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I. DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTRY.


England is divided into 40, Wales into 12 counties; and these counties have from early historical times been subdivided again into hundreds, tythings, townships, parishes, and other subordinate territorial units. This has not been done on any settled uniform plan. The English county boundary even now divides many parishes, each divided parish being, therefore, in two counties; and detached parts of parishes are dispersed in the midst of other parishes. The recent great division of the country into unions was made again with no regard to the hundred, and little regard to the county boundaries; the borough boundaries were also set at nought; convenience, in fact, in administering the new Poor Law was alone considered by the Commissioners. The Districts under the Registration Act are generally coterminous with the Poor Law Unions; the clerk to the Board of Guardians being usually the Superintendent Registrar; and the Registrars are appointed by the Boards of Guardians. It was by means of these officers that the Census was taken; and consequently the numbers in this first publication, derived from their summaries, are necessarily given in the same districts and sub-districts as the births, deaths, and marriages are registered.

At the same time, the necessary details have been obtained to show the populations not only of the counties, but of the several boroughs, municipal and parliamentary. The population, subject to future revision, is also given of the Parliamentary Divisions, under their respective counties, alphabetically arranged.

II. THE ELEVEN REGISTRATION DIVISIONS.


For the convenient exposition of the facts relating to population, and the determination of the relation of these facts to others in equally large masses, England was divided at the Census of 1851 into Ten great Divisions; Wales constituting one Division by itself. Those Divisions, maintained in 1861 and found for many statistical and some physical purposes convenient, are maintained now: they are constituted by groups of districts, wholly or chiefly, but not entirely, in the counties under which they are subordinately arranged. If the counties consisted of entire districts, the divisions would consist of entire counties, but that, as has been already observed, is not the case; so the population of the divisions will not be obtained by casting up the population of the under-mentioned counties.

In noticing the distribution of the population over each of the eleven divisions, a few of the leading facts on which its character, existence, and development depends will be briefly described.

The subjoined Tables show the increase and the density of the population in the Eleven Divisions:—

Population and Increase in Eleven Registration Divisions, 1861-1871.

Area
in
Acres.
Enumerated
Population
April 8,
1861.
Enumerated
Population
April 3,
1871.
Increase
1861-71.
Decennial
Increase
per cent
1861-71.
Annual
Increase
per cent
1861-71.
ENGLAND AND WALES 37,324,883 20,066,224 22,704,108 2,637,884 13.15 1.24
             
Division I. London 77,997 2,803,989 3,251,804 447,815 15.97 1.49
Division II. South-Eastern 4,065,315 1,847,512 2,166,217 318,705 17.25 0.60
Division III. South Midland 3,201,290 1,295,515 1,442,567 147,052 11.35 1.08
Division IV. Eastern 3,214,099 1,142,562 1,218,257 75,695 6.63 0.64
Division V. South-Western 4,994,280 1,835,863 1,879,898 44,035 2.40 0.24
             
Division VI. West Midland 3,942,161 2,448,046 2,720,003 271,957 11.11 1.06
Division VII. North Midland 3,543,397 1,289,380 1,406,823 117,443 9.11 0.88
Division VIII. North-Western 2,000,227 2,935,540 3,382,590 447,050 15.23 1.43
Division IX. York 3,654,636 2,015,541 2,395,299 379,758 18.84 1.74
Division X. Northern 3,492,322 1,151,372 1,414,066 262,694 22.82 2.08
             
Division XI. Welsh 5,139,159 1,300,904 1,426,584 125,680 9.66 0.93

The increase is assumed to be in geometrical progression.



DENSITY OF POPULATION, 1871

Acres
to a
Person.
Persons
to an
Acre.
Persons
to a
Square Mile.
Persons
to a
square
Kilometre.
Hectares
to a
Person.
ENGLAND AND WALES 1.64 0.61 389 150 0.67
           
Division I. London 0.02 41.69 26682 10303 0.01
Division II. South-Eastern 1.88 0.53 341 132 0.76
Division III. South Midland 2.22 0.45 288 111 0.90
Division IV. Eastern 2.64 0.38 243 94 1.07
Division V. South-Western 2.66 0.38 241 93 1.08
           
Division VI. West Midland 1.45 0.69 442 171 0.59
Division VIL. North Midland 2.52 0.40 254 98 1.02
Division VIII. North Western 0.59 1.69 1082 418 0.24
Division IX. York 1.53 0.66 419 162 0.62
Division X. Northern 2.47 0.40 259 100 1.00
           
Division XI. Welsh 3.60 0.28 178 69 1.46

An English Division contains on an average 2,148,769 inhabitants, living in 351,343 houses, on 3,259,040 acres of land. It contains about 300,000 men of the ages 20-40, one tenth of whom would form a corps of 30,000 effective men. The area is 5,092 square miles, equal to a square of 71 miles to the side. It is of rather less size than Yorkshire, and somewhat less populous. Besides size and population in forming the Divisions out of districts or counties, contiguity and industrial connexion were considered. The North- Western Division contains the greatest number (3,382,590), the Eastern Division the least number (1,218,257) of people; thus no division contains less than a million, nor more than four millions of people; not more therefore than double nor less than half the population of the average division. The numerical ratios deduced from these large numbers are not liable to the extreme fluctuations deranging accidentally the results where small numbers are used. The largest, South-Western Division, has an area of 7,804 square miles; the North-Western, the most populous, is the smallest, except London, and has an area of 3,125 square miles. The area is less, but the population of these divisions is on a par with the population of such states as Denmark and the Netherlands; of Saxony and Wurtemburg in Germany; Piedmont and Tuscany in Italy. The eleven provinces of Prussia have the same average population, but they are more than twice as extensive as the English divisions, which correspond in size with the average area of the ancient provinces of France at the Revolution, cut up into 83 departments by the Constituent Assembly.1 In England the Kingdoms of the Heptarchy had given place to counties corresponding to the French Departments long before the Conquest, and are not recognised in the Doomsday survey, but the idea of territorial units greater than counties existed. The Roman provinces of Great Britain were larger than the kingdoms of the Heptarchy.

Ireland is now conveniently divided into four provinces, which, with ten divisions of England, one Welsh, and two for Scotland, will constitute seventeen divisions of corresponding magnitude. The English divisions may, at some future time, receive, like those of Ireland, simpler and shorter names than we have ventured to employ.

1. LONDON.

London deserves the first place, as it is the living centre of the Empire, where all its forces converge. It grows as the power of England grows; it is the emporium of capital; and its people are in communication by birth and blood, by trade and intelligence, with all the affiliated cities in these Islands. The railways have not only put the population of the kingdom in free communication with the Metropolis, but have enabled large numbers of men of all ranks to settle around its borders. The central parts are Converted into markets, exchanges, warehouses, stations, offices which are thronged during the day, but are deserted during the night by their occupants. A double force of displacement is at work; men are driven from Westminster and London by the high rents of the central houses, and are attracted outside by the charms of the surrounding country, with which the railways put them in easy communication.

Thus it comes that the ancient venerable city of London, under the sceptre of the Lord Mayor, associated with the liberties,, the rights, the history, and the power of England, had "within and without the walls" on the Census night only 74,732 people; down to which number it had dwindled since 1861, when the numbers enumerated were 112,063. The decrease in ten years is 37,331, or nearly one out of three of the original number. Its streets empty and almost silent during the night, present a very different aspect during the day, and the Corporation of the city deemed it right in order to determine the numbers, to take a Day-Census in 1866, with the following results: they found that, in addition to the ordinary sleeping population., the mercantile men engaged in the city daily amounted to 170,133. The numbers have probably increased since that date, for the city was never before so full as it is now in the daytime.

