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lation of England and Wales 27, 132,449, of 

 Scotland 3,866,521, of Ireland 4,952,895 ; total, 

 not including the adjacent islands and soldiers 

 and sailors out of the country, 35,951,865. 



The number of marriages in England in 1883 

 was 205,814, of births 889,815, of deaths 522,- 

 662, excess of births 367,153; the number of 

 marriages in Scotland 26,855, of births 124,462, 

 of deaths 76,867, excess of births 47,595 ; num- 

 ber of marriages in Ireland 21,490, births 118,- 

 224, deaths 96,388, excess of births 21,836. 



Of the population of England and Wales in 

 1871, 77*8 per cent, belonged to the Anglican 

 Church, 17'4 per cent, were dissenters, 4*6 per 

 cent. Roman Catholics, and .02 per cent. He- 

 brews. In Scotland 43'9 per cent, belonged to 

 the Established Church, 44*2 per cent, to the 

 Free Church and other dissenting congrega- 

 tions, 9'5 per cent, to the Roman Catholic 

 Church, 2-2 per cent, to the Church of Eng- 

 land, and about 2 per cent, to the Hebrew con- 

 fession. In Ireland according to the census of 

 1881 there are 3,960,891 Catholics, 639,574 An- 

 glicans, 470,734 Presbyterians, 48,839 Method- 

 ists, and 54,268 of other denominations. 



Of the 22,712,266 inhabitants of England and 

 Wales in 1871, 213,254 were of Scottish birth, 

 566,540 born in Ireland, 70,812 born in the 

 colonies, 25,655 in the adjacent islands, 139,- 

 445 in foreign conntries, and 4,395 on the sea. 

 Of the 5,174,836 inhabitants of Ireland in 1881, 

 69,380 were of English, 22,328 of Scottish, 8,325 

 of colonial, and 11,210 of foreign birth. 



The total emigration from the United King- 

 dom from 1815 to 1883 was 10,444,992 persons, 

 of whom 6,860,261 emigrated to the United 

 States, 1,765,586 to British America, 1,437,243 

 to Australia and New Zealand, and 381,902 to 

 other countries. There emigrated in 1 883 183,- 

 236 English, 31,139 Scotch, 105,743 Irish, and 

 73,260 foreigners. The emigration to the Unit- 

 ed States comprised 93,392 English, 15,332 

 Scotch, 82,849 Irish, 60,068 foreigners, and 

 585 not determined ; total, 252,266. The total 

 emigration from the United Kingdom was 

 397,157 persons. The immigration in 1883 was 

 100,503, against 82,804 in 1882, and 77,105 in 

 1881. The number of emigrants from Ireland 

 in 1884 was 76,043. Of these 14,063 were 

 from Leinster, 24,363 from Munster, 21,733 



from Ulster, and 15,733 from Connaught. Of 

 the total number 70 per cent, were between 

 the ages of fifteen and thirty-five. The num- 

 ber of females was 37,866. 



The metropolitan district of London in 1881 

 contained 3,814,571 inhabitants, the police dis- 

 trict 4,764,312. Liverpool contained 552,508 ; 

 Glasgow, 511,532 ; Birmingham, 400,774; Man- 

 chester, 341,414, and its suburb Salford, 176,- 

 235; Leeds, 309,119; Sheffield, 284,508 ; Dub- 

 lin, 249,602, the police district containing 

 349,648; Edinburgh, 228,190, and its suburb 

 Leith, 61,168; Belfast, 208,122; Bristol, 206,- 

 874; Nottingham, 186,575; Bradford, 183,032; 

 Hull, 154,240; Stoke - upon - Trent, 152,394; 

 Newcastle, 145,359, and its suburb of Gates- 

 head, 65,803; Dundee. 142,454; West Ham, 

 128,692 ; Portsmouth, 127,989 ; Leicester, 122,- 

 376; Sunderland, 116,542; Oldham, 111,343 ; 

 Brighton, 107,546; Bolton, 105,414; Aber- 

 deen, 105,054; Blackburn, 104,014. 



Commerce. The total values of the imports 

 and exports of merchandise for the seven years 

 ending with 1883 were as follow : 



The proportions of British products and of 

 foreign and colonial products in the total mer- 

 chandise exports were as follow : 



Domestic exports. Foreign export*. 



The value of the total exports per capita was 

 11 19*. 9d. in 1683. against 11 14*. Id. in 

 1882 ; the value of the domestic exports 6 

 14*. 8d. against 6 16*. IQd. in 1882. 



The imports and exports of the precious met- 

 als for 1883 and the three years preceding were 

 of the following amounts : 



The imports from European countries 

 amounted in 1883 to 189,761,000, from Ameri- 

 can countries to 117,480,000, from other parts 

 of the world to 20,969,000, the total from 

 foreign countries to 328,210,000, from the 

 British colonies to 98,682,000 ; the exports to 

 European countries to 92,202,000, to Ameri- 



can countries 50,311,000, to other foreign 

 countries 13,809,000, the total export to for- 

 eign countries 156,322,000, to British posses- 

 sions 83,477,000. The trade between Great 

 Britain and the principal foreign countries 

 and the colonies in 1883 was of the following 

 amounts : 



