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The following is a table showing the results of the official census recently 

 (and for the first time) taken in Great Britain. As in our own census, the figures 

 are more likely to be too small than too large, on account of the lurking sus- 

 picion (which also affects the accuracy of our own census to some extent) that 

 taxation is at the bottom of all inquisition into the farmers' affairs. The English 

 papers stoutly affirm the existence of such a feeling in the present case: 



Divisions of United Kinjrdom. 



England 



Wales 



Scotland 



Ireland 



Isle of Man 



Channel Islands ; 



Jersey 



Guernsey, &c 



Date of return. 



March 5, 18G6 



do 



do.. ... 



Year 1865.... 

 March 5, 1866 



CATTLE. 



do 

 .do 



, Total for United Kingdom i 3, 28(i, 308 5, 030, 652 8, 316, 960 



The following is a table showing the numbers of cattle, sheep and swine, at 

 the dates mentioned, in the several nationalities of Europe : 



Countries. 



P 



United Kingdom 



Russia 



Denmark, Schleswig, and 



Holstein. 



Sweden 



Prussia 



Hanover, Saxony, Wurtem- 



burg, and Grand Duchies. 



Holland 



Belgium 



France 



Spain 



Austria 



Bavaria 



1865-'66. 

 1859-'63. 

 1861 



1860 



1862 



1852 to ? 

 1863. 5 



1864 



1856 



1862 



1865 



1863 



1863 



»X3 CO 



S O » 



o •" " 



29, 070, 932 



74, 139, 394 



2, 646, 051 



3, 859, 728 

 18,491,220 



9, 395, 738 



3,618,459 



4, 529, 461 



37,386,313 



15,658,531 



36, 267, 648 



4,807,440 



Cows. 



3, 286, 308 



1,172,895 



1,112,944 

 3, 382, 703 



1,728,224 



943,214 



5,781,465 



6, 353, 086 

 1,530,626 



Other cattle. 



Total. 



5, 030, 652 



626, 252 



803, 714 

 2, 251 , 797 



1,273,029 



390, 673 



8,415,895 



7, 904, 030 

 1,655,356 



8,316,960 



25, 444, 000 



1,799,147 



1,916,658 

 5, 634, 500 



4, 170, 275 



1 , 333, 837 



1,257,649 

 14, 197, 360 



2,904,598 

 14,257,116 



3, 185, 882 



