THE CENSUS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 21 October 1881, Page 2

THE CENSUS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM.

♦ ■ fcome idea of the chief result*-* of the census o f 1881, may be gained from the informa'ion gained upon the h-gliest authority by the S and-rd. The total population of the United K*n?dom ia about 35 250 000, or 4 000.000 in " exc-as of what it, was ten years since since Tr**lind h»a lost during this period 250 000, and Scotland has gated not far ehort of 500 000. The entire nomination of Rnghind itself is 24 000 000' just twiVe what it was in 1830. • Amongst tbe Fnglish countries in which the population has fallen off are Cornwa'l. Dorset, Hereford and Huntingdon ; tbe increase, as might be eXi***»ced in _-r»-atefit in Ltncashire, Yorkshire Mid -llepex, and . Surrey, The growth of London is a remarkable feature in the census*, though th-it growth is notequally distributed over all its districts. Marylebone, St. George.-*. Hanover square, the Strand, Ho'born St GileaVShoreditch and St. George** in-*the-F,«stared<-creai-ing. The eitac* reverse i.** atngnaily the ca-Jp in Kensington. Fijlham, and Lambelh. On the whole the population of London is as nearly aa nn«ible 4.000,000. or greater by 150 000 than in the begin n»'Dg of April, The increment of the lap decade in London is almost pqu.il to total population of Hnrnpshire, and exceeds the united increase of thp thirteen largest town* in the kingdom since 1871. The increase ia great in Nothinj-ham, where the number of inhabitants has doubled Liverpool has not grown with anything like the same rapidity, and is only now one^ seventh ofthe size, of London. In Manchester there has baen a decline of 10000, though this is partially explained by the fact that in tbe capital ot cot '-on not only the merchants but the working classes display an increasing tendency to live out of town On tbe whole, we know enough alreadly of the eenpu*-? of }881 to bi* sure that, though it may reveal many changes io our.Qfi&l, economical- -*.>- --industrial niate. it will contain no evidence of anything like national decline.