A similar movement occurs in Westminster and in some of the other central quarters of London.

The boundaries of a city are easily fixed when the population is stationary; if it is a fortress, they are defined by the walls. But the cities of "England bound in with the triumphant sea" on which her invincible navy rides, have for centuries been without walls, and have freely extended along the roads and over the fields; London is their head and type. In the early ages the City covered rather more than a square mile of ground: and there it stood still in the middle ages, enthroned on its chartered privileges, jealously refusing to admit aliens to the privileges of its citizens; but the people of England, though spurned by the city, settled round their capital, which, unlike Rome, was ever viewed almost with indifference alike by senate and sovereign; who paid, indeed, no further regard to its sanitary deficiencies than to take warning when to fly away, from its weekly Bills of Mortality, which in 1604 were extended to St. Giles in the Fields, Clerkenwell, Shoreditch, Whitechapel, the great St. Martin in the Fields, (from which neither St. James Westminster, nor St. George's Hanover Square, had then been divided,) and to Bermondsey: St. Margaret Westminster, was included in 1626; so in 1636 were Hackney, Islington, Stepney, Lambeth, Newington (St. Mary), Rotherhithe: the Bills after this were not extended, but still London grew; and Mr. Rickman when he compiled the Census of 1801 included Chelsea, Kensington, Marylebone, Paddington, Pancras, within its limits. The new Tables of Mortality, first published in 1840, took in Fulham, Hammersmith, westward; Stoke Newington, Bow, and Bromley (Middlesex), eastward; Camberwell in the south, and Greenwich district, stretching down the river to Deptford and Woolwich; Clapham, Battersea (exclusive of the detached Penge Hamlet), Wandsworth, Putney, Tooting, and Streatham were added in 1844; Hampstead fell in with the Lewisham District in 1846. Such is the London to which the Weekly Tables of Mortality relate. Its population on the same area was 958,863 in the year 1801, when the first English Census was taken; and 2,803,989 in the year 1861.

The enumerated population of London on the night of April 2nd 1871 was 3,251,804. But this is now only a part of London; its population in intimate fusion and close relation, has overflowed these bounds, and within the radial lines of the Metropolitan Police District, drawn from 12 to 15 miles around Charing Cross, the population is 3,883,092. This embraces, indeed, several towns, and covers 687 square miles, equivalent to a square of territory of 26¼ miles to the side. Beyond these limits men reside who visit London daily; and this will partly account for the rapid increase of Tunbridge,. Hastings, Brighton, and other outlying places.

The police circle round Charing Cross, however, contains all that can be reckoned as properly within the limits of London; and is indeed too extensive for a natural boundary. For many of the parishes within the police district are entirely rural, and are quite sequestered from the great city. To the eye, from Holwood in the south, near the source of the Ravensbourne, and by the ruins of an old Roman city, the dome of Saint Paul's and a thin cloud of smoke are almost the sole signs of the millions living along the valley of the Thames. The larks and the nightingales sing in the surrounding glades; while around all the railway stations houses are springing up; and at several points are large towns, of which Croydon is an example, chiefly bound to London by the daily intercourse of their populations.

English institutions are flexible, but it is with difficulty they keep pace with and meet all the exigencies of the increasing population; this great fact has not hitherto been sufficiently taken into account in legislation; so boundaries are not adjusted, streets are not widened always to meet changes in the conditions of a city. London is perhaps an extreme, but it is at the same time a typical instance. Municipal organization, with its historical associations, and working on the whole so well all over the kingdom, is, as h is been seen, withheld from, three millions of the inhabitants of London. It is however replaced to some extent by the Metropolitan Board of Works. On the Census night the population within the municipal limits was 74,732; within the Tables of Mortality 3,251,804; within the parliamentary boundaries 3,008,101; within the limits of the Metropolis Local Management Act 3,264,530; within the London School Board District 3,265,005; within the Police circle 3,883,092.

The population within the City has decreased; the population within the Tables of Mortality has gone on increasing, at a decreasing rate, because the building area is limited; but the actual population within the 12 to 15 miles radius has increased rapidly and steadily, or rather at a slightly increasing rate. The increase is now going on within that wider area at the accelerated rate of 1.88 per cent, per annum, and shows no sign of abatement. This is seen in the annexed Table.

POPULATION of LONDON, 1851-61-71.

YEAR. Metropolitan
and City Police
Division.
Registration
Division.
Outer ring
not included in
Registration
Division.
1851 2,680,735 2,362,236 318,499
1861 3,222,720 2,803,989 418,731
1871 3,883,092 3,251,804 631,288

ANNUAL RATE OF INCREASE per Cent. Of POPULATION, 1851-61-71
YEAR. Metropolitan
and City Police
Division.
Registration
Division.
Outer ring
not included in
Registration
Division.
1851-61 1.86 1.73 2.77
1861-71 1.88 1.49 4.19

The population of the ring round the district of the Metropolitan Board of works has increased 4.19 per cent. per annum, or more than 50 per cent. in ten years, and there being no adequate provision for the sanitary purification of this area, which is shut out from the system of sewers lately created, it is in imminent danger.

Looked at in any light, the magnitude and growth of London are marvellous; and the causes invite the careful scrutiny for which the subsequent analysis of the facts collected at the Census will serve as material. It had endured many struggles since its first obscure origin; it was not accepted without trial as the capital of the kingdom; at every increase it had to encounter some fierce epidemic; pestilences of various kinds invested it; the black death did not spare it, nor the sweating sickness; great plagues pursued it through the seventeenth century; great fires burnt down its combustible dwellings; Queen Elizabeth endeavoured to. stop its growth, so did the first Stuarts; it was long left imperfectly supplied with water, light, police, government; its air was soiled with smoke; its sewers at first were badly made and then cesspools were discharged into the river from which its waters were drawn, and thousands died of the last Asiatic plague; called it one of the graves of mankind and the state showed it no favour; yet here, unsurpassed by. any city in health, full of riches, and rich above all things in men, in the year 1871 she stands by her river, her railways, her public edifices, her grand embankment, her magnificent bridges the Queen City of the World.

The natural place for the capital of a kingdom isolated is in its centre, as is seen in Madrid in Spain; but in a system of States such as exist in Europe and America, the capitals are drawn towards each other from the centres of their country towards a common centre. Thus the capital of England is naturally found near its south-eastern angle, over against the capital of France; where it enjoys such advantages as Camillus claimed for Rome, but in a higher degree: Non sine causa Dii hominesque hunc urbi condendoe locum elegerunt, saluberrimos colles, flumen opportunum quo et mediterraneis locis fruges devehantur, quo maritimi commeatus accipiantur: mare vicinum ad commoditates, nec expositum nimia propinquitate ad pericula classium externarum: regionum Italia medium, ad incrementum urbis natum unice locum. 2

On a tidal river, and not many leagues, from the sea, England has placed her capital, in convenient proximity to other countries, open for all commerce and friendly intercourse, and well forward in front of the great mass of her forces, as if she knew no fear. And, indeed, among all the calamities that have befallen London, it has never since the Norman Conquest been for an hour in the possession of a foreign foe: her first line of defence lying in the south-eastern counties, to which we now pass, and in the sea itself, covered for centuries by their maritime population.

