Resources of the United States

17 The population of France in 1801 was ........................................................ 27,349,003 1821 “ 30,461,875 1831 “ 32,569,223 1841 “ 34,230,178 1851 11 35,283,170 1861 “ 37,472,132 being about 37 per cent, in the sixty years. It does not include Algeria, which has a European population of 192,746. The population of Prussia has increased, since 1816, as follows : , 1816 ............................................................... 10,319,993 1822 ............................................................... 11,664,133 1834 ............................................................... 13,038,970 1840 ................................................. 14,928,503 1849 ............................................................... 16,296,483 . 1858 ............................................................... 17,672,609 1861 ........................................................... 18,491,220 being at the rate of 79 per cent, in forty-five years. The population of England and Wales was, in 1801 ............................................................ 9,156,171 1811 .............................................................. 10,454,529 1821 .............................................................. 12,172,664 1831 ............................................................... 14,051,986 1841 .............................................................. 16,035,198 1851 .............................................................. 18,054,170 1861 .............................................................. 20,227,746 Showing an increase of 121 per cent, in the sixty years, against an increase in the United States, in sixty years, of 593 per cent Ill. The natural and inevitable result of this great increase 2

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