STATISTICS

(Lat. status, state, condition.) name given to the science which exhibits the state dit i on of a country or nation, principally in relation extent, population, industry, wealth, and power. By a statistical account of a country, we mean a work scribing its situation and extent; its natural and acquired capacities of production; the quantity and value of the rio us articles of utility and convenience existing and nually produced in it; the number and cla es of its itants, with their respective incomes; its institutions government, improvement, defence, and maintenance population; with a variety of subsidiary statements and tails.A science embracing so great a varietv of objects easily tinct defined line of demarcation or limited; nor between is it po ible what should"to draw he any left of statistical works, and what should be included in Much must always depend on the object in view, and the good sense and discrimination of the author. tics has many features in common with geography and itics, and embraces that sort of mongrel science that been called political arithmetic. Some authors, and, others, the economist M. Say, contend that any description, however brief, of the territory of a country is foreign statistics, and belongs exclusively to physical geography. But this is evidently a most erroneous statement. How we acquire any accurate or comprehensive knowledge the capacities of production enjoyed by a country, if unacquainted with its situation, soil, climate, and productions, and with its facilities for bringing them to market and exchanging them with others? So far from being to, this knowledge lies at the very foundation of the science nnd any work which should omit it, however well it be executed, wou.d have no claim to be considered complete statistical work. Those topographical which are e ential in a geographical work would, however, be totally out of place in one devoted to statistics. of the principal objects of the latter is to exhibit the and sources of the national wealth, its amount nnd but i on and; these would not be in any respect promoted indulging in topographical details. Hence, in statistical works, a short notice of the principal divisions of the try with reference especially to its climate, soil, native III. Table exhibiting Extent in Provinces and Area in Acres, exLakes. PopulaLemster. _ 219.S63 — 219,863 97,070 Car low Dublin — 335,892 Kildare — Kilkenny. 182,046 Kings.... 131,083 Long ford 107.570 Louth.... — 101,011 Meath.... 159.IS399,06'. Queens Wesimealh. 170,806 134,27.=.123.3110.767 Totals 32,474 4,74j,584 1,757,592 Munater. 783,697 Clare.... 802,352 208,089 Cork.... 18,655 730.444 Kerry.... 1,134,051 216.135 Limerick 1,148,720674.783 674,733 277,477 ripperary. 346,89( Totals 5,835,220 156,521 44,6.2 Ulster. 1,935,612 Antrim 753,866 709,076 262,860 Armagh 323,183 49,79018,394 309,789 Cavaii.... 451,462 205,450 Donegal 1,165,107 195,076 Down. •.. 611,404 1,165,107611,246 24S,270 Fermanagh... 471,343 48,797 422,551 32-410 London derry,. 518,270 508,705 130,997 Mouaghan. 327,048 9,56S "57224,274319,204 193.86S Tyrone 754,395 27,267,844 727,134 261,865 Tolals 183,796 5,408,070 Con naught. 1,998.494 Galway.., 1,510,592 77,92215- Leitrim 420,375 1,432,670394,807 337,374174,69' Mayo.... 1,355,048 25,56857,940 Roscommon... 609,405 24,787 1,297,103531,618 Sligo.... 434,188 1947477 425,928 208,792146,228124,7s." Totals 8,260 293,11-2 4,329,608 4.135,131 20,399.603 1,110,292 6,801,990 \l\ fn T,?r^twRL. * ^n and ' om,Iation compiling com. tl'ir,™any similariim?M,' account IT'??dfor WiU'any oneWC of^elieVC'the other States, and their Designation. i Great Rritain United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. irel.nd ] IWe of Man and Channel Island 1160 Total United Kingdom [s. 1172]