The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-28 00:00:00

THE CENSUS OF 1841.

POPULATION OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE.
From the results of the census which has just been
concluded, it appears that the population of Great Bri-
tain and Ireland in the present year amounts to upwards
of 27,000,000 of souls. The return for the three king-
doms, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man, is as
follows:

15,901,981
2,624,586
8,205,382
124,079

England and Wales
Scotland
Ireland
Guernsey, Jersey, and Man

Total 26,856,028
This is exclusive of the army and navy, and merchant
seamen afloat, and of all persons travelling abroad, or
not under a roof en the night of the sth of June. Includ-
ing these classes, the population may be safely taken at
27,000,000, which is an increase of about 2,000,000 since
1831. If to this is added the population of the colonies
dependent on this country, it will be found that the sub-
jects of the British Crown are more numerous than that
of any other civilized monarchy or republic on the face
of the globe. After making every allowance for
possible exaggeration or uncertainty in the accounts
of the Indian or Australian population, we may
safely say that her Majesty Queen Victoria is the sove-
reign of a hundred millions of subjects—a larger portion
of the human race than has ever obeyed any one Euro-
pean sovereign since the downfal of the Roman empire.
The population of the other great Powers of Europe and
America at the present time is pretty nearly as follows,
of whom perhaps thirty millions may be of the Russian
race, and the rest a mixed multitude of Cossacks, Cal-
mucks, Tartars, and other wandering tribes, or of Poles,
Lithuanians, or Caucasian mountaineers, bitterly hostile to
the Russians, and either in open insurrection, or only wait-
ing for an opportunity of being so :—France, 35,000.000,
of whom 33,000,000 are Frenchmen in the proper sense of
the term, and about 2,000,000 Algerino or French colo-
nists in the West Indies, Cayenne, Senegal, the Isle of
Bourbon, and Pondicherry ; Austria, 30,000,000, com-
posed of Germans, Hungarians, Italians, and Illyrians ;
Prussia, about 14,000,000 to 15,000,000 of Germans ;
and the United States, 14,000,000 of freemen, chiefly of
the Anglo-Saxon race, and 3,000,000 of negroes, chiefly
slaves.—Liverpool Times.

WOOLWICH, OCT. 27.—1 t is not generally
known that a museum has been originated by the Royal
Sappers and Miners, at head-quarters, at Woolwich. U
has now, however, become of considerable importance,
and continues gradually to rise in interest and respecta-
bility, and during the past quarter especially, many very
excellent and important articles have been presented to
it, among which may be particularised a finely-executed
model, on a very neat scale, by Colour-Sergeant IL
Munro, of an elevated battery for three guns and four
mortars, with traverse and a field powder-magazine.
The museum is only in its infancy, having been estab-
lished in 1839, and yet it now contains a very tolerable
collection of coins and medals, organic remains, woods,
minerals, polyparia, shells, birds, and other specimens of
natural history, with a variety of weapons, models, relics
from the Royal George, and a number of articles to
illustrate the manners and customs of heathen countries.
From this epitomical statement it is evident the non-
commissioned officers have ample materials at their dis-
posal to aid them in the acquirement of useful and scien-
tific information. A very excellent batch of recruits, 28
in all, arrived at head-quarters on the 19th inst., from
Edinburgh and Glasgow. The recruiting for this corps
has recently been carried on with great sprit and zeal,
and the success which has followed the labours of the
pan ies are ntovwfuonuLeraLrl).
parties employed has been greater lately than has been
known for years previously. The several service com-
ParTkelir,RwiLEßßS;
NeNo7m3HopAleted to their full establishment.
fish, tuns, Abram,
with one fish, 24 tuns, itll:ehe
Tuesday morn-
ing, from Davis,
Straits.Truelove,morning from
The Waterloo, arrived also
Miramichi, was assisted in by
three smacks. Arrived also the Hoghton, Wilson, from
Sykes,
Riga, and the
~.,Todd, from Stockholm, with loss
of boats.— Yong Courant.

COURT CIRCIULAR.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her
Majesty yesterday at Buckingham Palace.
The Royal dinner-party at Buckingham Palace on
Tuesday el ening included the Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl
of Jersey, Baron Stockmar, and Colonel Wylde.
The Band of the Grenadier Guards attended at the
Palace during dinner.
The Countess of Charlemont has succeeded the Dow-
ager Lady Lyttelton, as Lady in Waiting on the Queen.
M. Syndicus Sieveking, of Hamburgh, Federal Envoy
of the Free Cities of Germany, had an interview yester
day with the Earl of Aberdeen, at the Foreign-office,
and transacted business at the Board of Trade.

Mr. Theophilus Heale, of New Zealand, and Ar. John
Crawford, of Paisley, had an interview with Lord Stan-
ley yesterday at the Colonial-office.
Mr. Baekhouse. Under Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, has arrived in town with his family from the
Continent.

A. deputation on the subject of improvements in Fins
bury, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Ex
chequer yesterday, at his official residence, in Downing
street.

Mr. Johnson; Puisne Judge of Trinidad, and Mr.
Edward Wodehouse, M.P., had interviews with Lord
Stanley yesterday, at the Colonial-office.
Baron de Brunow, the Russian Minister, transacted
business yesterday at the Foreign-office.