16 OCTOBER 1841, page 15

The Census Mdcccxll

THE returns of the Census lately completed, we are informed, will show an increase of upwards of 30 per cent. on the population of 1831 in the great manufacturing districts, and......

A Parallel—pitt And Peel.

SOME new Plutarch, in the Quarterly Review, has been running a parallel between our Sir ROBERT PEEL and WILLIAM PITT the younger. The similarity seems scarcely so strong as that......

Precedent.

Tim main question on all occasions with British statesmen and le- gislators, seems to be, not whether any thing proposed to be done is right in itself, but whether there is any......