The Sun.
London, England, 1837-05-01 00:00:00

STA TIS TICS of the UNITED STATES.

THE CURRENCY.
Paper ( Bank-notes) in circulation, Dec. 6, 1836
Specie in active circulation
Specie in banks

Total currency 193,000,000

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The United States Mint coined in 1836
There are 558 banks (nearly all joint-stock and chartered)
in the United States, with 146 blanches.
Capital invested in banks, in 1835 . 231,080,000
In 1836, estimated at
Capital of the United States Bank, January,
1837 (chartered by Pennsylvania)
Notes in circulation of United States Bank
Bills discounted by that bank (lying there on
January 1, 1837)..
Legal interest of money in the United States varies from 6
to 10 per cent. In Pennsylvania it is 6, New York 7, Ohio
7, Louisiana, 10, &c.
All the banks send accounts of their state of affairs once a
year to "examining commissioners" appointed by the state
governments. These accounts are submitted to the state le,gis-
lattice, and published.
Shipping. Tons.
American shipping entered in 1835 ... 1,352,653
Do. do. cleared in 1835
Foreign shipping entered in 1835
Do. do. cleared in 1835
7,023 American ships entered United States ports in 1835
and 4,269 foreign ; total ships, 11,292.
COTTON. i
Cotton was first sown in the United States, in 17877
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In 1824-5, the annual:crop was.. 560.000 halos.
In 183'5-6, tire annual Crop Was. d j,360,7.2afe. bales.'
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.1n1:46-7,'-.4 is• estimated at . 1,700,000 bales.
;Acid. nlvtli, - ' '•_ * . - 90,000,000 dollars.
'Tire Petten exported in 1835-6 was valued at 63,000,000 dollars.
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. . MANUFACTUkES.
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The Onual amount of all the manufactures of
the United States, is about D400,000,000
Of which cotton manufactures produce 50,000,000
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PUBLIC SCHOOLS' AND SEMINARIES.
There Are in the United States public colleges
Publletheologieal seminaries
Medical schools ..
Law schools .
Public libraries very numerous, but not large.
Public schools are very numerous, particularly in New Eng-
land, New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. These are sup-
ported by public taxes, therefore every citizen's son or daughter
has a right to be instructed; and are not degraded and their
parents humiliated by pauper ,and charity educations. Chil-
dren of very respectable parents are instructed in them.
RELIGIONS OF THE UNITED . STATES.
There are estimated by the best authorities as follows :
Baptists
Methodists ' 3,000,000
Presbyterians 2,000000 s •
Congregationalists 1,200,000
irs'oman _Catholics ' ' - 140,000
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jEtiscopalians.(Church of England-) ' 1,000,000 •
i Universal,ipt's .:600,000 ~'
~ *to he ranl '
.-.• 400,000
utct Ittforiited . '
~ hristiabs . • 2 ... ..,
riend4 Quakers)
.4, .
r.„ia
nit Ans -
Marmanifes - '
kers*
, . 220,000
Al
180,000
12,000
bun
30,000
Shakers ' , 6,000
,
- .Moravians
• 'Swedth-lborgians '
The. clergy: in nearly allsthe principal persuasions are edu-
cated in colleges, and pass their regular degrees. In their ap.
pointment the elective principle, which is the very soul of this
country, is observed, and the ministers are elected by the con-
gregations, by ballot. I believe that some of the Catholics
form the only exceptions to this rule.
CANALS AND kAIL,ROADS.
Length of Canals
Unfinished ditto, about 5OO
Length of rail-roads 1,600
Unfinished ditto, about
POPULATION OF CHIEF CITIES.
In estimating the population of the largest cities, I must be
allowed to remark that, since the last census was taken, they
have all of them increased immensely.
New York
(New York is the great commercial emporium of
• America, 2,293 ships arrived there from foreign
parts in 1836, bringing 60,541 passengers; 1,583
of these ships were American, 366 British, 56
Bremen, 35 Danish, 66 Swedish, 30 Dutch, 29 ''
French, 29 Austrian, 15 Spanish. From other
Countries the arrivals were trifling. In 1836 the im-
ports of New York were valued at D 118,000,000.
In 1835 it was D 38,000,000 ; the increase is
therefore D 30,000,000.)
Philadelphia • 210,000
(The handsomest city in the Union, and, in litera-
ture, a kind of American Athens.)

