* In most instances the native population, the military, and persons on board vessels in the navy and merchant service are included in the colonial Censuses. CONCLUSION. The expense of all the operations in the country and in the central office amounted to 14d. per head on the population. The cost per 1,000 was 5l. 9s. in 1841; 57. 4s. in 1851; and 41. 15s. 5d. in 1861. We cannot bring our labours to a close without expressing the sense we entertain of the efficient services rendered by the clerks appointed to this establishment by the Lords of the Treasury. In the preparation of the Abstracts they worked ten hours daily during several months, and in the performance of all the tasks assigned to them in the various branches of the inquiry they evinced intelligence and a degree of assiduity which could Nor hardly have been looked for amongst persons temporarily employed on duties to which they were for the most part unaccustomed. should we be doing justice to the officers and clerks of the General Register Office who were engaged on the Census, more particularly to Mr. W. Clode and Mr. G. Wyatt, who filled prominent positions in superintending important branches of the work, and also Mr. Bacon and Mr. Williams, if we did not express the acknowledgments due to them for the valuable assistances which from their previous pursuits they have been enabled to afford us in the execution of this work. (Signed) GEORGE GRAHAM, Registrar - General; WILLIAM FARR; JAMES T. HAMMICK. ENUMERATED POPULATION of the UNITED KINGDOM, April 8th, 1861, exclusive of the part of the Army, Navy, and Merchant Seamen (250,356) out of the Country. 73,059 officers and privates were enumerated in England and Wales, and it has been estimated that 64,047 abroad belonged to England and Wales. † 29,377 officers, seamen, and marines were enumerated in port and on shore, and it has been estimated that 33,422 abroad belonged to England and Wales. The army and navy at home and abroad belonging to the United Kingdom amounted to 306,062. 94,665 merchant seamen were enumerated on shore and in the ports of England and Wales, and it has been estimated that 64,804 abroad belonged to England and Wales. VOL. I. ENUMERATED POPULATION of the UNITED KINGDOM, exclusive of the Army, Navy, and Merchant Seamen at Home and Abroad, in 1801, 1811, 1821, and 1831, and of the Portion of the Army, Navy, and Merchant Seamen abroad only in 1841, 1851, and 1861. England and Wales Islands in the British Seas Army, navy, and merchant, seamen at home and abroad, 1801, 1811, 1821, 1831; and abroad in 1841, 1851, and 1861 (exclusive of army, navy, and merchant seamen, being natives of colonies and foreign parts), not included in the above numbers. 15,795,287 18,006,580 20,983,092 24,132,294 26,833,496 27,533,755 29,070,932 8,892,536 10,164,256 12,000,236 13,896,797 15,914,148 17,927,609 20,066,224 2,091,521 6,801,827 7,767,401 8,175,124 6,574,278 124,040 143,126 5,798,967 143,447 NUMBERS of the ARMY, NAVY, and MERCHANT SEAMEN in 1801-1861 which should be added to the Population of the United Kingdom, as enumerated at the several Censuses (exclusive of Natives of Colonies and Foreign Parts). but NOTE.-The army and seamen ashore were not enumerated at the Censuses of 1801, 1811, 1821, 1831, were returned in the aggregate with those abroad. In 1841, the army at home and seamen ashore were enumerated in the general population, and are not included in the numbers for that year, which comprise the army, navy, and merchant seamen abroad or on board ships in British or Irish ports. In 1851 and 1861 the army and seamen ashore and on board ships in British or Irish ports were enumerated with the general population, and are not included in the above numbers. The numbers in column 2 are from the returns; those in the other columns, belonging respectively to England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and the islands in the British Seas, are calculated from the ascertained proportions in 1851 and 1861, who were born in the several countries. BRITISH-BORN SUBJECTS in FOREIGN COUNTRIES from which Returns have been received. N.B.-The above are not all British-born subjects. Natives of the colonies of Malta and Gibraltar are in several instances included. The crews of vessels are also included in some cases. * The proportions of the army, navy, and merchant seamen abroad belonging to England and Wales have been estimated at 131,817 in 1801, 145,136 in 1811, 84,688 in 1821, and 76,221 in 1831. ENGLAND AND WALES.-ENUMERATED HOUSES AND POPULATION, 1861. AREA in ACRES and POPULATION of the Counties of ENGLAND and WALES, enumerated on April 8th, 1861. NORTH AMERICA. PROPOSED RECOGNITION OF CONFEDERATE STATES. Correspondence with Mr. Mason respecting Blockade and Recognition of the Confederate States. On the 1st April, 1862, Mr. Mason wrote to Earl Russell, sending a list of vessels which entered and cleared at ports in the island of Cuba from and to certain of the blockaded ports of the Confederate States of America up to the month of December, 1861, inclusive, which list was in addition to another list of the same kind sent on the 17th February. Again on the 7th July Mr. Mason wrote to Earl Russell calling his attention to what seemed to be an addition engrafted by her Majesty's Government on the principle of the law of blockade, as established by the Convention of Paris in 1856, and accepted by the Confederate States of America, at the invitation of her Majesty's Government in the following terms:-"In the instructions to me the text of the Convention of Paris is quoted in the following words :- Blockades, in order to be binding, must be effective, that is to say, maintained by a force sufficient really to prevent access to the coast of the enemy.' And the despatch of the Secretary of State then proceeds: The Confederate States, after being recognized as a belligerent power by the Go vernments of France and Great Britain, were informally requested by both those powers to accede to this declaration, as being a correct exposition of international law. Thus invited, this Government yielded its assent. |