V. This class is denominated INDUSTRIAL. The name is not very happily chosen; for it might seem to imply that other classes are not so emphatically engaged in carrying on the industry of the country. It comprises all our manufacturing community, as well as those who follow the production of the material to work it up into almost infinite forms of utility and beauty. The principle upon which the six orders of this class are formed is clearly shown in the following synopsis : V. Industrial Classes. 10. Persons engaged in ART and MECHANIC Produc- Persons. 953,289 11. Persons working and dealing in the TEXTILE FABRICS and in DRESS 2,231,617 144,184 1,012,997 STANCES 14. Persons working and dealing in VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES 15. Persons working and dealing in MINERALS Nearly five millions of people we thus see are engaged in ministering to the wants of the community and to their own wants, in employments which in their boundless ramifications are the wonders of civilization. We may be enabled to comprehend from this glance how it is that the sudden misfortune which befell our cotton manufacture did not leave the nation prostrate; how, on the contrary, its commercial power has seemed undiminished. We have no direct means of comparing the occupations comprised in the 48 sub-orders of Class V., with the industrial pursuits of the producers and distributors at any early period of our history. As a matter of curiosity, let us see what the trades of London were, as represented by its companies, of which the following is a list:— Sub Order. order. VI. Indefinite and non-productive Class. Persons of no stated Runk, Profession, or 150,890 51,442 99,448 3,386 12,159 48,056 87,289 VI. INDEFINITE AND NON-PRODUCTIVE CLASS.-It is unnecessary for us to add any remarks to this table, which is In the Census of Occupations for 1851, a table was given of 108 avocations in Great Britain, comprising all those |