35,000,000
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Boston 90,000
( A very handsome city, and also an American Athens. )
Baltimore
(Called the " City of Monuments.")
Washington
New Orleans in the Winter, from
Ditto, in the Summer, from 40,000 to 50,000
(This city, as the great port of the Mississippi, is
the key to 22,000 miles of river navigation.
Pittsburgh, on the Ohio 40,000
(The chief seat of American iron and hardware
manufacture.)
Cincinnati, on the Ohio
Louisville, on the Ohio 25,000
Buffalo, on Lake Erie 22,000
Rochester (famed for flour mills) .
,
Charlston ( South Carolina) 33,000
Richmond (Virginia)
Providence (Rhode Island)
Norfolk (on Chesapeake Bay)
Lowell (celebrated for cotton mills) ..
Detroit (near Lake Huron, Michigan) B,OOO
Nashville
St. Louis
13,000
Trenton (New Jersey)
Albany 30,000
Hartford
14,000
Savannah
Portland 15,000
Salem 15,000
Lexington
Wilmington B,OOO
Mobile
7,000
(The smaller towns are very numerous.)
COAL AND MINES.
The coal mines of Eastern Pennsylvania produce great quan-
tities of anthracite coal ; those of Western Pennsylvania and
the valleys of the Ohio and Mississippi are inexhaustible in
bituminous coal. New York also furnishes anthracite.
The lead ore of Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Michi-
gan, yields from 76 to 92 per cent. of metal. New York ore
about 80 per cent. The iron ore of Missouri yields 95 per
cent. The gold mines of Virginia, the Carolinas, and
Georgia are not very productive.

GOVERNMENT.
The President's Council is six in number, consisting of the
Secretaries of State, Treasury, War, Navy, Postmaster, At-
torney- General. Salary D 6,000 each ; except the A ttorn ey-
General, who only receives D 4,000.
In each of the departments, viz., the State, Treasury, War,
Navy, and Post-office, the chief officers are from three to 31
in number, with salaries from DI,IOO to D 3,500 each.
The Senate consists of 52 members, being two senators
from each state. They are chosen by the fegislatures of their
several states, and are elected for six years. They receive
eight dollars per day, each member, during the session ; the
President of the Senate receives DI6 per day. One third
of tine Senate goes out every two years.
The House of Representatives is composed of 242 members,
elected by the people in the different states, for two years.
They receive eight dollars per day during the session. The
members average about one to every 47,700 inhabitants. The
Speaker of the House receives Dl6 per day.
Ambassadors are allowed D 9,000 as an outfit, and D 9,000
per annum : Charges d'Affaires D 4,500 per annum, and Sec-
retaries of Legation D2,ooo.—Letter in the Chronicle.

THE fiussAn.—Those who remember the German
Legion—that gallant band who gained immortal laurels whilst
serving with our army in various scenes of strife, cannot fail to
acknowledge the respectability and intelligence which marked
its subordinate officers We are led to make this observation
from having been told that a German who served originally in
Hompech's Foreign Corps, and afterwards in our gallant 20th
Light Dragoons, and who has found an asylum for his lathr
days at Chelsea College, is the hero of the new work, en-
titled " The Hussar,"—in short, that he has related the extra-
ordinary events of his life to the talented Chaplain of the es-
tablishment (Mr. Gleig), who, himself a soldier formerly, has'
has given them to the world, decked in those glowing colours
which the author of " The Subaltern" so well knows how to
paint.
A Book published anonymously, whatever may be
its merits, is sometimes overlooked. We think it right, there-
fore, to attract public attention to a work of a very singular
character, called " Piso and the Prefect, or the Ancients off
their Stilts," which has recently appeared. It is a fictitious
narrative of the most lively and exciting kind, in the course of
which the author has taken occasion to introduce a vast num-
ber of extraordinary anecdotes relative to ancient manners,
customs, history, and the like. We do not know when we
have met with anything more striking than some of the parti-
culars which he has thus set forth. The scene in the theatre,
for instance, and the Prefect's supper party, are really excel-
lent in their way.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

