Some more census returns have now been supplied to us, and from these it appears that the steady decline of the population of Ireland has continued throughout the last ten years, until now she has to take third place among the sister kingdonis. Scotland's people, in spite of their proverbial readiness to pick up a living outside their own country, have increased within their boundaries from 4,025,647 to 4,471,597, and Ireland's have decreased from 4,704,750 to 4,471,957, It
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