instances, of course, and where it is impossible
of detection, marriage has been either
concealed or simulated. It is not reasonable to
suppose that people would tell the enumerator
all. In England and Wales, seven per cent of
the female population are widows; in Scotland
eight per cent; in the British islands nine
per cent. In London we are blessed with
widows to the extent of fourteen per cent, and
at Canterbury and Bury St. Edmunds they
exceed fifteen per cent. This ought to make
one serious. The highest proportion of widows
is found, naturally, in seaport towns, where
the population consists mainly of seamen,
fishermen, boatmen, and such as go down to
the sea in ships, and are consequently exposed
to sudden death.

Of "old maids" over forty (we may be
ungallant, but we must be truthful), there
were three hundred and fifty-nine thousand
nine hundred and sixty-nine, and of old
bachelors (shame on them!) two hundred and
seventy-five thousand two hundred and four.
Of young ladies, spinsters, between the ages
of twenty and forty, who, in eighteen hundred
and fifty-one, were roving " in maiden
meditation, fancy free," there were one million
four hundred and seven thousand two hundred
and twenty-five, of young bachelors one million
four hundred and thirteen thousand nine
hundred and twelve. Altogether, the number
of spinsters above the legal age for marriage,
(fourteen in the male, and twelve in the
female), was three million four hundred and
sixty-nine thousand five hundred and seventy-
one, of bachelors three million one hundred
and ten thousand two hundred and forty-
three. Of all the females in Great Britain
between twenty and forty, forty-two per
cent are spinsters, and of the males of the
corresponding periods of life, thirty-one per
cent.

We can only afford to cast a hurried glance
at the interesting section of the report devoted
to the ages of the people. We may state,
however, that there were in eighteen
hundred and fifty-one, in Great Britain, five
hundred and seventy-eight thousand seven
hundred and forty-three "babes and
sucklings" (infants under one year). Under the
head of longevity, we find that more than
half a million of the inhabitants (five hundred
and ninety-six thousand and thirty) had
passed the barrier of threescore years and
ten; more than a hundred and twenty-nine
thousand were over fourscore; one hundred
thousand had attained the years which the
last of Plato's climacteric square numbers
expressed (nine times nine = eighty-one); nearly
ten thousand had lived ninety years or more;
a band of two thousand and thirty-eight aged
pilgrims had been wandering ninety-five
or more on the unended journey, and
three hundred and nineteen said that they
have witnessed more than a hundred
revolutions of the seasons.

The department of the report devoted to
the enumeration and classification of the
occupations of the people Is perhaps the
most interesting and instructive in the work.
We should be far out-stepping, however, the
proposed limits of this paper, if we were to
follow the reporters in their minute disquisitions
upon the fourteen different classes into
which they have divided the different varieties
of occupations; many of the classes themselves
being again divided into three or more
sub-classes. Let us content ourselves, therefore,
with stating the numerical strength of a
few of the multifarious workers in this busiest
of countries.

Her Majesty the Queen stands of course
A per se A: A one and alone; though the
tabular report reads oddly thus: Queen one,
accountant six thousand six hundred and five.
Old playgoers, and ladies and gentlemen
interested in the revival of the drama, will be
glad to hear that there are as many as two
thousand and forty-one actors and actresses.
There were three thousand one hundred and
eleven barristers, special pleaders, and
conveyancers (an intolerable deal of wig and
gown to, we are afraid, only a halfpenny-worth
of briefs); ninety-four taxidermists;
only eleven armourers; forty-five dealers in
archery goods; and two apiarians, or bee
dealers.

It is with considerable glee and rejoicing
that we state that there were only two
apparitors in Great Britain. We don't know
what an apparitor may be, or what he is
like; but we imagine him to be something
dreadful in a gown, connected with the Court
of Chancery. Sometimes we embody him as
an incarnation of fees. Or perhaps, like
Mawworm, he "likes to be despised," and it
is the despising of an apparitor that forms the
unpardonable legal sin, contempt of court. At
any rate, we are glad to hear that the apparitors
were in numbers such a feeble folk. We
sincerely hope that they have not multiplied
since eighteen hundred and fifty-one; and we
should like to know the two apparitors
—that we might avoid them. Ladies,
do you know how many artificial flower-makers
there were in eighteen hundred and
fifty-one? Three thousand five hundred and
ten. The number of dealers in crenoline,
dress improvers, dress expanders, and jupes
bouffantes, is not set down. We presume
they are to be found under the head of
milliners or dress-makers, of whom there were
two hundred and sixty-seven thousand seven
hundred and ninety-one—a mighty army of
vanity. For the wounded in the battle of
life, the Miss Killmanseggs, whose mettlesome
horses running away from them may fracture
their limbs, and cause them to require golden
legs, there were twenty artificial limb- and
eye-makers.

The artists and painters mustered strong;
there were five thousand four hundred and
forty-four of them. On the other hand, literature
made by no means a conspicuous figure