THE BRITISH CENSUS.
Some idea of the chief results of the census of 1881 may be gained from tho information given, upon tho highest authority, by the Standard. Tho total population of the United Kingdom is about thirty-fivo* millions and a quartor, or four millions in excess of what it was ten years since. Ireland has lost during this period a quarter of a million, and Scotland haß gained not far short of half a million. The entire population of England itself is twenty-six millions, just twice what it was in 1830. Amongst tho Englißh Counties in whioh the population has fallon off are Cornwall, Dorset, Hereford, and Huntingdon ; the increase, as might be expected, is greatest in Lancashire, Yorkshire, Middlesex, and Surrey. Tho growth of London iB a remarkable feature in the consus, though thafc growth ia not equally distributed over all its districts. Marylebone, St George's Hanover-aquara, tho Strand, Holborn, Sfc Giles', Shoroditch, and 8t Geor ft o's-in-the-East are decreasing. The exact revorso is signally tho caso in Kensington, Fulham, and Lam bofch. On the whole the population of London is as noarly as possible tour millions, or groator by a hundred and fifty thousand than the Registrar-General calculated at the beginning of tbo present month. Tho increment of fcho last decade in London ia almoat equal to tho total population of Hampshire, and exceeds tho united increase of the thirteen largest towns in tho Kingdom sinco 1871. This increase is greatest in Nottingham, where the nmmbor of inhabitants has doubled. Liverpool hp.-j not grown with anything like tho samo rapidity, and is only now one-seventh of the sizo of London. In Manchester thore has been a deelino of ten thousand, though this is partially explained by tho fact that in the oapital of cotton nofc only tho merchants but tho v.orku.g cIaBBPS display an increasing tendency to live out of town. On tho whole* wo ki*.**- onough already of tho census of 1881 to 1. ■ Miro that, though" it may ravcal many clmrffcos in our Rocial, economical, and industrial state, it will contain no evidonces of anything liko national dooline.
THE BRITISH CENSUS.
Star (Christchurch), Issue 4158, 18 August 1881, Page 3
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