The Registration Division of London is made up of parts of the under-mentioned three counties, the area and population of each part within the Metropolitan limits being as follows:—

COUNTIES. Area
in Acres.
Population enumerated.
1861. 1871.
Persons. Males. Females. Persons. Males. Females.
Middlesex, part of 32,455 2,030,814 939,091 1,091,723 2,285,672 1,061,162 1,224,510
Surrey, part of 22,951 579,748 271,848 307,900 740,680 350,843 389,837
Kent, part of 22,591 193,427 96,842 96,585 225,452 107,259 118,193

The natural increase of the population, represented by the excess of registered births over deaths, during the ten years 1861-70 was 331,599 in this division.

The remaining parts of these three counties are included in the Second and Third Registration Divisions.

2. SOUTH-EASTERN DIVISION.

Counties of Kent and Surrey (except parts in London], Sussex, Southampton, and Berks.

This great division lies south of London, between the Thames and the sea; and from Thanet extends westward beyond the Southampton Waters, and Winchester, the ancient capital of Wessex. It contains men of Kent, Kentishmen, South Saxons, and West Saxons: it touches the Metropolis, with which it is closely associated by contiguity, and by its watering-places extending along the coast from Worthing, Brighton, and Hastings, to Margate and Ramsgate; but besides these towns it has ancient central cities extending from Canterbury to Maidstone, Tunbridge, Reigate, Dorking, Guildford, and Basingstoke; and the many towns along the south bank of the Thames, Richmond, Kingston, Windsor, Maidenhead, Reading, and Abingdon. Over the South Downs, the North Downs, and the Weald of Kent, over the region of the great forest Anderida, so named, according to some authorities, because it was uninhabitable, two millions of people subsist, with cattle, sheep, horses, on a soil rich in fruits, grain, hops, pasture, and still to some extent with timber. The Medway is the main river; and there are, besides the tributaries of the Thames, the Stour, the Ouse, the Rother, the Itching, and at the extreme west the southern Avon.

On the Medway, in Strood, Rochester, Chatham, and Gillingham, around a great naval arsenal, is a numerous population lying near the mouth of the Thames, and connected by Sheerness and the people of the Cinque Ports, where the Lord Warden holds his court— by Sandwich, Deal, Dover, Folkestone, and Hastings—with the great naval fortress of Portsmouth. The whole of this coast swarms with a seafaring population, which has ever been the first line of defence, and the sure arm of the great naval operations. The ground is important. Here Caesar disembarked, the Saxons landed, and William the Conqueror fought the decisive battle which gave him ultimately the possession of the capital, and the kingdom of which this province is now the shield.

Iron was formerly manufactured in the forests, where wood and ore abounded; guns were made; ships were built; and the Flemings introduced their broad-cloth manufacture; so that here were the manufacturing districts of those ages; the "Grey-coats of Kent" were active in county politics, and the population, headed by such spirits as Wat Tyler and Jack Cade, attacked the Government in London. Later disaffection only survived in the smuggler. The counties are now essentially agricultural; but there are extensive manufactures of paper, powder-mills, the great dockyards of Chatham and Portsmouth where thousands of men are employed, and the camps of Shorncliffe and Aldershott; besides the ornamental population of the charming watering-places on the coast.

The population of the counties at the two last censuses is given below, part of Surrey and Kent being, as it will be borne in mind, included in the Metropolis.

COUNTIES. Area
in acres.
Population enumerated.
1861. 1871.
Persons. Males. Females. Persons. Males. Females.
Surrey 478,792 831,093 393,647 487,446 1,090,270 515,326 574,944
Kent 1,039,419 733,887 369,129 364,738 847,507 416,400 401,107
Sussex 936,911 363,735 174,982 188,753 417,407 199,877 218,080
Southhampton 1,070,216 481,815 246,585 235,230 548,887 274,407 269,480
Berkshire 451,210 176,256 86,875 89,381 196,445 97,007 99,488

The following cities and Boroughs are included in the counties:—

    Pop. 1861. Pop. 1871.
SURREY Kingston-on-Thames 9,790 15,257
  Reigate 9,975 15,916
KENT Chatham (Parly ) 36,177 44,135
  Maidstone 23,016 26,198
  Canterbury 21,324 20,961
  Dover 25,325 28,270
  Margate 8,874 12,054
SUSSEX Hastings 22,837 29,289
  Lewes (P.) 9,716 10,753
  Brighton 77,693 90,013
  Chichester 8,059 7,850
SOUTHAMPTON Portsmouth 94,799 112,954
  Southampton 46,960 54,057
  Winchester 14,776 14,705
BERKSHIRE Reading 25,045 32,313
  Windsor 9,520 11,769

The increase of Population in the division, exclusive of the parts of the counties in London, is 318,705. There are 341 persons to a square mile. The annual rate of increase in the 10 years 1861-1871 was 1.60 per cent. The registered births exceeded the deaths during the 10 years 1861-70 by 260,625.

3. SOUTH MIDLAND DIVISION.

Counties of Middlesex (except part in London), Hertford, Buckingham, Oxford, Northampton, Huntingdon, Bedford, and Cambridge.

This region, north of London on the watershed of the Thames facing the south, stretches over the Cam to Nene, and from the river Lea to the western extremities if Oxfordshire. It was held by the Mid-Saxons and South Anglians. It consists now of eight fine agricultural and pastoral counties, with many parks, hills, valleys to the west and marsh land to the north-east. The population, after deducting the part of Middlesex in London, is 1,442,567, occupied chiefly in agriculture, but also largely in the manufacture at home of lace, strawplait, shoes, without the use of steam-power. Silk is also manufactured to some extent. It is the seat of the great national Universities on the Isis and the Cam. The density is 288 persons to a square mile. The population has increased by 147,052, or by 1.08 per cent annum. The increase is to a considerable extent due to the overflow of London in Middlesex and Hertfordshire. But there is an increase in all the counties except Huntingdon, and notably in the districts of Wycombe, Northampton, Wellingborough, Peterborough Oxford, Cambridge, Bedford Luton and Chesterton. The registered births in the division exceeded the deaths during the 10 years 1861-70 by 179,679.

The following are the populations of the counties:—

COUNTIES. Area
in acres.
Population enumerated.
1861. 1871.
Persons. Males. Females. Persons. Males. Females.
Middlesex 180,136 2,206,485 1,022,800 1,183,685 2,538,882 1,181,269 1,357,613
Herfordshire 391,141 173,280 84,352 88,928 192,725 93,369 99,356
Buckinghamshire 466,932 167,993 83,023 84,970 175,870 85,925 89,945
Oxfordshire 472,717 170,944 84,806 86,138 177,956 87,397 90,559
Northamptonshire 630,358 227,704 113,078 114,626 243,896 120,719 123,177
Huntingdonshire 229,544 64,250 31,740 32,510 63,672 31,317 32,355
Bedfordshire 295,582 135,287 63,940 71,347 146,256 69,013 77,243
Cambridgeshire 525,182 176,033 86,574 89,459 186,363 91,766 94,597

The following cities and boroughs are included in the counties:—

    Pop. 1861. Pop. 1871.
HERTFORDSHIRE Hertford 6,769 7,164
  St Albans 7,675 8,303
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE Aylesbury (P.) 27,090 28,760
  Buckingham 3,849 3,703
OXFORDSHIRE Oxford 27,560 31,5543
  Banbury 4,059 4,106
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE Northampton 32,813 41,040
  Peterborough (P.) 11,735 17,429
HUNTINGDONSHIRE Huntingdon 3,816 4,242
  Godmanchester 2,438 2,363
BEDFORDSHIRE Bedford 13,413 16,849
CAMBRIDGESHIRE Cambridge 26,361 30,0743

4. EASTERN DIVISION.

Counties of Essex, Suffolk., and Norfolk.

