1811 | 1821 | 1831 | |||||||
Fam. employed. | Fam. employed. | Fam. employed. | |||||||
Agril. | Trade. | Others. | Agril. | Trade. | Others. | Agril. | Trade. | Others. | |
Eastern Division. | 832 | 176 | 122 | 961 | 269 | 100 | 944 | 350 | 297 |
Western Division | 675 | 334 | 167 | 750 | 432 | 108 | 631 | 460 | 398 |
Whole District | 1507 | 510 | 289 | 1711 | 701 | 208 | 1575 | 810 | 695 |
Referring to the whole district it appears, from the above table, that there is a decrease of 136 in the number of agricultural families in 1831, compared with 1821. The parliamentary returns shew a similar, though not so great a decrease, throughout Great Britain: a fact surely indicating some undue or unequal pressure upon the agricultural interest of the country. There is no manufacture carried on in the district under consideration; and only such handicraft business as is sufficient for the demands of the resident inhabitants. With an increasing population, therefore, a decrease in the number of families employed in agriculture, must be distributed among the little shop-keepers, the beer or public-house keepers, labourers, or paupers.
From the two preceding tables, we find that, in