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OF MACHINERY.
5

For every Hundred Persons employed in Agriculture, there are,

Agriculturists. Non-agriculturists.
In Bengal 100 25
In Italy 100 31
In France 100 50
In England 100 200

The fact that the proportion of non-agricultural to agricultural persons is continually increasing, appears both from the Report of the Committee of the House of Commons upon Manufacturers' Employment, July, 1830, and from the still later evidence of the last census; from which document the annexed table of the increase of population in our great manufacturing towns, has been deduced.

INCREASE OF POPULATION PER CENT.
Names of Places. 1801
to
1811.
1811
to
1821.
1821
to
1831.
Total
1801 
to 1831.
Manchester 22   40   47   151  
Glasgow 30   46   38   161  
Liverpool[1] 26   31   44   138  
Nottingham 19   18   25   75  
Birmingham 16   24   33   90  
Great Britain 14.2 15.7 15.5 52.5

Thus, in three periods of ten years, during each of which the general population of the country has

  1. Liverpool, though not itself a manufacturing town, has been placed in this list, from its connexion with Manchester of which it is the port.