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as follows among the different religions :—Presbyterians, 106,346; Roman Catholics, 73,410; Protestant Episcopalians, 65,239; Methodists, 7742; and other denominations, 14,322. The population in 1901 was 289,335 (Roman Catholics, 76,535 ; Protestant Episcopalians, 71,568; Presbyterians, 114,182; Methodists, 10,543; others, 16,507), being an increase of 7'3 per cent.; but these figures include part of the county borough of Belfast. The following table gives the number of births, deaths, and marriages in various years :—
The chief towns in the county are Newtownards, Banbridge, Downpatrick, and Holywood. Education.—The following table gives the degree of education in 1891 Percentage. Males. Females. Total. R. C. Pr.Ep. Presb. 72,239 77,570 149,809 62-6 73-4 82-3 Read and write 10,750 17,442 28,192 15-8 16-0 12-1 Read only 10,650 12,487 23,137 21-6 10-6 5’6 Illiterate The percentage of illiterates among Roman Catholics in 1881 was 26'5. In 1891 there were 15 superior schools with 621 pupils (Roman Catholics 191 and Protestants 430), and 460 primary schools with 32,461 pupils (Roman Catholics 8690 and Protestants 23,771). The number of pupils on the rolls of the national schools on 30th September 1899 was 50,220, of whom 11,595 were Roman Catholics and 38,625 Protestants. Administration.—The county is divided into four parliamentary divisions, north, south, east, west, the number of registered electors in 1900 being respectively 9886, 8944, 8489, and 8815. The borough of Newry returns one member. The ratable value in 1900 was £794,836. By the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898, the fiscal and administrative duties of the grand jury and (to a less extent) of other bodies were transferred to a county council, urban and rural district councils were established, and under that Act the county now comprises 7 urban and 8 rural sanitary districts. Agriculture.—The following tables show the acreage under crops, including meadow and clover, and the amount of livestock in 1881, 1891, 1895, and 1900. The figures for 1900 are for the new administrative county. £1 si “ =OOo £g
Year. 1881 1891 1895 1900
22,365 13,277 7,225 9,531
106,094 101,060 100,090 95,218
1715 967 851 1372
Ah 51,668 48,305 46,053 43,014
16,813 17,957 20,017 20,101
4754 4666 3835 4114
oo 28,089 12,968 16,634 7,738
70,035 73,367 78,957 74,395
Total. 301,533 272,567 273,662 255,745
For 1899 the total value ot the cereal and other crops was estimated by the Registrar-General at £1,755,140. The number of acres under pasture in 1881 was 217,543 ; in 1891, 242,700, and in 1900, 262,237. ,Tear- | Horses
- | and Mules.
1881 31,465 1891 32,171 1895 35,142 1900 33,700
Asses. 1382 1302 1359 1454
Cattle.
Sheep.
Pigs.
Goats. Poultry.
129,447 56,745 150,481 101,931 151,261 92,791 159,745 122,166
34,272 51,703 45,651 42,153
10,911 636,802 13,791 719,682 12,838 822,123 11,186 1,049,373
The number of milch cows in 1891 was 53,743, and in 1900 54,087. It is estimated that the total value of cattle, sheep, and pigs in 1899 was £2,242,131. In 1900 the number of holdings not exceeding 1 acre was 6306, between 1 and 5, 3775, between 5 and 15, 8904, between 15 and 30, 6505, between 30 and 50, 3181, between 50 and 100, 1756, between 100 and 200, 333, between 200 and 500, 87, and above 500, 23—total, 30,870. The number of loans issued (the number of loans being the same as the number of tenants) under the Land Purchase Acts, 1885, 1891, and 1896, up to 31st March 1900, was 1314, amounting to £497,045. The number of loans sanctioned for agricultural improvements under sect. 31 of the Land Act, 1881, between 1882 and 1900 was 102,
and the amount issued £8887. The total amount issued on loan for all classes of works under the Land Improvement Acts from the commencement of operations to 31st March 1900 was £99,765. Fisheries.—In 1899, 375 vessels, employing 1120 hands, were registered in the deep sea and coast fishery districts of Donaghadee Strangford, and Newcastle. In the same year 15,519 cwt. of herring were caught in the Ardglass fisheries. (w. H> Po Downpatrick, a market-town and county town of Down, Ireland, on Strangford Lough, 18 miles southeast of Belfast by rail. It ceased to be a parliamentary borough in 1885. It is governed by town commissioners, but under the powers conferred by the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898, can apply to be constituted an urban sanitary district. The County Down Railway connects the town with Belfast and (among other places) with Newtownards and Newcastle, a favourite watering-place. In 1883 an assembly hall was erected at the expense of Lord Dunleath, and a new lunatic asylum has been opened near the town. Population (1881), 3901 ; (1901), 2992. Doyle, Sir Francis Hastings Charles, Bart. (1810-1888), English man of letters, was born at Nunappleton, Yorkshire, 22nd August 1810, and was educated at Eton and Oxford, where he took a first-class in classics in 1831, and became a Fellow of All Souls’. He read for the Bar, but was chiefly interested in literature and society. Among his intimate friends was Mr Gladstone, whose “best man” he was; but in later life their political opinions widely differed. In 1841 he published Miscellaneous Verses, (1844) Two Destinies, (1852) The Duke's Funeral, (1866) Return of the Guards and other Poems-, and from 1867 to 1877 he was professor of poetry at Oxford. In 1869 some of the lectures he delivered were published in book form. In 1886 he published his Reminiscences, full of records of the interesting people he had known. Sir Francis Doyle succeeded his father (chairman of the Board of Excise) as second baronet in 1839, and married in 1844. From 1846 he held various important offices in the Customs. He died 8th June 1888. A cultivated and agreeable man and writer, Doyle’s poetry is memorable for certain isolated and spirited pieces, which became popular because of their thoroughly English celebration of manly deeds. The best known are his ballads on the “ Birkenhead ” disaster and on “ The Private of the Buffs.” Doyle, Richard (1824-1883), English artist, son of John Doyle, the caricaturist known as “H. B.” (1797-1868), was born in London in 1824. His father’s “ Political Sketches ” took the town by storm in the days of Lord Grey and Lord Melbourne. The son was an extremely precocious artist, and in his “ Home for the Holidays,” done when he was twelve, and his “Comic English Histories,” drawn four years later, he showed extraordinary gifts of humour and fancy. He had no art training outside his father’s studio. In 1843 he joined the staff of Punch, drawing cartoons and a vast number of illustrations, but he retired in 1850, in consequence of the attitude adopted by that paper towards what was known as “ the papal aggression,” and especially •towards the pope himself. In 1854 he published his “Continental Tour of Brown, Jones, and Robinson.” His illustrations to three of the Christmas Books of Charles Dickens, and to The Newcomes by Thackeray, are reckoned among his principal achievements ; and his fanciful pictures of elves and fairies have always been general favourites. He died on 11th December 1883. His most popular drawing is his cover of Punch. Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1820-1883), Dutch Arabic scholar of French (Huguenot) origin, was born at Leyden in February 1820. The Dozys, like so
