The Sun.
London, England, 1836-06-08 00:00:00

SPAIN.

The following table is not without interest, as it is an
official document relative to the population of Spain, and
supplies at the same time the names of the provinces. It
was drawn up in consequence of a Royal decree of the 21st
of April, 1834. The number of deputies is apportioned
according to the new law or decree, which declares that
one deputy shall be chosen for every 50,000 inhabitants,
allowing an extra deputy when there exists a population of
75,000 and upwards.
The population of the provinces marked with an aste-
risk, and which was not comprised in the returns of, 1834,
are determined according to the Royal instructions of Jan.
1, 1810. The population of Madrid includes that of the
capital of 221,800 souls, according to returns made by the
police since 1831.
Popu- Depu-
Provinces. lation. ties.
Alava*
Albacete 190,326 4
Alicante .368,961 7
Almeria ..234,789 5
Avila. 137,903 3
Badajoz 306,092 6
Barcelona 442,273 9
Burgos 224,407 4
Caceres ...241,328 5
Cadiz... ..... ......324,703 6
Castellan de la

Popu- Depu-
Provinces lation. ties.
Murcia 283,540 6
Navarra 221,728 4
Orense 319,038 6

Oviedo
434,635 9
Palencia
Pontevedra 360,002 7
Salamanca 210,314 4
Santander 166,730 3
Segovia 134,854 3
Sevilla

Soria 115,619 2

Plana 199,220 4
Ciudad Real 277,788 6
Cordoba 315,459 6
Coruna 435,670 9
Cuenca 234,582 5
Gerona 214,150 4
Granada 370,974 7
Guadalajara 159,044 3
G uipuzcoa* 104,491 2
Huelva 133,470 3
Huesca 914,874 4
Jaen 966,919 5
Leon 267,438 5
Lerida 151,322 3
Logrono 147,718 3
Lugo 357,272 7
Madrid 363,881 7
Malaga 338,442 7
Total number of Deputil

Tarragona 233,477 5
Teruel 214,988 4

1 Toledo

....281,197 6

Valencia

.388,759 8

Valladolid .184,647 4
Biscay* .111,430 2
Zamora 159,425 3
Zaragoza 304,823 6
Adjacent Islands
Baleares 229,197 5

Canarias 199,950 4
Colonies.
Havannah 4

Puerto Principe...
Santiago de Cuba
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Puerto Rico .

Manilla

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CHINA.

CANTON, JAN. 26.—Another fire has taken place here,
not of the unprecedented extent of the former one, but still
very formidable and embarrassing to foreigners as being
nearer to their factories. The last great fire was inside the
city wall, this one occurred in the suburb adjoining the fc-
reign factories, but entirely without the city wall. It broke
out about four a.m., on the morning of the 24th, and before
any steps were resorted to, it had assumed a fierce and
dangerous head, burning before a strong north wind through
Carpenter7square right down on the foreign factories. At
about five o'clock a flake of fire, carried by the wind, fell
on the shingle roof of a small Hoppe house, just on the cast
bank of the creek, and it was instantly in a bright flame,
and burning down, which it d:d in half an hour, it commu-
nicated fire across the creek to No. 2, a foreign factory.
Thus cut off from boats on the river by fire to the south,
and a broad fierce volume of fire quickly coming up from
the north-cast, a portion of the foreigners and their pro-
perty were for a period placed in the utmost peril.
Great exertions were made by the neighbours to
get the fire quenched in No. 2. and to open the com-
munication with the river. About six o'clock vast num-
bers of Chinese could be seen tearing down and
stripping off the roofs from the houses not on fire, ju-
diciously resigning those they were not able to save. At
the same time sheets of water from twenty well supplied
fire engines were pouring on the flames, and drenching all
in the dangerous vicinity. This skill, coolness, and acti-
vity, met with its reward in the extinction of the fire, after
all hope of rescuing their property had left many a foreign
breast. It was universally noticed how much the Chinese
had learned from us barbarians these few last years, in their
mode of resisting and extinguishing conflagrations. Prac-
tice (on a large scale) they certainly have had within the
time. The Governor sent down three well-manned fire
engines to aid the foreigners. The chief loss falls on an
industrious class of working carpenters, scale makers, and
one or two large Chunchen Hongs, where the Fokien
traders used to congregate.—Canton, China, Jan. 26.

