VI.-ANALYSIS OF OCCUPATIONS IN GREAT BRITAIN.

The four preceding tables, with some alterations of arrangement, have been derived from Mr. Marshall's Statistics of the British Empire.

The most extraordinary fact disclosed by these tables, and which has been before alluded to (p. 258), is the prodigious increase of the manufacturing population of England; having, since 1700, increased 295 per cent., and in the decennary period, from 1821 to 1831, 224 per cent. The increase of population in the agricultural counties, has been chiefly in the towns, the number of people in the rural districts not having increased in an equal ratio. The same observation applies to Scotland. But surely Mr. Marshall must be in error (part ii. p. 132) in intimating," that the rural population of England, as in the agricultural counties of Scotland, appears, not materially, if at all, to have increased since 1700." This is irreconcilable with his Analysis of Occupations, inserted above, whence it appears that the number of families of agricultural labourers, had increased from 728,956, in 1821, to 800,000, in 1831.

X.-POPULATION OF IRELAND.

At the end of Elizabeth's reign the population of Ireland was estimated at not more than 700,000, and before the rebellion in 1641, at 1,466,000.* In at 1,320,008 | 1767 2,169,048 1777

1702

1718

at 2,544,276

2,690,565

2,845,932

4,008,226

These returns were all vague, some being founded on the data of private individuals, others on the hearth-money collectors' returns. In 1805, Newenham estimated the population at 5,395,456, and an incomplete census of 1812 gives it at 5,937,356. The most correct censuses of the Irish population and houses are as follows:

.1,757,492 278,398 1,961,109 296,369 203,617 17,971
1,935,612 306,995 2,163,694 341,438 228,082 34,443
Ulster. . 1,998,484 359,801 2,353,928 412,023 355,434 52,222
Connaught 1,110,229 197,408 1,360,783 237,919 250,554 40,511
Leinster
Munster

Totals.

.6,801,827 1,142,602 7,839,514 1,287,749 1,037,687 145,147

Mr. Slaney, who is an attentive observer of these matters,
affirms (House of Commons, May 7, 1833) that the population
of Ireland is on the decline: the apparent increase is ascribed
to several places being enumerated in the returns of 1831
which were omitted in the census of 1821.

Martin's Ireland as it Was, Is, and Ought to Be, p. 39.

XI.-BAPTISMS, BURIALS, AND MARRIAGES.

Table of the Annual Proportion of Baptisms, Burials, and Marriages, to the Population of England, calculated upon an average of the totals of such Baptisms, Burials, and Marriages, in the Five Years preceding the several Enumerations of 1801, 1811, 1821, 1831.