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LONDON:
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1841.

A very useful little statistical work, called
" Facts and Figures," published by HOOPEII,
contains the following remarks:—
" The total population of the United Kingdom this
year, will be about 26,856,000 (without army and navy) ;
in 1831, it was 24,133,000. and in 1821, it was 21,193,000.

" The increase in 1831 over 1821, in.the United King-
dom, was 15 per cent. ; but the increase in 1841 over
1831 is under 111 per cent.
" This is a most unexpected and starling result:
" Had the population continued to increase at the same
ratio as during the previous ten years, it would have
been a million larger. The decrease in the ratio has
been principally in Ireland ; but even in England and
Scotland, it has undergone a much greater diminution
than was expected.

" A variety of causes will, doubtless, be assigned. One
of the most prominent will be, probably, that of the pres-
sure of poverty ; and during the last two years such a
cause will unquestionably have operated. The period,
however, extends' over ten years, and includes times of
eminent prosperity and abundant harvests ; so that the
solution of the phenomenon cannot be effected simply by
the fact of poverty during a recent portion only of the
ten years."
The result, which is said to be surprising and
startling, can be, so only to those who have paid
no attention to the progress of public affairs.
We, at least, were prepared for it, and we
think it can be neither startling nor surprising to
the readers of The Sun. Many months back we
directed attention to the coming census as afford-
ing the most conclusive proof against the starva-
tion system which Sir ROBERT PEEL, to his
eternal opprobrium, has taken office to main-
tain. We were sure that such would he the re-
sult, and our expectations have been realised.
At the same time, what is said in the para-
graph about the recent date of the pressure of
poverty, and the existence of some years of
abundance, is tolerably correct, •and supplies
tos otfh
ttehh aet
the imagination with the means of drawing a',
frightful picture of the woe which has been in,
flitted on our people, by a so-called paternal
littlepfi crrsitt
yfizann3o'de
doubta
Government, within the last five rears. The
close
th periode porfawgle.
8r reesds 30t- eatsthere
epoe .poucflapantiOo
n
wasat least commensurate • 1 its
progress in the
previous ten years, if it were not wholly unex-
ampled. A succession of abundant harvests
f)nowing previous deficiencie witch had, clone

