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GREAT BRITAIN, 



GREAT BRITAIN. 





Date 









Date of 





of 













Acces. 

 sion. 



Sq. Miles. 



Revenue. 



Poptilation. 



(when 

 known) 



America: — 







£ 







HadBon*8 Bay Com- ' 

 pany'B Territories 



1868 



2,500,000 



— 



— 



— 



Canada . 



1759 



348,363 



723,724 



1,842,289 



1851 



New Brunswick , . 



1784 



27,704 



130,000 



193,800 



1851 



Nora Scotia . 



1621 



15,807 



93,039 



■276,117 



1851 



Cape Breton . . 



1745 



3,125 



— 



27,580 



1851 



Prince Ed vard Island 



1771 



2,134 



20,855 



90,000 



1853 



Newroiindtand 



1623 



60,000 



80,396 



106,000 



1853 



Vancouver Island . 



1848 



12,500 



— 



— 



— 



Falkland Islands . 



1841 



6,000 



442 



550 



— 



West Indies 













Antigua . . . 



1632 



400 



25,185 



37,757 



1851 



Barbadoea 



1G05 



166 



54,096 



135,939 



1851 



Dominica . . . 



1763 



260 



12,901 



22,200 



1844 



Grenada , 



1763 



250 



17,366 



32,671 



1851 



Guyana . . . 



1803 



50,000 



192,510 



134,695 



1851 



Jamaica . 



1055 



4,256 



180,570 



377,433 



1844 



Montserrat . . . 



1032 



48 



8,239 



7,053 



1851 



Neris . 



1628 



20 



1,936 



10,200 



1851 



St. Christopher, or 

 8t. Kitts . . 



1623 



70 



13,268 



23,177 



1814 



Rt. Lucia . . . 



1803 







12,960 



24,350 



1892 



St. Vincent 



1763 



131 



14,390 



30,128 



1851 



Tobago . . 



1763 



97 



7,793 



14,378 



1851 



Trinidad 



1797 



2,000 



107,310 



68,600 



1S51 



Virgin Island! . . 



1666 



93 



1,075 



7,000 



1853 



Bahamas • 



1629 







38,104 



27,519 



1851 



Tories Islands . . 







8 



— 



2,920 



1848 



Bermudas 



1609 



— 



12,630 



11,092 



1851 



Honduras . . . 



1670 



10,370 



— 



— 



— 



Australasia : — 













Nev South Wales . 



1787 



539,800 



670,893 



208,254 



1852 



Victoria . 



— 



98,000 



1,577,181 



191,127 



1892 



Routh Australia . . 



1836 



300,000 



102,329 



70,000 



1893 



Western Australia . 



1829 



100,000 



37,023 



8,711 



1852 



Tasmania, or Van 

 Diemen's Land . 



1803 



22,630 



129,545 



70,194 



1850 



1 



New Zealand . . 



1840 



95,000 



97,743 



26,656 



1851 



AnckUnd lalanda . 



1808 



100 



— 



131 



1851 



Jievmue, Debt, itre. — The following table exhibits the total revenne 

 of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with the 

 principal items specified, for the years 1843, 1848, and 1853 : — 



Totnl Revenue 



Customs .... 



Kxeise 



Stamps . . . . 



Taxes .... 



Property and Inoo.-ue Tax 



Po*t.«ffice , 



1843. 



£52,582,917 



21,033,717 



12,877,929 



6,948,137 



4,190,486 



5,249,261 



595,000 



1848. 



£58,388,717 



20,999,132 



14,154,059 



6,643,772 



4,314,704 



9,347,365 



815,000 



1853. 



£54,430,344 

 20,902,734 

 19,337,724 

 6,975,416 

 3,153,867 

 5,988,172 

 1,104,000 



For the years 1843, 1848, and 1853, the total expenditure, with the 

 principal items stated, is here .set forth : — 



Total Expenditure 



Interest and Management 



National Debt 

 Civil List ... 

 Army .... 

 Navy . . 

 Ordnance 



1843. 



.£91,139,513 



"' } 29,269,160 



390,307 



. . 5,997,156 



6,606,057 



. . 1,910,704 



1848. 



£54,I85,13« 



28,963,517 



395,245 

 6,647,284 

 7,922,287 

 3,076,124 



1S53. 



£51,174,839 



27,804,845 



399,573 

 7,023,488 

 6,640,596 

 2,661,591 



The capital of the National Debt amounted in 1843 to 790,576,392;., 

 in 1848 to 791,809,338J. ; in 1853 it was 770,923,00U. 



Poor Hates, <tc. — In the year 1852 the local rates (for England and 

 Wales) amounted to 10,674,962/., of which the Poor's Rate, including 

 Police Kate, was 6,562,298i. j the Highway Rate, l,662,575i. ; County 

 and County Police Rates, 820,134^ ; Borough, Borough Watch, and 

 Lighting and Watching Rate, 509,038<. ; and the Land Tax, 1,130,91 W. 

 The amount expended in relief of the poor in England and Wales in 

 the year 1834 was 6,317,255/. ; in 1853 it was 4,939,064/. The 

 number of paupers reliered on 1st January 1849 was 940,851 ; on 

 Ist January 1854 the number was 806,506. 



