In Agriculture, 13,169 In Manufactures of all kinds, 61,378 The residue of the population being 352,425, he divides in the same proportion, and thus gives us as a result:-- Engaged in Agriculture, 13,169 Dependent on, 62,257 ------ 75,426 Engaged in Manufactures, 61,378 Dependent on, 290,168 ------- 351,546 ------- Total of county, 426,972 In the same way, by estimating the population of Perthshire directly employed in agriculture and manufactures, Mr Spackman forms his table thus,-- Engaged in Agriculture, 16,302 Dependent on, 64,233 ------ 80,535 Engaged in Manufactures, 11,509 Dependent on, 45,346 ------ 56,855 ------ Total of County, 137,390 The grand result for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland is as follows:-- Engaged in, and dependent on agriculture, 18,734,468 Engaged in, and dependent on manufactures, 8,091,621 ---------- Population, exclusive of those travelling on night of census, 26,826,089 Lest it should be said that Mr Spackman has acted upon any wrong principle in framing these tables--for we know by experience that a certain class of political economists can see no virtue in any figures which are not of their own construction--let us turn to the Government reports, and extract from them the number of males _directly_ employed in the two great branches of production. AGRICULTURE. Farmers and Graziers, 737,206 Agricultural Labourers, 2,312,388 Gardeners, Nurserymen, &c. 60,767 All others, 9,196 --------- Total Males, 3,118,557 MANUFACTURES. Above 20, 717,780 Under 20, 168,964 -------- Total Males, 886,744 "It will thus be seen," says Mr Spackman, "that the farmers and graziers alone, as a body, are more in number than all the males above twenty years of age employed in manufactures, and only 150,000 short of the whole number of males of all ages so employed. If we add the two and a quarter millions of labourers which these farmers and graziers give employment to, the _male_ population employed in agriculture are nearly as four to one compared with those employed in manufactures. The same remark will also apply as to age: those above twenty are four to one; those under twenty are nearly two to one."