Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-09-06
miscellaneous.
From the Times Of IS June.
Census Of Great Britain and the U. Stntcs,

There are events which set the 1ullest ant
most incurious minds Specializing upon thI
future of the world, and the varying dcsii
MICS Of nations. The conclusion of n Ions
war, an important treaty, or the settlement
of political contest Mt home, cannot fail tC
suggest the inquiry how the new order o
things viii operate Oh the comparative pro
grsss Of states. A census is not an event o
this striking aud potential character; indeed
il is hardly an event at all, for it is only the
periodical notation of continual develop
58enL Il furnishes, however, as certain
grounds for political prophecy as anything
lhe chapter of accidents can supply. Popu-
Ltion is the chief element of national pow
n, and though the states of Europe have
sfgerally attained position which they are
r7t likely either to forfeit or much TO improve
.or many years to come, yet new and much
inoie open field is added TO speculation when
We take in the New World, as well as the
greater part of Asia and Africa, brought un-
der the influence OF European nations. The
British race is the principal people OF North
America and the Australian islands, the do
ninnnt influence in the West Indies, the
prevailing element in South Africa, and the
lord paramount in India, with all the contin-
gencics that appcrtain to that position. Ia
increase of our population at home is far
more important question than IT it merely
affected the comfort with which we can
manage to live in these isles the sufiiciency
Of our harvcsts, or the figure we can contin-
We TO make in the presence of Europe
Whatever the future fate OF Our wars or our
diplomacy, whether the continent recipro-
Gates our tariffs or meets us once more with
chain of hostile custom-houses; whether
the name of England is honored or despised
in the council halls Of Europe, we are not
likely soon to he deprived OF our solid adj
vantagcs as an industrious, a prolific, spread
ing, a colonzing, and n sell-governing race.
With North America and many other por-
tiOns ofthe eartll's surface occupied by our
own flesh and blood, speaking our language
aud inheriting our laws, ifnot our allegiance,
we must ever occupy an honorable aud USE
fnl position. No increase of servile populu-
iions, 10 triumph oi'absoulism, no combina-
iion of rivals, can ever push England into
corner, md make her mere cluster of is
lands in the Northern Atlantic. The termi-
uiIs OF the Ultima Thule has long been re-
moved. There are now no limits 10 our in
huence. As little slip of shore in the pc
ninsula of Jutland was the Anglia from
which our race is principally descended,
England in its turn is the Samm hduS of
great and popular empires. The results of
the British and of the American census, APP
prnring ms they do together at this moment,
hring this relation of the parent state nnd her
numerous progeny into unusual prominence.
The population of Great Britain aud the
islands in the British sens, exclusive of Ire
land, was, OH the 3lst of last March, 20,9l0,-
53l. We shall probably have TO wait some
time for the return of the Irish population; !;
hut Oil June 9Th, 1871, including the nrny
serving in Ireland, it was S,l96,597. Ii we
take the emigration during the last ten years
nj n million, and set down two hundred
thousand deaths to famine and pestilcncc,
perhaps we are not justified in assuming the
present population of that slaud to he much
over S,O00,000. This would bring the popu-
hlion of the United Kingdom somewhefe
under 29,000,000 five take the population
of British America aud that of our purely
British colonies in other parts of the world
at 100000, this gives 32,O0O,O00 persons.
eiihGr of the British race, or of some Euro
peau race united with them in allegiance aud
laws, and every day more closely united by
social feeling and private ties. The pOpuIa-
lion OF the United States Inst year, as far as
can I've aecertnined from the returns now
parIiully published, is estimated in little
compendium before us at 23,347s6i, inclu-
ding California and the adjoining territories.
or these 3,lU, ,936 are slaves, besides a free
colored population estimated in our corre-
spondents letter yesterday at l62,77I. This
would lenve the American citizens of British
or other European EXTINCTION about 10000
eco. thus appears that there are about
So ,O00,0O0 persons of British extraction, or
Di some other European race amalgnmnied
With them, occupying the hest geographical
positions in the world, possessing the largest
NHlllme trade and the most profitable man
uiaciures, enjoying the lreest institutions,
commanding the yastest eXtenis OF fertile ter
ritery and the finest climates, and receiving
the services of many millions of useful aux
ililries, of various races and hues, living
either in comfortable slavery, or willing sub
lection, or digniied alliance. All these per-
sons of British, or, MS they are sometimes i'm
properly called, of Anglo.Saxon uce, hold
substantially tho same tuith speak the same
language, read the same Bible, the snnie
Milton, the same Shakespeare, the same his
torinns and nIoralisis, the same modern po-
cts, Doyelsts, and essayisis, and interchange
their thoughts MS freely and almost MS
promptly ms the inhabitants OF one city or
village. Ingenuity is last destroying the'ob-
rlacles oftime and space, aud common sense
IS drawing institutions every year TO n great
er similarity. These 52,000,O00 persons di-
vided though they are by oceans aud pOliIi-
cal forms, are closer and II far more inilu-
eniial unity than any merely political COM
bination and ii amy race nny he said to be
fortunate aud ascendant this is TINT one.
The return for Great Britain testifes 10 tho
great increase of emigration from this island,
Aswell as from Ireland, 10 Americn, aud the
Australian colonies. Chiefly owing IA this
iucrense, hut in some degree TO the cholera,
and perhaps 10 other causes, the de ;ennial
rate Of Increase las declined during the cen
nry. In ,he ten years ending 1911, the in