NOTICE. The NEW YORK JOURNAL OF Commerce and CommeRCIAL BULLETIN enjoys the reputation of being the largest, most influential, and most complete daily business journal in the United States. upon Its Editorial Discussions are accepted as high and impartial authority all questions connected with Commerce, Industry, Transportation, and Banking. It ranks among the foremost in the advocacy of Sound Money and Sound Methods of Finance; and, whilst non-partisan in politics, is unalterably opposed to all forms of commercial oppression and to all industrial monopolies. In its News Columns it gives all the day's intelligence bearing upon business affairs, in condensed form suitable for the busy reader. As a member of the Associated Press and assisted by a large staff of experienced Correspondents and Reporters, it has unrivaled facilities for performing this service. In its Market Reports, accuracy, completeness, and promptness of information are the first essentials. It can be legitimately claimed that the JOURNAL OF COMMERCE AND COMMERCIAL BULLETIN is the largest and most thorough daily paper of its class in the World. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, $12.00 PER ANNUM. PUBLICATION OFFICES: 17 and 19 Beaver Street, WRITE FOR SAMPLE COPIES. NEW YORK, U. S. A. PART I. AREA, POPULATION, FISCAL AFFAIRS, AGRICULTURE, INDUSTRIES, COMMERCE, SHIP- The area and the distribution of population of the United Kingdom were as follows at the England, 50,867 square miles: Wales, 7,442 square miles; Scotland, 29,785 square miles; Ireland, 32,583 square miles; Isle of Man, 227 square miles; Channel Islands, 75 square miles. Total, 120,979 Population: England, 27,483,490; Wales, 1,519,035: Scotland, 4,025,647; Ireland, 4,704,750; Isle of Man, 55,608; Channel Islands, 92,234; military and naval abroad, 224,211. Total, 38,104,975. The estimated population at the end of June, 1898, was: England and Wales, 31,397,078; Scot- The population per square mile in 1891 was 498; in 1881 was 446; in 1871 was 390; in 1861 was 345; EMPLOYMENTS OF POPULATION IN ENGLAND AND WALES IN 1891. Mulhall states the ratios of occupation in the entire United Kingdom for the years 1841 and 1891 as follows: Agriculture in 1841 was 37.8, and in 1891 was 15.1; manufactures, respectively, 34.8 and 53.7; trade, 7.6 and 9.9; professions, 2.5 and 7.4; domestics, 17.3 and 13.9. D |