INCREASE OR DECREASE OF THE VARIOUS OCCUPATIONS., TABLE II.—Showing the Occupations (classified under ten heads) of Persons of both Sexes, exclusive of Chinese and Aborigines, in 1846, 1851, 1854, 1857, and 1861, and the increase or diminution, numerical and proportionate, which took place during the interval between each of those Years.
CLASSIFIED HEADS.	Persons. 1846.	Increase, 1846 to 1851.		Persons. 1851.	Increase, 1851 to 1854.		Persons. 1854.	Increase or Diminution, 1854 to 1857.		Persons. 1857.	Increase or Diminution, 1857 to 1861.		Persons. 1861.
CLASSIFIED HEADS.	Persons. 1846.	Numerical.	Rate per cent.	Persons. 1851.	Numerical.	Rate per cent.	Persons. 1854.	Numerical.	Rate per cent.	Persons. 1857.	Numerical.	Rate per cent.	Persons. 1861.
1. Commerce, Trade, and Manufacture	3,347	5,088	152.0	8,435	44,477	527.3	52,912	16,346	30.9	69,258	15,683	22.6	*84941
2. Gold Mining					36,332	Infinite	36,332	26,096	71.8	62,428	- 473	- 0.8	61,955
3. Agriculture, Farming, and Pastoral Pursuits	7,502	4,139	55.2	11,641	2,832	24.3	14,473	24,152	166.9	38,625	15,643	40.4	54,268
4. Laborers (branch of labor undefined)	1,917	4,109	214.3	6,026	2,878	47.6	8,904	- 2145	- 24.1	6,759	1,339	19.8	8,098
5. Domestic Servants	2,274	2,336	102.7	4,610	5,837	104.9	10,447	9,292	88.9	19,739	3,834	19.4	23,573
6. Learned Professions, Fine Arts, Literature, &c.	386	906	234.7	1,292	1,417	109.7	2,709	2,332	86.1	5,041	2,244	44.5	7,285
7. Maintained out of the Public Revenue	107	39	36.5	146	6,822	4672.6	6,968	93	1.3	7,061	1,082	15.3	8,143
8. Miscellaneous Pursuits	17,346	27,849	160.4	45,195	58,836	130.2	1,858	- 1110	- 59.7	748	229	30.6	977
9. Independent Means							1,943	- 768	- 39.5	1,175	187	15.9	1,362
10. Residue of Population							100,230	72,604	72.4	172,834	90,460	52.3	263,294
Total	32,879	44,466	135.2	77,345	159,431	206.1	236,776	146,892	62.0	383,668	130,228	33.9	513,896