f the statistics which we ly may be accepted as quite true, but unhappily this country should be known: as the Land of Belated Information. We seldom know more about actual facts, unless a member of Parliament asks. for them, than our grandfath ould have known, with the facilities at their command. Thus in the last days of September we are given an official estimate that the population at the end of last June-showed an increase of 121,347 as compared with the similar total at the end of Tune, Our grand total is 745, the females numbering 100,000 less than the males. Hence doubtless the impression enjoyed in the United Kingdom
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