The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-08 00:00:00

THE NATioNAL DEBT.

(From tut rlight'• Gazette.)
The Lords Commissioners of tier Majesty's Tres.
tut having certifi,d to the edneuitokmers for Ur li-doe ion
of the Mamma Debt, in pur ounce of the AM, 10M Um. 4,
e. 27, see. 1, that the actual slur: us revenue of the Uoited
Kingdom of Oreat Britain and Ireland, beyond the actual
eapenditurA thereof, for the year coded the 10th tLy of
October, 11240, amounted to the sum of three willies
Mar hundred and tizzy three thousand ono hut. dried
end fif.y-tuar plunds thirte,.o 'hidings sad me puny ;
The Commisaioncre for the li,duction of the Natiocel D •bt
hereby give notice that the sou of eight hundred and limy-
five Matrand seven haadred and eigoty -eight p -node thir-
teen ettidiegs awl three pence, being unedourth part ot the Paid
surplus of three er.ilion Mow hundred and sizty.three thou-
sand one:hundred and fifty -four pout.ds thirteen shillipgi and
nee penny, will he applied und. r 'be twerisioos of the said
set, between the 7th day at January, 1851, and the Leh day
of April, 1851, to Me g yuro...ea, via.: —To b: ap-
plied to the pare'lase of eto.k, 8(4,7881. 13.. 3.1. ; add in-
terest reoeivabie on account and bequee's to hi
applied to the purehz.se of rock, 3,8184 10e. lid total,
869,6071. 4s. 2d.—No fond DAt office, Jan. 4, 18.51.—A.
O. Spearman, Ccmptroll,r-Oence.l.

THE ST. GEORGE STEAM-PACKET COMPANY.-By
the Om. faution of this mar .u,: Wts, par-. ive that a westing
of the official rear tigers and sniie'.'ors of the company took
place before the Master in Cuaucery on [lieard‘y. The
correspondent of our cotemp3eas mates that ',ever.] cats
have amen in which the e wariboteries have been declared
to be insolvent, and in other. it has been coneidered advis-
able to accept a compromise. In the report of the oMcial
malingers to the Maser iu June lest was the follwing
paragrarb —" We have carefully invest4ated the list of
contributories, and estimate "tat the holden of shares of
1001. and 241. together, equal to about 1,3000 shares of 100!,
may be ,3onsideted solvent, many of whore however, will
require time for the payment of any further &c. Tres
rest of the parseraph alludes In the sum hoped to be realised
by theirecomm, udatlou call, and watch is sat down at 4.5,3001.
—Cork Reporter. _ _ _

THE CENSUS IN FRANCE.-It has been the custom
in Franca to hike a MIMS of the ovulation every fiv.. years.
The last having taken place in 1816, the present year will
therefore see this great sad useful operation renewed. The
following it the rata at which, smell:rig to histor'ans and
official documents, the popelati..l of Puts las tratioaly in.
creased :-In the 13:h canary P.ris cantained 120,400 aside :
in 1474, 160,000; ender 11., 210,000; in 1690,
200,000• under Louis XIV., 492.600; in 1710, 609,640;
from 1762 to 1762, 676,630; in 1776, secording to Buffos,
068,000; to 1778, according to Mohan, 670,000; in 1784.
according to Nickel, 660,000; end of the reign of
Lluis XVI., 610620; 1798, according to the cease,
640.504; 1802, 672,000; 1806, 647,766 • 1508, 650,600;
1809, 794,696; 1817, 743,906; 1827, 896,134; 1831, the
commencameat of the qaisq census, 774,348 ; 1836,
909,126; 1841, 912,033 (Pacti.ive of goldien, almentees, and
children at none); 1846, 1,053,897; and the department of
the Seine, 1.364.467. Tee population t,f the deparrnent is
thus divided :-Itt arrondissement, 111,246; 2nd, 117,7613;
3rd, 64,675; 4th, 48,233; 6th, 96,628; 6th, '104,484; 7th,
72,893; Bth, 112,170; 9.0, 6 ',604 ; 10t/i, 106.878; 11th,
66,119; 12th, 100,203; 13th (3.. Denis); 187,1513; and 14•1 t
(Sceaux),
50u15;123,0. The population of France ie 170
was 19,669,000
36,400,486.
THE GREAT FALLS OP NIAGARA.-On the 10th
inst. (sue the Niagara Fads Iris of Doe. 14) our citizens
were atartlid on hearing a loud and terrific noise, resembling
as neer es we can describe it, the heavy booming of artillery
in quick succession, which shock the earth around us very
sensibly. Part of the Horse shoe Fall on the Canada side
had talks, carrying away about ten rods of the rock in
length, by four in width. The canal boat, which tad been
lodged for the last few months on the brick of the rock
which has fallen, an I which has excited the admitation of
all who beheld it, wan also carried over with the r :dr. It
is now in the whirlpool, two metes down the river. dancing
attendance on the freaks of that great maelstrom. The crash
occurrel about 7 o'clock in the evening, and it it indeed
providential that it fell at such as hour and at this se.son of
Ike year. Had it been in the summer, when so many thou-
sands of etracgin are here, there uodoubtedly would have
been persons crushed to de..th ; for it in precisely tee spot
whence so many contemplate the prandeur of na•ure and
behold the waters of the mighty cataract above them rushing
terrifically over their heads that is vow tided wi, h huge
maws of rock which have fallen fr m above. Toe loss
of this portion of the reek has sot in the least dimicised in
appearance the view of the Falls, but has, in our opinion,
added to the scene, which looks grander and more sublime,
if possible, than ever.
REMARKABLE Fox.-A very large fox was shot
last Friday in the parish of Dyke. He was long faioiliarly
known
fact of his h
ownover that part t of the
the powerecountry as
of neetheC oripf bps Cripple
.d; tLaom
the t.
He measured fall f...rty eight inches in length, and weighed
sixteen and a hell pounds. A past moy-tem examination dis-
closed several old wounds and bringer, such an fuzes are heir
to, from guns and traps. His lame leg was the result of a
wire snare, which he literally had put his foot into. Fin,lieg his
sunning unable to undo the noose, he had pulled it till the
wire cut through both skin and fl.sh. The wound was quits
healed over,and the loop was found firmlyclasping the bone. At
another time he had made a narrow escape MID a charge of
slugs, one of which was Sled in the Done of his nose, and
several others in hie tail. Oa another occasion the bone of

one of hisancles had been sham red with shot, s d again
another had broken one of his thighs. Yet, in spite of all
those hair-breadth escapee he we,, until he received the fetal
shot, a constant intruder in the judo, when his celebrity as
• poultry killer was notorious. He is to be restored u
near u • stuffer's art can make hint resemble life.—lnternees
Cowrier.

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