218 PBESENT AND FUTURE OF AMElilCA. 



of England to prevent the over increase, by preventing 

 early marriages, and marriages of poor people. All 

 England echoed, from one end to the other, with decla 

 mations against Irish procreative powers, and the misery 

 it entailed on Ireland. If the Condon Times, and leading 

 English statesmen, were correct, what has become of 

 that increase in the population ? Let them take a 

 glance at the census for the last 50 years. 



Kngland. Ireland. England. Ireland. 



1810 8,331,434 5,191,240 



1811 9,538,827 5,637,856,* inerease per cent, 14| 8g 

 1821 11,261,437 6,801,827, &quot; &quot; 19} 20 

 1831 13,091,005 7,767,401, &quot; 1G 14| 

 1841 16,995,508 8,175,124, &quot; 14 T \ 5] 

 185116,594,275 6.515,794, &quot; 11 deer. 25* 



The increase of 20 per cent, is but a moderate in 

 crease. What then has become of that ever dreaded mul 

 tiplication of the Irish ? It is to be found in England 

 in Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, London, and 

 throughout the whole of England ; in Glasgow, and in 

 all the towns in the British empire. f Then, what is be 

 come of the Anglo-Saxon race ? Their increase is below 

 par, and very much so ; and if the Irish be substracted, if 

 the Scotch also be deducted, and foreigners, then, let me 

 ask, what has become of the increase of the Anglo-Saxon 

 race 1 The Irish can be found. There are millions of 

 them and their descendants in England. They are to 

 be found in British America, in the United States : where 



* 5,937,856, census of 1812. 



f 7,000,000 are computed to be in America by Mr. Robinson. 