This division extends from the east of London to the German Sea and the Wash, over three large counties, peopled of old by East Saxons, East Angles, and tribes of seafaring Northfolk. The Flemings brought their manufactures to Norfolk. Silk, paper, and some other manufactures are carried on, hut inland the division is essentially agricultural, and on the coast maritime; there is a hale fishing and maritime population round the shores, of which Ipswich and Yarmouth are the centres. The population of the fishing towns is more correctly given now than it was in 1861, when the fishermen and seamen out at sea on the Census night were classed with seamen and others in the home trade, whereas they have now been referred to the towns to which the boat or ship belongs.

The population of the division is 1,218,257, and the increase in the 10 years is only 75,695, which is chiefly due to the overflow of London into Essex, and to the increase of population on the north side of the Thames. Ipswich, Mutford including Lowestoft, Yarmouth, and Norwich also increased. The increase of population was at the rate of 0.64 per cent, per annum. The mean density is 243 people to a square mile. The registered births exceeded the deaths during the 10 years 1861-70 by 145,061.

COUNTIES. Area
in acres.
Population enumerated.
1861. 1871.
Persons. Males. Females. Persons. Males. Females.
Essex 1,060,549 404,834 203,137 201,697 466,427 233,657 232,770
Suffolk 947,681 337,070 164,904 172,166 348,479 170,564 177,915
Norfolk 1,354,301 434,798 209,005 225,793 438,511 210,612 227,899

The following cities and boroughs are included in the counties:—

    Pop. 1861. Pop. 1871.
ESSEX Colchester 23,809 26,361
  Harwich 5,070 6,107
SUFFOLK Bury St. Edmunds 13,318 14,928
  Ipswich 37,950 43,136
  Sudbury 6,879 6,908
NORFOLK Yarmouth 34,810 41,792
  Norwich 74,891 80,390
  Kings Lynn 16,170 16,459

Resuming: the second, third, and fourth divisions touch London by their borders, supply it with immigrants in great numbers, and are blended with it, so as to constitute one continuous population of 8,078,845, subsisting on 10,558,701 acres of fertile land and profitable water, which have for centuries yielded in grain, hops, fruit, vegetables, dairy produce, game, fish, sheep, cattle, nearly all the subsistence the inhabitants required. Its Southdown sheep, Sussex cattle, Suffolk horses, are of the finest breeds. It is on a chalk formation, with green sand, gravel, clay, alluvial deposits, and timber, supplying thus the materials for brick and dwellings; its waters are abundant, and though hard, remained, until recent years, unpolluted. The marshes along the Thames and on the margin of the sea, with imperfect sanitary arrangements in the towns, keep up too high the rate of mortality; still the registered births within the last ten years exceeded the deaths by 916,964, while, after the balance has been struck between emigration and immigration, an increase is left in the population of 989,267.

5. SOUTH-WESTERN DIVISION.

Counties of Wilts, Dorset, Devon, Cornwall, and Somerset.

This division lies far west of London, yet the maritime population forms a continuous line with that encompassing the other seaside divisions. The men of boats and ships may be traced from Kings Lynn, Yarmouth, Harwich, the Thames and Medway, from Sheppey, Thanet, Deal and Dover, Folkestone, Hastings, Beachy Head, through the Solent to Poole, Weymouth, Plymouth with Devonport, and Falmouth, and hence, turning round the Scilly Isles, they follow the coast by the Bristol Channel to the Avon. On the plains of Wilts to the north and in Dorset is the chalk, and to the south the clay formation; then the oolitic and lias formations are crossed and you enter the fine country on the new red sandstone formation leading down to Exeter,—the capital of this south-west province; finally the old red sandstone,—named from Devon, Devonian,—and Exmoor and Dartmoor, and granite rocks with interfiltrated veins of tin and copper ores terminate at Land's End in the face of the Atlantic Ocean. With her marshes and many intermingled formations, Somerset over the Mendip hills approaches Bristol on coal fields, connecting its population with Wales and the next division.

The Exe and the Tamar are the principal rivers, and their streams descend from the northern ridge of the high moors of this richly watered Division. The many inlets around the coast afford harbourage to fishing boats and ships, so that the counties preserve the maritime character they held when Drake met the Armada, while they also abound richly in agricultural products. But copper and tin mining have been the special pursuits of many districts of Devon and Cornwall. The population is well-marked, and is found to differ, as the West Saxons are left through the regions which the tribes of Wilsetan, Sumersetan, Defenesetan occupied round Stonehenge and Glastonbury, until the Cornish men recall their connexion with Wales, from which they are only separated by a channel of the sea, and with some southern population which visited the Cassiterides from Spain, Asia, or Africa, through the Mediterranean. The beautiful Devon breed of cattle is well known, so are the sheep and the ponies; and there are other indications of variation in the influences which shape organic life. Besides the lace-making about Honiton, and the coal-mining element that crops up in the north, there is an important manufacturing region round Bradford in Wilts, where the famous West of England broad-cloth is still made.

Torquay on Torbay where William III. landed, Dawlish, Teignmouth, and other delightful spots on the south coast, are places of resort; so are Ilfracombe and other places of North Devon. The historic fame of Bath is still upheld by that elegant city and its waters.

This division is the most extensive of the ten, and its area is nearly five million acres (4,994,280). The five counties contained 1,879,898 people; so there is a slight increase of 44,035 since the Census of 1861. The other counties show some increase, but in Cornwall there is an absolute decrease of 7,292 inhabitants; this is due to the emigration of miners to other parts of England, or over the Atlantic to the copper mines abroad, where their services are well paid; while the increased production of that metal supplies abundant and cheaper materials to our manufacturers. There is consequently a great excess of females in both Cornwall and Devon, as compared with Dorset, where the population is more stationary.

The division is rather the least dense of the ten; but it is nearly the same in density as the Eastern. There are 241 persons to a square mile. The increase of population has been only at the annual rate of 0.24 per cent. The registered births during the ten years 1861-70 exceeded the deaths by 218,844.

