Increase
per Cent.
per Ann.
Population of the United Kingdom ·9
Productions from 21 to 5
Exports 14
Imports 5
Shipping entering Ports 9
Property 1·7
Profits of trade 1·7
Far, very far indeed then, beyond the increase of the population, has
been the increase of the wealth and work of the country.
And now, after this imposing array of wealth, let us contemplate
the reverse of the picture: let us inquire if, while we have been
increasing in riches and productions far more rapidly than we have been
increasing in people and producers--let us inquire, I say, if we have
been numerically increasing also in the sad long lists of paupers and
criminals. Has our progress in poverty and crime been “_pari passu_,”
or been more than commensurate in the rapidity of its strides?