VITAL STATISTICS: — POPULATION; r>IRTHS; DEATHS; 
EMIGRATION; METEOROLOGY; IMPORTATIONS OF 
GRAIN; SALES OF BRITISH WHEAT; PRICES OF 
CORN, &e.; AND PAUPERISM. 
[The facts are derived chiejly f rom the Tieports of the Eegistrar-General ; 
the Meteorological Jiejmrts of Mr. Glaisiier; the Returns of the EoARD 
OF Trade, and the Inspector-General of Imports and Exports.] 
GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, 1868. 
The estimated Population of the United Kingdom at the middle of 
the year 1868 was 30,.']69,845 ; viz., England and Wales, 21,649,377 : 
Scotland, 3,188,125; and Ireland, 5,532,343. In the year under 
review, 1,047,859 births and 636,881 deaths were registered; thus 
making the natural increase 410,978, or, after correction for defec- 
tive registration in Ireland, 1177 dailj'. The recorded number of 
emigrants of home origin was 142,731, or 391 daily. The difference 
between the emigrants and the corrected natural increase was 786 
daily. 
In the year 1868, 58,268 of the English people, 14,954 of the 
Scotch, 64,961 of the Irish people, 51,956 foreigners, and 618i2 
persons of origin not distinguished in the returns, left ports of the 
United Kingdom for foreign and colonial settlements. They con- 
stituted a total emigration of 196,321 persons, of whom 155,532 
went to the United States. The emigration of 1868 was smaller 
than in any of the four years 8361-6G, but exceeded that of 1867 
by about 368. 
ENGLAND AND WALES. 
In 1868 the birth-rate in England was 36-81 to 1000 persons 
living ; the death-rate, 22-20. The former was above the average, 
the latter was near, but below it. 
The death-rate experienced by the people inhabiting districts 
that comprise the chief towns was 24-22 per 1000 of population ; 
while the death-rate of persons residing in districts comprising 
small towns and country parishes was 19-40 per 1000. The average 
death-rates of town and chiefly rural districts are respectively 24-5G 
and 20-14 per 1000 living. 
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