The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-23 00:00:00

CENSUS OF 1840.

' Included
Total in total
States. ' • Slaves.
Population. Free Col'd .
Persons.
--_,....- ---a---- --
Maine
New Hampshire ...... ..
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Vermont 291,948 718
New York
New Jersey. 373,306 20,970. 658
,
1 724 042 50,571 \ 31
' -.la ........ •• • I 1 ..
Perinsylva. "" 70,085 16,325 2,613
Delaware ........... -:.1."" 469,232 52,000 105,100
Maryland... ...... ••419 :
Virgitill . ....... fo•ao ...... • - .1,... "' 8,979 327,158
&Atli Carolina ...... ~1 111 MA*,-, ' •`.7 195,765
&,{ 9th
~,.. ~,.,,asio: 7051 . I,by. ••• -ca 164
Tentitked iII# a a a:sag:at:a:a 8'419;210 b,407 . ios.„
Florida • •
Die. of Columbia „: .44
1'441h Carolina ...... • - • 753,110 21,752 , 246,186
Georgia
Alabama 9e0,645 ' 1,833 •188,684
Louisiana 351,17d' X 1,197 115,292
Kentucky
Ohio .. ........ ........
Indiana .... -4. . • 69;3,314 7,ott;
Illinois • .. 474,404 0.190 ' - to:
Missouri .....•.,. . . .... ~,.,. 331,102 1,433 48,941_
Arkansas •• , • •• • -.• • - 95,641 7,6n0
Michigan - 1!11;70/ • fO,
Wisconsin
lowa 43,068 153 18
____ --..._ -------
- --
I -17,100,572 371,606 ' 2,369,953

No returns from nine Georgia Counties, five in
,Ala-
barna, And Carter County, Kentucky, but all estimated in
the clicyfeitttdi: The lifese'rit pc/plinth:in (1841) of the
Vnited States is nbnitt 11,30dAtit •
The population of the United State' in HO; was
'729 326 ; in 1800, 5,309;753 ; in 1810, 7,13§,M ;
in 1820, 9,638,166 •; in 1830, 12,856,407 ; in ISIO,
17,100,572.

. It WC! STATISTICS.
Bushels 6t Wilma 66f090,947
Bushels of other grain 419;770071
Bushels of potatoes 10,459,626
No grain returns have been received from North Ca
rolina, Kentucky, Florida, and Wisconsin.
Estimate for Kentucky, North Caro-
lina; • •• • .irrt .........
Total Bushels
Number of Sheep
Pounds of Wool
Tons of Hay
Swine
gat Ciiftle,,...

70,000,000
• 04,426,744
14;5g1
27,108,489
9,641,265
20,626,334
12,447,383

THE PROPERTY OF THE UNITED STATES,
The following is an estimate of the value of property
in the United States : Dollars. •
Value
tit %'
Annual hi erest ;::::;: il(otio,000
From the known fact that all the pikifieftii (elq of thg
City of New York) assessed by the State assessors, is hi.
variably valued at 20 per cent, under par, we may safely
estimate the value of property in the,linited States at
4,000,000,000 dollars.
The exports of the United State in 1840 were
131,571i959 dollars I the imports 104,805,891 dollars.
The following 18 htlieved to be.a pretty correct esti-
mate of the agricultural and maidifidctitting produce of
the United States in 1839---L-the year to which the oat=
sus of crops, &c., must apply
Dollars.
Cotton • 81,000,000
Tobacco- ~ 15,000,000
Rice • 4,500,000
Breadstufrs.“..,...•iiiir.l4 275,000,000
Manufrtettires;:;/;;.:: 141 300,000,000
Other articles • • •r, r:i 5P,000,000

Total 725,000,000

MASSACHUSETTS MANUFACTURES.
The chief manufacturing State is Massachusetts, in
which the number of cotton manufactories is 26S ; num-
her of spindles, 665,709 ; value of manufactured ar-
ticles, 1(3,578,003' dols: ; number of persons employed,
20,929 ; capital invested, 18,079,08.9 dots: number, of
distilleries, 37 ; number of gallons produced, 4,10,042 !•
number of breweries, 7 ; number of gallons produced,
429,800 ; of which Boston contains 2—number of gal-
hins produced, 195,000 ; capital invested in breweries
and distilleries, 963,100 dols. ; of which is invested in
Boston, 820,000 dols. Total capitii-I invested in manu-,
factures in the State, 42,492,286 dols. •

COMMERCE AND CAPITAL OF NEW YORK.
.The chief commercial State i% New York. Thy total
number of commercial houses in the State of New York,
engaged in foreign trade, is 459, of which 417 are in the
city. The total number of commission houses is 1,049,
of which 918 are in the city. The capital invested in
foreign trade'in the Empire State is 48,808,401 dollars.
That invested in retail dry goods, grocery, and other
stores, 41,481,551 dols. That invested in lumber yards,
2;495,077 dols. That invested in the business of vic-
tuallers, 2,889,216 dols.