their work in starving down the people, allo-,ved'i
r the population to expand to the end of 1836.
Then begun deficient harvests ; then the law for
strangling the people, which shut them out from
the food. •of the United States, and which pre-
vented the people there or elsewhere from culti-
vating food for our people, came into full and
too terribly effective operation. The growing
trade with the United States was suddenly
checked, the prosperity of our people was rudely
arrested. In 1837 they began to suffer bitterly ;
in 1838 their sufferings were great; in 1839 they
increased, because the previous dreadful year had
deprived them of their means; in 1840 they
were aggravated; and in 1841, if some change
be not speedily made in their condition, their
fate will be unspeakably calamitous. The check,
then, which the population has received, dates
from the end of 1836; and during those years the
people have undergone all the sufferings which are
coincident with being starved out of existence. The
untenanted houses at Stockport, Bolton, Paisley,
Manchester, and Leeds, which were built on the
scale of progress which the population had made
to the end of 1836, though a fool of a Commis-
sioner could see in them only an evidence of
greedy over-speculation, testify to the deep dis-
tress and desolation which have fallen on the po-
pulation and arrested its progress since 1836.
How can it be otherwise ? We have.a law to
limit our people, as nearly as possible, to the food
which our own territory can supply; and fifty
years ago ADAM SMITH informed our legislators,
though he informed them in vain, that such a
law was tantamount to starving out of existence
all the population who might be able to obtain
food from other quarters.
We shall not, however, have a complete
view of the horrible effects of the. Devil's
laws, unless we take into consideration the
natural law of population, which increases in
a geometrical ratio, pr at least an accelerated
ratio. instead, therefore, of the increase of
population having been less during the last half
of the decennial period, it ought to have been
greater. Nor is there any reason, except the
Corn-law, why it should not. The facility of
communication with all parts of the empire, and
with foreign countries, has in the same period
been much increased. New fields have been
brought into cultivation at home, and vast fields
have been opened to us abroad. Millions
of acres across the Atlantic smilingly woo the
industry of man, and the infamous and impious
law has forbidden man to cultivate and fertilize
them. Our merchants and monied men lent
their capital to make railroads, construct canals,
and open up the far West to the enterprise of
the world, and then the law forbade them, and
forbade the world, to reap the rich re-
ward that was prepared. Had our na-
tional policy not shut our ports to grain
from other countries, and diverted the
stream of emigration from the fertile plains of
the Mississippi to the Southern Pole and half-
barren Canada, the population might have
continued to increase, according to the natural
law, in an accelerated ratio, to this year. The
infamous law has prevented it, and caused all
the misery which ever marks a stationary or de-
clining population.
If it be said, as it sometimes idly is, that a
manufacturing is a poor and a degraded popu-
lation, is it not, let us ask, the business
of Government to inquire into the causes
of such a degradation, if it exist, and, if
possible remove them ? Than the smiths, miners,
colliers, bricklayers, carpenters, engineers, prin-
ters, carters, &c. &c., who abound in the manu-
facturing districts as well as hand-loom weavers,
and over-wrought factory girls, there are no finer
men, both physically and morally, in the em-
pire. There is no reason, whatever, therefore,
why the rest of a manufacturing population
should not be equally sturdy, were the manu-
facturing towns drained and built with some re-
gard to the health of the people. Whatever may
be the lot of the population, it is clearly the duty
of Government not to place any obstacles in the
way of their supplying themselves with food ; and
the Government which does so forfeits the cha-
racter of a protector, and acquires that of a mur-
derer of the people. •
It will be observed that the progress of popu-
lation has been most retarded in Ireland, where
there are few or no manufacturers. Here we see
the exemplification of the clearing system of the
BRUENS and the BERESFORDS, and the sad ef-
fects of a people being reduced to live on lumpers.
The Irish have been killed off by typhus and
famine, consequent on being deprived of food
and shelter. After all that can be said in favour
of the starvation system it does not increase the
agricultural population, for besides the compara-
tive little increase of the Irish, who are, almost all
agriculturigts, it is in evidence that the agricul-
tural population of England has not increased at
all tantamount to the inhabitants of towns'.

The Post, which, no longer ago than last
Thursday, talked of settling the affairs of Spain
by marrying the young QUEEN to either one.
of three Princes, including. a Prince of the
House of Coburg, used the 14ollowing language
yesterday :—" THE WRETCHED CHILDREN OF
QUEEN CHRISTINA, SHOULD THEY BE SPARED
THE SILENT INROADS OF POISON; OR MORE SUD-
DEN DEA.TII, AMIDST THE MURDEROPS ti 0,14-
Fmcrra or corettfiliitru FACTIONS—AiiE MERE PUP-;
PETS, THE TAINTED OFFSPRING OF AN ABAN-
DONED womArt." What a lofty idea of Royal
feeling and Royal moral dignity must this Tory
writer, who has undoubtedly been admitted at
Court, entertain ? He proposes to marry one of
three Princes to one of " the • wretched chil-
dren of Queen CHRISTINA"-.-" the tainted off.
spring of an abandoned woman," and hesupposes
that either of these Princes would, for the
sake of a Crown, take up with, that kind of
woman which a Man of ordinarily decent
feeling would shun with the utmost care. What
respectable man would like to unite himself
with the tainted offspring of an abandoned
woman ? Three Princes, accOrding, to the Post,
would be competitors for the disgraceful alliance.
Such a sentence, in a preux Ministerial Journal,
gives the people more insight into the corrupted
feelings, and corrupted manners of Courts, than
a whole volume of scandal.

