The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-19 00:00:00

ME CENSUS.

The following are the chief provisions of the bill
fon taking the census this year :
1 u e several registrars of births and deaths in
England shall make and return to their respective
superintendent registrars a list containing the
names and places of abode of a sufficient number of
persons, duly qualified according to instructions to
' be prepared by or under the direction of such Se-
cretary of State [one of her Majesty's Principal
Secretaries of State], to act as enumerators within
their several sub-districts, and such persons,
when approved of by the superintendent registrar,
shall be appointed by him enumerators for
taking the census, subject nevertheless to the
approval of the said Registrar General; and the
registrar, with the approval of the superinten-
dent registrar, shall assign a division to each enu-
merator, and shall distribute to the several enume-
rators in the sub-district the forms and instructions
which shall have been issued for that purpose by
the Registrar-General, awl shall personally ascer-
tain that each enumerator thoroughly understands
the manner in which the duties required of him
are to b 3 performed.
" Schedules shall be prepared by or under the
direction of such Secretary of State for the purpose
of being filled up by or on behalf of the several
occupiers of dwelling-houses as hereafter provided,
with particulars of the name, sex, age, rank, pro-
fession, or occupation, condition, relation' to head of
family, religious profession, and birthplace of every
living person who abode in every house on the night
of Sunday, April 7,1861, and also whether any were
blind, or deaf and dumb; and the registrars in Eng-
land shall in the course of the week ending on
Saturday, the 6th day of April, 1861, leave, or
cause to be left at every dwelling-house within
their resective sub-districts one:or more of the said
schedules for the occupier or occupiers thereof or of
any part thereof, and upon every such schedule
shall be plainly expressed that it is to bh-filled up
by the occupier of such dwelling-house (or where
such dwelling-house is let in different stories or
apartments, and occupied distinctly by different
persons or families, by the occupier of each sueh
distinct story or apartment),and that the enumera-
tor will collect all such schedules within his division
on the Monday then next following; and every occu-
pier of any dwelling-house, or of any distinct story
or apartment in any dwelling-house, with or for
whom any such schedule shall have been left as
aforesaid, shall fill up the said schedule to•the
best of his or her knowledge and belief, so far
as relates to all persons dwelling in the house,
story, or apartment occupied by him or her, and .
shall sign his or her name thereunto, and shall --
deliver the schedule, so filled up, or cause the
same to be delivered to the enumerator, when re-
quired so to do; and every such occupier who shall
wilfully refuse, or without lawful excuse neglect to
fill up the said schedule, to the best of his or her
knowledge and belief, or to sign and deliver the
same as herein required, or who shall wilfully
make, sign, or deliver, or cause to be made, signed,
or delivered, any false return of all or any of the
matters specified in the said schedule, shall forfeit a
sum not more than £5 nor less than 20s.
" The enumerators shall visit every house in their
respective divisions, and shall collect all the sche-
dules so left within their division from house to house
so far as may bepossible, on Monday, the Bth day of
April, in the year 1861, and shall complete such of
the schedules as upon delivery thereof to them shall
appear to be defective, and correct such as they
shall find to be erroneous, and shall copy the
schedules, when completed and corrected, into books
to be provided them for that purpose, and shall add
thereunto an account, according to the best infor-
mation which they shall be able to obtain, of all the
other persons living within their division who shall
not be included in the schedules so collected by
thorn.

" Every enumerator shall also take an account of
the occupied houses, and of the houses then building
and therefore uninhabited, and also of all other un-
inhabited houses within his division ; and shall also
take an account of all such particulars hereinbefore
mentioned as by the forms and instructions which
may be issued under this act they may be directed
to inquire into ; and in the book into which he
shall have copied the householders' schedules and
other particulars, as hereinbefore directed, each
enumerator shall distinguish the several parishes
and places maintaining their own poor within
his division, or such parts thereof as shall be within
his division, and shall also distinguish those
parishes and places or parts of parishes and places
within his division which are within the limits of
any city or borough returning or contributing to
return a member or members to serve in Parlia-
ment, or of any incorporated city or borough, or of
any ecclesiastical district, and shall deliver such
book to the registrar of the sub-district, together
with the householders schedules collected by him,
and shall sign a form or declaration t• the effect
that the said book has been truly and faithfully
filled up by him, and that to the best of his know-
ledge the same is correct, so far as may be known ;
which form of declaration shall be prepared by or
under the direction of such Secretary of State, and
issued by the Registrar-General with the forms
and instructions aforesaid."

