Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-02-17
FACTS FROM THE BRITISH CENSUS.

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Owing to tho complicated nature of the facts
elected in the Census of Great Britain, taken in
the Exhibition year Of 1851, it has been found i'm
possible to issue them in a printed form, until
within the last few weeks. From Il cursory glance
at its mysterious pages, we have CLEANED the fol-
lowing curious facts
London extends over ain area of 5000 acres, on
the sides OF the Thames, into Kent, Surrey, and
Middlcsex, and the number of its inhabitants, con
stantly increasing, was 2,3G2,23G on the day that
'thc census was taken.
TIE peoplc Of England were, on an average, 1853
yards asunder in 1901, and los yards asunder in
1851. The mean distance apart of their houses
was 362 yards in lSOl, and only 2j2 yards in 1851.
What is the Oldest age that is now attained? The
Census furnishes us some aid toward the prosecu-
ton of this inquiry, which is certainly Of no in.
considerable interest Or Importance. In Great
Britain, more than half million of the inhabitants
1896, 030) have passed the barrier Of three score
and ten p more than n iundrcd and twcnty.ninc
thousand the psalmist's limit Of four-score years,
and lGO,0OO the years which the last Of Plato's
climacteric square numbers expressed, %
times 9 equals 81 nearly ten thousand (0.S47)
have lived ninety years or more; Il band Of 2,63S
aged pilgrims have been wandering ninety-hve
years aud more on their unendcd journey, and 80
say that they have witnessed more than Il hundred
revolutions of the seasons. Many instances, we
may observe, are cited Of men living in the ancient
world more than a hundred years: and Lord Bacon
in his History Of Life and Death, quotes n fact
unquestioned, that a few years before he wrote, q
MUIris.dance was performed in Ilcrefordshire, ut
the May games, by eight men, whose ages, in the
aggregate, amounted to 500 years. No populous
village in England was then, il would seem, with
out Il man or woman Of fourscore years old. In
the Seventeenth Century, some time after Bacon
wrote, two Englshmen are reported to have died
at ages greater than almost any Of those which
have been attained in other European nations
According to documents printed in the Philosoph-
ical Transactions of the Royal Society, Thomas
Parr lived lJ2 years and nine months Henry Jen-
kins 100 years. The evidence in these cxtraordi-
nary instances is however by no means conclusive,
us it evidently rests chiefly on uncertain tradition.
and on the very tlllible memories of illiterate old
men for there is no mention Of documentary eyi.
denco in PARIS case, and the births of both date
back to a period before the Parish Registers were
instituted by Cromwell, in 1893. We need hardly
say that the prolongation Of the life Of a people
must become an essential part of family, municipal
and national policy.
In England, it seems that the trenty-sjrh year
is the mean age at which men marry, and the
trcmty:GfM that at which con1eH marry.
The average age of the wife is about 4O1 years,
of the husband 43 years or the husband in Great
Britain, On the average, is 2! years older than the
wife.
The army and navy had, on March 81, 1851, ox-
elusive of the East India Company's army and
navy, and officers Of the staff of the army, not
serving with their regiments, and militia, l7S, 773
effective men, namely l42,S70 in the army, 3j,9O3
in the nOvy; besides 80, 7J7 non-eiiectiyes on half
pay or pensions.
The e1ectires of the army comprised 6,593 off
GERS, 1927 men; and the total of 1880 were
composed Of cavalry, l2,9ll Infantry, ll5,567
artillery, l2,OO6; engineers, 2,3SG.
In the middle Of 1851 there were 5,Gl0,777 men
Mt the age of - and upward, of whom lS3, 25j be-
longcd to the army and navy. The active force is
consequently about . per cent. of the men of
Great Britain, or one in II or if the total pop
/ l,.;a, :. ,.1o, ,,1 =, | - IN /. P.-l =. H.
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 - and
45 is 4,S0l, $50, o~ne-tenth of whom would form an
army Of 4S0, 100. One soldier to every hundred
people in the entire population would supply Pill
$50 men. The levy OF one in a hundred on the
population of the United Kingdom, would give
about 277 900 men.
OF 4.G94,5S3 children of the age of five to 10,
only 2,405 ,442 are returned rs scholars AZ home
and abroad, while 705, l00 are employed in some
extraneous employment, and l,5S3, 1872 are simply
occupied as children at home.
BY the English Life Table it is shown that the
half Of Il generation of men Of all ages passes
away in thirty years, and that more than three
in every four Of their number die in half a CEN
fury.
The average number of persons to a house in
: Great Britain, at the census of 1851, was five and a
! half, the same as in 1881.
The population Of Great Britain, including men,
y women and children, exceeds 2ll huadyed thar
sands, and at Il rate of a hundred thousand a day,
could have passed through the Crystal Palace in
2ll days. In 1901 the population amounted. in
round numbers, to 100 hundred Mousands, aud 100
of the 2ll hundred thousands in 1851, or ms many
as could pass through such Il place in l02 days,
would represent the increase of the people OF
Great Britain in half a century. The most inn
$ portant production Of a country is its popula-
ton.
Q schedule of the size of half a sheet of foolscap
, paper in the hands Of every o~ccupicr in Great
5 Britain, q tuns of paper were required, allowing
none for waste, but that f~orty-twO tuns were ac-
tually used, and that the cost in England itself Of
taking the census, exclusive of postage and print
ing, vas at the rate Of fj Is, or SO, for every
thousand of the population.