New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-11-13
Arr4IRs IN THE PRUssuN CAPITlL.

from Oar Own ccues,o1eent
HERLIy, Friday, Oct II, 1855.
Our bureau Of statistics has juss given us the
cen.us Of the civ, from which the following facts
are drawn: The population Of the city at the end
Of June. including the soldiery, was i5i9l- souls
placing Berlin, according 10 the latest census
which has come under ny no,.ce, little above
Ni.pp.. and giving il the ffth place anoog
European capi;sls-London, Pans. s. Peters
bure. Constsbtipope, Berlin Nienna-snd the
fr.t place among the cities Of Germany.
To sho bow carefully TIE increase and decrease
Of tie population of the city is recorded. quote
frc the papers the monthly report for August snd
the weekly report for Sept. 2S-reports regularly
published bv the Bureau of statistics the duties of
which Office are made comparatively easy, by Sc
we're police regulations compelling al classes Of per
sons intere, ted as parents letters OF rooms hotel
keepers and the Ike, TO report any addition or
diminution Of the number of persons il their fami-
lies or establishments.
In he month Of August, says the report, were
reported as born in Berlin. 600 boys and so girls.
Total. 40 children. The deaths were 300 men,
2s5 women. 429 boys, $50 girls. Total, ! 1868 per
sous giyins 1913 more desths than births Am Dg the
births were seventy.six boys and eighty-one girls,
ileeitirate children. and eleven pairs of twins;
twenty hit boys and twenty three girls stborn.
The D, puation was increased By the immigration
and settlement OF 1910 persons masculine, and 500
feminine Total, l,-12. On the other hand there
was decrease owing 10 the removal of l,6Jl per
sops masculine and 5l2 feminine. T,tal, 2,ll3.
A com, ARSON therefore OF births and deaths, and
of IN migTa alton with the emigration, shows de-
crease Of the population Of the city for August OF
434 persons
Then follows a comparison Of this mouth with
August of last year, of which give only the totals.
BlItbs in August, 1854, ,435 deaths, ,076 lille
gitimste children, 300, IA little more than one
se'eptb); twins, twenty three pairs; emigration
surpassed immigration by 6G2-the result having
been decrease of the population Of the city 2i3
persons. The weekly report of Sept. y shows
reported births 295; ceaths, $40; surplus of
deaths seventy siI-eleven LEES births and lao
more deaths than during the corresponding week
of last year
A comparison of the statistics for some years
back shows that in the last few years the increase
OF the city from immigration has seriously dimln-
ished, which is justly attributed TO the effect OF
the laws snd police regulation, in regard to the
exercise of trades and gaining settlement IN the
city.
find upon examining the latest police book OF
regulations IN the once IN our street, thht III -Oulc
minor points such as the matter Of the certificate
of confirmation. &c, the regulations have been
lightened, and the picture in my last letter was
little too strongly shaded for the condition OF the
laws in this particular city just now-the objects
of there laws being now better reached by a de-
cideo increase in the property qualifications neces
ssry TO residence, and new regulation, OF which
more below
For short period during lS4e the old guild
laws were thrown ABIDE and all trades and profes
siOns were made comparatively free. When the
reaction came it was helped onward wonderfully
by the members of the old guilds who found their
monopoles seriously invaded, and early in 1919
the Government gained these classes generally by
returning to the old order Of things and indeed in
some respects by placing new difficulties in the way
OF competition on the part Of ssch as are not Ber-
liners by birth The effect Of the orders relating
to bandicrsfts, Of February lSi9, and of the new
taxes upon incomes and settlement in the city,
will be seen in the following figures.
The increase of the population of Berlin from
immigration, las given by statistics so carefully
made, as above shown was for the year