It is in contemplation to restore the chapel of
Netley Abbey, situated on Southampton Water, for the
purpose of performing divine service in it. The ruins of
Netley Abbey are now surrounded by a large population,
owing to the military hospital which is erecting in the neigh-
bourhood, and which will be the largest building in Europe.
Some idea of the antiquity of the ruins of the abbey may be
formed from the fact that the floor of the chapel is covered
by 16 feet of earth, in which gigantic trees are rooted. The
chapel is of immense size, and was originally a beautiful
structure. A portion of the eastern window still remains.
DESTRUCTION OP FAnar PRODUCE BY FIRE.--
Yesterday morning about two o'clock great consternation
was caused in the quiet town of Barking by the outbreak of
a fire, which in a comparatively brief period laid in ruins
property valued at some thousand pounds sterling. The
scene of the misfortune was the Manor Farm, belonging to
Mr. Biggs. Building after building kept dropping to the
ground, and at last the whole of the barns, the granary,the
cow and horse lodges, and the ricks of hay, straw, and
wheat were destroyed. There is an insurance of about
£1,200 in the Atlas Fire-office.
A FIELD FOR ENGLISII TERRIERS.—The Mar-
seilles journals represent that rats have lately increased so
much in that city, in spite of the attempts to destroy thou'
by means of traps, poison, &c., as to have become a serious
nuisance, infesting the streets at night, and even invading
kitchens and larders in the daytime. The journals say that
cats, apparently from fear, do not attack them, and they re-
commend the employment of English terriers, one of these
dogs having completely exterminated or driven away a
horde which had taken up its residence in one of the prin-
cipal hotels.

BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—The
only West India sugar offering this week was a cargo of
Demerara and-Nevis, just landed, of which about 250 hhds.
were sold at steady rates. Some sales have also been made
in floating cargoes. There has been more doing in rum,
principally Demerara, and prices have slightly given way.
A PEEP INTO THE BACK STREETS OF LONDON.—
" I was still under the influence of the fatal spell, and was
constrained to follow where the Jew led. Through dull
monotonous piles of brick-work we passed along. We
glided rapidly through streets where shell-fish appeared to
be the sole sustenance of the inhabitants—indeed, as far as
they were concerned, and from what I saw, I should be apt
to name periwinkles as the staff of life—passed out into
more lighted quarters, where the inhabitants dealt in nau-
tical instruments and glass beads. I ceuld now comprehend
how it was that the soft desires of the dwellers in the Poly-
nesian Archipelago were satisfied. Establishments of con-
siderable importance were devoted to the sale of barley-
sugar, yellow and red, and a thriving business was evidently
driven in mutton-pies and cranberry-tarts. We passed the
establishment of Moses and Son—the Taj Mahal of this
quarter. It was, indeed, a glorious vision, resplendent with
noods of gaslight, while a banner from the top floated in
defiance of all opposition.—From " The Science of Matri-
mony," in Once a- Week.

THE EFFECT IN LIVERPOOL OF THE TELEGRAIII
ABOUT HEENAN AND SAYERS' FIGHT.--LIVERPOOL,
Wednesday Afternoon. The various telegrams relating
to the fight between Heenan and Sayers occasioned more
excitement in this town yesterday, from noon until five p.m $
than did the promulgation of Mr. Gladstone's budget or the
intelligence of the loss of the Royal eh-after I At one
o'clock the 'Change flags were half deserted, and had the
telegraph wires been communicating to us the progreesl
of an engagement off the Great Ormshead -between
an English an a French line of-battle-ship, more eager
faces could not have been exhibited as to the latest particu-
lars
.transmitted. There was evidently a strong feeling
lately—in a remarkable degree perceptible here--that the
officious county. constables would show less zeal in pre-
venting in this instance a breach of the peace ; I mean to
say that men who are known to be deadly opposed to such
contests, seeing that such interference would ultimately
prove abortive, had a sneaking sort of wish that the fight
would be alrowed to come off, and those men had their
share in yesterday's excitement. The offices of the daily
newspapers were during the afternoon beset by impatient
applicants, to whom the succeeding editions could not be
supplied with satisfactory expedition. An anecdote Was
related to me this morning of Pea Burke, who, in the
year 1838 KI think it was), visited the-United States. NY.
informant learning that Burke was in New York, an
a
would be at a certain public-house on an evening named,
determined to go and see him. Ho went, and while there,
an American, as he was then called, a powerful young
man, without any preliminaries went up to Burke and
challenged him to light. "What dost thou know about
Lighting ?" inquired Burke. The ambitious. adversary re-
plied that, whether or not, he would fight Min,
and so
anxious was he to do this that he followed for some weeks
and greatly annoyed Bgrke, who, at last, at the instigation
of-his friends, consented to meet the man, and a small un-
inhabited island in Long Island Sound was fixed upon for
the combat. On confronting each other, it was evident
'to all assembled who- knew anything of the' .science,
that the Yankee had nett the remotest chance, and Burke,
titer parrying the blows, paid them back with mere open:
banded returns. The deaf gentleman's backers suggested
that he should give his foolish adversary a little real pun-
ishment, and so end the burlesque ; when lie replied, ,
Does t lion want mo to kill the lad ?" Shortly, however,
it became plainly necessary that he should act upon!
.nigr
advice, and remove en impression which
.A-round in the minds of the American's friends, that hetonlY
ag
,•eally the better man, and in the next round he no
0 es
punished him severely, but tumbled him over thheinrt,
amongst his friends, who however would not own
t he Wee forr
el;
was then discovered for the first time tha •
Irishman was gain
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