598 
Class 4. 
5. 
6 . 
7. 
8 . 
9. 
10 . 
’5 
11 . 
59 
12 . 
5? 
5? 
13. 
14. 
99 X 
.. 16 . 
„ 17. 
Persons engaged in the domestic offices or 
duties of wives, mothers, mistresses of 
families, children, relatives, 
Persons engaged in entertaining, clothing, 
and performing personal offices for man, 
Persons who buy or sell, keep, let, or lend 
money, houses, or goods of various kinds, 
Persons engaged in the conveyance of men, 
animals, goods, and messages, 
Persons possessing or working the land, 
and engaged in growing grain, fruits, 
grasses, animals, and other products, . 
Persons engaged about animals, . 
Persons engaged in art and mechanic pro- 
ductions in which matters of various 
kinds are employed in combination, 
Persons working and dealing in animal 
matters, .... 
Persons working and dealing in matters 
derived from the vegetable kingdom, 
Persons working and dealing in minerals, 
Labourers and others — branch of labour 
undefined, .... 
Independent persons and annuitants, 
Dependent persons, 
Persons of no stated occupation or condi- 
tion, .... 
964,533 
205,588 
8,007 
1,353 
126,041 
680 
1,620 
17,558 
132,073 
1,696 
1,901 
16,698 
16,885 
13,750 
Note.— There were, in 1851, 659,084 females alive in Scotland 
below 20 years of age, and 854,179 above 20. Of these, 136,163 
below 20, and 365,234 above 20, were engaged industrially; 
964,533 were wives*, mothers, children, and others domestically 
engaged; and 47,333 were annuitants, dependent persons, and per- 
sons of no stated occupation. 
“ It will be perceived that a very large number of females endea- 
vour to support themselves ; and I think it probable they have 
found the kinds of occupation most congenial to them. I am no 
believer in the industrial employment of women, by forcing them 
into employments where the labour is fully supplied by men. The 
point cannot be forced. Some instances may be found where men 
are in their wrong position, when women should be employed ; but 
it is a complete fallacy to suppose that you can place women, indus- 
trially, wherever you think right, without the will of the public and 
the concurrence of the masters. These things regulate themselves ; 
