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Beginning now with the province of Ulster, the re-
-Ird before us shows that of its counties and towns,
Irlow, numbering 86,228 persons in 1841, has now
,157-a decrease of 18,071; that Drogheda town, hay-
• then 16,261, has now 16,876-increase, 615; that
.blin city, having then 232,726, has now 254,850-in-
crease 22,124; that Dublin, having then 140,047, has
now 147,506-increase 7,459; that Kildare, having then
114,488, has now 96,627-decrease 17,861; that KU•
kenny city, having then 19,071, has now 20,283-in-
create, 1,212; that Kilkenny, having then 183,349, has
now 139,934-decrease 43,415; that King's County,
having then 146,857, has now 112,875-decrease,
33,982; that Longford, having then 115,491, has now
83,198-decrease 32,293; that Louth, having then
111,979, has now 91,045-decrease, 20,934; that Meath,
having then 183,828, has now 139,706-decrease 44,122;
that Queen's County, having then 153,930, has now
109,747-decrease 44,183; that Westmeath, having then
141,300, has flow 107,510-decrease 33,790; that Wex-
ford, having then 202,033, has now 180,170-decrease
21,863; that Wicklow, having then 126,143, has now
' 99,287-decrease, 26,856; that the province has in the
aggregate, with an increase in some cases amounting to-
gether to 31,410, a total decrease of 337,370.
Munster presents similar results-a decrease of
580,457, after an increase of 16,093, thus arrived at:-
By a decrease of 73,674 the population of Clare has
fallen from 286 394 to 212,720; so, by a decrease of
222,246, that of 'ork from 773,398 to 551,152; by a
decrease of 55,639, Kerry from 293 880 to 238,241; by
a decrease of 80,019, Limerick from 281.638 to 201,619;
by a decrease of 111,724, Tipperary from 435,553 to
323,829; by a decrease of 37,135, Waterford from
172.971 to 135,836. Experincing an increase in this
province are the city of Waterford, risen in the 10 years
from 23,216 to 26,667; the city of Limerick risen from
48,391 to 55,268; and the city of Cork, from 80,720 to
86,495-their collective increase 16,093.
Ulster gives as its grand total a decrease of 406,436
persons, with an increase for Belfast alone of 24,352.
Antrim's decrease for the 10 years is 25,833, substracted
from 276,168; Armagh's 35.973 from
Car-
rickfergus232,393; town's 891 from 9,379; Cavan's 68,855 from
243,158; Donegal's 42,160 from 296,448; Down's
43,668 from 361,446; Fermanagh's 40,503 from 156,481;
Londonderry's 30,430 from 222,174; Monaghan's
57,032 from 200,442; Tyrone's 61,091 from 312,956.
Connaught also shows a general decrease, save in Gal-
way town, of which the
4, population has risen from
17,275 to
697. In Sligo the numbers have fallen
since 1841 from 180,886 to 128,769; in Roscommon
from 253,591 to 173,798; in Mayo from 388,887 to
274,716; in Leitrim from 155,297 to 111,808; in Gal-
way from 422,923 to 298,129; the total decrease, there-
fore, of Connaught is 414,364. The general total de-
crease for Ireland, since 1841, is 1,659,330.
In the same period, the interval between the censuses,
1,692,063 persons emigrated from the United Kingdom;
but how many of these were from Ireland we are not in-
formed. In the previous ten years, as may be inferred
from the Commissioners' return, 717,913:wa5.the number
of emigrants from among us; and the total during the
twenty-six years, from 1825 to 1850 inclusive, was just
2,622,617. In 1825 there were 8,741 who went to the
North American colonies, 5,551 to the United States,
485 to the Australian colonies and New Zealand, and
114 to " all other places." In 1850, 32,961 left for the
North American colonies, 223,078 for the United States,
16,037 for the Australian colonies and New Zealand.
and 8,773 for "all other places." In no previous year
are so many recorded as having gone to the United
States. The emigration elsewhere has been greater on
former occasions than it was in 1850.

THE GREAT EXHIBITION.
Yesterday the receipts at the doors of the building
amounted to 2,835/. 65., and the number of visitors,
cording to the police returns, was 58,382.
We understand that the price of season tickets is re-
duced from 34 and 24 to 30s. and 11., and that the Com-
mission have come to a resolution, by which the sale of
those tickets ceases on the 31st of August. As we re-.
commended a few days ago, the ss. entrance fee on Sa-
turdays is to be reduced, immediately after the proro-
gation of Parliament, to 2s. 6d.; but the immense crowds
that still flock to the Exhibition on the shilling days
render it in the meantime impracticable, in the view of
the Commission, to adopt measures for admitting a
larger proportion of the humbler classes than now find
their way into the Crystal Palace.

