The Express.
London, England, 1861-02-04 00:00:00

THE FORTHCOMING CZNSITS.

The district registrars of births and deaths, and
other officers charged with the supervision of the census to
be taken in the tint week of April, are now busily occupied
throughout the country in diviffing the parishes and town-
ships into suitable enumeration districts, according to the
instructions recently issued from the Ceusus-office. This ope-
ration requires that every square yardof land io England shall
be comprised within an enumeration district ; and u the
boundaries of all local subdivisions, whether municipal, par-
hunientary, civil, or ecclesiastical, are to be attended to,
we can readily understand that a complete knowledge too,
the localities and all the assistance to be obtained from good
mops are required for the proper execution of the task. Oa
the completion of this important preliminary work, as
many enumerators will be appointed in the different pa-
rodies, Ac., as will admit of every house in the kingdom
being visited in the course of the census day, for the put-
mse of collecting the householder's return previously left to
be tilled up. In 1861 upwards of 30,000 of these officers
were employed in England and Wales alone, and upon the
present occetiou a larger staff will probably be required.
The local authorities, by whom they are selected and ap-
pointed, will, however, experience little difficulty in obtain-
ing the services of efficient persons to act in this capacity.
in the districts of London the applicants for the appoint-
ment are exceedingly numerous, end instances occur in
which clergymen, Scripture-reader', and others, inthieueed
by philautliropic motives, have expressed a desire to
enumerate districts inhabited by the poorer classes. Each
enumerator, for his duties in delivering the forms and ex-
plaining their object at each house in the course of the week
preceding the Bth April, and afterwards collecting the forms,
filling them up where necessary on that day, will receive •
fixed fee of with an additional allowance at the rate of
2s. for every person enumerated over and above the first 400
in MA district. The duties include making a transcript of
the particulars in the returns in the " Enumeration Book.*
The rams Act obliges all overseers of the poor. condi-
bl, headboroughs, and other peace officers (under which
description, we presume, the officers of the police are in-
cludedi to act as euttruenders if required to do so ; but we
have reason to believe that the candidates voluntarily offer-
hug themselves for the office will be everywhere sufficiently
huge to render compulsory service quite unnecessary. The
armagemetts for this great national work are under the
direction of the • -General as chief comniissiveer,
with Dr. Farr, P.R. . and Mr. J. T. Hammack as anis-
taida, so far as England is concerned. In 'Scotland and is
Ireland the cermet, will be taken on the saws day, under the
superintendence of the Registrar-General acting in each of
those parts of the United Kingdom. There will also be •
census in most of the British colonise.—Oaserrer.

REPREsENTATION OF BRADFORD.—There is every
probability that Mr. W. E. Forster will be returned un-
opposed. he has taken the field in earnest, and a !nesting
of his friends is summoned fur this evening. Mr. Edward
?Mull declines to stand in opposition, unless he eau have •
guarantee of his return, and Mr. Priestman has intimated
his eutrilliegnees to be nominated, and his certain inability
lon ei count of a prior engagement in London) to appear
at the proposed meeting of electors to-n orruw (Tuesday)-
THE lifiEtllAL SrNDAY SERVleltit Yesterday
evening there was an onorwailtniog emigiegation in the
nave et Westminster Abbey, an uunouneemeot having been
made that the sermon would be pteitelied by the Bishop of
St. Andrew'. (Dr.C. Wordsworth), whose namehasof late been
so prominently before the public in couueetion with the
affair. of the episcopal church in Scotland. Foil choral
solicit warn performed, the prayers being said by the Rev.
John Antrobus, M.A., one of the minor canoes of the oaths-
dinl. The bishop selected for his text the 7th chanter of
the Acts of the Apostles, verse 00--" And when he Lid said
this he fell asleep." The sermon nest Sunday evening will be
preached by the Rev. Dr. Edward Me) sick Doulburn, Pre-
bendary of St. PanTsCathedral, and incumbent of St. John's
Church, Paddington. The second of the special services under
the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral was held in the presence of •
large number of persons, who completely tilled the vast
space which his been set apart for their accommodation.
Shiny hundreds who were unable to obtain admission went
away disappointed. Full choral ben ice was performed
with the aid of the new organ, suit the serinuu was preached
by the Rev. Thomas James Rowsell, M.A., of St. John's
College, Cambridge, who a short time *Mee, on the ap-
pointment of the Rev. William Goode to the Deauery of
Ripon, was nominated by the Bishop of Loudon to the rec-
tory of St. Margaret's Lothbary. It was generally under-
stood that the sermon at the wooed liLl-VIOO WAS to have
been preached by the Dean of Ps. Paul's, but the reverend
gentleman was too unwell to take the duty. The sermon
I nest Sunday evening will be preached by cite Rev. Dr. W.
C. Nagee Prebendary of Wells Cathedral, and Minister of
Quebec Chapel, St. Marylebooe.
METROPOLITAN MEAT AND PoELTRY MA R
The standing orders of parliament have been complied with
in respect of the proposed undertaking to abolish mid " do-
market" Newgate market, to facilitate the removal of
shambles and slaughter-houses, and other nuimucca and
obstructions in the vicinity, end to authorise the erection of
dwelling-houses ur shops upon the site. The t resent market
appears to have been established under the powers of an
act of 22nd of Charles 11., giving powcni for that purpose to
the Dean sad Chapter of St. Paul's sat to the Corporation
of the City of London, but the markets being now declared
to be totally inadequate to the wants of the metropolis and
• nuisance, sod the corporation having powers to build
'daughter-houses at New Smithfield, and to erect commo-
dim'. meat and poultry markets, with specious surrounding
straits near old Stmatheld, which will be connected by
means of the 31ctiopolitan Railway with the New Cattle
which willMarket,it doubtlessispnual mto
zcealwmalyishfortthhee
increasingexi
ngnairk ete
require-
ments of the great publishing trades of Paternoster-row. A
great public advantage will accrue from the proposed im-
provement, seeing that cattle brought by the railways to
market may be slaughtered at the New Cattle Market and
conveyed to the new Meat market by the Metropolitan
Railway without the necessity, of traversing the streets of
Leaden, to the annoyance mid danger of the public.