Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1872-01-11
The British Census.

The Registrars General for England.
fScotland and Ireland are now engaged in
the arrangement of the census returns;
and the preliminary abstracts, which have
just made their appearance in public,
show some very interesting, and, it may
be added, unpleasant facts According
to these abstracts, the population of the
United Kingdom is growing at the rate of
l,l73 persons day, of whom 105 stay at
home, and 46S emigrate. The proper
ton OF men among these emigrants is so
great that there is rather startling un-
evenness In the proportion of sexes, as
mas happened in smaller degree in some
oil our own New England States, where
the disproportion has been caused by i'm
migration westward. In population of
32,OO0,OOO, the women outnumber the
men by $4,000. The English Registrar
! General takes comfort in the thought that
the sexes at adult are are equal in num-
/ Der, and that the excess of men can be
/ found somewhere else. He finds them in
! the United States. How this helps the
case we do not exactly see, unless the
! Registrars General, especially the Irish
! Registrar, shall contrive in some manner
| to send over the 925, 600 or a certain pro-
! portion OF them, to our shores, each bent
upon reducing the disproportion. In
various parts of our country the number
of women exceeds the number of men
in the nafive-born population; Ameri-
cans, as a rule, marry Americans; and
there must, therefore, be doubt that
the 925, 900 husbands can be found for
the extra female population of the United
Kingdom, as the number stands in no
| immediate danger of reduction by Ameri-
can intermarriage. A brighter outlook.
| it seems to us, is found for the army of
/ spinsters in the fact that emigration is
decreasing. In the ten years ending in
| 1861, oyer two millions of persons came
! to this country, while during the past ten
1 years the number only amounts to 1874,
504 or nearly $4,000 fewer.
! The results of the census in Ireland are
unusually interesting. The population
/ is still diminishing In 1871 twas 5000
| 600; in 1851 it fell to $500, 900, and now,
/ in 1871, it is only 5,402, 759, diminution
of 1896, 20S in ten years. The diminution
| is chiefly in the rural districts. Galway
shows the largest per cent. of decrease,
the population having sunk more than %
per cent in tep years. There are only
five places which mark an increase and
three of these are in Ulster The suburbs
of Dublin show an increase OF 4 ,459, but
| this is more than Offset by decrease of
| 9,0S6 in the population of the city. Bel
! fast, the center of Irish manufacture, has
! increased more than 43 per cent in ten
years, and Londonderry has increased its
population by 4,3G7. The diminution in
the religious memberships is very uneven.
! There are but 25S Jews in Ireland, de
! crease of 30 per cent since 1861. The
members of the disestablished church
/ have decreased IA per cent; the Presby-
! terians, Methodists, Baptists and indie
pendents, per cent; while the Roman
! Catholics decrease is more than s per
cent
The population of Scotland, on the
! other hand, is increasing. Its popula-
| ton is !, 35S, 613, an increase of 1896 3l9 in
ten years The principal towns have in
creased 81 per cent. the large towns % per
cent; and the smaller ~ per cent The
population of the principal cities is as
/ follows: Glasgow, All, IA an increase
of over $4,000 since 1861 Edinburgh,
1876, 500; Dundee, 1884 Aberdeen,
80, 1875 and Greenock, 57,138-these five
cities being the only ones in Scotland
whose population exceeds 10000.
In summing up the results of the cen
sus, the London Duty Ne,cs, to which we
are indebted for the facts enumerated
above, says:
| On the whole, the survey of these re-
turns is full of encouragement. During
the past ten years the country has gone
through series Of commercial disasters,
and has come out again into the sunlight
of prosperity Ireland has probably
touched the lowest point, for the rate of
emigration and of decrease is senslbly
diminishing The increase in the other
parts of the United Kingdom is the
healthy growth of great trading commu-
mites, and is more likely to go on at &C
celebrating pace than to relax or stop
| Chacogo Tribune.