earlier records, however, very concia
sively show that the population took the whole
ofthe fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth cen
turtles, or three hundred years, to double ITSELF.
OF the progress Of population previous t. the
fifteenth century, nothing satisfactory is known
The best writers upon the subject have con-
cludpd that, at the time Of the conquest, the
population Of England and Wales did not cx-
ceed 100000 Is OF whom, says Sharon Iur-
ner, "nearly thrce-four,hs were IN state OF
slavery, and nothing could have broken their
bonds but such events as the Norman con.
quest and the civil wars which it excited and
fostered." In 1901 Great Britain, which had
.hen been peoped at least twenty centuries,
contained popula ion Of 10,9l7, 4S3 persons ];
in 1851 the population is ascertaned to nave
been 81 81, 463-being nearly double OF what
it was in 1891 therefore, during the nifty IN
teryening wears The increase alone was nearly
as mach as the aggregate population which had
accumulated in twenty centuries Thus the
population has done TINT during the last hity
years which the eleven centuries between 'he
landing Of julius Cesar and William the Con-
nueror, had scarcely accomplished. AT the
same time it might easily be shown, that the
wealth of the country has increased faster than
its population. The IL isl ,967 people in Great
Britain are very unequally dispersed In En-
gland and Wales they are at an average DIS
lance asunder of los yards. In London they
are within IA yards of each other. In East
London there are l85,75l persons to a square
mile ; in the district Of Bellngham, Notihun-
berland, there were only IL to spare mile, or
in London the population OF square mile Is
more than ten thousand times greater than that
re-. p xl- tI1.ss nnr,fn n n
S 2 persons to square acre, in The country
there are 8 acres to each person. Placing
the persons in every square yard, the whole
population might be placed in I,476 acres
In Great Britain there are Sl5 town containing
1856, 2s5 persons, and l0,403,l7o dwell in
what for the sake OF distinction, is always cal.
led the country"