The Express.
London, England, 1861-02-25 00:00:00

THE FORTHCOMING CENSUS.

The schedules for the census according to
the provisions of the act in the bat cession of prz&-
ment, and which ramie the royal assent on the 6th of
August, 1803, an now in the coons of distribution to the
superinteodent regietran of the United Kingdom,prerions Co
general delivery to miry householder to make the proper
retuni. It intimates that persons reinsiog to give correct
information are liable toe penalty of 51., besides the incon•
Vellilleoo sod anaoyeade of hawing to appear before two jus-
tices al the peso& The sehadWas °patella columns to be
Old op at the name and eitrusolo of each individual rela-
tive to the lead of the family, whether married or unmar-
ried, sex, age lest birthday, when bon, rank, profession, or
occupation, and whether blind or deaf and dumb, and if so,
from birth or not.

the return as to "rank, profession, or
occupation," the superior titles of peers and otter persons of
rank are to be inserted, se well as magistrates, aldermen,
and other important public °Goers. To the members of the
easy sad navy to be added, "Army;' "Artillery," " Royal
tagie.
re" Royal Engineers," " lleriess," " met Judi*
" ball. pay or tired. In the civil service the de-
wst to Le stated. Clergymen to state the name of
church or chapel in which they officiate,
sad whether as rector, vicar, or minister. With
raspael to the members of the legal profession,
1 lanislan are to state whether or sot in actual pre-
' tioe, sad Worse, or solicitor to be coaled to those whose
mews are actually on the roll. Members of the medical
profcanon to state the university, college, or hall, of which
they are graduates, fellows, or licentiate*, and whether ph),
eider, surgeons, dentist, oculist, geoeral practitioner, or not
practising. Professors, teaches, public writers, authors,
sad scaentific men to state the breech of science
re literature they panne or teach ; artists the
art they cultivate. People engaged in coin-
merce, as merchants, brokers, ice., to state the particu-
lar kind of business is which they are engaged, or the staple
in which they dial. The term " farmer" to be applied only
to the occupier of Lad. Farm servants to be specially de-
scribed. An out-door labourer working on a farm to be de-
scribed as "agricultural labourer," "shepherd," he. Is
trades and manufactures, the employer always to be distin-
guished. In the aim of workers in mines and manufactures,
the particular branch of work and the material us always
to be distinctly iszpriesed. Artisans and mechanics to state
the branch of Sri or business, soil weavers to express
whether in silk, wool, worsted, cotton, he. A parses fol-
lowing more than one distinct business to insert the several
oecuputions in the ceder of their importance. Persona fol-
lowing no professioe, trade, or calling, sod holding no public
°Moe, but deriving their income from land, houses, mine',
dividends. he, to describe themselves a landed proprietor,
proprietor of mines, proprietor of houses, landholder. he.
Persons in almshouses to state their previous occupationa.
The return is to be made for Sunday, the 7th of April.

Tots Tunas royal commis-
sion will be bissalitsadr roma, to whom the question of
the Themes seallianimmileill be submitted for inquiry, sod
if pomade for eempledoe. This commission will be can-
peed of seven gentlemen, selected for their competency for
tire task and their coesection with the public intermits at
Mahe. The eiIIAIINSI will be the Right Hoe. W. Cubitt,
M.P., the proud Lord Mayor of London. The other mem-
bers will compries Mr. Tliwaites, the president of the Metro-
politan Board of Weeks, the secretary of the Thames Con.
servaary Board, and two or three engineers of eminence.
To these will he warmed the preparation and the construc-
tion of the great wait, with which will no doubt be com-
bined, if practicable, the execution of the low level sewers
of the metropolis. The labours of the commission will be
Featly lessened by the several plans submitted from time to
time, and the successive inquiries set on foot, especially the
report of the Hines of Commons in the last sessice. flo
soon a the commission on mature their plans a bill will be
brought in by the Chief Commissioner of Works to carry them
eat. The Home Secretary will propose a more limited area
for levying there'd duties, and perhaps will modify their
mount. The 20 miles ergs is considered as unjust to those
who Sr. outside the loseadarim of the metropolitan ire-
promments, and eves the pain mss of 13 miles may by
KIM be considered too satessim. Dui it is clear that •
drat must be taken. The area of the listropoliten Board
is eirjectionable, as being Meson% mad se bsiag irregularly
extended in some direethee.' It would net de, for example,
to levy coal duties 011 the Radish beaks of the Themes,
sad slim/ them to be leaded free of duly as the Emu lade
of the riper.—Observer.
MIDITINLANIAN RITZNSION Tiziosara Cox-
/AMT.—The tam Hoe recently laid by the comma from
Olnate b Oorte, le now open for the of
messere.
Orr! or Lorvor HosrrrAL vox Diastase or
rum Oman Vlcroau-rant.—n• number of patients re.
Bared eilits Mesita** dazing last week was 1,192, of whine
UT ran morrow