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GERMANY— BAYARIA.

Year of Census

Population

Triennial Increase or Decrease

1834

4,246,779

1837

4,315,468

Increase 68,689

1840

4,370,974

55,506

1843

4,440,327

„ 69,353

1846

4,504,874

64,547

1849

4,520,751

15,877

1852

4,559,452

38,701

1855

4,541,556

Decrease 17,896

1858

4,615,748

Increase 74,192

1861

4,689,837

74,089

1864

4,807,440

117,603

1867

4,824,421

16,981

The great fluctuations in the rate of increase, extremely low on the whole, are referred to emigration. According to an official state- ment, the total number of emigrants who left Bavaria with the knowledge and sanction of the government, during the thirty-three years from 1834 to 1867, was 273,000; but this figure is supposed to represent barely one-half of the number of persons who actually quitted the country during that period, it being known that every year masses of individuals emigrate secretly, that is, without obtain- ing the permission of the authorities, as required by law.

The soil of the kingdom is divided among 947,010 proprietors. The division is greatest in the Rhenish Palatinate, namely, 228,976, and smallest in Upper Bavaria, viz. 109,195.

The population of the principal towns of the kingdom was as follows at the census of Dec. 3, 1864, and of Dec. 3, 1867 : —

Towns

Capital of the Circle of

Population

1864

18G7

Munich (Miinchen) Nurnberg

Augsburg

Wiirzburg

Ratisbon (Regensburg).

Bayreuth

Upper Bavaria. . Middle Franconia.

Lower Franconia. Upper Palatinate. Upper Franconia.

167,054 70,492 49,333 41,082 29,893 19,208

170,688 77,895 50,067 42,185 30,357 19,464

It will be seen that in none of the larger towns of Bavaria did any great increase of population take place between the years 1864 and 1867. The most considerable was that shown by Nurnberg, the principal manufacturing city in the kingdom.