CHAPTER VII.
CORSICAN STATISTICS—RELATION OF CORSICA TO FRANCE.
In the Bastian Journal for July 16, 1852, I found the statistics of Corsica according to calculations made in 1851, and shall here communicate them. Inhabitants
| In 1740, | 120,380 |
| 1760, | 130,000 |
| 1790, | 150,638 |
| 1821, | 180,348 |
| 1827, | 185,079 |
| 1831, | 197,967 |
| 1836, | 207,889 |
| 1841, | 221,463 |
| 1846, | 230,271 |
| 1851, | 236,251 |
The population of the several arrondissements, five in number, was as follows:—In the arrondissement of Ajaccio, 55,008; Bastia, 20,288; Calvi, 24,390; Corte, 56,830; Sartene, 29,735.[B]
Corsica is divided into sixty-one cantons, 355 communes; contains 30,438 houses, and 50,985 households.
| Males. | |
| Unmarried, | 75,543 |
| Married, | 36,715 |
| Widowers, | 5,680 |
| 117,938 | |
| Females. | |
| Unmarried, | 68,229 |
| Married, | 36,916 |
| Widows, | 13,168 |
| 118,313 | |
236,187 of the inhabitants are Roman Catholics, fifty-four Reformed Christians. The French born on the island, i.e., the Corsicans included, are 231,653:—Naturalized French, 353; Germans, 41; English, 12; Dutch, 6; Spaniards, 7; Italians, 3806; Poles, 12; Swiss, 85; other foreigners, 285.
Of diseased people, there were in the year 1851, 2554; of these 435 were blind in both eyes, 568 in one eye; 344 deaf and dumb; 183 insane; 176 club-footed.
Occupation—32,364 men and women were owners of land; 34,427 were day-labourers; 6924 domestics; people in trades connected with building—masons, carpenters, painters, blacksmiths, &c., 3194; dealers in wrought goods, and tailors, 4517; victual-dealers, 2981; drivers of vehicles, 1623; dealers in articles of luxury—watchmakers, goldsmiths, engravers, &c., 55; monied people living on their incomes, 13,160; government officials, 1229; communal magistrates, 803; military and marinari, 5627; apothecaries and physicians, 311; clergy, 955; advocates, 200; teachers, 635; artists, 105; littérateurs, 51; prostitutes, 91; vagabonds and beggars, 688; sick in hospital, 85.
One class, and that the most original class in the island, has no figure assigned to it in the above list—I mean the herdsmen. The number of bandits is stated to be 200; and there may be as many Corsican bandits in Sardinia.