The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-17 00:00:00

The above figures enable us to arrive at the relative in-
crease of population within the two last periods of ten
years. Thus the township of Ardwick had increased in
population in the ten year ended 1831, by 1,979 per-
sons, or rather more than 56 per cent. In the ten
years ended this month, it has increased by 4,404 per-
sons, or very nearly 80 per cent. baing an increased
ratio of 24 per cent. of progress over the preceding ten
years, notwithstanding the number of houses pulled
down in the line ,of the Manchester and Birmingham
Railway. The increase in the twenty years is about
180 per cent ; in other words, this township has nearly
trebled its population in that period. In OpenylimV,
there is a sti:l more striking increase. That. in the ;an
years ended 1811, was of 341 'persons, or 68 per
cent. In the ten years ended this month, it was
an increase of 1,443 persons, or no less than 172
per cent. increase in the ten years ; the increase
being 104 per cent greater than in the corresponding
period of ten years. The increase in the twenty
years has been 1,784, or 358 per cent. ; in other
words, it has more than quadrupled its population in i
that period. In Gorton there was an ncreas,s, in
the ten years ended 1831, of 1,019 persons, or 63 per
cent. ; while within the last ten years there is a slight
decrease of 202 persons, caused doubtless by the closing
of the —large mills of a bankrupt in this township, and
the consequent migration of th 6 operatives to ether
townships. In Rusholme, which is not a manufacturing
township, but has lately been selected for respectable
residences, the increase of population, in the ten years
ended 1831, was 165, or only 18 per cent. ; within the
ten years ended this month the increase has been 790, or
73 per cent. In the twenty years the population of this
township has doubled. Taking the aggregate population
of these four townships, which, as we have said, include
one in which there has been a small decrease within the
last ten years, there would appear to be en aggregate
increase, in the ten years ended 1831, of 3,504, or 53
per cent. ; anal in the ten years ended this month, of
6,435, or 63 per cent. ; showing the ratio of increase to
have exceeded, by ten per cent., that of the preceding
ten years.

IDDLETON.—The following is the result of the census
taken on the 7th inst. as to the population of this town-
ship:—lnhabited houses, 1,441 ; uninhabited ditto, 56 ;
ditto building, 6.—Population, males. 3,837 ; females,
3,894 ; total, 7,731.—in 1531, there were in the town-
ship;—lnhabited houses, 1,246 ; uninhabited ditto, 32 ;
ditto building, I3.—Population, males, 3,415 •, females,
3,488; total, 6,903.—The increase, therefore, during the
last ten years is 422 males, 406 females ; persons, 828,
or about 12 per cent.—The chief employment of the
operatives is silk-weaving.
TONGE.—The population of the township of Tonge, by
the census taken this month, is 2,442, and_we understand
there arc only six empty houges in th 6 township. In
1831, the population was 1,800; so that the increase
daring the last ten years has been 642 persons, or
35 2-3 per cent. The chief employment of the working
classes-in this township is silk-weaving.

BEWARE!—We caution the electors, and the
non-e ec• 4. also, against being yelled by the shout of No •
or• .3
Poor-law, to prevent them joining in the rieneous cry of
NO Corn-law. If the labourer werenot robbed, he would
need neither new nor old poor-laws, and it is a disgt%lee
to a wor:z.ing man to be compelled to ask for parish cha-
rity. Had it not been for the increase of pourtv,
produced by the Corn-law, the new Poor-law would never'
have been enacted. What have
.noble-minded English
labourers to do with bastiles, relieving officers, or work
house diet ? Give them their righ:s, a fair open market for
their labour, and, so far ass they are concerned, every item
of the law might be torn from the statute-book: But
there are some kind-hearted souls who say, " Oh, don't
food; be quiet, and we will
join the clamour for cheap
upset the Somerxt-house tyrants, and then, instead of
going to the Union Board, you shall have parish pay at
;our own doors, administered by a kind overseer." this
pretence of
pity is to blind you to the real grievances
'
you endure. It is the Bread Amendment Act, and that
`;lane, for which you are now to light and coin-per. Let
and child i,l the kingdombe,
the cry of every man, woman,
bet pows WITH-THE CoRN,IyAws-,,Arfkoppiikim A •eri
Corn-la to .1a lertall,
THE STRONG MA N ---" My son, bold up
your head and tell me who was the stronest man ?" .lona').
Why so?" "'Care the whale could'nt hold him after 1;e.
had got lum down. " That's a man ; you can talie your seta."