The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-02 00:00:00

BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.

Males
Females

... 771
... 732

Total ... ... 1,503
*ln this number are included 10 by Scarlatina, 32
by Typhus Fever, and 21 by Diarrhoea.

OFFICIAL RETURN OF THE NUMBER OF
AIV GLISH RESIDENTS in FRANCE in 1851.

The French Government has recently been taking the
census of the present population of France, the same as
the registration authorities have been doing in the United
Kingdom of Great Britain (England, Wales, Ireland,
Scotland, the Channel Islands, &c.) According to the
official return of the Minister of the Interior—compiled
from the returns of the prefects, sub-prefects, mayors,
and municipal authorities of the different departments,
communes, &e.---it appears that there are in France
35,500,000 inhabitants of both sexes, and. with the
Island of Corsica, her colonies in Algeria, Martinique,
Guadeloupe, Pondicherry, &c., it will amount to more
than 36,300,000. With respect to the number of
foreigners domiciled, of all nations, it exceeds
1,000,000; of these upwards of 75,000 are English in
various parts of the country, which is considerably
less than previous to the Revolution, when it ex-
ceeded 150,000. The fcillowing are a few of the principal
localities frequented by the English :—Paris, Neuilly, St.
Cloud, Versailles, St. Germain, Charenton, St. Denis, &c.,
25,000 (some years ago there were more than 36.000
in the capital arid vicinity); Boulogne-sur• Mer (15,000),
and its environ villages and towns—Capecure, Maquetra,
Wicardenne, Hussein ben, Wimille, Marquise, Ostrohove,
Samer, Neufchatel, Wimereux Montreuil, &c., 17,000.
Boulogne is justly called an English colony, as it is the
:avourite resort of families in consequence of the purity
of the air, the daghtful scenery in its environs, moderate
prices of provisone, the baths and port, which is one of
the finest in La Manehe, and its proximity to England,
with the facility of steam communication with Folkes-
tone twice daily, Dover once, and London direct twice
weekly, by the splendid packets of the Commercflel
Steam Company, and twice by those of the General
Steam Navigation Company, and vice versa. It is the
nearest port to land at for parties going to Paris, Italy,
&c., and has the advantage over Calais, having always
a sufficieet quantity of water to admit the packets;
:hus it is more preferable fur the mail packet station
than the other. Calais, Besse Vile, St. Pierre, Co-
logne, and Guinea, 3 200 (formerly upwards of 7,000);
Duukirk, Bergues, Bourg Bourg, and Wormhout, 2,800;
Si. Omer, Cassel, and Armentlires, 1,200; Amiens,
Lille, Arras, Douai, Cambrai, Valenciennes, and St.
geentin, 1,000 (these are the chief towns in the north
e here English reside); Rouen, Havre de Grace, Dieppe,
Caen, and other pens of Normandy, 7,000 (formerly
itnountieg to 12,000); °cleat's, Nantes, Blois, Tours,
&c., 4 000; Barreges, Pau, Bordeaux, Toulouse, and
'he &pertinent of the Pyrenees, 3,700; Montpellier,
Nisines, Marseilles, Toulon, &c., 3,500; Aix, Avig-
eon, Lyons, &c., 1,000. The others are distributed in
Afferent parts—St. Maio, Brest, Cherbourg, Rochefort,
La Reef:elle, L'Orient, &c. Admitting that each one
•-xpends on an average st. or 4s. per day, the sum spent
inneally by the English resident absentees in France,
would be about 5 475,0001. sterling per annum, which is
very moderate calculation. This, however, does nut
include casual tourists visiting Boulogne, Calais,
Havre, Dieppe, Paris, &0,, or passing through
France, en route to Switzerland, the Rhine, arid
dermany, Italy, and via Marseilles to the ports of the
:viediterranean, Malta, Egyet, &c., by the overland
nails to India, and vice versa, which will considerably
increase that amount. At Brussels, Ostend, Ghent,
Bruges, Antwerp, Liege, Verviers, Chsrleroi, and
other parts of' Betgium, a great number of English are
domiciled. So that the present census taken in England
4s to the number of her Majesty's British born subjects
must be very imperfect—indeed, it is utterly impossible
ever to ascertain what is the actual number of English
in the various parts of the globe and our colonies.

HOW MAJOR EDWARDES LOST THE
USE OF HIS RIGHT FIAND.

I was in the very act of writing, when a horseman
rode in from the picket, and reported that Moolraj's
irmy were crossing the bridge in the same order that
they had done before, and were coming on again to give
us battle. Astounded, but unable to disbelieve, I beat
to arms, summoned the chief officers, ordered
the line to be turned out at once, and was
holding a hurried conference with Lake and
Cortlandt in my tent, while all three of us were jump,
trig into boots, or buckling on swords and pistols, when a
second horseman from the picket entered. I had just loaded
my pistols, and went on cramming them into my belt while
listenitig to the man's report. The hammer of one got en-
tangled; but without looking to see what was the matter,
I seized the barrel in my right hand and pulled the
pistol into its place. A loud report, a short uang, and I
had lost the use of my right hand for life ! The ball had
passed through the palm, and lodged in the floor at ray
foot. But there was no time for regrets. The line had
turned out, and Lake rushed to the field to take my duty
and his own. Nobly he would have done both; but I
must own it was a great relief to me to hear that as our
line advanced the enemy retreated again behind the city
walls, and proved to have been only a party of cavalry sent
out to la counoitre our position. . . . After this ac-
cident I was twelve days without a doctor—at least an
Europeac one. The native doctor of General Cort-
landt's troops sewed up my hand with a packing
needle, sad thought he had done a fine thing ; but
the agony it caused me I never can forget ; fur what
with the laceration of the wound, the tightness of the
Aitches, and the intense heat of the sun, inflammation
ensued, the hand swelled, the stitches grew tighter and
the pan greater, till at last I would have thanked
either Le.lte or Cortlandt, if instead of nursing me
they bad drawn a sword and chopped the limb clean off.
tine day, too, a sympathising friend in the Indian navy,
came into see me, sad intending to seat himself on my bed,
sat down on my wounded hand, which was stretched out
an a pillew by my side, and then asked me," How I did?"
At last Dc. Cole arrivad from Lahore, cut the stitches,
and relieved me of all pain in a moment; though it was
many weeks before I could even put my hand in a
shag; and, in spite of all that surgical skill could do, I
never grasp a sword again. To a soldier that is a
great loss. On horseback, in subsequent engagements,
I have felt quite defenceless; and though it seldom falls
;o a commander's lot to be personally engaged, yet it
may so happen at any time; and it is not pleasant to
know to a certainty beforetaind that you have no chance
of escape.—A Year in the l'unjaub.

SEABORNE MAILS.
[N signifies that the mails are sent front the General Post-ofile,
is, the night and M by the morning—dispatch.]