COUNTIES. Area
in acres.
Population enumerated.
1861. 1871.
Persons. Males. Females. Persons. Males. Females.
Wiltshire 865,092 249,311 122,592 126,719 257,202 126,740 130,462
Dorsetshire 632,025 188,789 91,780 97,009 195,544 95,590 99,954
Devonshire 1,657,180 584,373 279,411 304,962 600,814 284,421 316,393
Cornwall 878,600 369,390 176,384 193,006 362,098 169,482 192,616
Somersetshire 1,047,220 444,873 209,680 235,193 463,412 218,026 245,386

The following cities and boroughs are included in the counties:—

    Pop. 1861. Pop. 1871.
WILTSHIRE Marlborough 3,684 3,660
  Devizes 6,638 6,840
  Salisbury 12,278 12,867
DORSETSHIRE Poole 9,759 10,129
  Weymouth 11,383 13,257
  Dorchester 6,823 6,915
DEVONSHIRE Exeter 33,738 34,646
  Plymouth 62,599 68,080
  Devonport 50,440 50,094
  Barnstaple 10,743 11,636
  Bideford 5,742 6,953
  Tiverton 10,447 10,025
CORNWALL Launceston 2,790 2,935
  Liskeard 4,689 4,700
  Bodmin 4,466 4,672
  Truro 11,337 10,999
  Falmouth 5,709 5,294
  Penzance 9,414 10,406
SOMERSETSHIRE Taunton (P.) 14,667 15,466
  Bridgewater 11,320 12,101
  Wells 4,648 4,517
  Bath 52,528 52,542
  Yeovil 7,957 8,476

6. WEST MIDLAND DIVISION.

Counties of Gloucester, Hereford, Salop, Stafford, Worcester, and Warwick.

Bristol, one of the great old commercial cities of England in this division, is on the north side of the Avon, emptying its water into the channel to which the city gives its name. And Staffordshire is round the head streams of the Trent; but five of the counties are the Valleys of the Wye and of the Severn descending from the mountains of Wales.

The division includes 3,942,161 acres of land, generally fertile and well watered; it can boast of two breeds of sheep—Cotswolds and Shropshire Downs; while in Hereford it can boast of its cattle. This division is distinguished from all those preceding it by its coal-fields iron-stone, and iron-works; and by the manufactures founded in the Potteries by the industry of the people and the genius of Wedgewood; and the still greater multifarious metal industry of Birmingham, the great central city of England, in the centre of other cities and agglomerated populations. Here Watt found scope, and in Bolton help, for the development of his great inventions. In the Black Country besides smoke and iron, every kind of useful tool is manufactured. Shrewsbury, Worcester and Gloucester are on the Severn, which divides their shires, evidently constituted after bridges had spanned that river. Clifton, Malvern, and Cheltenham are pleasant and popular sanitary resorts. The waters of the Severn and the Wye are softer than the waters of the Thames, as they descend from the mountains of Wales; and from the Longmynd, the Caradoc, and the hill fastnesses where Caractacus withstood to the last the Roman power. Here were the valiant Silures; and here is the centre of Sir Roderick Murchison's Silurian kingdom. The military spirit was kept up in Mercia of which this was a part, by warfare with the Welsh, and with the other Saxon kingdoms of the Heptarchy. Offa's dyke and the numerous castles mark the strife from which these midland people were not exempt by distance from the sea.

The population of this great division was 2,720,003, and its increase in the last ten years was 271,957. The annual increase was at the rate of r 06 per cent.; but the natural increase by excess of births over deaths, although the mortality was often high, was 369,676 in. this prolific race; so that besides providing arms for its own industry it sent out flights of emigrants.

The density of the population is 442 to a square mile.

Upon referring to the counties it will be seen that the increase is least in Hereford, greatest in Stafford. Of the cities and towns, Bristol has increased largely, and so have all the Pottery districts. To get the full increase of overflowing Birmingham, the two districts of Kings Norton and Aston must be taken into account; the population of the three districts amounts to 444,545.

COUNTIES. Area
in acres.
Population enumerated.
1861. 1871.
Persons. Males. Females. Persons. Males. Females.
Gloucestershire 805,102 485,770 229,009 256,761 534,320 251,943 282,377
Herefordshire 534,823 123,712 62,908 60,804 125,364 62,495 62,869
Shropshire 826,055 240,959 120,436 120,523 248,064 123,248 124,816
Staffordshire 728,468 746,943 377,363 369,580 857,333 430,896 426,437
Worcestershire 472,468 307,397 150,997 156,400 338,848 164,449 174,399
Warwickshire 563,946 561,855 273,038 288,817 633,902 307,217 326,685

The following cities and borough are included in the counties:—

    Pop. 1861. Pop. 1871.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE Bristol 154,093 182,524
  Gloucester 16,512 18,330
  Stroud (P.) 35,517 38,602
  Cheltenham (P.) 39,693 44,519
  Tewkesbury 5,876 5,409
HEREFORDSHIRE Hereford 15,585 18,355
  Leominster 5,658 5,865
SHROPSHIRE Ludlow 5,178 5,087
  Shrewsbury 22,163 23,300
  Oswestry 5,414 7,308
  Bridgnorth 6,240 5,871
STAFFORDSHIRE Stafford 12,532 14,437
  Stoke-upon-Trent (P.) 101,207 130,507
  Lichfield 6,893 7,380
  Wolverhampton 60,860 68,279
  Walsall 37,760 46,452
WORCESTERSHIRE Kidderminster 15,399 19,463
  Worcester 31,227 33,221
  Dudley 44,975 43,696
WARWICKSHIRE Birmingham 296,076 343,696
  Coventry 40,936 39,470
  Warwick 10,570 11,001

7. NORTH MIDLAND DIVISION.

Counties of Leicester, Rutland, Lincoln, Nottingham, and Derby.

This division is much less populous than the sixth; it covers 3,543,397 acres; and while Lincoln is the largest except York, Rutland is the least county in England. Its soil is generally fertile; but it varies infinitely, and so does the scenery, from the fens, moors, and wolds of Lincoln to the hunting fields of Melton Mowbray in Leicester and the High Peak of Derbyshire; from the aguish marsh-land to the delightful Matlock. The fair Trent winds its way through the whole region down to the Humber. The Leicester breeds of sheep and cattle are well characterized; and so are the heavy Lincoln horses. The population is largely impregnated with the blood of the Danes, who occupied the Five Towns and the coast line. The railroads have opened the coal-fields of these counties to the south; and they now compete with Newcastle in London. Great Grimsby, at the mouth of the Humber, has recently made enormous strides in population. Nottingham district and the surrounding districts have increased rapidly, and so have Derby and Chesterfield. Lincoln shows an increase; of Leicester the increase can scarcely be matched. The population of the seventh division is 1,406,823; the increase in ten years, 117,443. This is less than the natural registered increase of 183,034 births in excess of deaths. The density of population is low, it is expressed by 254 persons to a square mile. The annual rate of increase was 0.88 per cent.

COUNTIES. Area
in acres.
Population enumerated.
1861. 1871.
Persons. Males. Females. Persons. Males. Females.
Leicestershire 514,164 237,412 115,426 121,986 268,764 130,741 138,023
Rutlandshire 95,805 21,861 10,900 10,961 22,070 11,040 11,030
Lincolnshire 1,775,457 412,246 204,644 207,602 436,163 216,469 219,694
Nottinghamshire 526,076 293,867 141,237 152,630 319,956 154,277 165,679
Deryshire 658,803 339,327 170,486 168,841 380,538 191,078 189,460

The following cities and boroughs are included in the counties:—

    Pop. 1861. Pop. 1871.
LEICESTERSHIRE Leicester 68,056 95,084
LINCOLNSHIRE Boston 14,712 15,576
  Grantham 4,954 5,028
  Great Grimsby 11,067 20,238
  Lincoln 20,999 26,762
  Louth 10,560 10,500
  Stamford 8,047 7,846
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE Nottingham 74,693 86,608
  Newark 11,515 12,218
DERBYSHIRE Derby 43,091 49,493
  Chesterfield 9,836 11,426

8. NORTH-WESTERN DIVISION.

Counties of Chester and Lancaster.

