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not been so large for these four or five past years — there must 

 have gone out from Scotland no fewer than 222,878 persons, being 

 the difference between the natural increase from the excess of births 

 over deaths, and the increase as sh own by the late Census. 



According to the returns made to the Registrar- General by the 

 Government Emigration Board, we find that during the last ten 

 years, the estimated number of Scotch who have emigrated with the 

 knowledge of the said Board has amounted to 183,627, leaving 39,251 

 which must have left otherwise, either to recruit the army and navy 

 abroad, to push their fortune in various parts of the globe, imac- 

 counted for by the Emigration Commissioners, or, what is mo re 

 likely have gone to swell the population of England. That the 

 population of England has been greatly increased from immigration 

 will at once appear evident, when it is stated that while in the ten 

 past years the English-horn emigrants have amounted to 640,210, the 

 natural increase of her population only exhibits 136,460 more than 

 her ascertained population by the Census, showing an unaccounted 

 for deficiency of 503,740, for which she must have been mainly 

 indebted to Scotland and Ireland. That an emigrating spirit has 

 manifested itself on the part of the Scotch more than the English is 

 certain, from the fact that, taking the mean population for the last 

 ten years of each country, we shall find that, had Scotland only 

 emigrated proportionally to England, the Scotch emigrants ought 

 only to have amounted to about 100,000, whereas the numbers 

 stated by the Commissioners are 183,627. 



If the emigration from Scotland has thus been so dispropor- 

 tionately great, it may be asked from what particular quarter of the 

 country has this spirit chiefly manifested itself, or, in other words, in 

 what division of the country has the population absolutely shown a 

 decline ? The following table will at once answer the question : — 



Table showing the Counties in Scotland where the Population was 

 found TO BE LESS in 1861 than 1851. 



Counties. Numerically 



less bv 



Sutherland 585 



Eoss and Cromarty 1,42*7 



Inverness 9,065 



Kincardine 137 



Perth 5,149 



Kinross 949 



Clackmannan 1,502 



Counties. Numerically 



less by 



Argyll 8,303 



Bute . , 420 



Dumfries 2,246 



Kirkcudbright 691 



Wigton 1,351 



31,825 



