add to their numbers, they are hardly ever able, without extraneous
addition, to maintain them.

[Footnote 5: Table showing the Population in 1801, 1891, and 1841, in
the under-mentioned counties of Great Britain.

Increase in
1801 1821 1841 forty years.

Lancashire, 672,731 1,052,859 1,667,054 994,323
Yorkshire, W.R., 565,282 801,274 1,154,101 588,819
Staffordshire, 233,153 343,895 510,504 277,351
Nottingham, 140,350 186,873 249,910 109,560
Warwick, 208,190 274,322 401,715 193,155
Gloucester, 250,809 335,843 431,383 180,574

2,070,515 2,995,066 4,412,667 2,343,782


Lanark, 146,699 244,387 434,972 288,273
Renfrew, 78,056 112,175 155,072 77,016

224,755 356,562 590,044 365,289

--_Census of_ 1841. Preface, p. 8 and 9.]

Various causes have combined to produce demoralization among the vast
crowd, thus suddenly attracted, by the alluring prospect of high
wages and steady employment, from the rural to the manufacturing
districts. In the first place, they acquired wealth before they had