The Sun.
London, England, 1853-06-06 00:00:00

LON DON, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 6, 1853.

LCASINO,
AURENT'S ARGYLL ROOMS.-
Lessee, CHARLES E. LAURENT, Onslow-house, Fulham-
road. Open Every Evening. The Orchestra will perform, during
the week, "The Thistle," "Shamrock," " Rose," "Amine" "Gran-
ville." "Loch Vogel," and "Windsor Castle" Waltzes; the "Napo-
leon" Galep; "Le Cirque" Quadrille; "The Gold Hawk" and
" Juno" Polkas.— Admission, Is. Doors open at Half-past Eight;
Dancing to commence at Nine o'clock, and terminate at Half-past
Eleven.

MIDDLESEX.—Metropolitan Buildings Act,
7 and 8 Vic., cap. 84.—Notice is Hereby Given, That the
Court of General Sessions of the Peace for this county has (subject to
the consent of her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the
Home Department, which has been applied to), divided the district
of St. Mary, Islington, into three districts, to be respectively called
the districts of East, West, and South Islington ; and that, If the con-
sent of the Home Office shall have been received meanwhile, the Court
will proceed, on Thursday, the 14th day ofJuly next, to the ELEC-
TION of a SURVEYOR for each of such three districts ; and that
such election will be subject to the Standing Orders of Courts as to
Districts and District Surveyors, and that no person will he admitted
a candidate unless duly qualified under the Act and such Standing
Orders ; and every candidate (who has
of :not already done so), must,
on or before Saturday, the 25th day Jane inst., address to me,
in writing, a statement of his name, residence, age, and qualifi-
cations; and must also personally appear before the Committee
for general purposes appointed by the Court at Twelve o'Clock
at Noon precisely, on Monday, the 27tk day of June instant,
at the Sessions-house,Clerkettwell-green, and produce to their
satisfaction evidence that he is of the full age of 30 years, and
a certificate from the Board of Examiners, appointed under the Act,
for their approval, and also such ether testimonials of character and
qualification as he may deem expedient, or the Committee may re-
quire ; and, if approved by the Committee, he will then be sanctioned
by them to be a candidate. It has been resolved by the Court that
the candidates for the said districts shall not be required to declare
themselves candidates for any one of such districts in particular, bnt
that each of the three successful candidates shall be at liberty to
select a district according to his standing on the poll.
C. HEATON ELLIS, Clerk of the Peace.
Sessions-house, Clerkenwell, June, 3, 1853.

stood the term " British isles" in so very precise a
sense, which seems more applicable to Venetian
than British territory. Yet the expression is
perfectly correct. The " British isles" are actually
five hundred in number, though only 175 were
found to be inhabited on the morning of March 31,
1851. Of these islands we have a list, with their
names and population. Great Britain had over 20
millions of inhabitants, and Ireland over 6
; Anglesea, Jersey, the Isle of Man, and the
Isle of Wight, had each more than 50,000 ; and
Guernsey, Lewis, Skye, and Shetland, over 20,000.
From these, however, we descend very rapidly to
classes with 10,000, 1,000, 500, 400, 100, 40, 30,
20, and 10 inhabitants each, till we finally get to a
man with an island all to himself. The name of
this British Selkirk we cannot give, but his abode
is called Inchcolm, and is apparently a territorial
appanage of Fife. In conclusion, and by way of
conveying a general idea of the magnitude and in-
terest of the work, we may remark, that though
this first volume of the report professes to give, out
of all the facts recapitulated as deducible from the
census, nothing but the " number of the inhabi-
tants
in 1801, 1811, 1821, 1831, 1841, and 1851,"
it contains nearly 1,000 pages of condensed and
analysed matter.