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FRANCE.

The increase of the population of Paris from 1831 till I860 was as follows : —

Census years

Total population

Averaee

annual

increase

per cent.

Within city walls

Within fortifi- cations

Total city population

1831 1836 1841 1846 1851 1856 1861 1866

785,862

899,313

935,261

1,053,897

1,053,262

1,174,346

75,574 103,320 124,564 173,083 223,802 364,267

861,436 1,002,633 1,059,825 1,226,980 1,277,064 1,538,613 1,696,141 1,825,274

3.28 1.14 3.15 0.82 4.10 2.05 1.52

In comparing the increase of population, it has to be noticed that while the old city of Paris extended over 3,438 hectares, the present city occupies 7,802 hectares.

The total population of Paris enumerated at the census of I860 comprised a garrison of 25,294, leaving the number of civil inhabitants 1,799,980. This civil population was constituted in regard to origin and religion as follows : —

Origin Parisians

Native French, born in the dej Naturalized citizens.

Strangers

Not ascertained

irtments

Numbers

592,763

1,098,815

2,512

104,114

1,773

Total 1,799,980

In 1846 the population of France was distributed as follows: — Rural, 75-58 per cent.; urban, 24'42 per cent. In 1861 the pro- portion was — Rural, 7P14 per cent ; urban, 28\86 per cent. The decrease of the rural, and increase of town population, has con- tinued since 1861, at an augmented rate.

Trade and Industry.

The foreign trade of France is officially divided into ' general commerce,' including the sum-total of all commercial transactions, and ' special commerce,' descriptive of such imports as are consumed in France, and such exports as have been produced within the country. The sum total of the general commerce of France in the years 1867-69 averaged 7,500 millions of francs, of which 3,500 millions represented the imports and 4,000 millions the exports. The value of the special commerce in each of the three years 1867-69 is shown in the following table : —