THE YEAR 1878.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1608, 16 April 1879, Page 4

THE YEAR 1878.

In tho year 1878 there were, says the “ London Times ” 1,152,525 births registered in the United Kindom, being at the rate of 34 per 1000 of the estimated population, which was 33,881,966 in the middle of that year. The deaths registered in the United Kingdom in 1878 wore 716,165, or 21T per 1000 of population. The natural increase of population by excess of births over deaths was 436 360, or 49,242 leas than the excess in 1877. The actual increase of population in 1878 cannot bo ascertained, owing to there being no complete records showing the balance between emigration and immigration. The Board of Trade report the emigration! from the United Kingdom in 1878 of 113,439’ persons of British origin, being an increase of 25 per cent, over the unusually small emigration of 1877. The increase in 1878 was 22 per cent in English, 34 in Scotch, and 27 in Irish emigrants. Of tho 113,439 British emigrants of 1878 there were 54,065 who left for the United States, 36,057 for the Australian colonies, and 10,697 for British North America, each of these numbers showing a marked increase over the preceding year. The mean temperature of 1878, as shown at Greenwich Observatory, exceeded tho average in every one of the first ten months of tho year, bnt there was a marked deficiency in November and December; the mean for the year was 49*7 deg., or 12 deg. above tho last 37 years’ average. The rainfall at Greenwich in 1878 amounted to 29 , 2 in., measured on 166 days ; this rainfall exceeded tho average by nearly 4in. Tho number of hours of bright sunshine registered at Greenwich Observatory in .1878 was 1250, or 28 per cent of its possible duration, the sun being above the horizon for 4454 hours.