The returns state that the township of Manchester contains about 12,000 men engaged in the cotton and silk manufactures; Salford, 3,500, including many makers of machinery; Pendleton, 850; Chorlton-upon-Medlock, 1,900; Heaton Norris, 1,100; and other townships of the parish about 4,000 colleetively; Oldham, 4,000, and Crompton in that parish, 4,200; Great and Little Bolton, 6,100; Bury, 1,600; Tottington, 1,500; Spotland and Castleton, (Rochdale parish) 2,000; Middleton township, 1,100 collectively. In addition to these there are 18,000 persons employed in the numerous manufacturing townships of the populous Hundred of Salford. The manufacture of woollens is said to be "comparatively unimportant;" the number of men employed in worsted mills, and as fullers, makers of baize, blankets and flannels being about 2,700, chiefly at Newchurch, in Whalley parish, in Rochdale, and at Bury. In Chorlton-upon-Medlock there are 1,900 workers in iron and brass (in foundries and so forth); there are 550 men employed as hatters in several of the adjoining townships-300 at Oldham. RECAPITULATION OF THE FOURTEEN DISTRICTS IN THE TOWNSHIP OF MANCHESTER: May 28th., 1821. RECAPITULATION OF THE FOURTEEN DISTRICTS OF THE TOWNSHIP OF MANCHESTER: 1831. Total. 22,445 30,384 53 968 30 23,067 7,287 67,845 74,181 142,026 35,655 I 3 6311,797 14,308 2,002 5,991 1,255 235 110 2,978 The following tables present an amusing and not altogether valueless contrast to these numerical results: ENUMERATION OF THE HOUSES AND INHABITANTS IN THE TOWN AND PARISH OF MANCHESTER, IN 1773 AND 1774, TAKEN FROM AN ACTUAL SURVEY, AND DEPOSITED BY DR. JOHN WHITAKER, APRIL 27, 1778, IN THE COLLEGE LIBRARY: Houses. Families Males. Females Married. Wives. Widows. Manchester 3402 5317 10548 11933 7724 432 1064 149 Manchester.... 7782 under 15. 3252 above 50. 44 Empty Houses. 1793 640 26 Persons to a house, more than 63; Individuals to a family, 44. Population of the principal manufacturing towns of England and Scotland at the same period, (taking the suburbs as arranged by the Reform Bill) shewing their relative increase per cent:— Manchester, Salford 94876 22 115874 40 161635 47 237832112873 124959 and Suburbs Glasgow (city) and suburbs Birmingham and 77385 30 100749 46 147043 38 202426 93724 108702 73670 16 85753 24 106721 33 142251 69415 72836 Suburbs Norwich (city) 36832 1 Paisley, with the Abbey Parish Nottingham (town)... 31179 18 28861 19 34253 18 40415 25 50680 23616 27064 In Liverpool, including Toxteth Park, the increase per cent. in the first period was 26; in the second, 31; in the third, 44. Extraordinary as is the increase in some of these towns, the growth of the fashionable watering places has been still more magical. Brighton, in 1801, had a population of only 7,339; in 1831 it was 40,308. Cheltenham, in 1801, had 3,076; in 1831, 23,045, According to an actual survey made by Mr. W. Johnson, the parish of Manchester contains 34,507 statute acres, viz. : FULL ANNUAL VALUE OF PROPERTY ("MESSUAGES, LANDS, TENEMENTS AND HEREDITAMENTS") IN EACH TOWNSHIP OF THE PARISH OF MANCHESTER, IN THE DIVISIONS OF MANCHESTER, MIDDLETON AND BOLTON, AND THE WHOLE HUNDRED OF SALFORD, ACCORDING TO THE ASSESSMENTS FOR THE COUNTY RATE MADE IN 1815 AND 1829. The area of the county contains 1766 square statute miles, and consequently 1,130,240 acres; whilst the |