This is the smallest of the divisions in extent and the most populous on 2,000,227 acres the Census Enumerators found 3,382,590 people. The increase of 447,050 in 10 years is almost exactly the same as the increase of London. And Manchester and Liverpool axe together indeed a Northern capital, not only in respect of their vast mercantile and manufacturing interests, but of their social, political, and scientific activity The two counties are separated by the Mersey, which through the Weaver collects the waters of Cheshire, although Chester lies on the Dee. Besides the flat plains, so favourable for the conveyance of goods by road, canal, and railway, Lancashire beyond Morecambe Bay ascends to the hills overhanging Windermere and to the Duddon Mouth. The Ulverston district, including Barrow, is the seat of mineral enterprise, where the population has increased in 10 years by 19,294. Lancashire is the seat of a great variety of works ; but the coal within easy access, the facilities of getting cotton by sea through Liverpool, and the wonderful enterprise of the people, constitute it the great seat of the cotton industry of the country. The tide of prosperity of this great division is now flowing again; but it was interrupted for a time during the ten years by the American War, otherwise the population would certainly have been greater than it is to-day. This is indicated by the fact that the usual reserved cotton imports of 1858-60 into the United Kingdom, amounting to 1,000 million pounds, fell to 309 and 428 million pounds in the two years 1862-3, but again rose in 1868-9-70 to nearly the old standard.4 The interval, not of pause, but of retarded progression, will be turned to good account if the dwellings are constructed on improvement plans, and the towns are rendered clean, sweet, and so healthy as to ensure the development of the Lancashire breed in physical and intellectual qualities as evident as the improvements in the products of their industry. The rainfall of these counties is large ; water abounds and the supply of Manchester is drawn from the hills. The rivers are polluted by the refuse of manufactures, and to some extent by sewage, although the impurities, as a general rule, are retained about the houses, and are not discharged into the sewers.

Cheshire is rich in salt and cheese, two of the primary necessaries of life; its salt mines were worked with unabated prosperity, but its dairies suffered as much from the cattle plague as the factories of Lancashire suffered from the cotton famine. The large towns show generally little growth, except Chester, which is increasing, and Birkenhead, which already contains 65,980, and is probably only awaiting the tunnel under the Mersey to grow still more rapidly. Crewe, Northwich, Runcorn, and Altrincham have increased rapidly. Manchester city contains 355,665 inhabitants; but Manchester and Salford are as much one city as London and Southwark; and parts of Chorlton belong to the same great community; so that a better conception of Manchester as it is generally understood will be obtained by putting these three districts together, which contain 592,164 people. So Liverpool has 493,346 inhabitants ; but adding together the population of the Liverpool district and its contiguous district West Derby, the aggregate population is 581,203, which becomes 660,510 by the annexation of Birkenhead. Nearly all the numerous Lancashire towns increased their numbers; only in Ashton-under-Lyne is there a falling off. The population of every sub-district of Liverpool district decreased, as great numbers were living in 186l in cellars and rooms utterly unfit for human habitation; so there have been clearings, and, as in London, the centre of the town has been to some extent deserted by the merchants, who have carried their household gods to the surrounding region. Thus, while the Liverpool district decreased by 31,389, the West Derby district increased by 117,005; the Liverpool people often live in districts at a considerable distance from the Exchange. The borough of Liverpool increased by 49,408; the borough of Manchester by 16,943. Each of four of the sub-districts of the Manchester district exhibits a considerable decrease of population. In all our large towns this transfer of people from the centre to the circumference is going on. The town of Barrow-in-Furness is a remarkable instance of rapid progress; in 1861 it formed part of the parish of Dalton-in-Furness, and had no separate mention in the Census Returns; it is now a municipal borough, and has a population of 17,992.

This eighth division is the densest of all the divisions except London; there are 1,082 persons to a square mile. It increased at the annual rate of 1.43 per cent., and its registered births during the 10 years 1861-70 exceeded the deaths by 353,014.

COUNTIES. Area
in acres.
Population enumerated.
1861. 1871.
Persons. Males. Females. Persons. Males. Females.
Cheshire 707,078 505,428 244,314 261,114 561,131 270,703 290,428
Lancashire 1,219,221 2,429,440 1,173,424 1,256,016 2,818,904 1,356,251 1,462,653

The following cities and boroughs are in the counties:—

    Pop. 1861. Pop. 1871.
CHESHIRE Stockport 54,681   53,001
  Macclesfield 36,101   35,451
  Congleton 12,344   11,344
  Chester 31,110   35,701
  Birkenhead (P.) 51,649   65,980
  Stalybridge 24,921   21,043
LANCASHIRE Liverpool 443,938   493,346
  Wigan 37,658   39,160
  Warrington 26,431   32,083
  Bolton 70,395   82,845
  Bury (P.) 37,563   41,517
  Salford 102,449   124,805
  Manchester 338,722   335,665
  Ashton under Lyne 34,886   32,030
  Oldham 72,333   82,619
  Rochdale 38,114   44,556
  Burnley 28,700   31,608
  Clitheroe 7,000   8,217
  Blackburn 63,126   76,337
  Preston 82,985   85,428
  Lancaster 14,487   17,248
  Barrow in Furness 3,000 (estimated) 17,992

9. YORKSHIRE.

This great county is a division in itself; its area is 3,654,636 acres, or 5,710 square miles; its shores run north-westwards from the Humber to the Tees; and its Ridings stretch nearly all across the country to the Irish Sea, from which it is divided by the English Pennine chain of mountains and by Lancashire. As Lancashire looks to the south-west towards the sun as he sets, Yorkshire slopes towards the south-east to receive his morning rays; Lancashire is bathed with the west winds and their copious rains, Yorkshire faces the east winds, and, except on its high moors, is satisfied with less copious showers; Lancashire has before it the Irish Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, Yorkshire the North Sea and the Baltic; Lancashire confronts the American Republic, Yorkshire the German Empire.

Yorkshire is in some respects a northern compendium of England. It has the marshes, the alluvial soil, and the chalk cliffs of the south; the oolitic formation of the midland counties; the new red sandstone formation, the limestone, and the rich coal measures; it has mountains, crags, moors, wolds, and fair vales adorned by many an abbey; there are Craven, Cleveland, Wharfedale, Wensleydale, and Tees dale; its waterfalls are among the finest known; the rivers, with the Ouse as their chief, fed by many sister streams, water the whole land, supply the canals, and are discharged into the estuary of the tidal Humber, on which Hull and Great Grimsby are harbours. Yorkshire occupies the whole basin of the Humber and of its affluent streams except the Trent. Railways connect all its great centres of population.

The country of the Brigantes was specially affected by the Romans; Agricola, it is said, founded York, which became the Altera Roma of his countrymen, which was famous once for its shipping and commerce, now descended to points nearer the coast it was the Deira—the Deerland—of the Saxons; here the northmen fought William I. and were conquered; the county was devastated, but soon recovered its station in English history. The Battle of the Standard, the battle where the Houses of York and Lancaster on a Palm Sunday fought out their great strife, and left on the fields of Towton thousands of slain—and Marston Moor in the last English civil war, finally attest the importance of this great battle-field of the kingdom; on the Derwent, too, before, Harold bad expended part of his forces in resisting the onslaught of the fleet of northmen on the east side of the kingdom, while the more formidable foe aimed on the south side the main blow at the heart of his dominions.

