himself gentleman. Of such there are assessed 52; about half of this number also paying on personalty or for practice. "Only 118 persons pay a rate upon their personalty. John Leaver, Esq., is the only man rated at 500l.; Thomas Minshall the only one at 400l.; there are 7 assessed at 300l., four of whom claim the title of gentlemen, and three of whom are ladies; 34 are rated at 200l.; 75 at 100l.; of these there are three ladies, Mrs. Shuttleworth, Mrs. Drake and Mrs. Howerth, who are also taxed with 1l. 138. 4d. each as esquires' widows; Mrs. Mosley and Mrs. Halstead, also esquires' widows, paying nothing in addition for personalty, though Mrs. Mosley's two daughters do so. "The domestic economy of the town seems to have been frugal. In 151 cases women servants only are recorded; in 66 cases, both men and women. "Where women servants only were employed, there were men servants, where no women servants are recorded. 52 cases of 1 man 36 = 52 24 3 12 I 2 + One of them being a man cook. "Some of the other men servants were probably journeymen, but only one case is so described." "In one house the names of 12 ladies, boarders ('tablers '), are recited. "There appear to have been 54 widows and 23 widowers having children living with them, viz., with 171 Total number of children living with their parents.... 580 "360 married couples appear to have been without children living with them. Total number of married couples, 534 "It is not easy to estimate what was the total population of the town of Manchester at the date of this poll. Judging from the table of births, deaths and marriages, there must have been but little change in the parish during the previous period of a hundred years, in two of which there had been a great waste of life from the plague. The survey of 1650, quoted by Aiken, describes the town as a mile in length, and as containing 48 subsidy men, besides a great number of burgesses; but no enumeration of the population is recorded until 1710, when it was stated to be 8,000. "The growth of the town after this time was rapid, the returns of 1773 giving 24,386 as the population of the township, and that of 1788, 42,821. “The registers of the mother church yield very uncertain data for estimating the total population of the township, which is only one of twenty-nine comprised in the parish of Manchester. "The rate-books also afford no assistance in drawing a conclusion on this subject, as the early series of them is imperfect, and as none are preserved in the overseers' office of prior date to the year 1706. "The rate laid in that year was eleven pence in the pound upon feild land, and tenn pence in the pound upon house land.' The following table gives a summary of the assessment. It will be observed that no new streets are named beyond those given in the Pole Book' of 1690, nor are there any in the rate-book of 1712. In that of 1716 St. Ann's Square' appears. In 1717 Cross' is a name substituted for Market Place.' In 1719 New Street' occurs. In 1721 and 1723 there is no new name. The Roll of 1724 is imperfect, but we there find 'High Street,' Knott Mill Lane,' and King Street;' 'St. James's Square being mentioned incidentally. In this last-named quarter, however, no inhabitants are named in the Rolls either of 1725 or 1729. "In the assessment of 1706 one Joseph Dand is described as a quaker, and William Browne as a Scotchman. Trades are not frequently named. Madam Birch, of Birch, is rated in Smithy Door; Madam Guilliam, in Hanging Ditch; Madam Drake, in Milngate; and Madam Lightbowne, as one of John Kay's tenants. George Pigott, Esq., in Churchyard Side, and Robert Lever, of Alkerington Hall, Esq., for land in Market Street Lane, where Nathan Sandiford lived. Sir Robert Booth's heirs have land in Market Place, and Butterworth, of Belfield, in Milngate. The only inn named is the Nag's Head, Deansgate." X.-Number of Parliamentary Electors in England and Wales. THESE summaries are taken from the Electoral Returns recently prepared for the Government by Mr. John Lambert, of the Poor Law Board. The population of England and Wales has, since 1831, increased 44 per cent.; the electors, in nearly the same interval, increased 62 per cent. (a) Parliamentary Cities and Boroughs— Total number of electors on the register, 1865-66, 514,026 including double entries Total number of scot and lot voters, potwallers, and Total number of such electors on the register, 1865-66 .... Decrease 44,738 8,837 35,901 57,741 (b) Counties Total decrease of freemen, scot and lot voters, &c......... Total number of electors on the register, 1864-65.. on the register, '32-33.. Increase 542,633 369,887 172,746 (c) Total increase in the constituencies of England and Wales............ .......................... 404,374 MARRIAGES, BIRTHS, AND DEATHS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. No. L-ENGLAND AND WALES. MARRIAGES IN THE QUARTER ENDED 30TH SEPTEMBER, 1865, AND BIRTHS AND DEATHS IN THE QUARTER ENDED 31ST DECEMBER, 1865. The United Kingdom.-The Registers of the United Kingdom show that 113,972 persons married in the quarter that ended in September last; that the births of 239,499 children, and the deaths of 159,524 persons of both sexes, were registered in the three months ending on December 31st. The recorded natural increase of population in 92 days was 79,975, or 869 daily. Exclusive of 8,101 foreigners, 36,256 emigrants sailed from these islands in the same period. So about 394 emigrants left daily; and allowing for defects in registration, which has only recently been established in Ireland, the increase at home has been about 520 daily. The death-rate of the United Kingdom differs little from the average of England and Wales to be here discussed. The several facts concerning the other divisions of the kingdom are fully set forth in the reports of the RegistrarGeneral of Scotland and the Registrar-General of Ireland. ENGLAND:-MARRIAGES, BIRTHS, and DEATHS, returned in the Years 1859-65, and in the QUARTERS of those Years. Calendar YEARs, 1859-65:—Numbers. Years Marriages No. Births 29 180,263 173,510 164,030 163,706 170,156 167,723 747,870 739,763 727,417 712,684 696,406 684,048 689,881 Deaths........ 491,360 495,520 | 473,837 | 436,566 | 435,114 | 422,721 | 440,781 June Septmbr.....,, Decmbr. March No. 36,835 37,948 35,528 33,953 33,274 VOL. XXIX. PART I. M June March......No. 194,287 192,926 186,341 181,990 172,933 183,180 175,532 192,921 188,641 189,340 185,554 184,820 174,028 175,864 Septmbr..... 181,642 180,752 173,439 172,709 172,033 164,121 | 168,394 179,020 177,444 178,297 172,431 166,620 162,719 170,091 Decmbr. March ........No. 140,646 143,030 128,096 122,019 121,215 122,617 121,580 June 116,006 116,899 118,121 107,392 107,558 110,869 105,631 Septmbr..... 113,404 112,133 112,504 92,381 101,232 86,312 104,216 Decmbr. 121,304 123,458 115,116 114,774 105,109 102,923 109,354 The estimated population in 1865 of England, Scotland, and Ireland, is 29,772,294. The corrected death-rate of the quarter is 2-220 per cent. England. This Return comprises the BIRTHS and DEATHS registered by 2,200 Registrars in all the districts of England during the autumn quarter that ended on December 31st, 1865; and the MARRIAGES in 12,811 churches or chapels, about 5,302 registered places of worship unconnected with the Established Church, and 641 Superintendent Registrars' offices, in the quarter that ended on September 30th, 1865. A few fatal cases of epidemic cholera occurred during the quarter in the districts of Southampton and of Portsea Island on the southern coast of England; there was also a slight outbreak in Epping; but the number of deaths by cholera has been inconsiderable, and the epidemic has left no traces. The mortality was above the average, but it was below that in the corresponding quarter of the previous year. The birth rate was above the average. The marriage returns are for the quarter ending in September, 1865. The rate was much above the average. Weddings were more rife than they were in the previous summer, or in the summer of any year since registration began. This implies that the great body of the people were prosperous. MARRIAGES. 91,726 persons married in the quarter that ended on September 30th, 1865. The rate of marriage was 1·732, or 0.127 above the average. The increase of marriages was general, but it was most striking in Yorkshire, where the woollen trade flourished in an extraordinary degree; Lancashire was also recovering from its depression. In London the marriages exceeded by nearly a thousand the marriages in the summer quarter of 1863. BIRTHS.-179,020 births were registered in the last quarter of the year 1865. The birth-rate was 3.370, or '073 above the average. The daily births were 1,946, or 81 per hour. The number has varied little in the last three summers in any of the divisions. INCREASE OF POPULATION.-As the births were 179,020, the deaths 121,304, the natural increase of population was 57,716 in 92 days, or upon an average 627 daily. |