Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-06-19
The New English osn,u..


The New English Census.
Partial returns Of the new census Of Great Brit,
ain are given in the latest English papers. The
official record of the cities Of Liverpool Manches-
ter and GLASGOW is published, and sufficient returns
hare been received from the agricultural districts
to show decrease in the population. We CLEAN
some interesting facts from the statistics
LIVERPOOL
The population Of Liverpool in round numbers Is
100000. The city proper contains bat 263 600 per-
sons the remainder being distributed in the su-
burbs of Exeter, kirkdale West Derby and Toxteth
Park. The port Of Liverpool has large floating
population of sailors, reekoned in the census at
abb tut fourteen thousand men. In 1871 the number
of sail RS was twelve thousand, in 1851 it was thir
teen thousand and in 1861 but one thousand more
than ten years ago. The total population of the
city and suburbs at the Of 1851 was 375 955
so that the increase in ten years has been little
more than twenty per cent
During the last four years the number Of inhabi>
ted houses in Liverpool hks likewise increased from
$4,000 TO 66 000 In 1881 the buildings IN the town
were estimated to cover area OF 5000 600 square
yards, while in l765 they only covered an area OF
!, Is4, 900 square yards.
MANCHESTER.
Manchester has decreased in population, losing
1000 inhabitants of the city proper by reason OF
the conversion Of dwelling houses to office and
other business purposes and alterations IN narrow
streets The increase in the townships adjoining
that t Manchester is extraordinary. but msy be
accounted for by the compulsory migration from
Manchester arising out of the causes mentioned.
The present population of the city and its suburbs
is So, 0O0-a gain of 10000 in ten years.
The census superintendent in Manchester reports
that while the decrease in the city property IS golrg
on. the conversion of the property out Of which II
arises increases the gross assessment of the town
ship, by better buildings in remarkable way The
effect will be TO reduce the pourdageson the poor and
other rates, and eventually to reduce pauperism by
the sweeping away of the lower descriptions OF
dwellings.
THE RURAL DISTRICTS.
The London Times says that sufficient iuforms-
ton has been obtained the results of the CEN
sus in the rural districts of Norfolk, Suffsld and
Essex to justify the conclusion that in the country
parishes the population has barely held It's ground
as compared with 1851.
This falling off Of the country population is at
tributed to emigration and the extensive enlist
ments. The returns for the larger towns are not
all made up. Itappears, however, that the popula-
ton of Bury ST. Edmund's has declined from 1902
in. 1851 to Is 81 in 1861, while the population Of
Colchester has advanced from 10 443 in 1851 70 20
574 IN 1861; the population of Sudbury from 6O43
in 1851 6s79 in 1861; the population of Lowesteft
from $50 in 1851 TO 407 in 1861. The population
of Norwich will, it is expected, be returned at
about IS 900.
DECREASE OF THE AGRICULTURAL POPULATION IN YORK
SHIRE.
In Yorkshire the agricultural population has de
creased in many places TO most remarkable extent.
The returns made to the superintendent registrars
in purely agricultural districts prove this beyond
all question. The population of the Doncsster Union
in 1851 was "a &C., against 80, 3S7 in 1861, an In
crease of 1925 Had it not been for Doncsster and
its suburbs, Baby and Marlborough, there would
have been a decrease of at Leaf 1000 in the rural
places. OF the fifty villages embraced in the Union,
twenty-nine have decreased since 1851; one was
stationary; one had increased by one, and enc by
two. In the Thorne Union, embracing Is parishes
or townships seven had decreased. and altogether
there are in the whole Union but 81 more inhabi.-
ants than in 1871 The Union of East Retford, in
North Notts-which comes up to that Of Doncaster
shows; in equally remarkable manner, that
there is a decrease without the towns being added
up 1t extends over so towns and villages. In 1851
there were q 1862 inhabitants; in 1851, 22,615, or
1873 more: One township furnishes half of this
increase alone; 80 have decressed and 10 have not
in the average added more than 20 each. Southwell
Union has but 1896, against 8445 in 1851 OF the 10
townships comprising it 10 have in the decade lost
3l4 inhabitants and the remainder show but slight
addition.
GLASGOW.
The analysis of the census of the city of Glasgow
has been published The population of the an
Gent burg" of Glasgow amounts to 403,l42, of
whom IS9 220 are males, and 2l3,922 are females.
The population of the district known the "ancient
burg and the suburbs is 446, 1916, Of whom z0999
are males, and 1886 are females. The amount Of
increase in 1861 Of sc, PSI In 1861 the number Of
inhabited dwellings was $780, and of uninhabited
1902 compared with 63, l53 and l541 IN the year
1851 being an increase in 1861 of inhabited dwell
lings to the extent of 19 49, and of uninhsbited
2 ASS The population is composed of 326 374 Scotch,
10 500 English, 63 5T4 Irish, S27 foreigners, 44O
colonists, and lis not ascertained The number OF
males between the ages of and 10 amounts 20 49,
694, with 40 lis females ard OF this number 10 sos
males and l6 PA females not, a. the taking of
rho at SPhOOi The number of domestic
servants within the city was us males and II SOD
| females total l3.074
PoTTERIES.
| The census returns show that the district known
as the StsfOrdshire Pofteries has now population
of l20 000 The Parliamentary borough of Stoke
| u on Trent comprises the aforementioned towns,
which have population of Sc 1885, Hsnley, 81 93S;
Bursem. 81 COL; LOngton Is 742 Tunstall. II l56;
Stoke 10 1872 aud Fenron, ,937. The population of
| the Parliamentary borough has increased 1865
during the last decade. IN l73s the population of
the Potteries did not exceed 1000. The population
of Newcaste under Lyme is IL 636 and has increas-
/ ed 1886 since 1851. In the same period Stafford,
which in lS4l had a population of 1902, has in
creased to 1861 Tamworth has 1925 hAbitants !;
Leake 9Oj6; Burton-upon Trent, 1855; and Stone,
| 1892.
| A CURIOSITY OF The CENSUS.
There is one parish in England which has incress-
| ed its population during the last decenDal period
by no less than one hundred per cent. The parish
| of Aldrlngton, near Brighton was the onIy parish
that returned in the Of 1851 single unit Of
population The parish is entirely agricultural. 1t
| was for centuries without house. There are,
| however. the ruins of church, which are noticed
| by the traveller the South Coast railway. When
| the road from Brighton to Shorebam was made
turnpike it pleased the trustees of the road to erect
toll bar in the parish and the dollhouse OF course
| had an occupant. Thus the parish became inhab-
ited and the of 1851 gave the population as
| zone" The census Of 1861 shows population OF
| two an increase we have said of one hundred
per cent. The 'pike-man has taken to himself