Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-09-01
EVENING STAR.
CENSUS OF GREAT BRITAIN.

CENSUS OF GREAT BRITAIN.
The Population Tables" containing
a summary of the information, in 1851. !.
respecting the occupation, ages, &C., of
the people of Great Britain, are arranged
according to new classification. There
is, first, the class engaged in the general
or local government Of the country. In
this class there are II ,l91 men above 20
years of age; 81 ,6S9 are in the civil ser.
vice of the nation, and 29,7S5 are in Of
fices of local government. The number
of magistrates is 1902, and of policemen
lS,348. The second class comprises the
persons engaged in the defence of the
country. The active force was in I5S
OF the population. Of every 100 officers
there were 68 electives and 80 non-effec-
tlves. The third class contains the three
learned professions, with their immediate
subordinates. Their number was no.
73O, or about $1,000 each. There were
1851 clergymen, and 1903 Roman
Catholic priests; 3,1ll barristers, and
1926 attorneys and writers to the sig
net; 1883 physicians, and Is, l63 sur
geons. Eight women are returned under
the title " Scripture reader, missionary,
or itinerant preacher. =,
The fourth comprises the literary class.
The authors, writer's, and literary men
number 2,S66 persons, to whom are add.
ed 5000 artists, architects, &C., doubt
less including many drawing.masters and
builders 1876 professors of science, 49,.
318 male teachers, and 1896 school.
mistresses and governesses-the latter
returned as 2l 1873. The 5th class, a
most important one, are the wives and
children at home. In 1851 there were
3,461 ,524 wives in Great Britain. of
whom one in four was engaged in some
extraneous occupation; and 1876. $50
widows, of whom two in three were re-
ferred to occupations in other classes.
The sixth class consists of persons on.
tertaining, clothing, and performing per-
sonal offices for others. There were
1881 innkeepers. The domesticseryants
were above 900, 900; l33, ,626 males and
9O5, ,l65 females; one third of the latter
under ~ years of age. There were above
10000 Shoemakers. and nearly the same
number of dress-makers, besides 70 75O
seamstresses or shirtmakers, and l2,769
staymakers. This whole class comprises
2,32O,l73 persons. This is the chief
field of labor for young women, who as
they advance in years, marry and re.enter
the fifth class. About half the women
of Great Britain 20 years old are entered
in the fifth or (married) class; nearly O.
fourth in this sixth class.
The English paper from which we take
these statistics, thus concludes its epi-
tome of the " Population Tables"
7th. The seventh class contains per-
sons who buy or sell, keep, let or lend
money, houses or goods, ,-but not includ.
ing such shop keepers as grocers or tai
low chambers, who are returned as deal.
ing in particular descriptions of articles.
1t includes los male and I0l female
capitalists" l0,l03 merchants, 43,74l
male and l9 female commercial clerks.
1896 male and IA female commercial
travellers.
9Th. The carrying class comes next,
and includes 2S5,686 men and 100. .345
boys: 1897 women are toll collectors.
and 2 are in the telegraph service.
9Th. Next comes the agricultural class,
with woodmen and gardeners it mum.
bers 1890, ,568 persons, of whom 3S5 1913
are boys below 90. Of the men above
2O,277,sl6 are professedly farmers or
graziers, S24 ,587 outdoor laborers, and
l69,452 indoor farm servants; 1886
woman are returned as farmers. One
fourth the men in Great Britain are in
cluded in this ninth class.
10th. The tenth class comprises 100.
202 persons engaged about animals
horse-dealers and the like; bat-catchers
and mole-hunters come under this class !:
there are 2,O62 men whose lives are
passed in hunting and DESTROYING noxious
animals. One man calls himself "an
apiarian." ~. r....
llth. Artisans, machiniSts and handi.
craftsmen, are numbered next; and, ad-
ding those who work and deal in matters
edfrom (l2) the animal, (l3) the veg
etable, and (14) the mineral kingdom, we
find :, $50 1863 men, $50, ,759 women 615,-
96l boys, and 209,30S girls engaged in
trades, mechanical arts, handicrafts and
manufactures, in all more than $500, 900
persons. .... g.. -
18th. A number persons arereturned
indefinitely as " laborers" s"-377, ,472 men
and 9,O79 women; the class is supposed
to include many who are ready to take
the place of any one that falls out of the
ranks in any kind of labor.
10th. Persons Of independent means,
not otherwise classed-l0,6 GA are return
ed as gentlemen, and l5,5lS as gentlewo-
men; %, ,032 man and l2l :222 women as
annuitants.
18th. Persons supported by the com.
munity. In regard to l57 400 persons,
we have no account of. their occupation
but that they were paupers, lunatics,
prisoners, or vagrants.' There were also
6, $50 males and T08,8l4 females of
whose condition no return was made.
The total number of indoor paupers in
England and Wales, was l26 ,48S, or in
142 of the population; in Scotland, 5,43S.
There were &c, ,S55 persons in criminal and
debtors prisons in Great Britain, or in
7o5 Of the population /: and 1903 in lu-
natlc asylums, or in LIS. .5,s
HOW ABOUT THAT MILITARY EXEcU-