MR. BURKE'S GENEALOGICAL AND LDIC
ilisToaT OF THE LANDED GENTRY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM.
_The 12th Part of this highly interesting history has just ap-
peared, embellished with a fine portrait of T. W. Coke, Esq.,
of Holkham, and we understand that it will be completed
during the present year. This publication may be truly called
a national work, for it will not only contain accounts of all the
eminent families in the United Kingdom, but of an immense
number of persons connected with them. We have before
spoken of this undertaking in terms of unqualified
.approbation.
In the present case, therefore, we have only to say that it con-
tinues to maintain the character which elicited that approba-
tion, and to exhibit all those qualities which, at the very outset
recommended it so strongly to public favour.
A WOMAN KILLED BY HER HUSBAND.—On
Thursday week, a man named Pollitt went to the races, first
desiring his wife, who was of intemperate habits, to keep
sober. Between twelve and one o'clock in the night of that
day, a woman named Ann Collins, who lives in the same te-
nement, was awakened by cries of murder. On opening the
door of her room she saw Pollitt standing on the landing-
place, and asked him what was the matter. He replied,
" Mrs. Collins, come to my assistance—l have killed my
mistress." Collins immediately hastened with her husband to
Pollitt's apartment ; they were taken by Pollitt to the bed,
whereon his wife was lying bleeding profusely, and the bowels
protruding from a large wound in the abdomen. He was
committed under the coroner's warrant to Kirkdale house of
correction, for trial at the next assizes on this charge.—
Manchester Guardian.
The persecution which Sir Nathaniel William
Wraxall underwent in consequence of his resolution to tell
the truth in the " Memoirs of his Own Time," determined him
not to allow that portion of his work which treated of the lat-
ter part of George the Third's reign and of the Regency to be
published during his own life and that of George the Fourth.
Sir Nathaniel's " Posthumous Memoirs" have accordingly
only just been permitted to see the light, and the anecdotes
they contain are beyond comparison curious and important.
In reviewing this most amusing work, the Literary Gazette
says, " The author's foreign travel and intimacy with leading
persons at home, enabled him to pick up much intelligence,
and his talents were peculiarly adapted to the task of commu-
nicating in an easy and entertaining manner the information he
acquired."
EXPORTS FROM ABERDEEN--TO strangers who
pay us a visit by sea, and have no opportunity of judging of the
fertility and productiveness of this district, but from the bleak
and barren rocks that meet their view on the voyage north-
ward, the quantity of provisions shipped at this port will appear
almost incredible. In one week 661 cattle have been shipped
at Aberdeen for London, and it is confidently anticipated that
the numbers will increase rather than diminish. The ex-
ports for one week, not including manufactures, the value of
which we have not at present the means of ascertaining,
amount to 14,9711. 13s.—Aberdeen Herald.
THE FIRST EARL OF SHAFTESBURY.—" The
Life of the First Earl of Shaftesbury" (which has just ap-
peared), observes the Atlas, "was originally undertaken by
Mr. B. Martin, under the immediate auspices of the grand-
son of Lord Shaftesbury ; but its publication was abandoned
upon the death of its projector. The design was subsequently
resumed b. y the late Earl of Shaftesbury, and consigned to
Dr. Kipp's, who completed it. An edition was soon after
printed
ofthe
impression
w was
st hd tehs
ter exceptionoyed.
One
nefthese two
copiesis
in the
library of the present Earl, and from the other the present
edition was printed. Mr. Cooke's labours, as final editor of
the Memoirs, have not been light. He has supplied many im-
portant omissions, and added a great variety of notes, which
elucidate the text on many leading points."
We formerly mentioned that it was expected that the
Earl of Errol would succeed the Duke of Gordon as Lord
Lieutenant of Aberdeenshire ; and we are now glad to learn
that the appointment, which will be highly popular in the
county, has taken place. Lord Errol is one of the most an-
cient of the Scottish nobility, and his countrymen will be de-
lighted to see those scenes of hospitality for which Staines
Castle, the residence of the Errol family, on the coast of
Aberdeenshire, was long remarkable, renewed in modern
times. Dr. Johnson, in his journey to the Western Islands,
sixty or seventy years ago, gives the following interesting
account of his visit to Slaines Castle :—" By a lady who saw
us at the chapel at Aberdeen, the Earl of Errol was informed
of our arrival, and we had the honour of an invitation to his
seat, Slaines Castle, built upon the margin of the sea, so that
the walls of one of the towers seem only a continuation of a
perpendicular rock, the foot of which is beaten by the waves.
To walk round the house seemed impracticable. From the
windows the eye wanders over the sea that separates Scotland
from Norway; and when the winds beat with violence must
enjoy all the terrific grandeur of the tempestuous ocean. I
would not for my amusement wish for a storm ; but as storms,
will
whether wished or not,sometimes happen, I may say,
without violation of humanity, that I should willingly look out
upon them from Slaines Castle. Next morning we continued
our journey, pleased with our reception at Slaines Castle,
of which we now had leisure to recount the grandeur and the
elegance,,,