At the same time this delicate•minded writer
one
is o of those persons whose claims on the
respect and obedience of other men are much
more vast than his genius. He is also a
politi-
cian of great eminence in his own conceit, and
has a plan to "settle definitively the affairs of
Spain by 'a Congress of the Great Powers.''
Does such a proposition einanate from the Mi.
nistry 2 Is it intended as, a feeler ? We believe
it is; but Tories have quite enough on their
hands without embroiling the affairs of Spain,
in order that they may set them right after their
own OtShien.
If 17-
Tha proposition deserves to be stigmatised as
infamous. At this moment ESPARTEiI.O is
session of the Government) to which he has been
elevated by the nation. In his high office he has
-shown more skill than the world gave hint t?.itdit
for. lie
,has juSt succeeded in stilling a formidable
rebellion, organised by the "abandoned woman"
of the Post and her ambitious kinsman. The
corrupt and worthless intriguers of the Courts of
Paris and Madrid, aided by some cut-throat sol-
diers, who, when they stir up war instead of put-
ting it down, are a disgrace to human nature,
have completely failed in their endeavours to
change the Government of Spain into the tool
of their base purposes. At this moment an Eng-
lish Writer, but a true Tory, proposes that Es-
PARTERO shall be deprived of the advantages of
success, and that a Congress of the Great Powers,
in Which England is to take the lead, shall do
that; or something like that, for Loufs Pm-
LIPPt and the " abandoned woman" which they
have failed to accomplish lbr themselves by their
scandalous attempts at provoking rebellion.
The Spaniards are not, according to the Tory
writer, to 'Settle their affairs in their own way,
but it is proposed that
There shall " assemble immediately a angress of the
great Powers, to settle definitively the afiairs of Spain,
Austria, Rtissia, aauf-Pruiiia, who have ceased all di-
ploulatie intercourse -with that wretched land, easily in.

• • ;
dnced to meet without her boundaries, would wield
their'ffiffluence in her behalf, and by their presence allay.
any latent jealousy betwixt England and France. From
such a jury a definitive sentence of arbitration would be
obtained, the result of the courteous collision of diver-
gent opinions ; and with this great advantage, that,
from the very first meeting of the Conference, a vigilant,
controlling influence, would be established over - the
Peninsula."

What would Englishmen say, if, after having
quarrelled, they had established a Government
which suited them, though it might not suit their
neighbours, Congress of the despots of the Con-
tinent, who had taken no other part with us
than to make our dissensions as bitter as possible,
should assemble at Paris to alter our arrange-
ments, and settle them according to the views of
the opponents and enemies of England? Eng-
lishmen would spurn the dictates of such a Con-
gress ; yet an English journal proposes such a
one to control ESPARTERO and the Spaniards.
They, like Englishmen, will, under the pre-
sent circumstances, spurn the interference of the
Great Powers ; and the Minister of England who
should now unite with them against ESPARTERO
to settle the affairs of Spain, would deserve to
be impeached and exiled to the genial Court of
the CZAR. If such an infamous policy be con-
templated by the Tories, oppressed as the Go-
vernment is with difficulties at home, they must
design to embarrass and distract the whole of
Europe.

The result of the. municipal elections through-
out the country, so favourable to the Liberal
party, prove that
.hatred of Toryism is as strong
as it was ten years ago. The apathy of the late
Government threw a damp on the spirit of Re-
formers. Sir ROBERT PEEL,
..tvith his rene-
gades in the Cabinet, took advantage of the
circumstance, and turned the MELBOURNE Ad-
ministration out of office, on pretence of
saving the country. Some believedil others
doubted his sincerity. The test has been ap-
plied. High Tories' have been appointed to
important places; no relief for trade is held out;
the great body of the operative classes are bor-
dering on starvation, while the Minister and his
colleagues are occupied in giving grand dinner
parties. The returns for Leicester, Derby, Leeds,
and numerous others, show what the electors
think of the Do-nothing Government.

