Wright's Domestic Manners in England in Timbs's Abbeys and Castles of England and the Middle Ages. Godwin's Archæologist's Handbook. Parker's Our English Home (Oxford, 1860). Bohn's Cyclopedia of Political Knowledge. Bevans's Statistical Map of England. Parker's Elements of Gothic Architecture. Johnston's Historical Atlas. Wilkins's Political Ballads. Bailey's Succession to the Crown. Wales. Heath's English Peasantry. Taine's Notes on England. Nadal's London Society. Hoppins's Old England. Higginson's English Statesmen. R. G. White's England Without and Within. Society in London, by a Foreign Resident On Modern England and English Patten's England as seen by an American Life, see Irving's Bracebridge Hall, and Sketch-Book. Colman's European Life and Manners. Hawthorne's Our Old Home, and Note Books. Banker. O. W. Holmes's One Hundred Days in Eu- R. L. Collier's English Home Life. Daryl's La Vie Publique en Angleterre. STATISTICS FOR 1887. Area of England and Wales, 58,310 square miles. Extreme length, 365 miles; extreme width, 311 miles. No part more than about 120 miles from the sea. Mean temperature during the year in Great Britain, 49.06°. Population of England and Wales, 27,870,586. Population to square mile, 482 (the most densely populated country in Europe, except Belgium). Area of Great Britain, 88,006 square miles. Population of Great Britain, 31,819,979. Area of Great Britain and Ireland, 120,832 square miles. Population of Great Britain and Ireland, 37,020,000. Population of London, about 4,250,000. About one-third of the entire population of England and Wales is in the cities. Area of British Empire, 9,079,711 square miles. Population of British Empire, 320,676,000. National debt of Great Britain and Ireland, £748,750,000 ($3,623,950,000).1 Average rate of taxation per head, £2.1.1 ($9.94).1 Church of England (membership), 13,500,000.2 Dissenting churches, 12,500,000. 2 Roman Catholics, 2,500,000. Number of paupers in receipt of relief, 807,639. Total number of children of school age (5-15), 5,426,490. Total attendance (not including private schools), 3,273,124. Total British army, 676,156. Total effective force, 200,785. Total navy, 60,632. Total number of vessels in navy, 258. Iron-clads (ranging from 1230 to 11,800 tons each), 76. 1 Calling the pound $4.84. 2 Some estimates make them about equal. Of the cultivated land of England and Wales, something over one-fourth, is held by 874 per sons, while about 10,000 persons hold two-thirds of the whole. Number of men in army and navy, I out of 26. National debt per capita, $127. Total wealth of Great Britain and Ireland, $45,000,000,000 (the wealthiest nation on the globe). Annual increase of wealth, $375,000,000. Average annual income, $165. Death rate (England and Wales), 19.3 per 1000. STATISTICS OF THE UNITED STATES (FOR COMPARISON). Area (including Alaska), 3,611,849 square miles. Population, about 60,000,000. National debt, $1,380,087,279. Total wealth, $35,000,000,000. Annual increase of wealth, $825,000,000. Average annual income, $165. Taxation per capita, $6.00. Standing army, 26,000. Navy, 10,340. Number of men in army and navy, I out of 322. From 1840-1880 the wealth of Great Britain doubled; that of the United States increased tenfold. AUTHORITIES: - Encyclopædia Britannica; Scribner's Statistical Atlas; Mulhall's BalanceSheet of the World; Atkinson's Strength of Nations; Jean's Supremacy of England; The Statesman's Year-Book. INDEX. Abolition of the slave trade, 331. Settlement, 282, 299, 301, 306. Uniformity, 260. his death, 370. his laws and translations, 42. America discovered, 186. civil war, 370, 371. of Cleves, 198. Prince, murdered, 