Excerpt from Twenty-Sixth Annual Report of the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in England, 1865 The cloud passing over the cotton manufacturing districts in 1861 and 1862 was reflected at once in the marriage registers, and the rate which in 1860 was as high as 1 710 persons married to every 100 persons living, was reduced to in 1861, and further to in 1862. In 1863 the crisis had passed after a bountiful harvest the people began to think more favourably of their prospects, and marriage proceeded at an augmented rate, the proportion to every 100 persons living rising to 1 688, while the average of the last 26 years was 1 '640. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.