The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-13 00:00:00

THE NETV CENSUS ACTS.

The new acts for taking the Census in England
and Ireland next April have been issued. The act
for Scotland has not yet received the Royal assent.
In the act for England there are 19, and in the
one for Ireland 11 sections. In England the Secre-
tary of State is to superintend the taking of the
Census. Every registrar's sub-district is to be
formed into enumerators' divisions. Enumerators
are to be appointed, and householders' schedules
to be left at all dwelling-houses, to be filled up
as to all persons abiding therein on the night of
Sunday, the 7th of April, as to the name, sex, age,
rank, profession, or occupation, condition and rela-
tion to head of the family, and birthplace of every
living person, and also whether there wore any
blind or deaf and dumb. There is nothing as to
religious profession in the English Act, but there
is in the one relating to Ireland. The schedules in
England are to be collected from the houses on
Monday, if possible; the Bth of April, and to.be
corrected if found to be erroneous. The masters of
gaols, workhouses, hospitals, &c., are appointed
enumerators for the occasion, and all overseers and
other parochial officers are bound to act as enume-
rators. Returns are to be obtained of the houseless
poor during the night of the 7th of April, and of all
persons travelling or on shipboard. A table of
allowances to the enumerators in England is to be
prepared, and the payments are to be certified to
the Registrar-General. The enumerators and other
persons employed in the execution of the Act are
authorised to ask the questions directed, and every
person refusing to answer or wilfully giving a false
answer is to forfeit a sum not exceeding £5 nor less
than 20s. ; one half of the penalty is to be paid to
the informer. In Ireland the police of the Dublin
and constabulary forces, with other competent per-
sons as the Lord Lieutenant may appoint, are on
the Bth of April and one or more consecutive days
to visit every house and take an account of the age,
sex, religious persuasion, and occupation of all per-
sons, and also both in England and Ireland parti-
culars as to the houses, &c. Penalties are to be
imposed for not answering or giving false state-
ments, which fines are to be enforced in a summary
manner. The Census is to be laid before Parlia-
ment within 12 months after next June.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

LEICESTER—Aua. 11.

There was a moderate supply of wheat to-day, in fair
condition, and prices is higher. -White wheat, 63s to 67s
—red, 60s to 61s per 36 stone; a moderate inquiry for
barley, grinding, 36s to 38s ; malting, 38s to 44s per qr. ;
oats, 33s to 36s per 24 stone. Beans—old, 48s to 500,
new 46s to 48s per 38 stone.
Fine flour, 45s I Seconds, 43s 1 Thirds, 41s per 20 stone.

NORTHAMPTON—AuG. 11.
At this corn-market wheat was hardly an average sup-
ply, with a firm demand, prices ranging from 58s to 61s for
white, and 55s to 58s for red. In barley a dull business,
malting 42s to —s, grinding 36s to 38s per qr. Oats in
steady sale and prices well maintained, quoted at 28s to 360
per 24 stone. Beans, old, 46s to 48s ; peas, 42s to 460•
Rye, 36s to 40s ; malt, 68s to 72s ; flour, 33s to 37s Per
sack.