This county is now settled down in peaceful industry; its arable lands and rich pastures are turned to good account; its breeds of horses are famous, and are as well characterized as its strains of men drawn from northern sources. The great Yorkshire coalfield is vindicating its importance; the ironstone is smelted, and iron and steel of the best quality are wrought, through many processes, into tools, knives, and machines of every kind. The woollen, worsted, and linen manufactures have here nourished from, time immemorial; the Flemings, when they were persecuted, found a hospitable reception, and have left traces of their blood in Yorkshire.

COUNTIES. Area
in acres.
Population enumerated.
1861. 1871.
Persons. Males. Females. Persons. Males. Females.
West Riding 1,707,307 1,507,796 741,676 766,120 1,831,223 902,301 928,922
East Riding (with York) 771,139 280,660 137,864 142,796 313,301 154,987 158,314
North Riding 1,350,121 245,154 122,465 122,689 291,589 147,496 144,093

The following cities and boroughs are included in the county:—

    Pop. 1861. Pop. 1871.
WEST RIDING Ripon 6,172 6,805
  Knaresborough (P.) 5,402 5,205
  Huddersfield 34,877 70,253
  Halifax 37,014 65,124
  Bradford 106,218 145,827
  Leeds 207,165 259,201
  Dewsbury 18,148 24,773
  Wakefield 23,350 28,079
  Pontefract 5,346 5,372
  Sheffield 185,172 239,947
  Doncaster 16,406 18,758
EAST RIDING York 40,433 43,496
  Beverley 9,654 10,218
  Hull 97,661 121,598
NORTH RIDING Scarborough 18,377 24,244
  Malton (P.) 8,072 8,168
  Thirsk (P.) 5,350 5,735
  Whitby (P.) 12,051 13,082
  Northallerton (P.) 4,755 4,961
  Richmond 4,290 4,443
  Middlesborough (Parish) 19,416 39,434

The population of Middlesborough has increased with extraordinary rapidity, chiefly since 1851. The parish, including the township of Linthorpe, had a population of only 383 in 1831; its progress then became noticeable, and at the Census of 1841 it numbered 5,709 inhabitants; in 1851 there was a population of 7,893, which increased to 19,416 in 1861, and to 39,434 in 1871. It is now a Parliamentary as well as a Municipal Borough.

Relatively, the increase in Yorkshire is much greater than it was in the previous ten years 1851-61; and greater than the increase of Lancashire in the last ten years. The reason is easily explained; the American War, which was Lancashire's difficulty, was Yorkshire's opportunity, of which her sagacious heads not slowly availed themselves. The rise in the cost of cotton raised the demand for woollen stuffs, and wool was attracted in large quantities, as the Board of Trade returns show; independently of this circumstance, the supply and demand of wool, short and long, invaluable as the staple of clothing in these climates, and produced in immense quantities by our colonists, increased. The Board of Trade returns show that in the three years 1858-60, and the three years 1868-70, the average annual import of wool (sheep, lamb, and alpaca) rose from 136 million to 258 million pounds. Adding wool of home growth and deducting wool exported, no less than 288,512,000 lbs. were left, according to the estimate of Mr. A. Hamilton,5 for home consumption in 1869. The increase of production has been greater than the increase of workers, for the obvious reasons that coal power is so largely converted into work by the steam engine and improved machinery.

The excess of births over deaths in the districts of the division, which are not always coincident with the county boundaries, was 286,358, while the increase of enumerated population in the same districts was 379,758. The increase is at the rate of 1.74 per cent, annually; 18.84 per cent, in the ten years. The population is distributed very unequally; it is thin on the moors and wolds, dense on and near the coalfields. There are on an average 419 persons to a square mile; 1.53 acres to a person.

The increase of population is the greatest in the West Riding, least in the East Riding.

Since the last Census the population of Huddersfield has been doubled, of Halifax nearly doubled; Bradford has increased largely; Leeds, the centre of the principal manufactures, has also increased, but not so fast as the Dewsbury district. Sheffield, the great city of steel and cutlery, has an ample increase; so has Hull, the great eastern port. Scarborough, the delightful watering-place of the north, is increasing every year in attraction and population. Guisbrough district, in the North Riding, south of the Tees, is increasing rapidly in population; so also are parts of the Whitby and Pickering districts.

10. NORTHERN DIVISION.

Counties of Durham, Northumberland, Cumberland, and Westmorland.

This division extends from sea to sea, and commencing in the coalfields which have for centuries supplied English hearths with fire, is crowned by primitive mountains, pastures, and inland lakes of surpassing beauty; it is the border land on which the martial spirits of Scotland and England debated sword in hand, and fought out their feuds until the nations of one blood were united. Otterburn, Hmnbleton, Pepperdean, and Flodden, as well as the Roman Wall, remain as memorials of the strife of ages, between people now happily at one, but still separated conveniently for some administrative purposes, and among others for the Census, which is, north of the border, taken by Mr. Dundas the Registrar General of Scotland, and Dr. Stark.

This north country, far from the south, in the Northumbrian kingdom asserted its individuality, which is upheld now by the people in physical character, and in some respects in dialect. The gray coats may have gone, but lairds and statesmen remain. In education the division is in advance of all the rest. Cumberland has given birth to at least one great poet, and the lakes have attracted others. Keswick and Rydal are classic ground. Skiddaw, Helvellyn, Derwentwater, and Ullswater, all the fells, pikes, tarns, and streams around them down to Windennere, which Lancashire claims, attract thousands of travellers to their mild and changeful beauty, where sunshine and showers contend. Rain falls in such quantities that proposals have been made to carry this most precious fluid thence to the Metropolis. It is not on these regions that the increase of population depends, and still less on the moor-lands, or even on the advanced agriculture; nor so much on the Cumbrian plains, along the Eden, over the vale, on the red sandstone formation; nor on the pastures of the Tees, where the short-horn breed of cattle drew one of their first names from Durham; nor on the Cheviots, where the well-known breed of sheep abound; but on the great coalfields round Newcastle and Durham eastward, the smaller field round Whitehaven and Workington, westward, in conjunction with the iron smelting, the manufacture of machinery and of chemicals, the shipbuilding and the energy and genius of the men.

The area of the division is 3,492,322 acres; the population is 1,414,066; and through the interference of the extensive moors and mountains, the density of the population, assumed to be equally distributed over the whole face of the country, is expressed by only 259 persons to a square mile.

The increase of population in the ten years is 262,694. This increase, in proportion to the original population, exceeds the increase of Yorkshire, and therefore of all the eleven divisions; it is at the rate of 2 per cent, per annum; in the ten years, this population in the aggregate, increased 23 per cent. The registered births during the 10 years 1861-70 exceeded the deaths by 199,291.

The subjoined Table will show how the several counties increased. Some of the old towns show little increase; this is the case with Durham, Morpeth, Berwick, and Cockermouth; Whitehaven decreased in population. Fair Carlisle, famous in many ways, and not least for its early statistics, increased to some extent, and so did Kendal but of Stockton the population was doubled. The population of the towns of Sunderland South Shields, Gateshead, Newcastle, and Tynemouth increased largely; but the increase, not being confined to municipal limits, is best shown by referring to the districts: Thus in Durham the increase of the four districts of Darlington, Stockton, Hartlepool, and Auckland was 86,751; the population of the Durham district increased by 21,733, and its population grew to 92,007; the population of the five districts—of Sunderland on the Wear, of South Shields, Gateshead Newcastle, and Tynemouth on the Tyne—increased by 109,623, and amounted to nearly half a million. On no river, perhaps, in the world is industry evolving useful products at a more rapid and increasing rate.

