The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-03 00:00:00

SLAVES.

Males
Females

Total

2,487,213

17,062,566
*Total aggregate

White persons included in the foregoing who
are insane and idiots at public charge 4,329
White persons included in the foregoing who
are insane and idiots at private charge
Number of persons employed in mining
Number of persons employed in agriculture 3,717,756
Number of persons employed in commerce
Number of persons employed in manufactures
and trades
Number of persons employed in navigation of
the ocean
Number of persons in navigation of canals,
lakes, and rivers
Number of persons employed in learned pro-
fessions
Slaves and coloured persons included in the
foregoing who are insane and idiots at pri-
vate charge 2,093
Slaves and coloured persons included in the
foregoing who are insane and idiots at pub-
lic charge
Number of pensioners for revolutionary or mi-
litary services 20,797
Number of universities or colleges 173
Number of students in universities or colleges 16,233
Number of academies and grammar schools 2,342
Number of students in academies and grammar
schools
_ _

Number of primary and common schools .... 47,209
Number of scholars in common schools
Number of scholars at public charge
Number of white persons over 21) years of age
who cannot read and write
* Number of persons on board of vessels of war in the
United States' naval service, June 1, 1840, 6,100, making
the total aggregate of the population of the United States
17,068,666.

YOUNG MEN'S ANTI-MONOPOLY

ASSOCIATION.

On Monday a public meeting was held at the Standard
Theatre, Shoreditch, for the purpose of forming in the
ShOreditch district a branch of the Young Men's Anti-
Monopoly Association.
At eight o'clock the. Chair was taken by Mr. Preston,
who explained the object of the meeting.
Mr. HENRY PRESTON, jun., came forward to propose
the first resolution. He said it was gratifying to the
Committee of the Young Men's Anti-Monopoly Associa-
tion to see so crowded a meeting as was that then before
him, for none of the ordinary attractions had been re-
sorted to to obtain such an assemblage. They had not
even announced the name of their Chairman, but
nevertheless the general hatred of monopoly which per-
vaded the people was sufficient to bring a crowd such as
he then witnesssed together. The resolution which. he
would submit to their adoption was, " That the meeting
viewed with alarm the melancholy condition of the
greater part of the population, and particularly in the
manufacturing districts ; and that, in consequence of the
depressed state of trade, capitalists were unable profitably
to invest their capital, while the industrious artisan was,
in consequence, unable to obtain employment." It was
not necessary for him to prove to them the state of de-
pression under which the trade of the country laboured.
The report of the proceedings at the late Manchester
Conference, on the testimony of clergymen, was in itself
sufficient to set that question at rest. Some, indeed,
ascribed the distress of the country to machinery. It
was said by others that over-production was the cause ;
but it needed little argument to prove to the people
that the dearness of bread was the real cause of the
distress. Within the last ten years, while wheat could
be imported from other countries at an average price
of 455. per quarter, the people of this country paid for
it an average price of 635. a quarter. Was it surprising
that there should be distress in the country under such
circumstances? Mr. Preston concluded by proposing
the resolution.

Mr. GREEN seconded the resolution. He wished the
people not to be deluded by the name of Radicals,Whigs,
or Tories, but to judge of all men solely by their deeds.
Ile enforced the necessity of union amongst all classes,
by a reference to the fable of the herrings, who, when
separate or in small numbers, were readily swallowed up
by the whale ; but who, when they advanced in a dense
mass together, choked it.
The resolution was carried unanimously. •
Mr. P. A. TAYLOR proposed the second resolution to
the effect, "That the meeting attributed the distress which
prevailed to the commercial and agricultural monopolies
sanctioned by the laws of the country, and particularly
by the provision laws." He said it needed no words to
prove the cause of the distress. There were no words
needed to convince the poor man that his starvation pro-
ceeded from want of bread. There were no arguments
required to convince the manufacturer that the high price
of food was the reason why his manufactures were unpur-
chased, or to prove to the labourer that the same was the
reason why he was unemployed. No, the fact was admitted
and the advocates of the bread-tax were now to be foiled
neither in the Legislature, or outside of it, for even the
present Premier founded the propriety.,of his supporting
these laws not on their morality or justice, but on the fact
that he had got a majority of 91. He says that he appealed
on the subject to the country, and that it answered his
appeal. Yes, he was answered. lie was answered by
the indignant outcry of the artisan, who was starving,
echoed by the wail of his infant children, who were like-
wise perishing for want of food. Sir Robert Peel said
that he appealed to the people, but the people were not
satisfied with the answer which he says he received, for
he appealed in truth to the long purses of that class in
society against whose monopoly the appeal was insti-
tuted.—(Loud cheers.) Still Sir Robert Peel's answer
was, that he had got a majority of 91. Sir Robert Peel
would not like to have it said that he relied on physical
force. Yet the only difference between Sir Robert Peel
and the Chartists was, while Sir Robert Peel relied on
physical force to maintain what he could not support by
argument, the Chartists expressed their reliance on
physical force for the attainment of what they could
maintain by reason.—(Cheers.) Machinery, indeed, was
declaimed against, but he would ask, if some giant
visited this country and was subdued, and obliged to
work for the inhabitants of it, and to labour in the pro-
duction of their food, would not the men who would
provose to destroy.or expel that giant be considered very
foolish persons ? That giant was machinery, and rash
and foolish would be any attempt to destroy it.—(Loud
cheers.) But Sir Robert :Feel said that over-production
was another cause of the distress—that is to say, that
because too many coats have been produced, pople can-
not get coats to their backs—(Laughter)—and because
there are too many shoes and hats, so many people can-
not get either. That the Corn-laws were the cause
of the distress of the country was notorious, and the
people wanted not education on the subject, but agitation.
The only hope of the people was in union. In that was
their only chow) of contending sucoessfuly against tin