188 PRESENT AND FUTURE OF AMERICA. 



POPULATIONS. 



Of America, 1850, - 23,267,498 



Of China, 1812, - 361,221,900 



Of France, say 1850, - 40,097,056 



Of England and Wales, 1850, - 17,605,831 



Of Ireland, say, 1840, - 8,175,124 



NUMBER OF PERSONS TO EACH ACRE. 



United States of America has - 1 person to every 89| acres. 

 China had a population in 1812 

 of 361,000,000, which say in- 

 creased at a rate of 10 per cent, 

 every ten years, would give, 



in 1850, 519,249,255, or 1 " to about If " 



or 2 T \ 9 T persons to every acre 

 reported to be under cultiva- 

 tion.* 



France, - - - - - 1 " to every 3| " 

 England and Wales, - 1 " " ' 2f " 



Ireland, in 1840, - 1 " " 2 " 



* It is surprising how fearful writers on China subjects are to give 

 China her full complement of inhabitants. Gutzlaff doubted not that 

 the population of China in 1812 was 361,000,000. Mr. Martin enters 

 at length on the st.lject, to prove there were 361,000,000. Now, there 

 is not one objection raised but can be met and set aside. Taking the 

 population at the lowest point stated by objectors, and calculating it 

 up to the present at a moderate rate of increase, and it will make it 

 up to the amount of 361,000,000 in 1812. Martin himself, when he 

 states the population to be, when he wrote his book (printed in 1847), 

 400,000,000, puts a dash after the number. If we whites do not come 

 up to a great population like other people, it is because we are a tur- 

 bulent race, ever desirous of shedding blood, and tyrannizing over 

 each other. Where there is that degree of civilization, that there is 

 in China, and without any severe, or in fact any, affliction or calamity 

 having befel the Chinese since 1812, except the drain on the popula- 

 tion by the Christian's poisoning them with opium ; therefore, calcu- 

 lating the increase of the Chinese population at the low rate of ten 

 per cent., it would be 529,000,000 in 1850. 



