The Sun.
London, England, 1825-11-04 00:00:00

PRICE SEVENPF;NCE.

MACADAMIZATION.

The inhabitants of Finsbury-place- having been'.
desirous lately that the process of u Macadamiz.
•
shOuld supersede in that district the granite plfve-
' meta at present in use, were met by an objectior!
on the part of their Vestry Clerk, that the new.
plan was not legal, not being in strict conformity
with the terms of the local Act, which only au-
thOrlies-" paving and_ repairing ;" and it was
sagely contended that tOlVlacadatnize and to pave-
were two distinct things. It was thought right,
therefore, to state a case on which to obtain the
opinion of his Majesty's Attorney-General, t*
both of which, as they may tend to settle this
knotty point, we subjoin a copy :
CASE, FOR THE OPINION OF MIL. ATTORNEY-GENERAL.
By the 77th section of the Act of Parliament, 50th Geo. "111.,
cap. 149, (being the Act for lighting, watching, paving, and •
irtsroving the streets in the parish of St. Luke, in the county
pf7VlidtPfesex), the trustees are authorized " to pave and keep
.r) repair" the streets, passages,. and places, whether foot or
eau/age-way, within the said parish, and for such purposes,
" may cause to be ciug, carted, and carried out of, or brought
into the same, or any or them, or any part or parts thereof,
such gravel, stone:, and other Materials as they may judge
necessary."
There is a street of great thoroughfare, called " Finsbury,
place," within the parish, and some of the trustees wish to •
prove and repair it according to the plan of Mr. M4Adarn,
which has been adopted in many parts of the metropolis. .
Doubts have,
,however, been entertained as to the authority of
the trustees to use the new plan of Macadamizing, on account'
of its rot being " paving and repairing," according to the
words of the Local Act.
By the 52d section of the Act of Parliament passed in the
57th George 111. cap. 29, (commonly called the " Metropolis . ,
Paving Act,") enlarged powers are given to commissioners and
trustees, or other persons having the controul of the pavements,
of the streets; and by the 137th and 13gth sections its provi-
sions are extended to-trustees authorised by any local act, and
empowering them to act under the authority of either. kitatuter
as they may think proper.
You will have the goodness to take into your consideration
the 121st section of the Local Act (page 117), as that clause has'
been supposed to forbid an application of the rates to the pur-
pose of Macadamizing ;
And 'to give your opinion whether, under the provisions of
either or both the above Acts of Parliament, the trustees are
or are not empowered to Macadamize the street called " Fins-.
bury-place," if they deem it expedient.
. " I think the, trustees *are empowered to Macadamize the.' ..
street, provided it be done as is u.sual.in London, with angular
pieces of broken granite, which I consider to be a mode of
paving; the pieces of atones being joined and fitted together by. •
pressure from the passing of carriages, &c.
" Serjeants' Inn, Oct.-27. -" S. COPLEY."

NEGRO POPULATION OF AMERICA.

r Extracted from Baron Humboldt's lately .palLeised S;a•th
rolzime of his Travels.)
Slaves in the American Autilles(what
we in common railancc call the
\Vest Indies) . . 1,990,000
-- in the United States . 1,650,000
in the Braiils . . I SOO WM
, ,
in the Spariisla Continental .Colonies *,t.10(11
- in the gnglit,h, French, and Dnich
Guianas
Making a total of
Free'Negroes in and the; other An-
..
. tales . .
in the United States .
in the Brazils (about)
in the Spanish Continental
Colonies . .
in the Engliih, French, and
Dutch Guianas
Malting a total of

200,000

5,047,00 V

870,000
2:0,000
180,000

530,000

60,000

1,386,090,

. .
The whole Black Population., therefore, is . 6,413,000'
.. These numbers are, . however, but approximatives, and -_,
we should imagine Humboldt rather under than over the, •
mark. The Black Population of the New. World-is probahlk:'..
.