The Sun.
London, England, 1832-01-20 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S.
The betting on the Derby yesterday was confined to the three
favourites, who remain at the same odds as on Monday—viz. 10
to 1 each, which was taken about the Dulcinea colt and Mar.
grave ; the former has the call of the other two, and Beiram may
be considered third favourite; 500 even was betted between Mar.
grave and Beiram, and the same between Dulcinea and Margrave.
His Grace the Duke of Richmond has sold his three-yr-old
colt Elvas to go to Ireland.

A correspondent suggests, that if the ladies of
Bristol wish to redeem their characters from the obloquy
which has been cast upon them by the London prints, for
their want of humanity in attending at the hall on the
day the sentences were passed, they will immediately set
on foot a petition from themselves in behalf of the fire men
now under sentence of death.—Bristol Mercury.
A letter has been received in London horn
New York, stating that PAISSLOE, who went to America
some time since, while performing in Peter Wilkins at
one of the the nitres there, was precipitated on the stage in
consequence of some failure in the machinery, and killed
on the spot.

A Ministerial Evening Paper reiterates the
assurance of a perfect understanding between the diplo-
matic corps. We believe there is every foundation for the
assertion ; some of the Members of the Conference have
left town, and the meetings have been for some days sus-
pended. A courier arrived the night before last with
despatches for the Russian and Prussian Embassies, which
are said to be of a satisfactory description.
So great was the prejudice against fishmon-
gers in the fourteenth century, that they prayed the KING,
by NICHOLAS EXTON, one of their body, that he would
take the company under his protection, " lest they might
receive corporeal hurt." The Parliament itself appears to
have imbibed the general distrust, for in 1382 they enacted
" that no fishmonger should be Mayor of the City." This
was repealed, however, the following year.
We have heard that Mr. MASON has already
expended upwards of 11,000/. in the interior alterations
and improvements which he has made in the Opera-house..
He calculates that the expenses of the coming season will
amount to nearly one hundred thousand pounds.
The venerable Earl SPENCER, since the dis-
solution of his Countess i❑ March last, has lived in com-
parative retirement at Althorp, in Northamptonshire,
where, during the recess of Parliament, he enjoyed the
society of his eldest son, Viscount ALTHORP, who remained
on a visit to the Noble Earl as long as he could be spared
from his important avocations in the metropolis. Earl
SPENCER, since his late attack of indisposition, has en-
joyed an improved state of health. His Lordship is now
able daily to enjoy the diversion of shooting on his estates,
and should circumstances arise to render his vote essential
to the passing of the new Bill of Reform, it is understood
that the Earl will come to town and take the oaths and
his seat in the House of Lords. Spencer House, the splen-
did town mansion of the venerable Earl in St. James's-
place, is now unoccupied, Lord ALTHORP having taken
possession, since his accession to office, of the official abode
of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in Downing-street.
The Rev. W. RENNELL, eldest surviving son
of the venerable Dean of WINCHESTER, has been presented
to the ministry of the new church about to be consecrated
at Paddington.
The forthcoming novel of " The Opera,"
contains, it is said, an authentic account of the extraor-
dinary reception bestowed on a popular prima-donna by
a certain class of the English Aristocracy; and the strange
discoveries succeeding her departure from the country.

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POPULATION CIVAT )3
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population of Ireland waa 7;14411,001 the
increase since 1821 had beet), )ci 40 lirifitlf about
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thirteen and a half.

InlB3l the population of England was 13,089,338,
and the increase since 1821 sixteen per cent. The
population of Wales 805,236, and the increase
twelve per cent. The population of Scotland
i 111365,807, and the increase thirteen per cent.
The army, navy, &c., amount to 277,017.
The increase of Britain generally, since 1821,
has been at the rate of fifteen per cent.
The population of Britain and Ireland together
is, therefore, 24,271,398.
The comparative amount of the population of
Great Britain only is yet before the country. The
details of Ireland are not yet in a state to be laid
before Parliament.

In examining the details of Scotland, England,
and Wales, it is impossible not to be struck with
the immense difference in the rates of increase of the
counties of the former, as compared with the coun-
ties of England and Wales. In England, the
average rate of increase is 16 per cent. The lowest
rate of increase is in the North Riding of Yorkshire,
2 per cent. The next is Rutland, 5 per cent.;
Hereford and Westmorland, 7 per cent. ; Shrop-
shire and Wilts, 8 per cent. ; Buckingham, Hun-
.ingdon, and Suffolk, 9 per cent.; Berks, Cumber-
land, Dorset, Essex, Hertford, Northampton, and
the East Riding of Yorkshire, 10 per cent.; Derby,
Oxford, Southampton, 11 per cent. ; Kent, Lin-
coln, Northumberland, 12 per cent.; Devon, Lei-
cester, Norfolk, Somerset, 13 per cent.; Bedford, 14
per cent. ; Gloucester, Worcester, 15 per cent. ;
Cornwall, Sussex, City of York and Anstey, 17
per cent.; Cambridge, 18 per cent. ; Middlesex,
Stafford, 19 per cent.; Nottingham, 20 per cent.;
Durham, Surrey, and West Riding of Yorkshire,
22 per cut.; Warwick, 23 percent. ; Chester,
24 per cent.: Lancaster, 27 per cent. ; and Mon-
mouth, 36 per cent.
In Scotland, the increase in the counties of Berwick
and Selkirk are at 2 per cent.; Bute, Haddingron;
Linlithgow, Perth, 3 per cent.; Argyle, Dumfries,
Kirkcudbright, Nairn, 4 per cent.; Inverness,
Peebles, 5 per cent.; Roxburgh, Sutherland 7 per
cent. ; Kincardine, 8 per cent.; Ross and Cromarty,
Wigt own, 9 per cent.; Elgin, Orkney and Shetland,
10 per cent.; Clackmannan, Stirling, 11 per cent.;
Banff, Fife, 12 per cent.; Aberdeen, Ayr, Caith-
ness, 14 per cent.; Edinburgh, 15 per cent.;
ross, 17 per cent.; Renfrew, 19 per cent. ; Dumbar-
ton, 22 per cent.; Forfar, 23 per cent.; Lanark
30 per cent.

