122 STATISTICS. 



among many nations widely separated from each, has 

 the recommendation of being inimitable and unforge- 

 able. 



Docks. 



The West India outward bound dock contains 24 acres 



ditto homeward bound .... 30 

 The total cost was about 2,200,000/. 

 The London dock contains 20 acres, and cost 

 about 2,000,000/. 



The East India dock contains 18 acres, and cost 

 about 600,000/. 



Life Annuities. 



Various tables of life have been constructed, but 

 that formed from observations on the duration of 

 human life among the inhabitants of Northampton 

 has for many years been the basis of the premiums 

 taken by most of the assurance companies. 



Last century the general proportion of deaths was 

 reckoned one in 32, and that of births as one in 28. 

 In 1825, of a certain number of children born in 

 Europe there die the first ten years 38 per cent, 

 instead of 50 per cent, as formerly. At present 66 

 per cent, die before reaching fifty years of age, for- 

 merly the ratio was 74 per cent. Twenty-three per- 

 sons in the hundred now attain sixty years of age in- 

 stead of only eighteen as formerly.* 



Occupations. 



In A. D. 1810 there were 770,199 families occu- 

 pied in agriculture ; 959,632 in manufactures, handi- 

 craft and trade; and only 413,316 in other employ- 

 ments. 



In A. D. 1821 there were 773,732 families occu- 

 pied in agriculture; 1,118,295 in manufactures, 

 handicraft and trade; and only 454,690 in other 

 employments. 



* It is said the nation has lost between two and three millions 

 by the annuities sold by government. 



