The Sun.
London, England, 1833-04-05 00:00:00

BRITISH TRADE WITH CHINA.

We la) before our readers an abstract showing the
amount of the principal articles of import and export on
British account during the year ending the 31st of
March, 1832.
IMPORTS

EXPORTS.

Betelnut, piculs 6,691
Rattans 6,349'
Pepper
Sandalwood 6,338
Saltpetre
Olibanum 550
Sharks' fins
Putchuck 4601
Fish maws
Rice
Iron
Steel
Lead
'1 in
Cotton yarn 4,852
Tin plates, boxes
White cotton piece
goods,
Broad cloth 141,762
Long ells 140,000
Cam lets 14,621
Cotton, Bengal,
Ditto, Bombay 324,281
Ditto, Madras 4,543

Nankin raw silk, pls. 6,283
Canton
Sugar 60,627
Sugar candy 32,279
Cassia lignea
Ditto buds
Mother of pearl shells
Rhubarb
Alum 20,475
'Camphor
Star Aniseed
Cochineal 144
Copper (south Ameri-
can) 4,610
Nankeen cloth ... pieces3ls,s7o

Treasure in broken Sy-
cee and South Arne-
rican silver to I on_
don, Sp. Drs. 1,976,930
Calcutta 340,340
Bombay 1,577,543
Sundry places

Sp. D011ar5...3,971,813

STATEMENT OF THE POPULATION OF CHINA
AND IFS COLONIES;
ACCORDING TO A CENSUS IN THE 18th YEAR OF
- KEAKING, A.D. 1813.
Provinces, &c. Number of Individuals. Families
Chihle
Shuntung 28,958,7114
Shanse ' 14,004,210
Honan 23,037,171
Keangsoo 37,843,501
Ganhwuy .......
Keangse •. 30,426,929
Fuhkeen 14,777,410
Formosa (Natives) 1,748*
Chekeang 26,256,784
Hoopih 27,379,089
Noonan 18,652,507
Shense 10,207,256
Kansuh 15,193,125
Barkoul rnd Oroumtsi 161,750
Szechuen 21,435,678
Kwangtung or Canton
Kwang-se
Yunnan
Kweichow
Shing-king or Leaou-tung 942,003
Kirin 1.07,781
Hihlung-keang or Teitcihar, &c.
Tsinghae or Kokonor, &c.
Foreign tribes under Kansuh
Ditto ditto Szechuen
Thibetan colonies
Ele and its dependencies
Turfan and Lobnor
Russian border

- 2,398
- 7,842
- 26,728
- 72,374
4,88 J
- 69,644
700• 2,551
1,900

Total 361,693,879 288,336

The two sums marked * are the numbers, not of i.ndi•
viduals, but of effective men. The other numbers, in the
same column, are of individuals, and include all ages and
-classes, with the exception, we believe,-of those employed
in the civil and military service of the Crown.
This statement, contained in the latest edition of the
Ta Tung liwyteen, or collection of the statutes of the
Ta Tsing dynasty, published in 1825, will probably serve
to set at rest the numerous speculations concerning the real
amount of population in China. We know, from several
authorities, that in China the people are in the habit. of
d;minishing rather than increasing their numbers in their
reports to Government; and, it is unreasonable to suppose
that in a work published by the Government, not for the
information of curious inquirer,,, but for the use of its own
officers, the numbers so reported by the people should be
more than doubled, as the statements of some European
speculators would require us to believe.

SUNDERLAND ELECTION.—FIRST DAY,
APRIL 2.—Mr. Alderman THOMPSON, 480; Mr. BAR-
CLAY, 425. Majority for Alderman THOMPSON, 55.
We hear that there will be no opposition to
the return of Mr. ELLICE for Coventry, as all parties con-
cur in a determination to support him.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, WEDNES-
DAY, APRIL 3.—The sales of cotton to-day are tstimated
at 3,000 b ilem—viz , 350 Br,zils, in Pernams at 6+.1. to
; and Illaranhauts at sp. to 9iii. 500 Bengals at
5d., and about 2,000 in American descriptions, from 61-d.
to Sil. The sales yesterday were of trifling amount.
On Thursday numerous flights of wild fowl,
doubtless on their passage to the fens, passed over the sea
in front of this town, many of them very near the shore.
Some boats, with shooters of. the Ciickney breed, put
off, and succeeded in frightening the feathered emigrants.
Nut a single bird was brought to land. —B righton herald.
For the last two years a beggarwoman has
regularly travelhd the Oxford Circuit, arriving in the dif-
nt assize towns as punctually as the Judges. She is
a woman of about thirty years of aee. She walks the
Circuit, which is four hundred miles in extent, barefoot,
carrying a child in her arms, and a wallet of considerable
Foize at her heele,