The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-09-04 00:00:00

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Pratir Prrinnxii Commit-rite. The average
number of petitions presented during the five years
ending Irtfiti was it,a6 ; the average number of siguatures,
1.0i4,000. Tim number of petitions in the Seasions
ISfisi was 24,21 A. The total number of signatures has
nit yet been summed up, but is computed at upwards
3,0110,000. The Committee have made this Session
54 reports. The number of petitions presented during
the present Session is very much larger than in any
year since the first appointment of the Select Committee
in 1532, with the single exception ,4 the year 1143.
TAKING THIL Cursrs.—The new Act for taking the
census in Scotland has just been printed. The Acta for
England and Ireland have already been noticed in the
Erpress. There is a material difference in the statutes.
The Acts for England and Scotland are somewhat
shunter, but nothing le stated in them as to the "reli-
gious profession" of the inhabitants, as there is in the
one relating to Ireland. In addition to the particulars
to be recorded as to the inmates of each hews in

England, in Scotlend a return is ti he made as to the
children from 5 In 14 attending siihool in the week pre-
ceding time
of heel I Cheott7sne's., The enumerators are to take
ee
with the number of windows, and
tite(tiutisugouf itte thhiemboseulesandairieseisr,oalnbod rpeouriegi:isniatnrdavitirin'ghe;:r.
on shipboard on the night .4 Sunday, the 7th 44 April,
are to be procured. On Monday, the Bth of April, the
schedules are to be colleet•-41, and full informstion mud
be afforded under penalties. 'the Secretary llf State has
the superintendence of the census in England and Scot-
land, and in Ireland the Lord-Lieutenant. In Ireland
the' religious profession" of all peraona auto be obtained
on the Bth of April, and on one or more consecutive
days.
PARLIAMENTARY CHANGER DURING THIC SERMON.—
In she course of the Session which has just closed
members of the House of Commons have disappeared
from that assembly, some of thew never to return. It
will be interesting to recapitulate the changes which
have taken place. Mr. J. R. Walker has been return.'
for Beverley, in the room of Mr. Ralph Walters, de-
clared not duly elected in 1859; Mr. H. C. E. Childers
has been returned for Pontefract, in the room of Mr.
W. Geerend, declared not duly elected by an award
made by Sir J. Coleridge; Mr. J. D. Dent has been re-
turned for Scarborough, in the room of the Hon. W. 11.
F. Denison, elevated to the Upper House on his acces-
sion to the Lontlesborough peerage in consequence of
I the death of his father; the Hon. C. Carnegie has been
returned for Forfarshire, in the room of Viscount
Duncan, elevated to the Caniperdoem peerage in conse-
quence of the death 44 his father ; Mr. G. Cubitt has
been returned for West Surrey in the room of Mr.
Drummond, cleceased ; Captain Stackpool has been re-
turned for Ennis, in the romn of the Right 'lon. J. D.
Fitzgerald, appointed an !rich judge; Mr. R. Ridinore
has been returned for Worcester, in the room of Mr.
Lesion, retired ..n account of ill-health ; the O'Connor
Don has been returned for Roscommon. in the room of
Captain Goff, unseated on petition ; Mr. Caleutt has
been returned for Clare, in the room of Colonel Luke
White ; Mr. M'Cormiele has leen returned for bindon-
(terry, in the room of Sir R. Ferguson, deceased ; Mr. E.
Warner and Sir W. Russell have been returned for
Norwich, in the room of Visconnt Bury and Mr. H. W.
Schneider, unseated on petition ; the Hon. Colonel
Rowley has been returned for Harwich, in the room of
the Hon. \V. F. Campbell, elevated to the peerage of
Stratheden, in consequence of the death of his mother ;
Mr. Benyon has been returned for Berkshire, in the
room if Captain Leicester Vernon, deceased; Loril G.
Lennox has been returned for Lymington, in the room
of Sir .1. R. (arose, retired ; Mr. S. 11. Getty has been
returned fur Belfast, in the room of Mr. Davison, retired
on account of ill-health ; Lord Hamilton has been re-
turned for Donegal in the rosin of Sir E. S. Hayes, de
-
calmed ; Mr. d. White has been returned for Brighton
in the room of Sir G. Pechell, deceased ; Mr. T. Sidney
hiss been returned for Stafford in the room of Mr. J. A.
Wise, retired on sizeount of ill-health ; Mr. McDonough
has been returned for Sligo ii'. the room of the Right
Hon. .1. A. Wynne, retired ; and Mr. Percy Wyndham
was returned on Monday for West' Cumberland in the
room of Generul Wyndham, deceased. In the course
of the last twelve months 30 new members have been
returned to Parlian.ent, and as the changes at a general
election do not generally exceed 60 or 70—and will pro-
bably be fewer with more frequent dissolutions—it may
fairly be said that we have practically, at least, triennial
Parlianienta