the village population, 447,884; and the rural, 980,837. In 1891 the town population was 2,631,291, showing an increase of 14.06 per cent. ; the village population was 465,836, the increase being 4:01 per cent.; and the rural 928,513, there being a decrease of 533 per cent.

The occupations of the people, according to the census of 1891, were as follows:·

Ireland has an area of 32,531 square miles, or 20,819,982 acres, inhabited, in 1891, by 4,704,750 souls. The following table gives the population of Ireland at different census periods, with the density per square mile :

The subjoined tables give the results of the enumerations in the four provinces of April 3, 1881, and of April 5, 1891, together with the decrease, in numbers and rate per cent., between 1881 and 1891 :

The area and the population of the counties of the four provinces of Ireland at the census of April 5, 1891, are given in the following table :

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 47 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

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:

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

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

The proportion of illegitimate births to the total births in 1891 was 4.2 per cent. Having gradually diminished from 7 per cent. in 1845; the minimum rate was 2.8 per cent. in Essex (extra Metropolitan), and the maximum 7.5 in Shropshire. The percentage for London was 3.6. The births and deaths are exclusive of still-born.

The proportion of male to female children born in England during the last ten years is as 1,037 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, by emigration, war, and perilous male occupations, to the extent that there are 1,000 women, of all ages, to 949 men in England.

The average proportion of illegitimate births in 1892 was 7:3 per cent., the rate varying from 45 per cent. in Ross and Cromarty to 16.3 per cent. in Wigtown. The proportion of male to female births in Scotland for the last ten years was 1,054 to 1,000.

The average proportion of illegitimate births in 1892 was 2.5 per cent., the rate varying from 0.5 in Connaught to 3.9 in Ulster. The proportion of male to female births in Ireland for the last ten years was 1,057 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; and the total from 1815 to 1892 was 13,453,628. The total emigration of persons of British or Irish origin only, 1853-1892, was 7,550,515; 5,045,981 went to the United States; of these, 2,191,991 were English, 409,741 Scotch, and 2,444,249 Irish.