The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-08-03

London's cxccss. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 1882
Here it will be seen that London is
larger than our eleven cities with Allie
ghany City, Pa, the city nearest the
amount of the deficit thrown in. Fur
ther still, to take this mighty metropolis
to our comprehension, it is more popu-
lous than thirteen of our States, Arkan-
sss, California, Connecticut, Delaware,
Florida, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska,
Nevada, New Hampshire, Oregon, Rhode
Island, and Vermont, with the five Ter
ritories of Arizona, Colorado, Dakota,
Idaho, and Montana thrown in. Coming
to the larger States, but one New York;
exceeds London, which is as great as
Illinois, that giant of the West, with
Kentucky's thirteen hundred thou
sand souls to boot. Next to the
huge city forming the first of the eleven
census divisions now under consideration
come the other divisions, which are thus
made up: Second, the counties of Kent,
Surrey, Sussex, Southampton, and Berks;
third, Middlesex, outside of London,
Eertferd, Buckingham, Oxford, North
ampton, Huntington, Bedford, and Cam
bridge; fourth, Essex, Suffolk, and Nor
folk; fifth, Willis, Dorset, Devon, Corn
wall, and Somerset; sixth, Gloucester,
Hereford, Salop, Stafford, Worcester,
and Warwick; seventh, Leicester, Rut-
land, Lincoln, Nottingham, and Derby;
eighth, Chester and Lancashire ninth,
Yorkshire; tenth, Durham. Northumber-
land, Cumberland and Westmoreland {;
and, eleventh, Wales. The population
or these shires is not yet separately fur
nished, and the figures in the divisions
do not possess sufficient general inter-
est to reproduce.
Manchester has a population of 592,-
164, and lies midway between our Phila-
delphia and Brooklyn, while Liverpool
has 660,5l0, and wells its head only be-
fore our two greatest cities, New York
and Philadelphia wonderful circum-
stance when it is we'll considered that
here is an old English shire running a
race against great New World cities.
Excluding London, the population of
England is thus divided Rural, 49,
945,719; urban, 6,506,625. The urban
districts have grown more than twice as
fast as the city districts, but the rate of
increase in the country districts is twice
what it was in lS51-6l. The excess of
women and girls over men and boys in
England is 623.302, or considering the
nlen and boys afoat, 474,O4S. This dis
parity is made up by q male excess, the
British Census Commissioners think, in
odher parts of the world, that excess in
the United States and the British colon
les being, according to them, 1908, 1928,
as against q female excess of 7lS, ,566 in
the entire United Kingdom. AS to the
military force England can raise, the
census gives view quite cheering to the
British heart. In each of the eleven
divisions 100000 men between 20 and
40 are reported. or $500, 600, men of fight
ing age in England and Wales or, if we
count the rest of the kingdom on the
same basis, an aggregate of 4,S00,000.
Taking one-tenth as Immediately avail
able our cousins think themselves sure of
a half million British Grenadiers, Scotch
Highlanders, Welsh Fusiliers, and Irish
Faugh-a-ballaghs at the first tap of the
war drum on English ground.
The number of inhabited houses re-
ported in the kingdom is 4,259,032, an
increase of 5l9,527 since 1861, which is
strong sign OF thrift and increasing
comfort. On the night of the census
260,l78 houses were not slept in, some
criminal dens perhaps, others with
sleepy persons, no doubt, who would not
wake, and others "in chsncery," with
broken panes and shutters loose. The
average number of persons to house
was five, Pa, Ma, Sonny, Sis, and the
Hired Girl. In England and Wales are
$50 persons to the square mile, and to
each person 1.64 acre. Lastly, there is
an increase in every English county ex-