Dollars. COURT OF CHANCERY, APRIL 29.
120,900,000
IRELAND U. EDE.
28,000.000 This was an application by Mrs. Parker and her family,
45,000,000 claiming under Mr. Ede, to set aside an order of the Court
for appointing a receiver, arising out of a question whether
certain shares had been distributed amongst four persons pre-
vioue to the time their portions became vested, as well as upon
other questions, of no public interest. His Lordship said
that there Pt-...ts no evidence to prove that an apportionment of
the estate had .tsken place ; he was therefore of opinion that
there was no foundation for the application, which must be dis-
missed with costs.

BAIL COURT.

THE STAMFORD BULL BAIT.CRS-REK V. RICHARDSON AND

OTHERS,
Ur. ADOLPHUS moved for a writ of certiorari, to remove an
indictment from the Sessions into this Court. The defendant
and eight others were indicted for a riot at the Stamford bull-
bait, at the instance of the Society for the prevention of
,Cruelttr to Animals, and the popular feeling was so much in
favour 'of the defendants that. the prosecutors considered it ne-
cessary to have the case-fried in ibis Court.—Rui..e. granted.
COURT OF EXCHEQUER, ApRIL 29.

PARR. V. WARD.
- Mr. WHITE, upon the part of the defendant in this cause,
applied to the Court for a rule, under the Interpteader Act,
calling on, Messrs Broinage, S.neyd, and Co. of Brecon,
bankers, to :show cause why they should not come forward to
prove that -they were tke bong ficht lder3, for valuable
nf con-
siderati*l4,o-4114,40treiticalm 541.-itr lay the plain-
tiff anti accepted: by Vtftlll4lll7i: The plaintiff who was
the drawer,-.bad brought -the Viepent
.action against the de-
fendant to, recover ,the amolik, of Oe-valuable consideration
for which the'bill'a'S'iaceptiall, and his(Mr. White's) affidavits
stated !that Metani., Besatnake,rSneyd, the Co., who were the
present holders; had threatened to sue the defendant upon the
bill, arid were about to institute legal proceedings against him
for the, recovery of iti-Itnount.--Rute granted.
ILAMlONEL.V."naletntrs..•
This was an action to recorer the aineunt Si. 25., of a tailor's
bill for breeches and gaiters supplied by him to the defendant.
The defence was:a plea- of, infancy, to which the plaintiff re-
plied that the goods were necessaries. The plaintiff at the
trial obtained a verdict. A rule was obtained by Mr. Lee to
set the verdict aside,-at being against evidence, and proceeded
to a new trial,- against which. Mr. BAYLEY this day showed

Lord ARINGER—You may take your rule, but it must be on
payment of costs. Rule absolute.

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ROBINS V. BRIDGE.
This was an action against the defendant, an attorney, to
recover 161., balance of a larger sum of 21/., being the cost of
preparing copies of certain deeds and attending with them at
the assizes as a witness in a Cause in which the defendant was
the attorney. The question was whether an attorney is prima
facie liable to a witness whom he has subpoenaed for the ex-
penses:of the witness's attendance under the subpoena. The
plaintiff at the trial, obtained a verdict, which Mr. Sergeant
Bompas obtained a rule to set aside, and enter a nonsuit,
against which Mr. Erie showed cause.
The argument was not concluded when their Lordships rose
to melt the other :Judges upon Crown cases reserved from the
the late .assizes. - •

coNsisToß Y op rum A. 29.
WALKER //, WALKER,. •
This is a suit fOr divorce by reason of adultery, promoted by
Mrs. Louisa. Walker against her husband, which was met by a
counter plea of adultery against the wife.
Dr. LUSIIINGTON gave his decision this day. After having
stated the circumstances of the case, he said that the husband
had completely failed in the charge of adultery which be had
brought against his wife ; and sh, on the other band, had
clearly established the case as set up by her. Under these
circumstance's nothing remained for the Court but to perform
its duty in d:reeting sentence to pass as prayed for.
The COURT accordingly decreed a sentence of divorce
against Mr. Walker.