The Apportionment

The number fixed upon by the House, one representativo for every 50.179 inhabitants, gives a large representation, 303 members. Jt has the advantage of saving to every one of the oíd States their present number of representativos. It adds four to the New England delegatlun, two in Maine and two in M:isachu8ctts. It adds 15 to the MiJdle Slatea, eight for New York, one for New Jersey, and six for Pennsylvania. It adds two to Georgia, the only one ol the old States of the South that hae gained. Itadds 13 to the southwest, fotir for Alabama, three lor Miesissippi, two to Louisiana. two ior Tennessee, and one for Kentucky. It adda 16 to the Vee Non h West, eleven iri Ohio. six in Indiana, ix in Illinois, and three in Michigan, to which ve must soon add one for Wiskonsin and one for owa. It adds also three (or the transition State f Missouri. Ti.e avemge fractional number in ie 13 free Statee is 23,419. and in the slave States, 23,370. Consequently there is no ground fcomplainton this score. New England will ave 42 representatives, the middle States 8:). ie outh Atlantic Statee 6.'J, the Western Free States 56, the Western Slave States 5G - total. '■'■06, being 58 more than the present House.- The Free States will have 187 and the Slave States 119 -majority of the free. 68, or )ü2.2 per cent of the whole. The delegation from the á.ates will be about 39 per cemt., or less than two-fiiths of the whole This proportion will continue for ten yeara - (should the government endure so long under the shocks which slavery b about to inflict) and then the slave States wil! sink down to one-ehird of the whole, thence to one-fourth, &cOn reporting the bill from the Committee of the Whole to the House, to-day. the ratio agreed upon. one for every 50,179, was establishèd by ihe triumphsnt majority of fifty- yeas 125, nays 75. So, Mass ichusetts has 14 representativos in the next Congresp, as thore is no probability that the Senate will atlempt an altoration in the lhce of so poweríul a mdjority of the House, and in the absence of any weighty reason for preferring another ratio. The District plan was cairied by two votes, 101 to 99, and mny fail in the Senate. The effect of this ratio will be, to drive out the desks, to reduce the pay of members. and to bring in a more practica! set of men to do the