notes
1
See No. 343, Blackwood's Magazine, p. 534, Vol. lv.
2
Table showing the number of committments for serious crimes, and population, in the year 1841, in the under-mentioned counties of Great Britain;—
I.—PASTORAL.
II.-AGRICULTURAL AND MANUFACTURING.
III.-MANUFACTURING AND MINING.
—PORTER'S Parl. Tables, 1841, 163; and Census 1841.
3
Table, showing the comparative population, and committals for serious crime, in the under-mentioned counties, in the years 1821, 1831, and 1841.
I.—PASTORAL
II.—AGRICULTURAL AND MANUFACTURING.
III.—MANUFACTURING AND MINING.
—PORTER'S Parl. Tables, and Census 1841.
4
Table showing the Population in 1801, 1891, and 1841, in the under-mentioned counties of Great Britain.
—Census of 1841. Preface, p. 8 and 9.
5
ALISON on Population, ii. Appendix A.
6
Commitments:—
Strike.
Strike.
PORTER'S Parl. Tables, xi. 162.—Parl. Paper of Crime, 1843, p. 53.
7
Statistique de la France, publiée par le Gouvernement, viii. 371-4. A most splendid work.
8
Fever patients, Glasgow, 1836, 37.
—COWAN'S Vital Statistics of Glasgow, 1388, p 8, the work of a most able and meritorious medical gentleman now no more.
9
Dr Alison on the Epidemic of 1843, p. 67.
10
Captain Millar's Report, 1841, p. 8.
11
Viz., in round numbers—
England, 30,000
Ireland, 26,000
Scotland, 4,000
60,000
12
——Lactuca innatat acri
Post vinum stomacho.—HOR.
13
Vide THUCYDIDES, Book iv. chap. 15.
14
"Virroni muræna datur, quo maxima venit
Gurgite de Siculo: nam dum se continet Auster,
Contemnunt mediam tem eraria lina Charybdim."
JUVENAL, Sat. v. 99.
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