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TASMANIA.

The census of February 7, Tasmania as follows : —

1870, showed the population of

Males Females

Total

Total

Married

Single

52,853 46,475

15,665 15,498

37,188 30,977

99,328

31,163

68,165

The population of Tasmania at the preceding census, taken April 7, 18G1, was 89,977. Comparing the census of 1870 with that of 1861, there was an increase of 9,351 souls, or 10*39 per cent. The difference between the number in the census of 31st March, 1857, and that of 7th April, 1861, was 8,485, or 10*41 per cent., so that the increase of population was only about half as rapid as it was at the date of the previous census. On the 7th February, 1870, the proportion of males to females was 113*72 to 100: on the 7th April, 1861, it was 122*80 to 100.

The following statement gives the trades and professions of the population according to the census of February 7, 1870 : —

Per 1,000

Merchants and bankers

Legal profession ....

Medical profession

Clergymen .....

Army and navy ....

Proprietors and occupiers of sheep and cattle

Farmers, — proprietors and occupiers

In Government employ

Schoolmasters and mistresses

Retail dealers, including hawkers.

Artisans and mechanics

Domestic servants, male '.

T. fFarm

Labourers < .-.,,

pother

Licensed victuallers

Seafaring persons

Unclassified ....

farms

3*24

2*25

2*57

4*09

5*37

18-87

15371

19-53

5*81

36-59

142*07

31*35

327*47

117*55

12-96

27*92

88-65

Distributed according to religious tenets, the population stood as follows at the census of 1870 : —

Per cent. . 53*41 . 22*24 . 6*69 2-43 . 3 96

Church of England Church of Rome. Church of Scotland Free Church ditto. Independents

At the census of 1861, the number of persons returned as belonging to the Church of Engand was 54*72 per cent, of the whole population ; to the Church of Koine 21*60 per cent. ; so that, while

Baptists

Wesleyan Methodists.

Jews.

Mahomedans or Pagans

Other Sects.

Per cent. 0*94 7*23 0*23 0*004 2*86