We thus see, that while in England the increase in
many of the agricultural districts has been about
the average, and in others even above it, the
agricultural counties of Scotland—as Berwick,
Bute, Haddington, Kirkcudbright, Selkirk, Perth,
Dumfries, Linlithgow—have increased only 2,
3, and 4 cent. In Scotland, the population i
distributed according to the employment. The
increase in, the manufacturing and commercial dis-
tricts is greater than in England, and that in
the agricultural districts much lower. The in-
crease has been nearly as great as in Sussex, which
has long sufftred from a redundant population, as i
Middlesex, into which immigrants continually pour
from all parts of the empire. Bedfordshire, which,
after Sussex, is perhaps the most distressed from
numbers, has increased at the rate of 14 per cent.,
one per cent. above the average of Scotland.
In Wales the distribution is better than in Eng-'
land. The increase is chiefly in the coal and iron
and slate districts—Glamergan reaches 24, Carnar-
von 15.

If we divide England according to Sir Robert
Peel's plan into north and south, drawing the line
from the Wash to the Severn, we find the respective
divisions thus—

NORTH.

Northumberland 222,912
Cumberland 169,681
Westmorland 55,041
Durham 253,827
York 1,371,296
Lancaster
Chester
4,incola 317,244
Nottingham ... 225,320
Total
SOT
Cornwall
Devon
Dorset
Hants 314,313
Sussex
Kent ' 479,145
Surrey
Middlesex
Berke 145,289
Bucks 146,529
Wilts 239,181
T0ta1......
The counties south of
possess the larger populati _
In this comparative account we have the annual
value of the real property assessed in 1815.
In this comparison, the agricultural counties of
the south of Scotland appear to great advantage,
when placed beside the English agricultural counties.
Berwick, for instance, of which the population is.
:34,000, was in 1815 assessed 245,379/. ; Hadding-
ton population, 36,100, assessed 251,1261.; Rox-
burgh population, 43,700, assessed 254,180/.; Se);
kirk population, 6,800, assessed 43,584/. ; Peebles
population, 10,600, assessed 64,1821. In all, a po-
pulation of 131,200, assessed 858,451/. to the pro-
perty tax. Bedfordshire—a purely agricultural
county—with a population of 95,400, assessed only
343,685/. Hertfordshire is also a purely agricultural
county, and, with a population of 143,300, it was
only assessed 571,1071. Dorset, 159,400, assessed
st 698,395/. Hereford, even, which contains the
rich vale of Evesham,is only 604,614/, for a popu-
lation of 110,300. One county alone exceeds the
rate (Lincoln), which, with a population of 317,400,
is assessed at 2,061,830/. If we, however, take the,
two pattern agricultural counties of Scotland, Ber-
wick and Haddington, by themselves, we find that a
10a. Obo
of the
assessedttehre t
Lincolnestof4 agricultural
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population. 4 0 5 / .
s
riority than the value of property compared with
epqouw.paulelatotci :212:3:41;72:i
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the numbers of the people. If, for instance, we
find Berwickshire, with one-third of the population
of Bedfordshire, assessed at considerably more than
two-thirds of real property, the inference is either
whichpei
►hat there is an imperfect economy of labour in
Bedfordshire, or that there is a great redundancy of
population. The comparison can only be made
with purely agricultural counties. We believe that
the superiority of the Scotch counties is owing to '
both cathes---a greater economy of labour and less
redundancy of population. At all events, the greater
the real property compared with the population,
the more the population have to divide, and the
greater comfort they must enjoy. When it is con-
sidered that fuel is obtained for a trifle in the
county of Haddington, that fish abounds on the
coast, it will be found that the native of that county
has little reason to envy the agricultural population
of the South.

Derby 237,170
Leicester
Stafford
' Warwick 336,988
Shropshire
Hereford
Monmouth
Worcester -- ... 211,356
Rutland
6,130,581.
7TH.
Gloucester
Somerset ...
Oxford
Bedford
Northampton
1 Hertford
EsSex
Norfolk
ISuffolk
Cambridge ....• • 143,955
Huntingdon 53,149
. 6,958,755.
the line still continue to
ion.

It is understood that the KING will
•
go to
London on Monday early, and return to the Palace to
d inner. —Brighton Guardian.
We hear that there is much more etiquette
observed in the interior of the Palace since the late visit of
the Prime Minister than was previously the case. The •
order for the exclusion of strangers who have no business
has of course a different origin. We believe, that inde-
pendently of the cause assigned for it last week, there is
also another, which had been communicated to us at that
time, but which we hesitated to publish without further
inquiry. It is stated, and we believe the statement to he
true, that females of an objectionable description have oh-
tained entrance into the Palace; and hence, very pro-.
perly, was issued the order with which our readers aro
already acquainted. It appears to be unlikely that any
balls or parties on a large scale will be given during the,
residence of the Court this year at Brighton, We have
reason to believe that they have been found too expensive,
—Brighton Gazette.