The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-21 00:00:00

.. .. 31,374,856
.. 23,191,074

Census of 1850

Total ..

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Increase in 10 years .. 8,183,782
Increase per annum .. 518,378
percentage of increase in the decade 35
Eight States contain more than 1,000,000 in-
habitants each. These are :-
1860.

ISSO.

Penn ylvania ..New Y0rk..3,827,000 3,097394
2,913,411 2,311,786
Ohio .. 2,283,982 1,980,329
Illinois .. 1,789,496 851,470
Virginia .. 1,658,190 1,421,661
Indiana .. 1,347,000 988,416
Massachusetts .. ..
11,331,499 924,514
Georgia ,0 9
75,977 06,185
Of these eight States only the fifth and last are
slaveholding. During the last 10 years Illinois
has overtaken .the four States last on the list. In
other respects their relative positions are unchanged
since 1850,
Virginia, which in the census of 1790 occupied
the firstplace, has gradually sunk to the fifth. The
growth in population of three other north-western
States is remarkable :

1860. 1850.
Michigan
• • •• .. 749,961 397,654
-w isconsin .. .. 777,771 305,391
lowa • A • • .. 676,435 192,214 --'''
The cities containing a population of more than
40,000 number 21. They are as follows :-
1860. 1850.
New York .. .. 814,277 515,647
Philadelphia .. .. 568,034 408,762
Brooklyn • • a 1 273,425 96,838
Baltimore .• .. 214,037 169,054
Boston .. .. .. 177,902 136,881
New Orleans .. .. 170,766 116,375
St. Louis • • 11. 162,179 77,860
Cincinnati .. .. 160,060 114,435
Chicago .. • . .. 109,420 29,963
Buffalo (New York) .. 84,132 42,261
Louisville (Kentucky) .. 75,196 43,194
Newark (New Jersey) .. 72,055 38,894
Albany .. .. .. 67,453 ^
San Francisco .. .. 66,000 34,870
Washington .. .. 61,400 40,001
Providence (Rhode ltdand) 50,669 41,631
Rochester (New York) 48,096 36,403
Detroit (Michigan) .. 46,834 2,018
Milwaukee (Wisconsin) 45,323 20,061
Cleveland (Ohio) .. 43,550 17,034
Charleston (S. Carolina) 40,194 42,985
The increase in the cities of Brooklyn, St. Louis,
and Chicago is particularly noticeable. The only
decrease occurs in Charleston. In reference to the
relative position of Baltimore and Boston, it may
be observed that were the suburbs of both taken
into account, Boston, which is surrounded by so
many flourishing satellites of this kind, would rank
fourth on the list. The citizens of Cincinnati, dis-
contented with the results of the national census
taken in the summer, which place her below St.
Louis, have since ordered and taken a municipal
census, and find that in the autumn they numbered
171,293. Of the above-named 21 cities, 15 are
non-slaveholding and six slaveholding. The
slaveholding cities (including the national capital)
occupy the fourth, sixth, seventh, eleventh, fifteenth,
and twenty-first places on the list. The cities
numbering between 25,000 and 40,000 inhabitants
are numerous, and include, among others,
Troy, New Haven, Richmond, Lowen, Jersey City,
Portland, Syracuse, Cambridge, Charlestown (Mas-
sachusetts), Roxbury, Worcester, Savannah, Mobile,
Hartford, Nashville, and Columbus.
The intensity of the late electoral contest for the
Presidency is revealed by the aggregate of the votes
cast, as compared with the number of the popula-
tion entitled to a vote. The total free population
of the 33 States (the Territories do not vote) was
27,112,000. To find the number of the population
qualified to vote, deduct therefrom all women and
minors, all free persons of colour and unnaturalised
foreigners, and others who, through recent change
of residence, incarceration, or non-registry, wore
unqualified to vote last November. The remainder
cast no less than 4,710,548 votes, and there were
few or no complaints of fraudulent voting. Of this
number the 18 free States cast 3,426,903, the 15
slave States 1,263,645.

The British and North American Royal Mail
steamship Arabia, Captain Stone, sailed from Liverpool for
New York on Saturday. Besides the usual mails she took
out about GO passengers, among whom was the Hon. John
itoss, Attorney-General for Canada. She also took out:
£226,000 in gold.
THE CORFU AND OTRANTO TELEGRAPH.—
The accident to the English screw steamer William Cory,
having on board the cable to be laid between Corfu and
Otranto, referred to in a former number, was occasioned
by the French man-of-war Oomer running into her in a
very =seamanlike manner, in mid-day, there being little
wind and sea on at the time. The Gomer was acting as
tender to the William Cory, which vessel, when the acci-
dent occurred, was laying the Toulon and Minorca cable.
It was expected that this mishap would detain the William
Cory at Toulon till about the 3d of January, when she
would leave to complete the laying of the cable, the end of
which has been left fastened to a buoy within 80 miles
of the French coast, where there was no less than 1,660
fathoms water. She may be expected hero about the end
of this month, when Mr. Andrews, who returned last week
after completing the land line at Corfu, will proceed in her
to Otranto, and lay the submarine cable she has on board
to connect Corfu with the mainland of Italy, a distance o
52,000 nautical miles.—Malta Times, Jan. 11.
GREAT SKATING MATCH.—An exciting skating
match, open to all England, took place on the Ouse on
Tuesday in the presence of a great number of spectators,
whom the comparative novelty of the proceedings
attracted to the spot. The river at Huntingdon, where
the match took place, was crowded, and the ice must have
been of unusual strength to have borne such an extra-
ordinary pressure. The most exciting races were between
See and Smart, both of Welney, and Watkinson of Welney,
and Sharp, of Crowland. See has competed six or seven
times during the frost with Smart, who was beaten ; but the
course on those occasions was two miles. At the match on
Tuesday the distance was only one mile, and Smart, carry-
ing off the principal prize, regained his position as skating
champion of England, which he has held for some years.
Prizes to the amount of £3O were distributed during the
day, and the proceedings afforded a striking proof of the
readiness with which Englishmen extract amusement even
from what is generally regarded as a dreary winter.
THE CHESIL BANK.—If the diligent reader will
take a map of England and glance at the towns we have
named, he will see that we tax his powers of faith some-
what largely when we bid him believe that every pebble
which rolls beneath the feet:of Portland fishers has crossed
the West Bay, performed a journey varying in distance
from 30 to 40 miles, and been finally arrested where we now
stand. Such, nevertheless, is the fact, and the sohuotut
westerly gales which blow upon those coasts thr g
them
almost the entire year, are the immediateesegraenitillulny,
work : these, sometimes "!early,
deartwantraton after ton of
and roll them along
calmer or rougher *;eues prevail,
revailing.wind arrests
pebbles from on until
the exoduus of stones going some ob.
the -Lore ; .ne localities mentioned,.
the P.
(stacle crossing the path of
their progress : and this obstacle te found in the Chesil
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