600 UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN, &c.-U. STATES. Mr. O'Connell was-imprisonment for 12 | resign his post in June 1846; not, howmonths, with a fine of £2000; and he was ever, before he had rendered his adminisbound in his own recognisance in the sum tration, of the year 1846, memorable by of £5000, and two sureties of £2500, to the settlement by amicable negotiation keep the peace for 7 years. Writs of with the United States of the "Oregon error, in which Mr. O'Connell and his as- Question," and by the so ardently desired sociates were plaintiffs, were taken to the repeal of the British Corn Laws. The House of Lords; and on the 4th of Septem- whigs are again in power, and disposed to ber 1844, the Lords gave their verdict carry out the policy of removing the reagainst the decision of the Irish judges, strictions on trade and industry, bequeathed deciding that the "judgment of the court by the past to the present generation; the below in this case ought to be reversed.' anti-corn law league has dissolved itself, Sir Robert Peel continued to hold office and agitation in England is at an end; until December 10th 1845. At this period and Mr. O'Connell, in Ireland, appears to the anti-corn law league had manifestly have ceased, for the present, to press for succeeded in gaining over the great mass organic changes, in the renewed expectaof the people to the cause which it had so tion of justice being rendered to his counzealously advocated; and the adoption in trymen without them,-leaving the busithis state of things by Lord John Russell, ness of agitation to others less confiding, Lord Morpeth, and others of the leading or more inflexible in their purposes, than whigs, of the principle of a total repeal of himself. the corn laws, in place of that of a gradual UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA.* repeal, which they had previously held to According to the census of 1840, the be the most expedient course to be pur-population amounted to 17,068,666, exhibsued by the legislature, seemed to render iting an increase, since 1830, of 4,201,746. the speedy and total repeal of those laws The following tables exhibit the populano longer doubtful. This was the view tion of the several states and territories, in of the matter that was taken by Sir different points of view: Robert Peel, who, in accordance with his avowed doctrine of yielding his own convictions of expediency to the public opinion, when this could no longer be resisted by him, rather than on this account to quit office, -a doctrine which he had strikingly exemplified in the case of the Catholic Emancipation bill, was prepared to assume the initiative in proposing to parliament the repeal in question. A disagreement, however, in the cabinet, as to the Michigan. propriety of such a step, led first to the resignation of the Duke of Wellington, and then to that of the entire cabinet (December 10th 1845), Sir Robert Peel and those of the ministers who adhered to him despairing to be able to carry through the House of Lords the measure proposed, and of the necessity of which they had become satisfied, without the powerful aid of the duke and his friends.-The task of organizing a new cabinet was now entrusted to Lord John Russell. But the difficulties of accomplishing it, arising from the unwillingness expressed by Lord Grey to take office in the event of Lord Palmerston being appointed to the foreign secretaryship, appeared to him to be insuperable, and he returned the commission which he had received into the hands of the queen. -In consequence, Sir Robert Peel once more resumed the direction of affairs, to TABLE IN WHICH THE FOREGOING RESULTS ARE ANALYSED AND RESULTS ARE ANALYSED AND CLASSED IN EACH STATE. 602 UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA. | 603 The Chief Cities and Towns of the United | to 1845; every year, excepting 1843 and States, with the Number of their Inha- 1844, ending on the 30th of September. bitants, from the official returns of 1840: By the year called 1843, in this and the. succeeding tables, is meant the period of 9 months, ending on the 30th of June 1843; and by that called 1844, is meant the period comprehended between the date just mentioned and the 30th of June 1844. New York.. ་ • New Orleans Boston Cincinnati Brooklyn Albany Charleston (S. C.) Providence Louisville Pittsburgh • 312,710 $503,191,124 101,029,266 108,118,311 104,336,973 126,521,332 Buffalo In the table which follows, we have a statement of the commerce of the United States, both exports and imports, from 1831 Of the $114,646,606 exports for the year ending June 30th 1845, the exports of domestic produce amounted in value to $99,299,776, and those of foreign produce to $15,346,830. Summary statement of the value of the exports of the growth, produce, and manufacture of the United States, during the year commencing on the 1st day of July, 1844, and ending on the 30th day of June, 1845. |