The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-31 00:00:00

POPULATION OF AMERICA.

Without venturing to assume as indisputably accurate
the minuter portions of three rough proofs of the Union
census, we may, perhaps, be warranted in concluding
that the leading features are correct. The estimated
numbers are as follows:

No. of
Represen. Represen-
States. Free popu- Slaves. tative po- tatives
lation. pulation. and
fractions.
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Maine •••• • • • • ...... 582,026 • • • • 6 22,970
New Hampshire •• • . 318,003 .• • 3 38,475
Massachusetts • • .... 994,724 .• .• 10 62,964
Vermont .. ••• • • • .... 314,322 .• • • 3 34,194
Rhode Island ........ 147,549 • • .. 1 54, 73
Connecticut ••.. • ... 370,913 • • • • 3 91,385
New York ••••• • • • . . 3,098,818 • • • • 33 24,010
New Jersey .•.. •• • ... 489,888 52 .. 5 24,819
Pennsylvania •••• • • • • 2,341,204 • • • • 25 11, 04
Ohio ••••••• • • • • • .• 1,981,940 • • • • 24 25,244
Indiana • • . 990,258 • • • • 10 58,498
Wisconsin ••••.. • • • • 305,596 • • • • 3 26,068
Michigan •••••• • • • • .. 397,576 • • • • 4 24,872
Illinois ••••• • • • • ... • • 850,000 • • • • 9 11,416
lowa •• .. ........... 192,000 .. • • 2 5,648
California .. •• • • .... 200,000 • • • • 2 13,648
Maryland •.• • • • .... 492,661 90,355 546,874 5 60,994
Virginia ••••-• • .. • . 040,000 460,000 1,216,000 13 4,712
North Carolina ...... 480,000 280,000 608,000 6 88,944
South Carolina ...... 280,000 350,000 490,000 5 24,120
Georgia . 555,000 365,000 771,000 8 28,592
rionda•..... • . •• .... 40.0 i 0 22000 05,240 1
Atarnba • ........... 440,000 330,000 638,000 6 78,994
Mississippi . 300,000 320,000 490,000 5 26,120
Louisiana • • ........ 250,000 200,000 370,000 3 90,472
Texas lOO,OOO 50,000 130,000 1 36,824
Arkansas •• • • ...... 150,000 45,000 177,000 1 83,824
Missouri •••• • • • • 590,000 91,547 644,928 6 65,872
Tennessee ........ . 800,000 250,000 950,000 10 18,240
Kentucky ... 782,000 211,000 908,600 9 70,017
Delaware ...... •• • . 90,277 2,332 91,676 1

INT= POPULATION.
Free.
...... ........ 13,574,797
6,294,936
197,985

Slaves.

Free States .. ...
Slave 5tate5..........
District aad Territories ••••

3,057,234
3,500

20,067,720

3,070,731

The entire representative population is about
21,710,000. The ratio of representation will be about
93,176.

And as by the law of May, 1850, the number of mem-
bers to be returned to Congress is fixed at 233, the distribu-
tion of these among the six-and-twenty States of the Con •
federacy will make upon the whole a difference of four
votes in favour of the free and against the slave-bolding
states. Some of each class gain, and several of both lose
representatives under the new census; but the probable
results are said to be, that while the free states gain six
new members and lose four of their old ones, the slave
states gain but four additional and ari, deprived of six.
The change at first sight may appear to be inconsi-
derable, but its importance is in fact inestimable. Hi-
therto the balance in the Lower House of the Federal
Legislature has long been considered so doubtful as to
render every vote into which the question of abolition
was suspected, however remotely, of entering, exceed-
ingly precarious. Neither party would admit itself the
weaker, and neither could make good its claim to per-
manent superiority of numbers. But a lasting with-
drawal of two votes from the south and the lasting addi-
tion of two votes to the north is a serious matter.
Not many days since we showed that what slavery is
to the United States, our religious dissensions are to
England. The important part of our census, then, will
be that of which we find no mention in the return de-
manded of each head of a household, but which is to be
gathered from answers to queries put to the pastors of
different religions. This, indeed, will be an important
return.—Morning Paper.

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POISONING IN SUFFOLK.—On Friday and Satur•
day last a long investigation took place at Stonham Aspal,
near Ipswich, boore the coroner and a jury, to ascertain by
what means a labourer named Cage, came by his death sus-
picion having attached to his wife of having poisoned him
with arsenic. From the evidence produced it appeared that
the deceased and his wife lived on the worst terms, and that
she was a very profligate woman, that Cage was for some
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exivirdse.nce of two medical men affirmed the fact of the
presence of arsenic in the stomach, &c., and
a pennyworth of arsenic. A good deal of circumstantial
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evidence was adduced to fix the guilt on Mrs. Cage, who
remanded
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the inquest has been adjourned for a full analyzation of the
contents of the stomach of the deceased to be made.
SIR GILBERT HEATHCOTE.---It is with much re-
gret we have to announce the death of Sir Gilbert Heath-
cote, Bart., of Normanton Park, Rutland, and of Durdans,
county of Surrey. He died at his seat Durdans, on Wed-
nesday last, the 26th inst., after a short illness, aged 77. He
entered the House of Commons at the early age of 21, where
he represented the county of Lincoln in three, and the county
of Rutland in nine, Parliaments. At the dissolution in 1811
he retired from active political life, but continued to the end
of his days much devoted to the amusements of the turf,
and
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ORGANS AND VANS.--A horse drawing a brougham
takes fright at one of the huge grind-organs, and the conse-
quence is some damage to the carriage. Forthwith the Com-
missioners of Police forbid the performance of the monster
grind-organs in the great thoroughfares. This is doubtless
quite right, but what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the
gander; and why are the monsteradvertising vans permitted
to go about frightening horses, and thereby endangering
people's properties, limbs, and lives, while the organ-8
a tithe part so large, glaring, and apt to startle horses, notare
put under a ban? The vans are sheer nuisances, and nothing
but nuisances in any way. The organs have their redeemingg
music. Why, then, is the worst of the two tolerated; or,
we should rather say, favoured? Are the Commissioners
waiting till some gentleman has to complain of damage? we
will answer for it that for one horse that starts and becomes
unruly from the noise of an organ there are a dozen that are
frightened by the vans,with which they never get familiarized,
as the vans are continually altering their shapes, colours, Cu'
appearances, and enlarging their size.—Examiner.
Christchurch, Blackfriars-road, was sacrilegiously
broken open by some thieves some time during Saturday
night. They did considerable damage, but did not succeed
in carrying anything away.
THE GAME Laws.—At the recent Nottingham
assizes Baron Alderson, in a night poaching case tried before
him, and where it came out the t Earl Manvers keepers had a
savage dog, his Lordship commented upon the shameful
practice of gamekeepers taking out ferocious dogs " to worry
men," as he justly termed it. Let us ask, N, hy do keepers
go out with loaded guns? Not to shoot game in the night,
we apprehend. Time the odious game-laws and the exces-
aye game-prekierTiffg propensity were rectified.