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Table 92.—Shewing the number of families in the eastern and western divisions, and in the whole district, in 1811, 1821, 1831, with their occupation, as far as can be ascertained from the population returns.

	1811			1821			1831
	Fam. employed.			Fam. employed.			Fam. employed.
	Agril.	Trade.	Others.	Agril.	Trade.	Others.	Agril.	Trade.	Others.
Eastern Division.	832	176	122	961	269	100	944	350	297
Western Division	675	334	167	750	432	108	631	460	398
Whole District	1507	510	289	1711	701	208	1575	810	695

Referring to the whole district it appears, from the above table, that there is a decrease of 136 in the number of agricultural families in 1831, compared with 1821. The parliamentary returns shew a similar, though not so great a decrease, throughout Great Britain: a fact surely indicating some undue or unequal pressure upon the agricultural interest of the country. There is no manufacture carried on in the district under consideration; and only such handicraft business as is sufficient for the demands of the resident inhabitants. With an increasing population, therefore, a decrease in the number of families employed in agriculture, must be distributed among the little shop-keepers, the beer or public-house keepers, labourers, or paupers.

From the two preceding tables, we find that, in