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The following table exhibits the numbers of the population of Scotland at the dates of the several enumerations, together with the increase between each census, and the percentage of decennial increase.

Percentage

Dates of Enumeration

Population

Increase

of Decennial Increase

March 10, 1801

1,608,420

.

May 17, 1811

1,805,864

197,444

12-27

May 28, 1821

2,091,521

285,657

1582

May 29, 1831

2,364,386

272,865

13-04

June 7, 1841

2,620,184

255,798

10-82

March 31, 1851

2,888,742

268,558

10-25

April 8, 1861

3,062,294

173,552

600

Increase in sixty years

1,453,874

90-32

The division of the population into five classes, after the same method as that adopted in England, presented the following result : —

1. Professional class ....

2. Domestic ,,

3. Commercial ,,....

4. Agricultural „

5. Industrial „

6. Indefinite „

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1851

1861

42.001 1,731,279

74,756 388,203 543,662 108,841

52,515

1,734,295

84,338

378.609

694,074

118,463

2,888,742

3,062,294

In 1861, therefore, of every 100,000 persons in Scotland 1,715 be- longed to the professional class, 2,754 to the commercial, 12,364 to the agricultural, 22,665 to the industrial ; while 56,634 were classed as domestic, and 3,868 undefined, or ill-defined.

The following table of births, deaths, and marriages in Scotland, for the years 1861-69, with the estimated population ' for the middle of each year, is compiled from the returns of the Registrar-General : —

Years

Estimated population

Births

Deaths

Marriages

1861

3,062,294

107,036

62,287

20,828

1862

3,079,650

107,138

67,159

20,544

1863

3,101,006

109,325

71,421

22.087

1864

3,118,701

112,445

74,303

22,675

1865

3,136,057

113,126

70,821

23,577

1866

3,153,413

113,639

71,273

23,629

1867

3,170,769

114,115

69,024

22,521

1868

3,188,125

115,673

69.386

21,853

1869

3,205,481

113,395

75,789

22,083