Of political news there is an absolute
dearth in the French Journals; for there is no
novelty in stating that discontent exists in the
French army—that Louis PHILIPPE and CHRIS-
TINA Mu oz are deeply disappointed by the
failure of the insurrection in Spain—that French
influence has declined on the Spanish side of the
Pyrenees—and that the recent inundations
have greatly augmented the general distress in
the southern provinces of France. The policy
of France towards Spain this year is quite as
ill-
judged as her policy towards Turkey in the
years 1839 and 1840. Espousing the cause of re-
bellion in Turkey and revolution in Spain,
she has obtained by her double failure the
hatred of the Spaniards and Turks, and the
Monarchical States of Europe. For in the eyes
of Austria, Russia, and Prussia, the abstract
claims of Madame MuNoz to the Regency are
not a jot better founded than those of ESPAR_
TERO ; while the 1 tter, from being firmly estab-
lished, is infinitely a more direct representative
of the Conservative principle. But Louis PHI-
LIPPE saw nothing hut the dazzling prospect of
placing a Crown on the head of the young Duke
D'AumA LE. To be the father of a brace of kings
was more glorious in his eyes than to have his
praises celebrated by Europe as the Pacificator
of the Peninsula. What crimes that poor am-
bition of giving tyrants to the world has pro-
duced ! HoW many of the most powerful
princes, and the wisest pontiffs, have been ren-
dered contemptible by this vice of nepotism!
From private accounts, we learn that a con-
flict between English and French interests, adds
to the disturbances in Syria. The English have.
espoused the side of the Druses, the French
that of the Maronites. In conflicts between
them blood had been shed, and the peace of the
Mountains in the vicinity of Beyrout seriously
disturbed. In addition to this intelligence, which
has reached us from Constantinople, we find
the following account in a French Journal of
-Sunday :
A letter, written by an officer of the squadron of Ad-
Mira -La Busse, gives the following account of the state
of things in Syria :—" The English have installed them-
selves, as in a fixed residence, at Acre and Beyrout.
Their flag flies by the side of that of the Porte, and their
soldiers look on themselves as in garrison in English
towns. There are only about 150 at Beyrout and 400
at Acre. The others (between 300 and '400) are dis-
tributed in several small posts occupied by Turks.
"The Turkish-Governors fancy themselves in a con-
quered country, leaving the English to do as they like
with respect to military and political matters; while they
themselves seem to think only of extorting all they
can from the inhabitants of the towns, and
from the mountaineers, who bring provisions, in or-
der to enrich themseves as speedily as possible,
for they judge that their occupation is but temporary.
Thus the English left in the fortified towns as instructors
of the soldiers and directors of the works, do their ut-
most to establish themselves in the country. Their com-
mercial countryman have not been idle, and there are
now at Beyrout English goods enough to supply all
Syria and even Egypt for six or eight years. Accord-
ingly the French houses, which are not in favour, are
settling their affairs in order to leave this melancholy
country.
"As for the Mountaineers, they are animated by a spirit
of independence, and it will not be possible to place them
again under the despotism of the Turks or,the Egyptians;
ttlty,Obgtinately refuse to submit to the most moderate
Writ i e:afdel* is one concession made to them when
they demaiifi olbetSi irerything serves them as a pre-
tence to have recourse to Minis, and they will continue to
act in this manner till their independence is acknow- •
ledged, and till the two ci;:,:icts of the Leanon are left
at liberty to choose their own Ennr, to vote the taxes,
!And to determine tlie nmount of the tribute which
shall pay to the 6161i:flit 111.'fitntt most not lose sight of
the inhabitants of Lebanon—they must ritiblif the deve-
lopment of the antipathy which they feel to the Eng-
lish."— Courrier Francais.

