11 DECEMBER 1830, Page 19

POOR-LAWS.

PROGRESSIVE INCREASE OF POPULATION.

1700 Inhabitants of Great Britain 6,500,000 . 1750 Ditto Ditto 7,800,000 Increase, 1 Million 1-Sin -50 years.- 1800 Ditto Ditto 10,800,000 Ditto 3 Millions 50 DItto

1810 Ditto' Ditto 12,300,000 Ditto If Ditto 10 Ditto

1820 Ditto Ditto 14,400,000 Ditto 2 Ditto 10 Ditto

1830 Ditto Ditto 17,000,000 Ditto 2i Ditto 9 Ditto •

1801 Marriages in Great Britain 67,228 Baptism; 237,029

1820 Ditto Ditto 96,853 Ditto $43,660

. Since the year 1795, when the Poor-Laws first came into hill operation, our labouring poor are doubled; and should the present ratio of increaSe continue to the -end of the century, the population of Great Britain, which in 1700 was about six millions and a half, will, in 1900, exceed

SIXTY MILLIONS.