The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-18 00:00:00

ANECDOTES OF THE CENSUS.

(From the Edinburgh Witness.)
A number of anecdotes and incidents connected
with the census are finding their way into the
papers. According to the Dunfermline Press, a_
military gentleman in that vicinity could not by
any possibility get his domestics to disclose their
ages until he threatened to put down all the young
women at forty. The threat had the desired effect.
Memory was suddenly recalled ; the girls were none
of them above twenty.
The Glasgow Herald states that on Monday after-
noon when an enumerator, within a district not far
from the suburbs of Glasgow, had nearly finished
the business of collecting the householders 'schedules,
he came to the registrar and informed him that be
had fallen in with rather a curious case, upon which
he thought he would be the better of some advice.
" The case is this," said hei—" When I called at a
certain house I found there were two in it who, on
the evening of the 7th, had positively not been ill
the house, and yet they were certainly not in any
other house. Pray, how am Ito act in this matter?"
The registrar felt equally puzzled with the enume-
rator, and could lend him no assistance till a further
explanation was made. The fact was that early
on Monday morning the worthy lady of the house
had given birth to a couple of beautiful, stout,
healthy boys, and had expressed a wish that
their names should be enrolled as members of the
family.
The Falkirk Herald vouches for the following :
—An enumerator tells us that, in his district, an
olc,l gentleman, whose authenticity is indisputable,
has witnessed in one family the sixth generation.
Another man had his age and that of his wife set
down as 604 and 601 respectively, instead of 64 and
61. An elderly spinster, when asked for her age,
which ,she had left blank in the schedule, ordered
the enumerator to be gone out of her house for a
blackguard.
A Fife paper states that one irate female sent
one of the enumerators to the right about face,
characterim!ng him as having "a pretty stock of
impudence to ask ony decent woman's okipation."
The following is reported by the Angus papers
under the head " Brechin :"—As one of the enume-
rators was going his rounds the other day he called
upon an old worvan for the purpose of leaving a
schedule; but no sooner had he shown himself at
the door than he was somewhat startled by the
following exclamation :—" Gae awa,' gae awa' ; you
needna come to me for mair siller for the kirk, for
I hae nave to myseP."
The Greenock Advertiser states that during last
week, the enumerator of a poor district in one of
the burgh parishesdistributed his schedules among
the householders, intimating that he would return
for them on Monday morning. On calling upon
that day, however, he was considerably astonished
to find that fourteen of the houses were shut np•
their occupants having in the interim decamped
with bag and baggage, under the idea that the,'
were about to be saddled with a tax !

COUNTRY MABEETS,

NEWARK-APRIL 17.

The trade in wheat was inactive, but rates advanced is for
the beet descriptions. A limited supply at market. Oats
scarce, and met a steady sale. Barley in small supply, at
late rates. Beans, with a fair demand, sold at is higher
in value. Peas as before.

White wheat, new, 65s to 708
Red do. 6os to 78s
Old white 6ss to 70s
Rt d do. 50s to 608
Bar:ey, malting.— 38s to 44s
Peas,....

IBarley, grinding 30s to 328
Oats, old, . 3os to 349
New do 26s to 300
Beans. 40s to 440
1 1 Beans. new 38s to 450
44s to 555.

HULL—Ar liff, 16.
A motterate supply of English wheat to-day, which sold
well at ale prices of last week for fine samples ; inferior
Botts a little cheaper. Barley at fully former prices ; the
demand chiefly for grinding. Oats were in scarce supplP
but uncha.ved in price. Beans is per qr dearer. Peas la
good demanc.l, at late rates.
Wheat.... WO white per qr. ... 65s Od to 68s Od_ .
ow. red
Neva white • • ~
New r..sd
_,...
Dantzie, Konb , ac. old white 63s Od to 68s Od
Dutch, 13cigian, and French. 60s Od to 62s Od
Baltic and Hamburg red 6os Od to 62s Od
St. petersbn,7 and Riga, old s2s Od to 555 Oa_ .
Barley.... English malti.'ig 3Bs Od to 44s Oa
Grinding
Saal and Oderbr.uck
Holstein and Danish .. 38s Od to 408 Od
Grinding .. 32s Od to 348 Od
Oats English, old
Archangel and Riga, per st Os 14d to 14
Friesland and Dutch OBl4O to osl
Swedish and Danish osl4 to 08140
Beans ....English, old, per qr 5OB Od to 55s OA
New pigeon 44s Od to 45s _ .Ott
New tick.
Egyptian
410
sso
00 do
Od to
tt t
000
44 403 Od
Od
Peas Foreign breakers
Grinding
Tares .... Spring. -s Od to —s Od
Indian Corn
Linseed, feeding
crushing
Linseed cakes (Hull) £9 15 0 to £lO 0 nu
Foreign 9 5 oto 10 0 %
Rape cakes 6 6 oto 610 oBones