THE LATE FIRE IN THE TOWEE..---CORO-
NER'S INQUEST.—jlesteictiY bteliitig; gt fivn o'njoek, an
inquest was held at the King's Head,• in the Tower of
London, before Thiselton Dyer, Esq., Coroner for the
Liberty of the Tower, on the body of Richard Wivell,
aged 24, one of the Fire Brigade, who lost his life on
Sunday last, at the calamitous fire in the Tower. Wm.
Childs being sWorii, ,in gardener and beadle of
the Tower. On the first alarm of the fire, I pfbeetqled
with others with the Tower engine. About 12 o'clock
on Sunday, whilst the Armoury was in flames, I saw the
deceased take a branch of the engine from a soldier. At
the time a quantity of stones and bricks fell from the
top of the Armoury upon the head of the deceased, wito
fell apparently lifeless. I assisted some of the firemen
and soldiers in carrying the deceased into the Spur-
guard-room, where he was attended by Mr. English, sur-
geon, of Graceeltureh •street, and also Mr, Bowling, sur-
geon of the let Regimtnt
.of Scots tusilier Guards,
but he died a few minutes after the aptiident hopened.
By the Coroner—The stones and bricks that fell upon
the deceased came from the front wall of the Armoury.
Mr. Braidwood, Superintendent of the Fire Brigade, the
surgeon, and gotne Other Witnesses, were examined, but
their testimony was merely a corroboration alb above;
after which the Jury returned a verdict of " Accidental
Death‘"

Y>sdil~Pt tai
Mr. ir'etifgili d'Uolltior
and the Rev. Mr. Brewster having challenged one an-
other tO debate the relgtiVe merits of moral and physical
fored as tlle Intilintent ticji se6dring the People's Char-
ttf., tettms were arranged last Wtek tittif rtspective
friends; and a g,ralid gladiatorial Eotftliat e't tools took
plaCe betWeeh the tihaittpioits till Stlthfdtit latt; in the
'optth M PaisleY, in the Presence of aboti 4,Mtl ptdple.
Both gentlemen spoke at great length in support of
their respective creeds EIS Chartists, and both claimed the
majority when the vote was talteni It eves then proposed
that the field shaild be divided; and Mr. O'Connor, wav-
ing his hat, called upon all his friends to follow him.
This was immediately done, and Mr. O'Connor climbed
a tree, and made it his rostrum. It was now evident
that Mfr. Brewiter had an overwhelming majority. The
Ivhole affair must have been supremel, ridiculous.
ROYAL SOUTH LoNliol4 }LORICULTURAL
Soment.—A general meeting of the above Society was
held at the Horns Tavern, Kennington, on Thursday
evening last, W. T. Riff, Esq,, Vice-President, in the
chair, There ivad a very foil attendance of members,
considering the unfavourable state of the weather. The
annual report was read by the Secretary, froth which it
appears that the Society is in a very flourishing condi-
tion, having, at the present time, between 200 and 300
members ou the books. During the past year five flower
shows have been held, being one in addition to those held
in former years, and 276 prizes of gold and silver medals,
cups, &c., were awarded for successful productions in
floriculture and horticulture. It was also stated that the
Society had received a great accession of Royal patronage
in the person of her Majesty the Queen Dowager, his Royal
Highness Prince Albert, her Royal Highness the Duchess
of Gloucester, and his Royal Highness the Duke Of Cam-.
bridge. After several resolutions had been passed, et-
pressing thanks to, and the re-election of the Committee
-of Management, a vote of thanks to the Chairman was
proposed by J, P. aurnard, Esq., and carried unani-
mously, and the peo<tlng adjourned.

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" Who runs may read."

FOIZET.GriT.