COUNTIES. Area
in acres.
Population enumerated.
1861. 1871.
Persons. Males. Females. Persons. Males. Females.
Durham 622,476 508,666 258,297 250,369 685,045 352,987 332,058
Northumberland 1,246,299 343,025 170,665 172,360 386,959 192,801 194,158
Cumberland 1,001,273 205,276 100,333 104,943 220,245 109,022 111,223
Westmoreland 485,432 60,812 30,701 30,116 65,005 32,966 32,039

The following cities are included in the counties:—

    Pop. 1861. Pop. 1871.
DURHAM Stockton 13,357 27,598
  Darlington 27,730
  Hartlepool 12,245 13,164
  Durham 14,088 14,406
  Sunderland 78,221 98,335
  South Shields 35,239 44,722
  Gateshead 33,587 48,592
NORTHUMBERLAND Newcastle upon Tyne 109,108 128,160
  Tynemouth 34,021 38,960
  Morpeth 4,296 4,510
  Berwick 13,265 13,231
CUMBERLAND Carlisle 29,417 31,074
  Cockermouth (P.) 7,057 7,057
  Whiteheaven (P.) 18,842 18,446
WESTMORLAND Kendal 12,029 13,442

Now, having gone over the country rapidly, from London and the Scilly Isles to Berwick and the Solway, we may turn from the mountains of the north of England to the mountains of Wales, where similar geological conditions exist.

11. WELSH DIVISION.

Cambria has a nationality of its own as distinct as either Scotland or Ireland. It is a principality; and the fact deserves recognition in the Census. In this spirit the Welsh division has been formed. It takes in the whole country from Holyhead and Saint Davids to the Wye and the Dee; so it includes Monmouthshire, essentially Cambrian, which was detached from Wales by Henry VIII., when the Lords of the Marches were abolished, and the rest of Wales was divided into twelve counties, six in North Wales, and six in South Wales.

The territory is 5,139,159 acres, and it exceeds in area any English division. The population is 1,426,584; the increase in the last ten years has been 125,680. The natural increase, as shown by excess of births over deaths, is 177,632; so that the influx of immigrant workpeople into the mining districts does not equal the efflux of emigrant Cambrians. The increase of population in the 10 years is rather less than 10 per cent.; the annual rate of increase is 0.93 per cent. The bulk of the population is concentrated in a few counties,—Glamorgan, Carmarthen, Carnarvon, Pembroke, and Denbigh, besides Monmouth; in the other counties the population is scanty; so that the density of the Welsh division is only 178 persons to a square mile. There are 3.60 acres to a person.

The area of Wales, strictly within its borders, is 4,734,486; the population 1,216,420. The population of the Division depends much of course, on its pastoral and agricultural industry. Its goats and well-known ponies go for little; but its small black cattle are largely grown, and the wool of the sheep supplies materials for the excellent flannels of the country. Welsh mutton is a well-known product. The grain produce in Glamorganshire and some other counties rewards the diligence of the farmer; but the agriculture of the principality is not yet so conspicuous as it might be for excellence. The primitive mountains have at times yielded to adventurers treasures of lead and of some of the more precious metals. The slate quarries especially of Cardiganshire yielding a most useful product always employ many hands, which are not likely to decrease The copper smelting industry in which the Welsh excel has employed great numbers at Swansea but it is now exposed to keen competition. Tinned iron is an important product of Wales. Flint and Denbigh in the north are more populous than they were, and are apparently successful in the branches of industry they are cultivating. But the rich coalfields, yielding coal of various qualities suitable to many purposes, the juxtaposition of ironstone with coal, the iron works of Merthyr Tydfil with the convenient docks of Cardiff, have given a new phase to South Wales. The population of Glamorganshire in 1871 was 396,010; the increase in 10 years was 78,258. The districts of Cardiff, Pontvpridd, Merthyr Tydfil, and Swansea show the greatest increase. The population of the Merthyr district was 104,110; Llanelly in Carmarthenshire increased, and the district contains 34,738 people; its steam-coal, iron, docks, and railway offer great facilities to profitable enterprise. The Carmarthen sub-district is decreasing, so is Narberth; Pembrokeshire, with its fine harbour of Milford Haven, declined in population, so did Anglesey. Wrexham district increased, and has now a large population. The watering-places of Wales along the coast of Denbigh and Flint attract large numbers of people, so do Aberystwith and Tenby; Conway, Chepstow, and Tintern Abbey, and the valley of the Wye, Brecon, the waterfalls, the rivers, the mountain scenery crowned by Snowdon, all allure not only summer travellers but permanent inhabitants to this land, which 'is still redolent with beauty, and traditions of poetry, and music on the harp. In this day the land of Cadwallon, Howel, Llewellyn, and Taliessin has neither curses nor tears for England, and while she cherishes her ancient tongue will, it may be hoped, no longer forego the use of the first language of the civilized world.

At the next Census in 1881 it may not be necessary, as it was in 1871, to print Welsh schedules for the use of a certain number of the Welsh people.

COUNTIES. Area
in acres.
Population enumerated.
1861. 1871.
Persons. Males. Females. Persons. Males. Females.
Monmouthshire 368,399 174,633 89,637 84,996 195,391 101,302 9 4,089
South Wales 2,713,189 685,080 339,976 345,104 763,710 378,807 384,903
North Wales 2,003,297 426,700 212,039 214,661 452,710 224,543 228,167

The following cities and boroughs are included in the counties:—

    Pop. 1861. Pop. 1871.
MONMOUTHSHIRE Monmouth 5,783 5,874
  Newport 23,249 26,957
SOUTH WALES Cardiff 32,954 39,675
  Merthyr Tydfil (P.) 83,875 96,891
  Neath 6,810 9,134
  Swansea 41,606 51,720
  Llandovery 1,855 1,861
  Carmarthen 9,993 10,499
  Pembroke 15,071 13,741
  Haverfordwest 7,019 6,622
  Cardigan 3,543 3,535
  Aberystwith 5,641 6,898
  Brecknock 5,235 5,845
NORTH WALES Llanidloes 3,127 3,426
  Welshpool 7,304 7,178
  Flint 3,428 4,227
  Denbigh 5,946 6,322
  Carnarvon 8,512 9,370
  Beaumaris 2,558 2,234

1 On s'étonne de la facilité surprenante avec laquelle I'Assemblée a pu détruire d'un seul coup toutes les anciennes provinces de la France dont plusieurs étaient plus anciennes que la Monarchie et diviser méthodiguement le royaume en quatre-vingt-trois parties distinctes, comme s'il s'était agi du sol vierge du nouveau monde.—L'Ancien Régime et la Récolution," par A. de Tocqueville, p. 135. He quotes the well-known passages in Burke's Reflections.

2 Livy, lib, v., s, 54.

3 Census not taken in term time. The members of Universities, including Undergraduates, were enumerated by favour of the Vice-Chancellors, and results will be published hereafter.

4 This is not the total imports, but the excess of imports over exports.

5 Journal of Statistical Society, December 1870.

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