II.-Number of each kind of Live Stock, and Number of Cattle Died of, or Killed on Account of Plague, in each County of Great Britain.

Total for counties of England 3,269,247 14,995,444 2,032,210 3,369,953 37,787 129,097 34,089 44,483

Total for metropolitan police district

Total for England

3,307,034 15,124,541 2,066,299 3,414,436

141,514

4.14

* This total of 7,028 includes 6,908 for the "metropolitan police district" up to the 31st of March, and 120 for the metropolis," or districts under the Board of Works, from 31st of March to 21st of April.

II.—Number of each kind of Live Stock, and Number of Cattle Died or Killed, &c.—Contd.

It appears from the same publication that there were on the 5th March,
1866, in England and Scotland 4,785,846 cattle, of which 1,883,532 were
cows, 1,298,514 were "other cattle" aged two years and over; and 1,603,800
under two years of age; and that there were 22,048,281 sheep, of which
15,538,444 were one year old and above; and 6,509,837 under one year.
The next table exhibits the number of live stock in the United King-
dom and various foreign countries:

III.-Statement of the Population and Number of Live Stock in the under-mentioned Countries, according to the Latest Returns.

Grand Duchy of

'52

279,637

Oldenburg

Holland

Belgium

France.

Spain

Austria

Bararia

United States......

219,843 '64 3,618,459 943,214 390,673 1,333,887 930,136 '56 4,529,461 1,257,649 583,485 '62 37,386,313 5,781,465 8,415,895 14,197,360 33,281,592 5.246,403 '65 15,658,531 2,904,598 22,054,967 4,264,817 '63 36,267,648 6,353,086 7,904,030 14,257,116 16,964,236 8,151,608 '63 4,807,410 1,530,626 1,655,356 3,185,882 2,058,638 926,523 '60 31,415,080 8,728,862 8,182,613 16,911,475 23,317,756 32,555,267

295,322

87,336

294,636

458,418

MARRIAGES, BIRTHS, AND DEATHS IN THE

UNITED KINGDOM.

No. I.-ENGLAND AND WALES.

MARRIAGES IN THE QUARTER ENDED 31ST DECEMBER, 1865,

AND BIRTHS AND DEATHS IN THE QUARTER

ENDED 31ST MARCH, 1866.

England. This Return comprises the BIRTHS and DEATHS registered by 2,200 registrars in all the districts of England during the winter quarter that ended on March 31st, 1866; and the MARRIAGES in 12,828 churches or chapels, about 5,352 registered places of worship unconnected with the Established Church, and 641 Superintendent Registrars' offices, in the quarter that ended on December 31st, 1865.

If a high marriage-rate is accepted as an indication of well-being and contentment in the great bulk of the people, the present return is highly satisfactory; for in the last quarter of last year the marriage-rate was unusually, perhaps unprecedentedly, high all over the country. The natural growth of the population, as shown by the birth-registers, has been active for a considerable time; and it was well maintained in the first three months of the present year. Against this latter fact must be set the high mortality which prevailed during the same period, partly in consequence of meteorological conditions and changes, unfavorable to health.

ENGLAND:-MARRIAGES, BIRTHS, and DEATHS, returned in the Years 1860-66, and in the QUARTERS of those Years.

Calendar YEARS, 1860-66:-Numbers.

'62.

'61.

'60.

'65. '64. '63. 185,520 180,387 173,510 164,030 163,706 170,156 747,870 740,275 727,417 712,684 696,406 684,048 491,360 495,531 473,837 436,566 435,114 | 422,721

June

Septmbr.....
Decmbr.

March......No. 196,737 194,287 192,974 186,341 181,990 172,933 183,180 192,921 188,835 189,340 185,554 184,820 174,028 181,642 181,015 173,439 172,709 172,033 164,121 179,020 177,478 178,297 172,431 166,620 162,719

March ..No. 138,233 140,646 142,977 128,096 122,019 121,215 122,617 116,006 116,801 118,121 107,392 107,558 110,869

June
Septmbr.....
Decmbr.

113,404 112,223 112,504 92,381 101,232 86,312 121,304 123,451 115,116 114,774 105,109 102,923

MARRIAGES.-In the quarter that ended 31st December, 1865, there were 114,100 persons married in England. In London the weddings rose from 7,856 and 8,711 in the December quarter of the two previous years to 9,746 in that of last year. In Lancashire and Cheshire, which together contain a population not much exceeding the metropolitan, the marriages in the same three periods were 7,635, 7,253, and 8,576. In the northern counties they were 2,917, 3,173, and 3,274. In Monmouthshire and Wales 3,329, 3,416, and 3,538. In Yorkshire 5,659, 6,027, and 6,291.

Taking a few districts as examples, the marriages in the three December quarters of 1863, 1864, and 1865, were in Kensington 505, 555, and 706. In Marylebone 478, 524, and 601. In Pancras 554, 643, and 668. In Islington 353, 422, and 525. In Hackney 258, 281, and 371. In Shoreditch 560, 607, and 600. In Bethnal-green 360, 420, and 520. In Lambeth 624, 669, and 799. returns show continued prosperity in the seats of the woollen trade. In Bradford the marriages in the same three corresponding quarters were 633, 635, and 676. In Leeds they were 525, 517, and 604.

The

The marriage-rate per annum, in the December quarter of 1865, was 2.148. This result represents the proportion of persons married to a hundred in the population. The average of ten corresponding quarters was 1.981 per cent. Weddings are always the most frequent in the Christmas quarter, and in that of 1864 the marriage-rate was 2.022; but within the range of the comparison, viz., the ten years 1856-65, a rate as high as 2.1 per cent. is without any example, with the single exception of that which is supplied by the present return.

BIRTHS. Of children born in the March quarter of the present year the number was 196,737, against the high number 194,287 in the corresponding period of 1865. The annual birth-rate for the same period was 3-776 per cent.; the average being 3.644. The birth-rate is always higher in the first six months of the year than in the last; but the tables for the last ten years furnish no instance of a rate so high as that which prevailed last quarter. London yielded its fair contribution to the increase; the births were under 30,000 in the metropolis, and slightly above that number in Cheshire and Lancashire. In some counties, as Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Norfolk, and Leicestershire, there was a decrease, for which others, chiefly in the northern parts of the kingdom and in Wales, more than compensate by their increase. The births were very numerous in Surrey, Devonshire, Lancashire, Durham, Northumberland, Cumberland, and Wales.