190 Variation in the Price and Supply of Wheat. 
Population of the United Kingdom, exclusive of the Army and Navy, from 
the period of the first Census. 
1801. 
1811. 
1821. 
1831. 
1841. 
1851. 
1861. 
1867. 
15, i95,287 
18,006,580 
20,983,092 
24,132,296 
26,833,496 
27,533,755 
29,070,932 
30,270,000 
Average yearly importations of Wheat and Flour (calculated as Wheat) and 
of other sorts of Corn for the ten years preceding each of the Censuses ; 
and for the seven years ending and including 18G7. 
Ten Years 
ending 
1811 ex- 
clusive. 
Ten Years 
exclusiTC 
of 1821. 
Ten Years 
exclusive 
of 1831. 
Ten Y'ears 
exclusive 
of 1841. 
Ten Years 
exclusive 
of 1851. 
Ten Years 
exclusive 
of 18C1. 
Seven Years 
ending 
1867. 
Wheat and Flour . . 
600,000 
450,000 
530,000 
900,000 
2,948,000 
5,030,000 
7,960,000 
Other sorts of Corn 
340,000 
460,000 
630,000 
435,000 
2,748,000 
3,981,000 
6,2.32,000 
The following Table shows the turning point in the history of our Agricultural 
Production. 
Increase of the Popu- 
lation since the last 
Census. 
Increase in the An- 
nual Importations of 
Wheat, in quarters, 
as compared with the 
last Ten Years. 
Average Number of 
the Population main- 
tained by foreign 
■wheat, in each year, 
at 6 bushels per head. 
Average Number of 
the Population main- 
tained by the growth 
of the United King- 
dom during the 
period. 
1811 
2,210,000 
800,000 
16,100,000 
1821 
2,980,000 
A decrease. 
600,000 
18,890,000 
1831 
.3,1.50,000 
80,000 
706,000 
21,850,000 
1841 
2,700,000 
■370,000 
1,200,000 
24,280,000 
1851 
697,000 
2,043,000 
3,930,000 
23,255,000 
18C1 
1,540,000 
2,082,000 
6,706,000 
21,600,000 
1867 
1,087,000 
2,920,000 
10,600,000 
19,014,000 
Inclosures to the extent of about tLree millions of acres in the 
first twenty years of this century, partly explain the increased 
production of that period. It must also be noted, in connexion 
with the diminished growth of wheat in recent times, that from 
1820 to 1850, Ireland exported to this country an average of 
about 450,000 qrs. of wheat a year. Since 1851, Ireland has 
imported 1,125,000 qrs. of wheat a year, and the average for the 
past nine years has been 1,500,000 qrs. a year. 