103. Articles of Faith, 202. Bacon, Lord Francis, 218. his impeachment, 236, 302. Bacon, Sir Nicholas, 210. Bank of England, 288. Dettingen, 316. Hastings, 60. Lewes, 113. Marston Moor, 245. New Orleans, 335. Wakefield, 165. Waterloo, 335- Yorktown, 329. Benevolences, 169, 175. Bill of Rights, 282, 301. Hole of Calcutta, 317. her death, 22. Board schools, 375. Boleyn, Anne, 191; executed, 198. Books, the earliest, 55. Boston Tea Party, 327. Bright, John, 366. Britain, primitive, its climate, etc., 1. becomes England, 39. Britons, their bravery, 34. men, Greek account of, 8. Cabal, the, 258. Cabinet government, rise of, 308. Calendar, correction of, 318. divides England into four earldoms, 45. of Brunswick, Queen, 346. Caxton introduces printing, 167, 168. Celts, early, their condition, 8. Channel, the British, in history, 15. Charles I., King, 238-247. II., King, 257-269. Charter, the Great, 105, 108, 109, 112, 142. Charter, Henry I.'s, 73. Chaucer, 133, 137, 141. its effects, 53.. Christ's Hospital, 203. Church property confiscated, 195, 203. rates abolished, 374. Churchill, John, Duke of Marlborough, 278, 293, 361. Clarkson, Thomas, 332. Climate of England, 16. Clive, Lord, his victories, 317. Cobden, Richard, 366. Columbus, his discoveries, 185, 187, 226. Commons, House of, supreme, 358. Covenanters, the, 241, 261. Crimea, war in the, 369. Cromwell, Oliver, 241, 248, 250, 252, 254. Richard, 255, 256. Thomas, 194; beheaded, 198. Crosby Hall, London, 178. Cuthbert, monk and missionary, 36. "Danegeld," tribute to Northmen, 44. Darwin, Charles, 379. David I., of Scotland, invades England, 76. Davy, Sir Humphry, 340. De Montfort, Earl Simon, 112, 143, 361. his monument still unbuilt, 114. Despenser, Hugh, and his son, 123. "Divine Right of Kings," 232, 238, 290, 296, 300. Domesday Book, 67. Dover, treaty of, 264. Drake, Sir Francis, 220. Druids, their abode, teaching, etc., 10. expedition against, 21. Dryden, John, 302. Dudley, Lord Gulford, 205; beheaded, 206. A Education Bill, 361, 374. Edward, Prince, 45; Confessor, 46. I., King, summons Parliament, 115. Gibraltar taken, 294. Gladstone, William Ewart, 362, 371. builds Conway and other castles, 116. Glendower, Owen, 151. II., his incapacity, 123. deposed and murdered, 124. III., king at fourteen, 124; his death, 134. IV., King, 167. V., Prince, 170. VI., King, 201. (Black Prince), 128, 130, 131. Egbert, King, 39. Eleanor, Queen, her heroism, 115. her death, 118; crosses, 118. Eliot, Sir John, 240. Elizabeth, Queen, 206, 208-222. of York, 172. Entail, 119, 143. Factory reform, 354. Feudal System, 50, 80, 269. Fielding, Henry, 302. Fire, great, of London, 262. Fisher, Bishop John, executed, 195. Five Members, attempted arrest of the, 242. Fox, Charles James, 332. Franklin, Benjamin, 326. Frederick the Great, of Prussia, 318. Freemen, their duties, 50. Free trade, 366. French Revolution, 332. Frobisher, Sir Martin, his voyages, 217. Gas, burning, first used, 339. returns, 122; beheaded, 122. I., King, 306-314. Gloucester, appointed Protector, 169. Gregory I. and English slaves in Rome, 35 Pope, sends missionaries, 35. VII., his appeal to William, 65. Grey, Earl, 353- Lady Jane, 204; beheaded, 206. Grove, Sir William, 379. Gunpowder plot, 232. Habeas Corpus Act, 269, 361. his death, 60; his grave, 60. IV., Duke of Lancaster, king, 150. V., Prince, 154; king, 155. conquest of France, 155, 157. VI., King, 158. marries Margaret of Anjou, 160. VIII., King, 187; his death, 200. his marriages, 190, 194, 198, 199. Hereward, 62. High Commission Court, 211, 242, 275. John, philanthropist, 332. India, rebellion in, 369. Clive in, 317. English Empire in, 317. famine in, 366. |