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GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.

Justices to pass sentences for short periods, with the consent of the prisoners, instead of committing for trial to the sessions.

2. Scotland.

Scotland has an area of 30,G85 square miles, with a population, in 1861, of 3,062,294 souls, giving 101 inhabitants to the square mile. The 33 counties into which Scotland is divided are of very unequal size, some of them containing only four or five parishes, and some above seventy. In the following table, the number of parishes in each county, the area of each in square miles, and the numbers of the population are given. The numbers of population include the military in barracks and the seamen on board vessels in the harbours and creeks of Scotland on the 8th of April, 1861 : —

Counties

Number

of parishes

Area in square miles

Population, April 8, 1861

Aberdeen .....

82

1,970

221,569

Argyll

34

3,255

79,724

Ayr ....

46

1,149

198,971

Banff ....

23

686

59,215

Berwick

32

473

36,613

Bute ....

6

171

16,331

Caithness

10

712

41,111

Clackmannan

5

46

21,450

Dumbarton .

12

320

52,034

Dumfries

43

1,098

75,878

Edinburgh .

31

367

273,997

Elgin or Moray

20

531

42,695

Fife .

62

513

154,770

Forfar .

53

889

204,425

Haddington .

24

280

37,634

Inverness

31

4,255

88.888

Kincardine .

19

394

34,466

Kinross

4

78

7,977

Kirkcudbright

28

954

42,495

Lanark

41

889

631.566

Linlithgow .

13

127

38,645

Nairn .

4

215

10,065

Orkney and Shetland

32

935

64,065

Peebles

14

356

11,408

Perth .

73

2,834

133,500

Renfrew

17

247

177,561

Ross and Cromarty

33

3,151

81,406

Roxburgh

32

670

54,119

Selkirk

5

260

10,449

Stirling

24

462

91,926

Sutherland .

13

1,886

25,246

Wigtown

17

512

42,095

Total .

883

30,685

3,062,294