The Sun.
London, England, 1832-12-28 00:00:00

IRELAND.

There are two cle.sFes of Repealers returned to the new
Parliament. Some are pledged—others, nearly as ardent
in the cause, and whose votes may, with all confidence, be
reckoned upon, if there were a division upon the subject
are unpledged. The following is a list of the Repealers of
both classes:—

PLEDGED REPEALERS.
Carlow, County ... Walter Blackney I
Carlow, "Borough N. A. Vigors
Clare, County Macnamara and O'Brien ............ 2
Ennis F. Macnamara I
Cork, City Callaghan and Baldwin ...............
Mallow W. S. Daunt 1
Youghal
Dublin, City O'Connell and Ruthven ............ 9.
Dublin, County C. Fitzsimon 1
Galway, Town ... Lynch and Maclachlan o
Tralee
Kildare E. S. Ruthven ' 1
Kilkenny, County Butler and Finn 2
Kilkenny, City... J. Sullivan 1
Limerick, City— D. Roche
Longford County E. Rorke
Louth
Drogheda A. C. O'Dwyer 1
Meath
Tipperary R. L. Sheil 1
Cashel
Clonmel
Waterford, City H. W. Barron

Total of pledged Repealers already returned
CONDITIONAL REPEALERS.
Carlow,County... Thomas Wallace
Kinsale
County,Dublin... George Evans 1
Kildare
Limerick, City... W. Roche 1
Longford, County Luke White
Louth
Dundalk
Monaghan
Roscommon O'Connor Don and F. French 2
Westmeath Sir R. Nagle and Chapman 2
Wexford, County H. Lambert
Wexford, Town C. A. Walker
New Ross J. H. Talbot
Athlone
Wicklow J. Grattan

Total of Conditional Repealers already returned lB
Pledged Repeaters

Total t 47
The places from which Repeaters may be expected, tut
in which the elections have not yet terminated, are Ciik
County, Kerry, King's County, Leitrim, Newry, Mayo,
Queen's County, Waterford, and Galway Counties.
Counting upon 10 only from those places, the number of
Repeaters, pledged and conditional, would be 57.

ELECTION EXPENCESUNDER THE

REFORM ACT.

Sir Peter Laurie, the Deputy Returning Officer for the
dietriet of of Matylehonne, judiciously regulated the ex-
penditure at a rate which has been extremely satisfactory
to the candidotes, and accords admirably with the principle
of the Bill. The folowing is an acc6unt of the disbur,e-
ments of the Returning Officer :
Dec. 1832-8 polling booths £230 0
8 deputy officers, at 4 gs. 33 12
18 poll clerks, at :ditto 37 16
Stationery at the various booths
Poll books 7 17
9 Reform Acts (deputies) 1 8
Printing and posting 250 placards 3 0
Preparing the poll books
counsel's opinion respecting number
booths •

4 19 8

Oisthg,a ffirraationa, tkc 0 10
The return parchment, duty, &c 4 10
51r.Olive, agent,includingallexpences 20 0 0

Total

.. £321 5 0

Expense to each of the five Candidates 64 5 0
This, we believe, by far the most moderate expenditure
on the list of the Metropolitan Districts.

SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES OF

AMERICA.

The following documents were laid before the Parlia-
mentary Committees on the state of the West Indies: Mr.
E. Irving presented them :-
I.—Return of Slaves in the United States of America, according
to Three Official Enumerations, extracted from the Ameri-
can Almanac, printed at Boston, for the year Mt

I Slaves in
1790.

Slaves in
1810.

Slaves ill
1830.

States.

Maine
North Hampshire l5B
Vermont
Massachusetts •
Rhode Island
Connecticut 2,764
New York 21,324
New Jersey 11,423
Pennsylvania
Delaware 8,887
Maryland j 103,036
Virginia 292,627
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Tennessee
Kentucky
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Missouri
Columbia district
Florida territory
Michigan ditto
Arkansas ditto

),-,iao
3,417

697,697

310
15,017
10,H51

4,177
111,502
:392,518
168,824
196,365
10.5,218
17,088€
' 34,660
44,535
80,561

168
:4011
5.39

1,191,364

12,010,426

From which it appears that the " slave" population has
trebled in 40 ye3rs in the " free" states of America!
2. The total amount of the agricultural part of the
domestic exports of the United States during the I Dollars.
year ending on the 30th of September, 182 was.
.
.
50,669,660
Of which there was, in Rice 2,620,696 I
Tobacco 5,269,960
Cotton-wool. 22,187,229

30,378,885
Independent of manufactured tobacco, spirits, refined
and raw sugar, molasses, cotton manufactures and
yarns, cocoa, coffee, indigo, and other articles of
tropical produce, to the extent of .....
Being above three-fifths of the agricultural product
and about one—third of the merchandise exporl

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

7,341,573
exported,

TATTERSALL' S.
Business continues very slack. The present average odds
against the principal favourites are as under :
DERBY, 1833.
_

9 to 1 agst Mr. Ridsdale's Glaucus
91 to 1 agst Mr. Rawlinson's Revenge (taken)
10 to 1 agst Mr. Hunter's Forester
12 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Prince Llewellyn
16 to 1 agst Lord Clevelar.d's Muley colt
17 to 1 agst Duke of Rutland's Moses's dam c.
20 to 1 agst Colonel Cosby's Bravo
25 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Emmeline colt
25 to 1 agst any other.

POST-OFFICE IN PARIS.—The functionaries
employed are, a director-general, three administrators, a
secretary-general, 680 clerks, and 360 postmen, at an
annual expense of 2,082,110 f. ; the average salary of the
clerks is 2,481 f. (or 1001.) a year; of the postmen, 853 f.
(or about 351.) per annum. The produce of postage of
letters and Parisian Papers was 7,080,0001., giving a clear
income of about 200,0001. a year. The number of let-
ters daily distributed, not including Government despatches,
was—provincial letters, 28,000 I Parisian letters 15,000.
The number transmitted daily from Paris, exclusive of
Government despatches, was—of letters, 60,000 ; news-
papers, 58,000. The number of travellers in the mails,
in 1829, was 60,000 ; in 1815, only 4,000 ; the average
of speed obtained on the roads of the first section was, in
1815, one hour nin6 minutes per post ; in 1829, only
forty-six minutes, being an increase in speed of travelling
of twenty-three minutes. Out of the number of letters,
amounting to 68,000,000, conveyed 'annually by the
French Fost.office, the remaining dead letters in 1829
were 1,106,000, a proportion of one in sixty-three; of
these 508,000 were refused, 200,000 unclaimed, 182,000
to persons unknown, and 70,000 to be called for.—Poste
Restanie.