METROPOLITAN INTERMENTS ADVANCES.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—In the recent debate in the House of C 01111310115
on the above subject, the Chancellor of the Exchequer
said "he wished to state the whole difficulty;" he re-
minded the House that " what the Board of Health
thought indispensable, was, that they should be consti-
tuted a permanent body, and should have, practically, a
monopoly of burials, receiving a fee for every person
dying in the metropolitan district;" that the Board of
Health " thought it necessary that they should be in
possession of all the burial-grounds in the metropolitan
district;" that "the Treasury thought that was going
faster than was expedient, and he (the Chancellor of thes
Exchequer) refused his permission"—but "'that it seenictd
that the possession of one or two cemeteries would enable
the Board of Health to close the grave-yards in the me-
tropolis, and enable those whose grave-yards were closed
to obtain. burying-grounds."
At the present moment there are eight perfectly
well-conducted cemeteries surrounding London, ceia-
taining, collectively, a larger extent of acreage than
the two hundred Golgothas added together, which
in thirty years have engulphed a million and a
half of the inhabitant:. These eight cemeteries are
respective.y presided over by boards quite as com-
petent to discharge their duties, with public approbation,
as the three gentlemen who sign the "report of preli-
minary proceedings under the Metropolitan Interments
Act," notwithstanding the wonderful amount of official
dexterity they possess—seeing (as we learn from the ap-
pendix to saidreport) that from the sth of August last to,
the close of 1850, they dispatched, by post or hand, letters
and packages to the overwhelmning number of 24,339,
What the Board of Health have been doing since the
Ist of January, 1851. the " Report of Preliminary Pro-
ceedings under the Metropolitan Interments Act" saith
not, but it anything like a similar efflux of letters and,
packages has issued from Gwydyr House, the public may
very fairly come to the conclusion that they have spent
fully eleven months since they got their Burial Act in
pertorming—the Comedy of Errors and Much Ado About
Nothing.

It Was understood that the scope and intent of the
Metropolitan Interments Act was the total and imme-
diate abolition of the profane and disgusting practice of
burying yearly about 60,000 corpses in and amongst tae
hearth-seats of the living. But the 130,0001. advance
now required by the Board of Health as a first instal-
ment of the 700,000/. needed to realise their burial
::rangethat mo-
nopoly scheme, appears to be sought with a view of
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making the Brompton Cemetery and the Nunhead Ce-
metery two large grave-pits for the promiscuous inter-
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and Kensington, from the moment that 20,000, 30,000,
or 40,000 corpses are deposited yearly in their centre ?
As regards health, the practice is deadly enough when
burial is distributed amongst the 200 City grave-yards
and the eight suburban cemeteries. But to accumulate
burial in a spot such as the Brompton Cemetery, sur-
rounded with a dense and rapidly increasing population,
is an unheard-of aggression upon the longevity and com-
fort of the community.
Before the Board of Health made their report in tho
spring of last year on extramural sepulture, steps had.
been taken by Sir Richard Broun and Mr. Spry° to
supply the desideratum of a METROPOLITAN NEcno-
rola, or city for the dead, on a comprehensive scale at
Woking, in the county of Surrey, twenty-three miles
distant. For this purpose they entered into a contract
with Lord Onslow for 2,000 acres of highly suitable soil,
and also completed arrangements with the South-Wes-
tern Railway, by which corpses will be conveyed frora
the Waterloo station for less than 6d. per body—the fares
for mourners back and forward being, let class, 6a.;
end ditto, 3s. 6d., and 3rd ditto, 2s.
The Board of Health in the " Report of Preliminary
Proceedings under the Metropolitan Interment Act,"
enumerate amongst the " business transacted" from sth.
of August to 31st December last, reports on fifteen sitf,s
offered to them for metropolitan cemeteries. But tb BY
do not make any mention of a memorial which was
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sensed to Lord John Russell, as first Lord of the J•i;
sury, in October last, by Sir R. Broun and AfrivoPkriT4
offering to make the proposed Necropolis
an adjunct to the practical working of
Interments Act, thereby relieving the Governmenta of
referred
outlay in the matter. This memorial wasspeueiTreas _
ury for
to the Board of Health by the Lords of the
any notice of
the ettrepoliteaun.
their consideration, and the omission
expenditure of
a proposition which would save a
even tenor of their
suburban cemeteries to pursue
t solve (to use the
burial operations, and which, would,rase) "the whole cl'w Zut.
700,0001., which would leave undishteurbned the eight small
Chancellor of the Exchequer's p
n one of the metropolitan
Should this meet the eye a
culty" in the case, calls
offolrte 1)1ya
appears
renderservice to the public if he
Members, it would duction of the memorial abov
would move for the pro
of the 0 re—
also for a copy e report of the Board
ferred to, and
which said me-
of Health on the
the offer,,bef.ore
dhirn at Lord
John Russell, with
should
me-
morial contains,t
i out
apractical mode of getting quit of
Gentleman point .
the difficulty of intramural interments." The difficulty
the ease is—the Board of Health. Until in
and desigus of Messrs. Chadwick can be buried, the old
live abomination will and thrive. Public enterprise has
already created eight suburban cemeteries, and public
enterprise is now about to establish a Necr_ppolis equal
in size to thirty Kensal-green cemeteries. What more,
then, is needed but to allow
their work unmolested, and free from interruption, ex-
cept
they should happen to transgress in matters of
sanitation. In the latter case it should be the duty of
the Board of Health to act as a medical police in
interment matters. But that is one thing—to become
undertakers-general, grave-providers, and coffin-makers,
is another. Mr. W illiams might very well characterise
the purchasing of two cemeteries as "a job." There
is no need whatever for the Board of Health to expend
sixpence in the purchase of graveyards, much less
130,060/. The passing of that grant will only open
the
door for a recurrence of similar demands; and it is to
the
be hoped the House of Commons will still negative
proposal of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
I am, Sir, &c.,
ZENO.

AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATH OF THE POLICE Su.
PERINTENDENT AT EUSTON.SQUARY.-Mr. H. M. Wakley
held an inquest at the Coronation, Seymour-street, Euston,
square, on Mr. Barker, late superintendent of the railway
police, ,Euston-square terminus, aged 61. Last Thursday he
breakfasted in his usual good health and good spirits at half-
past eleveu o'clock; in a quarter of an hour afterwards his
servant found him stretched a lifeless corpse on the floor of
his bed-room, having died of disease of the bout. ry,su
returned a verdict of " Natural death." e Jury