The passion of the Church of England for building;
places of worship, and endowing them with goodly in-
comes, in places where there are no Protestants to fre-
quent them, is not confined to Ireland. Letters from
Constantinople of the 10th ult. assure us that the Porte
has refused a demand made by Lord Ponsonby, for per-
mission to erect a Protestant Episcopal Church at Jeru-
salem, to which the Archbishop of Canterbury was to ap-
point a metropolitan Bishop, although Jerusalem does
not boast of ten Protestant residents. The Porte has
acted very wisely. The appointment of an English
Bishop to Jerusalem would only light up the torch
of religious discord in Syria, and involve us in endless
broils with Moslems, Greeks, Armenians, Copts, Druses
and other oriental sects. If Lord Ponsonby's piety
prompt him to endow a church at Jerusalem, we see no
objection to his making application to the Porte for per-
mission so to do ; but we protest against any such inter-
meddling on the part and in the name of the British
people. It is a mockery at the over-taxed and starving
millions of honest artisans to talk to them about estab-
lishing a nursery of proselytism at Jerusalem.
The Sultan has forwarded to the care of the British
Ambassador, to be delivered to Admiral Sir R.
ford, and to Colonel Hodges, her Majesty's late Consul-
General in Egypt, sabres of honour, enriched with dia-
monds, and a rich diezior.d neshan for the former. A
highly compliment 4a7 letter, from the Porte to the Gal-
lant Admiral, accompanied this proof of the Sultan's sa-
tisfaction. Have the intrigues of British agents at the
Porte been carried so far, as to deprive the Gallant Com-
modore, Sir Charles Napier, of the distinguished testi-
mony of merit once designed for him by the Sultan.?
Lord Ponsonby, for one, was no friend to the Commo-
dore on this occasion.
On the 24th ult. the Madrid Government was offi-
cially informed that the insurgent Brigadier Oribe, with
250 of his followers, escaped into Portugal, where they
were seized and disarmed by the Portuguese authorities.
Now that the insurrection has failed, the Portuguese
Government is most eager to disavow all previous know-
ledge of it.
There are seven soldiers at present under sentence of
death in Paris. A wide-spread spirit of disaffection pre-
vails throughout the French army.
There was a report circulated in Madrid on the 25th
ult., that the Pope had excommunicated Espartero for
his answer to the A4locution. We do not think that
Gregory XVI. could be guilty of such a piece of folly.
Espartero after settling matters at Vittoria, arrived at
Bilbao on the 24th ult. He at once ordered a contribu-
tion of 60,0001. sterling to be raised upon the town. This
will cure the inhabitants of their passion fin. insurrections.
The editors of the lidscougado fled, but one of them has
been retaken, and brought into San Sebastian ; as have
the Marquis and Marchioness of Santa Cruz, the Mar-
quis of Valmediano, the Count de Corres, Goiri, Arleta,
Larrondobino, the two Uhagons, Toledona, &c. The
citadel of Pampeluna has definitively surrendered,
though a French journal, the Memorial dee Pyrenees, ex-
pressed a hope that it might hold out General Lahera
has been taken at Santander ; but Narvaez, it seems, has
escaped on board the brig that brought him. to Cadiz.
Immediately after the capitulation of the Christine
garrison at Pampeluna, Messrs. Rodrigues and Salsedo,
a mercantile firm at Bayonne, received from Paris three
millions of francs for the use of the insurgents. Will
Christina Munoz tell us whether it was herself or Louis
Philippe that advanced this money?
A Contemporary has the following account of Gene-
ral Vandersmissen, one of the Belgian conspirators:—
" At Waterloo, that person was a Major in the Dutch
Artillery; after the peace, he left the service, married
the daughter of an English naval officer, and became a
manufacturer of vermicelli, but was unsuccessful. On
the breaking out of the Belgian revolution he joined the
insurgents, and was for his services appointed by the Pro-
visional Government General-Commandant of Antwerp.
He was, however, dismissed the Belgian service in May,
1831, on a charge of being engaged in a plot to give up
the town to the Dutch troops under General Chasse. He
then sought refuge in England and France. It is certain
that he is poor and wholly without influence in Belgium."
—We shall only add, that he has neither improved his
fortune nor increased his influence by attempting to de-
throne King Leopold.
The Augsburgh Gazette gives a letter from Vienna,
which contains the following details relative to the Aus-
trian population :—ln 1840, deaths in the provinces,
659,840 ; 9,501 more than in 1839. Births, 177,200 ;
861 suicides, 53 cases of fatal hydrophobia, 473 assassi-
nations, 9,369 accidental deaths, and 28 executed.

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