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follow that the natural increase, arising from the excess of births 

 over deaths, could not have amounted to more than above 35,000, 

 which, being deducted from the ascertained increase as shown by the 

 late Census, proves that the increase of the city and suburbs must 

 have been supplemented by an immigration of upwards of 50,000. 



That Glasgow, indeed, has been chiefly indebted during the last 

 half century to the immigration which an increase of capital and an 

 active and multifarious industry have induced, cannot better be 

 illustrated than from the facts which our lately-printed analysis of 

 the Enumeration Returns of the Glasgow Census then exhibited. 

 Trom these the fact may be gathered that, independent of the many 

 thousand individuals that have been attracted to that centre of 

 Scottish industry from all quarters of Scotland, there were found 

 within the limits of its municipality alone, on the 9th of April last, 

 no less than 10,809 native English, 63,547 native Irish, 827 foreigners, 

 and 1,440 colonists, being about 20 per cent., of the whole of that 

 population. 



In conclusion, let us merely add, although it is quite true that 

 the population of Scotland has only increased, according to the late 

 Census, about 6 per cent., and consequently only in a ratio of half 

 the amount of that of England, it is, at the same time, certain that 

 this diminution of ratio has not arisen from any falling off in the 

 natural increase of the people, that is to say, in a diminution of the 

 excess of births over deaths, but wholly and entirely from a most 

 extraordinary amount of emigration by persons belonging chiefly 

 to the insular and rural portions of the kingdom — an emigration 

 which, in the peculiar districts affected by it, has been thereby 

 benefited, and has not in the least degree interfered, but rather 

 acceerated the progress of those leading marts of commerce and 

 industry in Scotland, which have hitherto so successfully kept pace 

 with their worthy commercial and manufacturing competitors in 

 Eogland. In a word, while Scotland, from its improved, and still 

 inproving, system of agricultural and cattle rearing, may feel well 

 coitent to part with her supernumerary and unemployed peasantry, 

 eitier to add to the prosperity of her urban seats of industry, or to 

 cortinue to fulfil the old adage that in every nook of the world where 

 any good is to be got, there is to be found a Scot, a rat, and a 

 Nevcastle grindstone — she at the same time cannot but feel assured 

 so bng as her soil is daily becoming more productive, and her 