PITTSBURGH IRON AND OTHER MANUFAC-

TURES.

Pittsburgh, in Pennsylvania, is the chief seat of ma-
nufactures in iron and other metals. It has twenty-
eight furnaces for cast iron ; number of tons produced,
6,584 ; value manufactured ab0ut446,880 dols. Number
of bloomeries, forges, and rolling mills, for bar iron and
nails, 12 ; number of tons produced, 45,100 ; value ma-
nufactured, about 4,500,000 dols. ; number of hands em-
ployed, including miners, 2,305 ; amount of capital in-
voted, 1,931,000 dols. Glass department—Number of
OaFs 16 ; cutting establishments, 9 ; men em-
ployed, 515 ; value of ri=ufactured articles, including
I!)uart mof capital in-
looking-glasses,s2o,ooo dols. ; an;.?!ult.
vested, 580,000 dols. Hardware and cutlery
_,...Vaitte,of hardware and cutlery manufactured, 351,500
:
; number of men employed, 210 ; cannon cast, ;
small arms made, 1,350 ;• men employed, 13. Precious
Metals—Value manufactured, 4,860 dollars ; men em-
ployed, 6.
Total amount of capital invested in mane- Dols.
factories (iron not included)
Iron department

Total capital in manufactories
gee agticies cotton,iron,

RAILROADS AND CANALS.
There are 3,319 miles of railroad in use in the United
States, constructed at a cost of 186,000,000, and greatly
facilitating travelling and transportation ; 1,802 miles
more are in progress of completion ; and the whole
number of miles projected, including finished, un-
finished, and routes examined, is nearly 10,000. There
arc also 3,910 miles of canals, of which 3,450 miles of
artificial (canal or slack-water) navigation aro completed.

DEATH IN WHITECROSS-STREET PRISON.
—Monday evening an inquest was held before Mr.
Payne, in Whitecross-street Prison, on Paul Bamfield,
aged 45. Deceased was a master-sweeper in Somers-
town. Having occasion for a doctor, a Mr. Ainslie, of
Seymour-street, was callud in, whose bill amounted to
2/. 2s. 9d., the deceased having swept some chimneys in
the doctor's house, claiined a set off, which the other re-
fused, and eventually summoned the deceased in the
Court of Requests. The verdict was against him, and
on his refusing to pay he was sentenced to 20 days' im-
prisonment in the above gaol. He became an inmate on
the 9th inst., and continued very well until Saturday
noon, when, on complaining of a violent cold, and a
swelling of one of his legs, he was removed to the infir-
mary, where he was attended to by the surgeon, and a
physician, a prisoner. Ile said that it was a slight cold,
and he should soon get over it. At two o'clock the fol-
lowing morning the deceased coughed very much, and
was lying on his side, and at four o'clock he was found
lying on his back a corpse. Verdict—" Natural Death."
The deceased was a remarkably fat man, and weighed
upwards of 19 stone ; and Mr. Ward, the prison sur-
geon, said that there were then in the prison three pri-
soners who weighed upwards of 20 stone each.
DEATH FROM TAKING TOO MUCH OPIUM.—'
On Monday night an inquest was held before Mr. Higgs,
in the Board-room of King's College Hospital, respect-
ing the death of Mary Ryan, aged twenty-six. It ap-
peared that the deceased was a prostitute, and on 'Wed-
nesday night, having no home to go to, she was allowed
to sleep in an empty room at 43, Clement's-lane. In the
morning her hands and feet were much swollen from the
cold, and the landlady put 'her in her own bed, where
she slept till eleven o'clock. She then got up, and was
in and out of the house till three, when she went out
with her sister, and, having pledged her petticoat, bought
some opium at Mr. Lovett s, in Clare-street, Clare-mar-
ket. It was about the size of a bean, and she broke it
up, and, mixing it with some flour, made it into pills.
She had several times before attempted suicide, by tak-
ing laudanum. She afterwards had her tea, but in the
evening became very ill; her face and hands turned blue,
and she was brought to the hospital in a cab, where she
died almost instantly. She bought a pennyworth, and
the sister said the piece was half as large as at. walnut.
Verdict—That the deceased died from taking, ca over-
dose of opiutn, and that the shopman was much to blame
in not using more caution.
DISTRESS AT NoßwicH.—We are • sorry to
learn that one of our factories is about to close. Hundreds
of people in this city are now out of employMent, and
are parading the market-plate.—Bury Post:

