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GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.
Justices to pass sentences for short periods, with the consent of the prisoners, instead of committing for trial to the sessions.
2. Scotland.
Scotland has an area of 30,G85 square miles, with a population, in 1861, of 3,062,294 souls, giving 101 inhabitants to the square mile. The 33 counties into which Scotland is divided are of very unequal size, some of them containing only four or five parishes, and some above seventy. In the following table, the number of parishes in each county, the area of each in square miles, and the numbers of the population are given. The numbers of population include the military in barracks and the seamen on board vessels in the harbours and creeks of Scotland on the 8th of April, 1861 : —
Counties
Number
of parishes
Area in square miles
Population, April 8, 1861
Aberdeen .....
82
1,970
221,569
Argyll
34
3,255
79,724
Ayr ....
46
1,149
198,971
Banff ....
23
686
59,215
Berwick
32
473
36,613
Bute ....
6
171
16,331
Caithness
10
712
41,111
Clackmannan
5
46
21,450
Dumbarton .
12
320
52,034
Dumfries
43
1,098
75,878
Edinburgh .
31
367
273,997
Elgin or Moray
20
531
42,695
Fife .
62
513
154,770
Forfar .
53
889
204,425
Haddington .
24
280
37,634
Inverness
31
4,255
88.888
Kincardine .
19
394
34,466
Kinross
4
78
7,977
Kirkcudbright
28
954
42,495
Lanark
41
889
631.566
Linlithgow .
13
127
38,645
Nairn .
4
215
10,065
Orkney and Shetland
32
935
64,065
Peebles
14
356
11,408
Perth .
73
2,834
133,500
Renfrew
17
247
177,561
Ross and Cromarty
33
3,151
81,406
Roxburgh
32
670
54,119
Selkirk
5
260
10,449
Stirling
24
462
91,926
Sutherland .
13
1,886
25,246
Wigtown
17
512
42,095
Total .
883
30,685
3,062,294
