Miscellanies. 



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3. Population of England and Scotland. — Agreeably to the re- 

 turns made to parliament, the following is an exhibition of the pop- 

 ulation of England, Wales and Scotland, with the rates of increase 

 during the last thirty years. 



Cities and towns. 



London, within the walls, ^ 



London, without the walls, (in- > city, 



eluding the Inns of Court,) ) 

 Southwark, borough, 

 Westminster, city. 

 Par. within the bills of mortality, 

 Adj. Par. not within the bills. 



Metropolis, 



Edinburgh, city, 



Manchester, Salford and suburbs, 



Glasgow, (and suburbs,) city, 



Birmingham, (and suburbs,) 



Norwich, city, 



Paisley, with the Abbey Parish, 



Nottingham, town, 



Liverpool with Foxteth park, 



Bristol, (with suburbs,) 



Aberdeen, New and Old, 



Nev/ Castle upon Tyne, with Gateshead 



Hull, (with Sculcoates,) 



Dundee, 



Plymouth, Devonport and Stonehouse, 



Portsmouth, Porsea and Gosport, 



1821. 



r 56,174 



[ 69,260 



85,905 



182,085 



616,628 



215,642 



1,225,694 



138,235 

 161,635 

 147,043 

 106,721 



50,288 

 47,003 

 40,415 

 131,801 

 87,799 

 44,796 

 46,948 

 41,874 

 30,575 

 61,212 

 56,620 



London. — The total number of inhabitants of all the parishes, 

 whose churches are situated within eight English miles, measured 

 directly from St. Paul's Cathedral, amounted in 1801 to 1,031,500; 

 in 1811 to 1,220,200; in 1821 to 1,481,500; and 1831 to 1,776,556 

 or to more than one million and three quarters. 



To compare London with Paris, the population of the department 

 of the Seine was taken, as included in a district nearly circular, six- 

 teen miles in diameter. This amounted, in 1818, to 637,000 ; in 

 1820, to 742,000; in 1829, to 1,013,000; exclusive of the resi- 



