Transcribed by Diane Moore. Geo. <no wonder there are so many Ag. Labs. in my tree> THE CARLISLE PATRIOT - Saturday, July 22, 1843 NATIONAL IMPORTANCE OF AGRICULTURE.--Mr. SPACKMAN, in his Statistics of the British Empire, states that in 1831 there were 5,812,276 males above the age of twenty years in the United Kingdom; and that of these 2,470,111 were employed in agriculture. It was further stated, on the authority of the same work, that the entire population of the United Kingdom may be thus divided:-- Dependant on Agriculture.............................20,898,997 Dependant on Manufactures......................... 5,971,146 26,870,143