The Sun.
London, England, 1839-05-11 00:00:00

NEW POPULATION TABLE.

There are many political problems, says a Correspondent
of a Morning Contemporary, of which the solution re-
quires that we know not merely the absolute number of
persons inhabiting a given district, but likewise the pro-
portion between their absolute number and the territorial sur-
taco over which they are spread. For example, the counties
of Lincolnshire and Northumberland each exceed in total
surface the county of Lancashire ; but the average population
upon a square mile of either of the two first, is not the sixth
part of that inhabiting the same superficial extent in the
last.named county ; and this difference in the density of po-
pulation must be a term of frequent recurrence, and clearly
of indispensible importance in most political calculations.
The absolute population of each county is inscribed within
its perimeter on the maps of the " Parliamentary Census,"
but, in that arduous and comprehensive work, as it is be-
lieved by some, though others esteem it of inferior authority,
there is to be found no statement of specific populations, an
important deficiency in the statistical materials of England
which the subjoined table is designed to supply.
Column II exhibits the specific population of the several
counties, i.e., the mean number of individuals inhabiting
each statute square mile ; and column II P, the proportion
between the specific population of each county, and the
specific population of all England taken as unity.
TABLE

Of the specific populations of the several counties of Eng.
land, showing II =-- the number of inhabitants to the
square statute mile in each county, and II P.--- the pro-
portion between the specific population of each county
and the specific population of all England, taken as unity.
The figures on the right of the commas are decimal
fractions.
Names of Counties. Values of 11. Values of II P.
Middlesex
Lancashire
Surrey
York, City and Ainsty ... 411,186
- West Riding
Warwickshire 375,266
Staffordshire
Cheshire . 317,862
Kent

Gloucestershire
Nottinghamshire
England, Forty Counties. 259,809
Somersetshire 245,714
Leicestershire
Durham . . . 231,467
Hertfordshire 227,525
Cornwall • 226,261 ° 0,87087
'Worcestershire
Essex
Bedfordshire ° 206,226

Oxfordshire

Monmouthshire
Buckinghamshire
Suffolk
Hampshire 193,403 ...... 0,74440
. . ...__- ___ .. .

Berkshire

Norfolk
Devoushire

Suctsex .

Wiltshire
Cambridge 167,975
Shropshire
Dorsetshirc
York, East Riding ...... 150,930
Huntingdonshire
Northamptonshire
Rutlandshire
Herefordshire 128,865
Northumberland 124,486
Lincolnshire . 121,687 ....... .... 0,46798
Cumberland
York, North Riding 92,824 ... . ...... 0,35727
Westmoreland

HER MAJESTY'S CONCERTS.—We have been
informed that the concert to be given by the Queen on Mon-
day next, is only the precursor of a series. The principal
foreign singers will be engaged at the first, and the second
will consist of native talent—a very proper arrangement on
the part of her Majesty, and one that cannot fail of afford.
ing universal gratification to her harmonious subjects.—
Musical lVorld.
Madame Taglioni is expected to arrive in England
on the 15th of this month. The new ballet to welcome
this celebrated danseuse is to be called La Gattana.—
Musical World.

Mr. Greene, the barrister, brother of the Learned
Sergeant, threw himself from the window into the street,
in Dublin, last week, in a paroxysm of fever, and expired
shortly after. His bereaved widow labours at present
under the same malady, which she contracted while in at-
tendance on her lamented husband, and which has been ag-
gravated from the efforts she made to prevent him from
leaving his bed and open the window, whence he precipi-
tated himself.—Cord Paper.
DEATH OF LORD ELDON'S ELDEST SON.—
The first severe domestic affliction of Lord Eldon was so
far back as the 24th of December, 1805, on the death of
his eldest son, John, who had only a year and a half pre-
viously married the daughter of Sir Matthew Ridley, and
had become but ten days before the father of the present
Earl. The Hon. John Scott was of an amiable disposi-
tion and graceful mind, full of jest and frolic in society,
hut too convivial for a delicate and asthmatic constitution.
He had then been suffering from a slight indisposition,
and from much anxiety, but his death was very sudden,
and shocked his father the more as he might have been
present at the time. In the morning no apprehensions of
his being in danger were entertained, and Lord Eldon left
home to attend to some pressing business, but in the course
of the day a communication of an alarming nature was
forwarded to him, requesting his immediate attendance on
his son. Accustomed to bear of his ailments, and unfor-
tunately supposing that the danger was exaggerated by
the natural fears of a mother, he continued his occupation,
and when he arrived his son had just expired. He was a
man of excellent abilities, but neglected, and suffered to
run to waste from an excessive addiction to society. With
an overweening fondness (similar to that displayed by
Burke), Lord Eldon formed an undue estimate of his
talents, and was accustomed to defer to his opinion on sub-
jects of which he had himself a far superior judgment.—
The Law Magazine, Art. "Life of Lord Eldon."
NURSING IN RUSSIA.—The traveller seldom
sees infantr in a Russian village. In no part of the country
did we ever meet a woman with a child in her arms ; but
there may be seen near all the houses a small hand carriage,
in which the youngest of the family is dragged about. It
is not unusual to meet a woman returning from the distant
field pulling one of these behind hcr, with a brat perched
in it, swaddled up like a mummied cat. —Bremner's
Russia.

A BATH BULL.—A gentleman having asked a
gardener, at the last Bath Horticultural meeting, how he
managed to preserve his apples so well ? the latter replied,
"that it was by keeping them in empty jars during the
winter and spring."
THE iNTAGDALEN.—You cannot understand
me, madam ; and it is well you cannot. Blest with a fond
husband, surrounded by every comfort, you have never
been assailed by the horrible temptations to which misery
has exposed me. You have never known what it is to
want food, raiment, abetter. You have never seen the
child within your arms perishing from hunger, and no relief
to be obtained. You have never felt the hearts of all har-
dened against you ; have never heard the jeer or curse from
every lip ; nor endured the insult and the blow from every
hand. I have suffered all this. I could resist the tempter
now. lam strong in health,—in mind. But then—.
Oh I madam, there are moments—moments of darkness,
which overshadow a whole existence—in the lives of the
poor houseless wretches who traverse the streets, when
reason is well nigh benighted; when the horrible prompt-
ings of despair can, alone, be listened to ; and when vice
itself assumes the aspect of virtue. Pardon what I have
said, madam. Ido not desire to extenuate my guilt—far
less to defend it ; but I would show you, and such as you
—who, happily, are exempted from trials like mine—how
much misery has to do with crime. And I affirm to you,
on my own conviction, that she who falls because she has
not strength granted her to struggle with affliction, mvy
be reclaimed—may repent, and be forgiven—even as she,
whose sins, " though many, were forgiven her."—Mr.
insworth's " Jack Sheppard."