New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-01-20
FACTS FROM THE BRITISH CENSUS.


tcd in the Census Of Great Britain, taken in the TX
bibton wear Of sjl it has been found impossible to
issue them in printed form until within the last few
weeks From cursory glance at is mysterious
pages we have CLEANED the following curious iacs:
london extends over an area OF :: O29 acres, on
the sides Of the Thames into Kent Surrey and Mid
dlesex and the number Of it, inhabitants constantly
increasing, was 362 236 the day that the census
was taken.
The people Of England were, on an average, lj3
yards asunder in lao and lOs yards asunder in 9jl.
The mean distance apart Of therhoues Boz yards
in 1901, and only 252 yards in 1851.
What is the Oldest age thai is now attained The
Census furnishes us some aid toward the prosecution
Of tbs inquiry which is certainly Of no iDcOnsdcrabe
interest or importance Ia Great Britain, more than
half million Of the inhabitants $4,000 have passed
ihe barrier Of three score and TEN" more than a
hundred and twenty nine thousand the psalnsts
Limit of fourscOre years, and 100000 the years
which the last of Plato climacterc square numbers
expressed % times equals 8lJ; nearly ten thousand
% si7 hove lived ninety years or more band of
. C3s aged pilgrims have been wandering niuety-hve
years and more their unendcd journey, aud $40 say
that they have witnessed more than hundred revo-
lu;cns Of the seasons. Many instances, we may Oh
serve, are cited Of men living in the ancient world
more than hundred years and Lord Bacon. in his
History of Life and Death, quotes a fact unques-
toned that few years before he wrote, Morris
dance was performed in Hereford,hire, at the May
games by eight men, whose ages, IN the aggregate,
amounted to 300 years No popuous village ia En-
Gland was then, it would seem, without man or
woman Of fourscore years old. In the Seventeenth
Century, some time after Bacon wrote two Bngshmen
are reported to have died at ages greater than almost
sny of those which have been ai4iued ia other Euro
rean nations. According to documents printed in
the Philosophical Transactions Of the Royal Society,
Thomas PAR lived l52 years and nine months;
Henrv Jenkins l69 years. The evidence in these ex
traoIdinary Instances is however by no means con-
elusive as it evidently rests chiefly on uncertain ira
dtion and on the very falible memories Of hlterate
old men; for there il 10 M ntou of documentary evil
dence in Parr case and the births Of both date back
to period before the Parish Registers were nsti-
tuted by Cromwell, in 1898 We need hardly say
that the Irolonga,ion of The life Of people must be-
cone an essential part Of family m1nc ps ami IA
tionsl policy.
in England, it seems that the trentg s.fA year il
tie mean age OF which marry, and the treHfy-
mn that at which romen marry.
The average age of the wife Is about lo years, Of
tbe husband 40 years; or the husband in Great
Britain. on the average is p years older than the
wife. .
The army and navy, had, on March 81, ISL, excla
.iye Of the East India Company army and navy and
officers Of the staff of the army not serving with their
regiments, and militia Us ,773 effective men, namely
l42. $40 in the army, 35,9o3 in the navy; besides
s3797 non-effectives on half pay or penso
--Thee6tciires Of the army comprised 6,593 officers
1856 277 men, and the total of 1850 were composed
of cavalry l2,9l infantry, ll5,567i artillery, l2Ooo
engineer, 1850.
In the middle Of l'5l there were 5,6l0,577 men
nj the ace of 20 and upward of whom 1890 be-
longcd to the army and navy. The active force Is
copsequently about per cent. of the men of Great
Britain or one in Al or if the total population s
taken one in l5s will be found to have been engaged
in the army and navy previously to the breaking out
OF the present war in the East.
The number Of men between the ages Of Is and
IS il 4.s0l 900, one tenth Of whom would form an
army of 4s0l9O. One soldier to every hundred peo-
ple in the entire population would supply 2ll,s5o
men. Thelevy of one in a hundred on the poPula-
ton Of the United Kingdom, would give a6ou'
~ coo men.
OF 4694.5s3 children Of the age TO IS, only
! 4O5 i4e are returned scholars at home and
abroad; while 7O5 400 are employed in some extra
neous emrloynCnt ana $50, 752 are SIMPLY occupied
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! as children at home.
BY the English Life Table it is shown that the
half Of generation Of men of al ages passes away
| in thirty years and that more taan three IN every
! four Of th, number die in half century.
The average number of persons 10 house IN
Great Britain, at the census of 1851, was five and
| half the safne as in 1881.
The POPULATION Of Great Britain, Including men,
women and children, exceeds III hundred Thousands
and. a. rate of hundred thousand a day, could
have passed through the Crystal Palace 10 2il days
In 1901. the population amounted, IN round numbers,
70 100 hundred thousands spd Ice of the 2ll hundred
thousands IN 1851 or as many as could pass through
such place in lo2 days wsAd represent the increase
Of the people of Great Britain in half century
The most important production Of . country Is its
population
Finally, we may observe, in order to place a
schedule of the size Of half sheet Of foolseap paper
in the hands Of every occupier in Great Britain "a
,s Of paper were required, allowing none TOR waste
bu, that 40 ,uns were actually used and that the cost
in England itself of taking the census, exclusive OF
postage and printing, was at the rate OF - 49, or
s.5. for every thousand OF the population.