GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. 



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Enmnerations of religious professions exist 

 in Ireland only. This country had, in 1871, 

 4,160,Kf,7 I tomim Catholics, 667,979 Episcopa- 

 lians, 497,648 Presbyterians, 48,441 Methodists, 

 and 52,442 of ditterent denominations. 



UK- nativity of the 24,244,010 inhabitants 

 of England and Wales was as follows: 21,692,- 

 165 were born in England and Wales, 213,254 

 in Scotland, 566,540 in Ireland. 25,655 on the 

 islands of the British seas, 70,812 in the Brit- 

 ish colonies, 139,445 in foreign countries, and 

 4,895 on the high-seas. 



The following table gives the population of 

 the principal cities in July, 1876 : 



1. London... 



8,489,428 j 14. Hull 



2. Glasgow 546,144 



8. Liverpool 621,544 



. (Manchester... 857,917 



4 -lSalford 188,425 



5. Birmingham ... 871 ,889 



6. Dublin 814,666 



7. Leeds 291,580 



8. Sheffield 274,914 



9. Edinburgh 215,146 



10. Bristol 199,589 



11. Bradford 178,728 



1 .'. Newcastle - on - 



Tyne 189,929 



18. Dundee 189,125 



The receipts and expenditures from 1871 to 

 1876 were as follows : 



15. Portsmouth.... 124,667 



16. Leicester 118,581 



1 7. Sunderland 10tt,848 



18. Brighton 100,682 



19. Aberdeen 96,499 



20. Nottingham.... 98,627 



21. Oldham 68,609 



22. Norwich 88.480 



28. Wolverhampton 72,549 



24. Plymouth 72,280 



25. Greenock 70,192 



26. Leith 62,919 



27. Paisley 48,679 



The principal items under the head of mis- 

 cellaneous were : Profit* of issue from the Bunk 

 of England, 188,578 ; interest on public loans, 

 541,807 ; fees, etc., of public offices, 572,868; 

 receipts by naval and military departments, 

 805,498; contributions from Indian revenue, 

 865,027 ; receipts by civil departments, 464,- 

 718; receipts by revenue departments, 828,- 

 277; and savings on grants of Parliaments, etc., 

 474,897. 



EXPENDITURE. 



The principal items under the head of mis- 

 cellaneous civil services were: Public works, 

 1,442,345; public departments, 2,516,595; 

 justice, 4,910,836 ; and public instruction, 

 arts and sciences, 2,945,342. 



The local receipts and expenditures for 1873 

 -'74 were as follows: 



The following table gives an account of the 

 state of the public funded and unfunded debt 

 and terminable annuities of Great Britain and 



Ireland, with the amount of annual interest and 

 annuities payable, and annual expenses of man- 

 agement thereof, on March 81, 1876 : 



