The Progress of the Nation, in its various social and economical Relations from the beginning of the 19th century

acres adopted advantage agricultural amount annual annum appears average price Bank of England Belgium branches Britain British bushels capital census cent circumstances classes coal colonies commercial Commissioners Committee considerable consumption cotton cotton manufacture counties of England cultivation degree districts earnings effect employment Engines and Wheels England and Wales English equal estimate expenditure expense exported extent factories families Females Flax following table foreign France given Government greater horses House of Commons imported improvement increase industry inhabitants Ireland July labour Lancashire land Males means Mills and Power nearly number of persons operation parish paupers period persons employed population ports pounds power-looms present century produce progress proportion proprietors Prussia quantity quarters relief repeal result returns revenue Scotland ships silk spinning Staffordshire statement tion Tons total number towns trade United Kingdom various wages weavers wheat whole wool woollen Wurtemburg yarn