ExpnrU. — The total declared value of British and Irish produce 

 exported from ports in the United Kingdom in 1842, 1847, 1852, and 

 1863 is ■■ follows :— 



1842 

 1S47 



HJ3 



Exported to 

 Poreign Countries. 

 . £34,019,203 

 . 43,916,296 

 . 98,979,899 



To British 

 Possessions. 

 £1.3,361,820 

 14,926,081 

 19,496,950 



Total. 



£47,381,023 

 58,842,377 

 78,076,954 

 93,367,306 



The value of foreign merchandise transhipped at ports in the 

 United Kingdom to foreign countries and British possessionR 

 amounted in 1851 to 2,965,3351, in 1852 to 3,706,662/., in 1853 to 

 5,278,074/. 



Shipping.—The total amount of tonnage entered and cleared with 

 cargoes at the ports of the United Kingdom iu the years 1S43, 1348, 

 and 1 853 is given in the following table :- 



















Entered. 



Cleared. 



British. 



Foreign. 



Tot«l. 1 



British. 



Foreign, 



Total. 



Tons. 



Tons. 



Tons. 



Tons. 



Tons. 



Tons. 



1843 . . 

 1 1848 . . 

 ! 1853 . . 



2,919,528 

 4,020,415 

 4,513,207 



1,005,894 

 1,559,046 

 3,284,343 



3.925,423 

 6,57!i.461 

 7,797,560 



2,727,306 

 3,653,777 

 4,651,498 



1,026,063 

 1,497,460 

 3,032,113 



3,753,369 

 6,051,237 

 7,583,611 



The number and tonnage of sailing and steam-vessels (exclusive of 

 river steamers) belonging to the United Kingdom in 1853, Were : — 

 17,567 sailing-vessels, tonuage 3,511,827, employing 155,006 men, 

 exclusive of masters ; and 639 steam-vessels, tonnage 218,260, 

 employing 17,519 men, exclusive of masters. The number of vessels 

 built and registered in the United Kingdom during 1853 was 

 645 sailing-vessels of 154,956 tons, and 153 steam-vessels of 

 48,215 tons. 



Education and Religioru Worship. — According to the Census Returns 

 of 1851, the number of plac(» of worship and of Sunday schools is as 

 follows, namely : — 



Places of Worship — 

 Established Church 

 Others 



Totals 



Sittings provided 



Kstablished Church 

 Others . 



Totals . 



Sunday Schools — 

 Established Church 

 Others . 



Totals 



Sunday Scholars — 

 Established Church 

 Others . 



ToUls . 



Day Schools . . 



Scholars 

 Evening Schools . 



Scholars 



England. I Wales. 



14,077 \ 979 



16,913 j 2,498 



30,990 



5,317,915 204,648 

 4,027,223 I 602,877 



3,477 



9,345,138 867,425 



9,997 

 10,369 



430 

 2,341 



20,306 



901,828 

 1,197,833 



2,099,661 



43,152 



2,010,500 



1,506 



38,879 



2,771 



269,378 



1,684 



98,092 



39 



908 



Islands in the! „ ., . 

 „ ... . ., I Scotland. 

 British Seas. I 



75 

 178 



37,483 

 44,521 



82,004 



50 

 100 



162 



6,804 

 8,673 



15,477 



340 

 15,732 



1,183 

 2,212 



3,395 



767,088 

 1,067,717 



1,834,805 



1,09.') 

 2,708 



76,233 

 216,316 



292,549 



5,242 



368,517 



438 



15,071 



The proportion of day scholars to the population in 1851 for the 

 whole of England and Wales was 12'0 per cent, (or 1 in 8) ; the 

 districts or counties which were under 1 per cent, being South Wales, 

 8-6; North Wales, 90; Monmouth, 90; and Hereford, OO. The 

 proportion for Bedfordshire was 104; Lanca.ster, 106; Middlesex, 

 10-6; Dnrham, 12-6; Cumberland, 130; Cambridgeshire, 131; 

 Oxfordshire, 13-8; Hertfordshire, 14; Westmoreland, 15'4. 



The proportion of day scholars to the whole population in Scotland 

 was 1276 per cent. As the returns were not furnished so freely iu 

 Scotland as in England, Mr. Horace Mann reports to the Registrar- 

 General : " Making a fair allowance for deficient returns, it seems 

 probable that about 14 per cent, (or 1 in 7) of the people of Scotland 

 are at school. For the islands in the British Seas the proportion is 

 11 per cent, (or 1 in 9) of the population." In the above table the 

 term Established Church as applied to Scotland, means of course the 

 Presbyterian Established Church. 



HUtory.—la the article Britannia will be found an account of 

 Britain under the Romans : under England a notice of the Anglo- 

 Saxon period ; historical notices respecting Scotland and Walk.s 

 are given under these heads, as well as in the articles on the different 

 counties. We here insert a list of the sovereigns of England from 

 William the Norman ; separate notices of each of the sovereigns and 

 of the more prominent events of their reign will be found iu the 

 Biographical Division of the English CycIopa;dia. 



Norman Line : — 



1006 

 1087 



William the Contiucror. 

 William Rufus. 



1100 Henry I. 

 1135 Stephen. 