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We are concerned to perceive by the. Dublin
newspapers which we received yesterday, that
objections are made to the appointment of Sir
John Campbell, not from any. thine- personal
to the Learned Gentleman; but on the ground
that he is not a .Member of the Irish bar.
From the intelligence and liberality of the
gentlemen practising in the Four Courts, we
should have supposed that they Would have been
above any such jealousy, and that they would
have seen the great advantage which would
arise to both parts of the United Kingdom, if
English lawyers were occasionally selected. to
preside in the Irish Courts, and Irish lawyers in
the English Courts. But we find a complete
misapprehension exists with respect to the case
of Lord Plunket, when appointed by Mr. Can-
ning, Master of the Rolls in England in the year
18727. It is supposed that the English bar
met and came to a resolution against practising
before him, whereby I tis appointment was recalled.
Now we can state on the most correct information
that the bar never met, nor, as a body came to
any resolution or expressed any opinion upon
the subject. A few individuals blamed the ap-
pointment without the authoiity or concurrence
of the bar, and their murmurs, which would have
soon died away,* coming to the ears of Mr.
Plunket he very unnecessarily and very un-
fbrtunately shrunk back, and declined to take his
seat at the Rolls. Had he• done so, as .his best
friends advised him to do, there cannot be a
' aibt that he would have been received by the
u - leer with perfect respect and cordiality;
Enelisn
would have been established
and a precene.... `n gentlemen Leine- taken
alicial situations which would have len e. i n•
from the Irish bar to -a, might be
England, in all cases in which- tiae higher
considered more competent, -or-hawring--.
claims to promotion, than gentlemen at the L'nb-
-11.91 :2='r.
Thi;iiiiilertlteacze has. been carried on, begefia
!ietween Englend and Scotland.
Lord Loughborough and Lard Brougham, sue-
'cessiveiy Chaneellors of England, commenced
their career at the Scotch bar; and Sir Samuel
Shepherd, appointed Chief Baron of the Court of
Exchequer in Scotland, and one of the most
popular Judges that ever presided there, was
called to the English bar, and was Solicitor and
Attorney General of-England for a considerable
number of years,
The Irish lawyers, eminent for their learning,
their elcarence, and their high spirit, must be
above any local or corporation spirit; and they
have certainly had full share of promotion of
htte years, as we have heard it stated that while
J; mpbeli has been Attorney-General of
England there leave been seven or eight distin
guished men who hate held the office of Attor-
ney-General of Ireland, alid most of whom are
now, with great credit to themselves and benefit
to the public, presiding in the Courts of Justice
iii their own gauntry.
The rel4Fitals4isqualification by which Roman
Catholics are preftl'iftod from filling the office (47.1
Chancellor we should he 00.4 to see done away
with. But for this, O'Loghlen, °tic 9 the greatest
Equity Judges who have appeared in a;+ land or
Ireland einae the time of Lord Hardwick, ought
undoubtedly to have been the successor of Lord
Plunket. All the circUrnemees of the case being
considered, we believe it must be allowed that a
better appointment could not have been made
' than that of Sir J. Campbell. His renunciation
of the pension must acquit him, as well as the
Government, of any sordid motive in the ar-
rangement; and we ary not exactly sure whe-
ther any gentleman at the Irish bar would at the
present moment have accepted the uffiee on the
same terms.
The Dublin newspapers likewise mention a
tumour that there was something disrespectful
to Lord Minket in the manner in which his
resignation was brought about. But for
this- there cannot be the slightest foun'
dation. Every one must have been disposed
to consult the feelings of a man who has done
such honour to Ireland and to the United
Kingdom, as an orator and a statesman, as yell
as a lawyer.- It is well known that from his ye-
tt4fabbe age and increasing infirmities, he has
for some time expressed a wish to be relieved
from the fatigtles -of office, that he may enjoy,
in domestic life that dignified ease to which,-
Ifrom his long and eminent services, he is so justly
entitled.—Morning-Chronicle.