The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON. TUESDAY SATFIIIVNG, •.T LILY 23, 1861.

as well as for boroughs. It rejects it',because it loves
corrupt means to secure votes. The House of
Commons, by refusing the Ballot is the Corruptor-
General. And while it so manifestly only simulates
zeal against corruption, the few victims it sacrifices
with mock indignation will be considered by the
public less criminal than the house, which by refus-
ing protected votes, has led them into temptation.

EXPORTS FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM.

A statement lately published of the value of the
exports from the 12 principal ports of the United
Kingdom during the past year shows the relative
progress or retrogression in the trade of each. The
aggregate increase is 4 per cent. over 1859, but
some ports figure for a more considerable augmen-
tation, and others exhibit a falling off. The export
trade of London presents an increase of 1 per cent.;
Liverpool, 41 ; Hull, 111; Bristol, 7*; Southamp-
ton, fit ; Leith, 18 ; and Glasgow, 1. Newcastle
has been stationary. The ports that show a dimi-
nution are—Dublin, 24 per cent.; Cork, 181. ;
Greenock, 48 ; and Belfast, 92. The totals of the
two latter, however, in 1859 were exceptionally
heavy, and the present falling off is merely a return
to about their ordinary amount. Subjoined are the
exact returns :
Declared Value of British and Irish Produce and Manu-
facturers Exported from the respective Ports to Foreign
Countries and British Possessions abroad in the years
1850. 1860.
London
Liverpool
Ilull 12,980,587 .. 14,487,676
Bristol..
Newcastle
Southampton 2,499,369 .. 2,662,076
Leith
Glasgow 5,394,376 5,406,410
Greenock
Dublin .. 48,270 .. 22,192
Cork
Belfast

Abgregat ....X113,225,302 ..£122,930,817

THE RECENT CENSUS OF THE

UM-7.ED KINGDOM.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

STR,—The unrevised numbers of the population
enumerated at the late Census have already been
published in your columns for England and Ireland,
and those for Scotland having just been ascertained
by the officials at Edinburgh, the result for the
entire country may now be stated. The total num-
ber of inhabitants of the United Kingdom, includ-
ing the islands in the British seas, may be set down
as not less than 29.031,164. Of these 20,061,725
were numbered in England and Wales, 3,061,117
in Scotland, 5,704,543 in Ireland, and 143,779 in
the Channel Islands and Isle of Man. The army
serving abroad and in Ireland and the navy and
merchant seamen absent at sea are not included.

In Ireland an unparalleled emigration, continued
from the pc riod of the failure of the potato crop in
that country, has diminished the population by
787,842 persons, or 12 per cent., exactly the decen-
nial rate of increase in England, since the census of
1851. According to the returns, 1,230,986 Irish and
823,837 natives of Great Britain emigrated in the
decade. Notwithstanding this exodus and other
circumstances calculated to retard the rate of in-
crease, such as the Russian war, an epidemic of
cholera, the Sepoy mutiny, commercial crisis, and the
strikes, we have a solid addition of more than a
million and a half to the population of the United
Kingdom—a fact sufficiently significant of the
perennial vigour and progress of the country.—l
have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,
JAMES T, HAMMACK.
6, Craig's-court, S.W., July 22.

POPULATION OF. THE UNITED KINGDOM ACCORDING TO

THE CENSUS OF 1861.

Population Increase In Decrease in
enumerated. 1851 1861
Rate !Rate
1861 1851 Persons per Persons per
cent. 'cent
England
Wales _120,061,725 17,927,609 2,134,116 12
Scotland .. 3,961,117 2,888,742 172,375 6
Ireland .. 5,764,543 6,552,385 787.842 12
Islands in
the British
Seas .. 143,779 143,126 653
Total of
ing.-ni-
1
12,107,144 787,842,
the U
ted K 29031164'27'511,862!
dem.
INet increase 1,519,306, or 2 p. c.

29,031,164';