POPULATION.

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Area in

Inhabited houses,

Population,

Counties or Shires

statute acres

April 8, 1861

Aprils, 1861

Wales.

Carnarvon .

370,273

20,256

95,694

Denbigh

386,052

21,310

100,778

Flint ....

184,905

15,113

69,737

Glamorgan .

547.494

59,254

317,752

Merioneth .

385,291

8,499

38.963

Montgomery

483,323

13,501

66.919

Pembroke .

401,691

19,418

96,278

Radnor

Total of Wales

Total of England "1 and Wales J

272,128

4,688

25,382

4,734,486

226,074

1,111,780

37,324,883

3,739,505

20,066,224

The general classification of the population enumerated in England and Wales at the census of 1851 and that of 1861 was as follows: —

1. Professional class ....

2. Domestic ,,....

3. Commercial ,,....

4. Agricultural „

5. Industrial ,,.•..

6. Indefinite ,,

1851

1861

376,434 10,010,343

528,599 2,084,153 4,143,293

784,787

481,957 11,426.720

632,710 2,010,454 4,828,399

694,984

17,927,609

20,066,224

It will be seen that, of the five classes into which the population of England and Wales is divided by the Eegistrar-General, the agri- cultural class was the only one which decreased in the ten years from 1851 to 1861. The decrease was chiefly under the head of indoor farm servants, the number of which is stated to have declined from 288,272 in 1851 to 204,962 in 1861. In Essex the men are stated to have decreased from 1,530 in 1851 to 587 in 1861, and the females from 2,343 to 525 ; in Suffolk the men from 2,845 to 959, and the females from 3,640 to 1,215. The number of farmers them- selves, 249,735, was almost precisely the same in 1861 as in 1851. With regard to agricultural statistics, the information in the census returns is not given for all England, but only for 10 agricultural counties, and it would appear from these that the size of farms has increased in the 10 years from 1851 to 1861. The farms of less than 100 acres declined from 31,583 to 26,567, so that 4,016 were amalgamated to form other farms of larger acreage.

The population of England and Wales amounted to 9,156,171 in the year 1801, so that it has more than doubled in the course of half

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