STATEMENT of the No. of MARRIAGES, BAPTISMS & BURIALS in all ENGLAND & WALES, in each of the first Twenty Years of the present Century: distinguishing in the Baptisms & Burials, the proportion of Males & Females, according to the returns made to Parliament from the Registers of 10,453 Parish Churches, 889 Chapels and 103 Roman Catholic, Quaker and other Societies. In drawing any conclusion on the comparitive extent of Mortality in the Metro"polis and Lancashire, with any of the other Counties, or with England & Wales in the aggregate it will be proper to consider, that there is a considerable emigration from all parts of the Country into the Metropolis, and from all the adjoining Counties into Lancashire, which not only tends to cause an appearance of an excess of Mortality in those two districts, but to diminish it in other Counties in proportion to the extent of emigration from them; the same cause also operates in giving an apparent disproportionate excess of Marriages in the Metropolis and Lancashire. The Annual proportion of Marriages, Baptisms, and Burials, in each County, on an average of the 10 Years 1811 -20, is stated in a following pagc. The No. in proportion to the Total Population of England & Wales being as follows. Viz. Marriages 7.5 in every 1000. Extremes, Hertford 5.6 Middlesex 9.43 Baptisms 28.3 Do. Monmouth 21.3 Do. Sussex 14. Burials 17.3 Do. Kent 51.2 Middlesex 21.3 5311 average Number of Unentered Marriages 191, Baptisms 2,066, Burials 9,505 STATEMENT (No. V., Snewing the variation in the No. of Persons in every 100 of Children to the No. of Persons in a Family. Norfolk...... .... ..... ...... Stafford Suffolk ...... ........ Surrey... ..... 478 478 2,782 2,730 Ayr... Berwick Bute .... 472 500 3,018 2,921 | Kircudbright Westmoreland 488 493 2,809 2,661 Sussex Warwick Wilts Worcester York, E. Riding North Do.. 463 487 2,839 2,623 484 2,824 2,232 492 2,870 2,253 502 2,826 2,590 384 445 2,833 2,461| 2,177 489 470 2,927 2,606 488 49 2,700 8,357 460 49 2.6291 SCOTLAND. 449 4 4.1 SYNOPSIS of the Ages of the POPULATION of GREAT BRITAIN, according to the return made to Parliament in 1821, in thirteen gradations of age; distinguishing the Males from the Females; and ENGLAND, WALES, SCOTLAND & the METROPOLIS separately. The results being deduced from the No. of 10,000. as a common calculator. Numer. Radix. 10,000. 10,000. 10,000. [10,000. 10,000. 10,000. 10,000. 10,000. PAUPERISM & PAUPER TAXATION. Comparative view of the EXTENT of PAUPERISM and PRESSURE of PAUPER TAXATION, at different periods; shewing the alarming increase of degradation and privation, on the part of the labouring, and increase of pressure on all the industrious and productive Classes: -inevitable consequences of petty expediency and a speculative system of Policy. As great efforts have lately been made to induce the people of England to believe that their interests were in a career of unexampled prosperity; without here questioning such pretension, the preceding Statement is simply submitted to their serious reflection, the most important feature of which is the great proportion of the population receiving relief: In the return made to Parliament in 1818, page 630*, the proportion receiving relief on an average of the three Years 1812 15 is stated as having been 94 out of every 100 of the total Population, but after distinctly stating in the head of every Column of the Statistical part of the return, that the No. of Persons relieved, did not include the Children of such persons, the proportional of 9 is deduced by dividing the Total Population by the No. said to have been relieved. STATEMENT Exhibitng, in thirteen gradations of Ages, the Number of Persons in each of the four PROVINCES of IRELAND, according to the returns made to PARLIAMENT in 1824, and also the Number in each gradation of Age in all Ireland compared with the Number in each gradation, in all GREAT BRITAIN, according to the returns of 1821. TOTALS 1,998,4941,757,492 1,935,612 1,110,229 | 6,801,827 | 14,391,631 STATEMENT shewing the proportion in each of the above stated gradations of Ages in every 10,000. of the Population, in each of the four Provinces of Ireland, and also the proportion in each gradation, in every 10,000 of the Population of all IRELAND, compared with the proportion in every 10,000 of the Number in GREAT BRITAIN, and also in LANCASHIRE, as the County exhibiting the closest analogy to Ireland. The Provinces of Ireland are arranged in order of their aggregate misery. All Great Lannaught. Ireland. Britain. cashire. AGES PROVINCES of Con- 5 5 to 10 1480. 