GREAT TOWNS.
The Begistrar-Goneral estimates the population o? tho metropolis in the middle of the year IS7O at 3,214,707, being 41'2 persons to an aoro. This is London with the suburbs, from Hampstead to Streatham, and from Woolwich to Hammersmith. He estimates the population of Liverpool in tho middle of the year 1870 at 517,507, or 101'3 persona to an acre; Manchoster, 374,993, or 83G per acre ; and Salford, 121,530, or 235 per acre; Birmingham 369,004, or 47 - 2 per acre; Leeds, 259,527, or 12 per aero ; Sheffield, 247,378, or 10 8 per acre; Bristol 171,382, or 3G 6 per aero; Bradford, 143,197, or 21'7 per aero; Neweastle-upon-Tjne, 133,367, or 25 per acre; Hull, 130,869, or 367 per aero; Leicester, 97,427, or 30'4 per acre; Norwich, 81,087, or 10'9 per acre; Wolverhampton, 72,990, or 21 - 5 per acre. Tho area taken is tho municipal boundary in all cases except London. Tho population of Edinburgh is estimated at 178,970, or 40-4 per aero; of Glasgow, 408,189, or 925 per aero; of Dublin, with some suburbs, 321,540, or 33 per acre. The population of these 20 towns of tho United Kingdom is thus estimated at 7,209,603. Tho population of Paris is estimated at 1,889,842; of Vienna, 605,200; of Berlin, 702,437.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 410, 25 February 1870, Page 3 (Supplement)
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208GREAT TOWNS. Dunstan Times, Issue 410, 25 February 1870, Page 3 (Supplement)
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