TABLE XVIII.

Population and Number of Inhabited Houses in the Cities, Burghs, and Principal Towns in Scotland in 1851.

NOTE. The letters denote-M. Municipal limits; P. Parliamentary limits; and M. & P. Municipal and Parliamentary limits the same.

TABLE XVIII.-Continued.

Population and Number of Inhabited Houses in the Cities, Burghs, and Principal Towns

TABLE XVIII.-Continued.

Population and Number of Inhabited Houses in the Cities, Burghs, and Principal Towns

in Scotland in 1851.

Number of each class of Public Institutions in England and Wales, Scotland, and the Islands in the British Seas, and the Number of Persons inhabiting them, in 1851.

TABLE XX.

Births, Deaths, and the Excess of Births over Deaths, in England and Wales, for the Twelve Years from 1841 to 1852, inclusive.

1841.

1842.

1843..

1844.

1845.

1846.

1847.

1848.

1849.

1850.

262,714 249,444 512,158 174,198 169,649 343,847
265,204 252,535 517,739 176,594 172,925 349,519
270,577 256,748 527,325 175,721 170,724 346,445
277,436 263,327 540,763 181,126 175,807 356,933
278,418 265,103 543,521 177,529 171,837 349,366
293,146 279,479 572,625 198,325 191,990 390,315 182,310
275,658 264,307 539,965 214,375 208,929 423,304 | 116,661
288,346 274,713 563,059 202,949 196,851 399,833
295,158 283,001 578,159 221,801 219,052 440,853
302,834 290,588 593,422 186,459 182,527 368,986

168,311

168,220

180,880

183,830

194,155

163,226

137,306

224,436

1851. 1852.

615,865
624,171

395,174 220,691 407,938 216,233

TABLE XXI.

Emigration from Great Britain and Ireland in each Year from 1843 to 1852, inclusive, and the destination of the Emigrants.

It would appear by the foregoing table that the number of emigrants sailing from the United Kingdom in 1852 amounted, on an average, to upwards of a thousand a day.

The amount voted by Parliament for taking the census of the United Kingdom was £170,000.

Statistics Relative to Nova Scotia in 1851. By EDWARD CHESHIRE,
Assistant Secretary.

[Read before the Statistical Section of the British Association, at Hull,
14th September, 1853.]

PUBLIC attention having been directed to the North American fisheries of late, I have thought it might not be uninteresting to lay before this Section a short sketch of Nova Scotia, compiled chiefly from the writings of McCulloch, into which has been introduced some recent statistics relating to that province, extracted from a document received from the Colonial Office, entitled "Statistics of each County of the Province of Nova Scotia, exhibiting a view of the Population, Pursuits, Industry, and Resources of the country within each County of the Province; taken in 1851, by D. McCulloch, Esq., Secretary to the Board of Statistics."*

Nova Scotia was discovered by John Cabot in 1497. The French first settled in it, and called it Acadia; subsequently it fell under the English, having been granted by James I. to Sir W. Alexander in 1627, and was named Nova Scotia. In 1632 it was restored to France by the treaty of St. Germains, but it subsequently several times changed masters, and was not finally established in the quiet possession of the British till 1758. At the peace of 1763 the boundaries of this colony were so defined as to include New Brunswick and Cape Breton, but in 1784 the former was made a separate government. Halifax is its capital, and the seat of government.

The colony consists of an oblong-shaped peninsula, between latitude 43° and 46° north, and longitude 61° and 67° west, connected with New Brunswick by a low sandy isthmus, only fourteen miles across, and separated from Cape Breton by the narrow strait called the Gut of Canso. It is about 300 miles in length, and of very various breadth. Area about 15,620 square miles, one-fifth portion of which consists of lakes, rivers, and salt-water inlets. The coast line is extremely irregular, forming numerous capes and bays. Rocks and islands fringe its shores, and the aspect of the entire Atlantic coast is extremely picturesque. Deep water is found, almost without exception, close to the rocks and islands; and the peninsula presents, towards the Bay of Fundy, bold and almost precipitous cliffs. The interior is intersected, in almost every direction, by streams, rivers, and lakes, but mostly of an inferior size. The peninsula has no elevation deserving the name of mountain, its highest point not rising more than 700 feet above the sea. The east end of the peninsula possesses a deep rich soil. The barren tracts are chiefly of sand or clay, and contain extensive coal-fields. Iron is abundantly interspersed among the coal strata, and varieties of lead and copper ore are met with, though in smaller quantities.

The climate of Nova Scotia, in respect to temperature, bears a general resemblance to that of Lower Canada, and is subject to the same great and sudden variations. The difference of temperature

* This document, being purely statistical, could not be read in its original state,