10 to 15 1248. 1189. 1218. 1218. 1507. 1560. 1614. 1532. 1472. 1647. 1300. 1385. 1119. 1209. 193 STATEMENT of the Official Value of MERCHANDIZE Imported into all the Ports of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND, from all parts of the WORLD, in each of the six YEARS, 1817-1822, distinguishing the several Countries from whence Imported, and the proportion from each respective Country. COUNTRIES GERMANY China & Fishery. 16,346,939 16,391,000 16,124,508 16,468,863 15,138,490 13,488,628 687,927 1,265,910 576,067 641,527 617,218 728,068 751,162 1,306,457 972,647 839,799 981,590 1,176,246 2,241,365 2,904,326 2,589,922 2,542,533 1,963,079 2,619,576 ITALY RUSSIA HOLLAND 740,044 1,206,278 635,279 593,361 805,850 889,206 PORTUGAL & MA. 632,482 768,180 509,572 465,273 480,609 546,173 GIBRALTAR SPAIN & CANARI. 1,034,071 1,333,930 FLANDERS 122,498 571,903 PRUSSIA 821,565 1,426,412 624,125 729,683 357,357 542,573 527,866 1,162,424 642,012 775,132 TURKEY 188,904 381,796 DENMARK 158,670 376,364 SWEDEN 151,691 214,479 137,470 47,037 83,270 21,265 IONIAN Isles. 58,212 89,196 49,618 95,318 86,194 86,422 126,316 400,568 TOTAL Europe 8,265,694 13,250,220 8,480,367 8,536,405 7,963,936 9,398,257 U. S. of AMERICA 3,315,197 3,663,484 2,840,372 3,860,878 3,831,057 4,161,542 817,222 1,080,543 952,202 1,294,025 758,043 850,042 774,117 798,620 BRAZILS... FOR. West Indies South AMERICA AFRICA, &c. 6,221,664 7,243,970|| 6,131,934 7,465,677 7,735,293 7,643,779 Grand TOTAL. 30,834,330 36,885,182 50,776,810 32,470,945 30,837,712 30,530,673 Propo. into Ireland 917,979 1,065,384 1,121,920 953,054 1,113,540 | 1,128,856 The above, and four following Statements, have been compiled from a return made to Parliament in the Session f 1824, (Paper No. 274.) and the results which they exhibit are so extraordinary, as to ex cite in the mind of most persons an utter disregard, by their apparent incredibility. It will be seen by the fifth following Statement, that in the six Years 1817-1822, the Official Value of the EXPORTS to EUROPE are represented as exceeding the Official Value of the IMPORTS from thence, by the enormous and incredible Amount of £ 110,65,070!!!. Is the fact really so, and if so, how has the excess of Export been equalized? It is not the mere display of Figures and Amounts, although sufficiently interesting in themselves, that is the object of these Illustrations; but by analysis and demonstration, to ascertain and to exhibit the nature and tendency of the Commercial relations of GREAT BRITAIN with the several Nations of the World, in an intelligible and conclusive point of view. It seems desirable, therefore, in the first place, to shew what is meant by the term Official Value, which implies a fixed Value assigned as far back as 1694, to each article Imported and Exported, and may therefore be considered as denoting QUANTITY, rather than Value, and may or may not have a relation to the CURRENT VALUE of the present time. In addition to the Imports specified in the American Division of the above Statement a considerable quantity of Produce is shipped direct from thence to the Continent of EUROPE on British Account, by which it may be supposed that the external Commercial relations of GREAT BRITAIN are somewhat less ruinous than represented in the following Statements; as regards the transactions with South America the Brazils & Foreign West Indies, it may be so, but, it is important to know that whatever additional advantages may accrue by indirect means to a part, makes the aggregate result worse, rather than better; the advantage of the one part being only an abstraction from some other part. VOL. XXV. NO. XLIX. |