VITAL STATISTICS; EMIGRATION; METEOE- 

 OLOaY; PRICES OF FOOD; PAUPERISM; 

 BRITISH AYHEAT SOLD ; IMPORTATIONS 

 OF CORN AND OTHER PRODUCE. 



Tlic facts are selected from tlte Beports of tlie Eegistrar-Gexeral ; from 

 Mr. Glaisher's Meteorological Tables, and Notes on the Weather ; and 

 from Returns of the Board of Trade. 



UNITED KINGD03I. 



The population of England, Scotland, and Ireland, at liome, esti- 

 mated for the middle of the year 1866, is 29,935,404. 



EXGLAXD AND WaLES : BlETHS AND DeATHS IN THE FiRST SiX 



Months of 1866. 



In the First Quarter the hirths in England were 196,737, against 

 the high number 194,287 in the corresponding period of 1865. The 

 annual birth-rate for the same period was 3*776 per cent. ; the average 

 being 3 "644. The birth-rate is alwaj-s higher in the first six months 

 of the year than in the last ; but the tables for the last ten years 

 furnish no instance of a rate so high as that which prevailed in that 

 quarter. 



Whilst the births were 196,737, the deaths were in the same time 

 138,233, and the excess of the former over the latter was 58,504. 



The total number of emigrants in the March quarter from ports in 

 England, Scotland, and. Ireland, was 39,672, of whom about 11,000 

 Avere of English origin. Irish emigration from the same ports was 

 nearly double that amount. Of the total number 33,000 emigrants 

 had chosen the United States for their destination, 6000 the Australian 

 Colonies. Of the 21,000 Irish emigrants, 19,000 went to the United 

 States. 



Emigration had declined greatly in the first quarter of 1865 ; but 

 it again increased, and was as active as in the two previous years, 

 1863-64. 



In the Second Quarter the births in England were 192,459 against 

 173,263 in the same period of 1856. The annual birth-rate of the 

 quarter was 3*644 per cent, of the population, the average of ten 



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