The Census Of Great Britain

On the night of April 4 the population of the United Kingdom of Great Bi kam and Ireland, including the lalands in Britiah waters (the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands), together with the anny and navy and mercliant searnen abraai !"1 !" !ii' 35.24' _ : . - 1.147 286 as :.s of the census of Iö71. The femaies exceed the mUea by a liêtle over 700,000. The sercentage of population for England was 6'J.S; for Wiües, 3.8; for Scotland, 10.6; ior Irdaiid 14.6. The reuaainder, 1.2 per cent., was distributed between the Isle of Man (0.2), the Chaniiel Islands (0.3), and the army, narj, and seamen abroad (0.7). The deiL-i'y of populatinin England and Wales :s440to the square mie The greatest density is in the mining and manufacturing counties. Lancashire has over 1,700 to the squrre mile .uní iliddletiex (outside of London), 1,i;ounties in England and one in Wales have over 500 to the square mile. London has 486,286 houses and a population of 3,814,571, having incrt-ased over half a million in the past ten years. The density of population in Loiidon is now 32,326 to ths square mile. Liverpool ranks next London in England, with a population over 550,000; Birminghain has over 400,000; Manchester and Leeds each eiceed 300,000; Sheffield aud Bristol have over 200,000 inhabitants each. Curiously the popuhition of Manchester has fallen off 10,000 since the census of 1871. The American Bar Association has taken np the subject of legal educaüon, and recommends a three years' course of 8tudy in all law schools, and also that diplomas granted by the schools shall entitle the holders to admission to the bar. The lirst recommendation will meet v.ith general approval; with regard to the second, there would be no objectioQ to giving a diploma this weight if the course of study were al- such that the diploma really meant something. But there ure many law schools whieh give diplomas alter a very brief period of study, and without any adequate examination of the student's fitness to receive it. To permit the diplomas of such institutions to enutle ihe hoMers to admission to I the bar, nor. only lovrers the professional standard, but is unfair to other schools of istablished reputatin. Must young men preparing for the bar are chielly deskou of getting admitted as speed'ily as possible, and will be likely eet schols where diplomas are most .i;'y and quickly obtaiued. The experiment bas beentried inXew Vork and in ether states, and it has never worked svull.