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AREA AND POPULATION

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The number of inhabited houses at the census of 1891 was 870,578, against 914, 108 in 1881, and 961,380 in 1871. The decrease in the decennial period 1881-1891 amounted to 4.7 per cent.

Of uninhabited houses, there were 58,257 at the census of 1881, and 69,320 in 1891, representing an increase of 18 9 per cent. in uninhabited houses; in 1881 there were 1,710 houses building; in 1891 there were 2,602.

The population in 1891 was distributed as follows among the larger towns:

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In Ireland, in 1891, there were only three cities with over 50,000 inhabitants-viz., Dublin, with 245,001, but 361,891 within the metropolitan police district (349,688 in 1881); Belfast, 255,950; Cork, 75,345; Limerick had 37,155 inhabitants; Londonderry, 33, 200; Waterford, 20,852.

The population was divided as follows according to occupation in 1891 :

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The population of the Islands in the British Seas was found to be as follows at the census of April 5, 1891 :—

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The following were the numbers of the population of the Islands at each of the four censuses of 1861, 1871, 1881, and 1891 :

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The Registrar-General's estimate of the population in the middle of each year is based on the assumption that the rate of increase which prevailed in the intercensal period immediately preceding, has since been maintained. Thus it is assumed that the rate of increase in London was constant between 1891 and 1897, and that the rate of increase in the remainder of the country was constant between 1881 and 1897.

The proportion of illegitimate births to the total births in 1897 was 4.2 per cent., having gradually diminished from 7 per cent. in 1845. The minimum rate in 1896 was 2.9 per cent. in Essex, and the maximum 7.5 in Herefordshire. The percentage for London was 3·7. The births and deaths are exclusive of still-born.

The proportion of male to female children born in England during 1896 was as 1,036 to 1,000. But as the former suffer from a higher rate of mortality than the latter, the equilibrium between the sexes is restored about the tenth year of life, and is finally changed to the proportion of 1,000 females, of all ages, to 949 males in England.

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The average proportion of illegitimate births in 1897 was 7.0 per cent., the rate varying from 3.5 per cent. in Dumbartonshire, 3.8 in Shetland, 4·1 in Ross and Cromarty, to 13·1 in Dumfriesshire, 13.5 in Caithness and Elgin, and 14·1 in Wigtownshire. The proportion of male to female births in Scotland in 1897 was 1,044 to 1,000.

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The average proportion of illegitimate births in 1897 was 2.6 per cent., the rate varying from 0.7 in Connaught to 3.6 in Ulster. The proportion of male to female births in Ireland in 1897 was 1,052 to 1,000.

2. Emigration and Immigration.

There was very little emigration from the United Kingdom previous to 1815, in which year the number of emigrants was no more than 2,081. It rose gradually from 12,510 in 1816, to 34,987 in 1819. In the five years 1820-24 there emigrated 95,030 individuals; in the next five years, 1825-29, the number was 121,084; in 1830-34 it rose to 381,956; but sank again to 287,358 in 1835-39, Between 1815 and 1852 the total number of emigrants was 3,463,592; between 1853 and 1860 it was 1,582,475, of whom 1,312,683 were of British or Irish origin; between 1861 and 1870 it was 1,967,570, of whom 1,571,829 were of British or Irish origin; 1871-80, 2,228,396, of whom 1,678,919 were British or Irish; 1881-1890, 3,555,655, of whom, 2,558,535 were British or Irish; 1891-1897, 1,917,404 of whom 1,286,959 were British or Irish; and the total from 1815 to 1897 was 14,715,092. The total emigration of persons of British or Irish origin only, 1853-1897, was 8,408,925; 5,609,678, went to the

United States, 868,099 to British North America, 1,399,375 to
Australasia, and 531,773 to other places.

The following table exhibits the number of persons, natives and foreigners, emigrating from the United Kingdom to British North America, the United States, and Australasia, and the total number-the latter figure including the comparatively small number going to other than these three destinations (46,167 in 1897)-in each of the last five years :

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Of the total in 1897, 122,317 were males, and 90,963 females. The following shows the number of British and Irish emigrants to places out of Europe in the last two years with the increase or decrease (−) :—

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In the year 1897 there were 155,114 immigrants, British and foreign, which, deducted from the total of 213,280 emigrants, left an excess of 58,166 emigrants. The number of immigrants of British or Irish origin in 1897 was 95, 221, which, deducted from the total of 146,460 emigrants of British or Irish origin, left an excess of 51,239 emigrants.

The number of Irish who emigrated from Ireland in 1896 was 38,995; in 1897, 32,535; the total number from May 1, 1851, to December 31, 1897, was 3,722,658.

Religion.-I. ENGLAND AND WALES.

The Established Church of England is Protestant Episcopal. Its fundamental doctrines and tenets are embodied in the Thirtynine Articles, agreed upon in Convocation in 1562, and revised and finally settled in 1571. But though the Protestant Episcopal is the State religion, all others are fully tolerated, and civil disabilities do not attach to any class of British subjects.

The Queen is by law the supreme governor of the Church, possessing the right, regulated by the statute 25 Hen. VIII. c. 20, to nominate to the vacant archbishoprics and bishoprics, the form being to send to the dean and chapter of the vacant see the royal licence, or congé d'élire, to proceed to the election, accompanied by

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