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the age of cooks, or of others, be found by 'any.^it
fatality standing still, or even retrograding, it
should be corrected by their masters who fill in the
return. In Rome, the working classes were not
enumerated ; in the Domesday-book, and even in
some modern states, they are only counted by the
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head ; but in England they are all taken down in
the census books by name, and treated precisely on
the same footing
persons of the highest rank.
Another peculiarity of the English census consists
in its being taken by paid enumerators in one day.
This is done to make the operation almost photo-
graphic, so that each individual may be counted
only once ; but it adds to the difficulty of this
apparently simple but really complex and vast
operation. England and Wales have been divided
into 30,441 districts, to each of which an enumerator
has been appointed, as well as 501 to the large
institutions. They work under 2,192 district
registrars and 631 superintendent registrars. To
each officer minute printed instructions, suggested
by the experience of the last census, have- been
given by the registrar-general; and all have been
supplied with appropriate books and schedules
suitable to their districts through the Post-office,
the railways, and the Parcels Delivery Company;
and the papers thus distributed with strict regard
to economy, weigh more than 45 tons. The
enumerators are a highly respectable body, and
include clergymen and many other professional
men, who have undertaken the work from public
motives. But the success of the operation depends
not so much on the registrar-general, on his officers,
or on the enumerators, as on the four or five mil-
lion heads of families in every part of the land.
Some of these. of course, are not in a position to
understand the measure; and the co-operation of
all the educated classes, particularly of the clergy,
of medical men, and of public writers in the press,
is indispensable to the complete success of the
seventh census.: If the influential classes of society
will expend a part of the interval between this date
and the Bth of April in explaining the measure, in
disseminating information among the poorer classes,
and in persuading them to furnish exact returns,
the operation will undoubtedly be as successful as
it was in 1851, when the census was taken without
the infliction of a single fine under the penal clauses
of the act of parliament.
Census-office, London, March 25.

The following are the headings into which the
form to be filled up is divided:-
1. Name and Surname.—No person absent on the night
of Sunday, April 7th, to be entered here ; except those who
may be travelling or out at work during that night, and who
return home on Monday, April Bth. Write after the name
of the head of the family the names of his wife, children,
and other relatives ; then visitors, &C., and servants.
2. Relation to Head of Family.—State whether wife, son,
daughter, or other relative, visitor, boarder, &c., or servant.
3. Condition.—Write either "married," " widower,"
" widow," or " unmarried," against the names of all persona
except young children.

4. Sex.—Write "DI" against males, and "F" against
females.

5. Age (Last Birthday).—For infants under one year,
state the age in months, writing " under 1 month," "1
month," " 2 months," &c.
G. Rank, profession, or occupation.
7. Where Born.—Opposite the names of those born in
England, write the county, and town or parish. If born in
Scotland, Ireland, the British Colonies, or the East Indies,
state the country. If born in foreign parts state the coun-
try ; and if also a British subject add " British subject," or
"naturalised British subject," as the case may be.
S. If Deaf and Dumb or Blind—Write "Deaf and Dumb,"
or " Blind," opposite the name of the person ; and if so
from birth, add "from birth."

Thd following general instruction will accompany each
form to be filled up by the occupier or person in charge of
the dwelling. If the house is let or sublet to different
families or lodgers, each occupier or lodger must make a
return for his portion of the house upon a separate paper.
(Examples of the mode of filling up the return.)
Instructions for filling up the column headed " Rank,
Profession, Occupation" :
The superior titles of peers and other persons of rank to
be inserted, as well as any high office which they may hold.
Magistrates, aldermen, and other important public officers,
to state their profession after their official title.

Army and Navy.—Add, after the rank, " Army,"
" Artillet y," "Royal Navy," "Royal Engineers," " Ma-
rines," " East India Service," as the case may be. Officers
on "half-pay" or "retired" to be described. Chelsea,
Greenwich, and other pensioners, to be so designated.
Persons in the civil service to state the department to
which they are attached after their rank ; those on the
superannuation list to he so distinguished.
Clergymen of the Church of England to return themselves
as " Rector of ," " Vicar of —," " Curate
of ," &c., or "without cure of souls." They are re-
quested to employ the indefinite term " clerk." Roman
Catholic priests, and ministers of foreign churches, to return
themselves as such, and to state the name of the church or
chapel in which they officiate. Dissenting ministers to re -
turn themselves as "Independent Minister, of

Chapel," " Wesleyan minister, of Chapel," &c.
Local or occasional preachers must return their ordinary
occupations; but may add, "Local Methodist preacher," &c.
Legal Profession—Barristers to state whether or not in
actual practice; officers of any court, &c., to state the de-
scription of office and name of court. The designation
"attorney" or "solicitor" to be confined to those whose
names are actually upon the Roll. Clerks in solicitors'
offices should state whether solicitor's managing, articled,
or general clerk.

Members of the medical profession to state the university,
college, or hall of which they are graduates, fellows, or
licentiates ; also whether they practice as physician, sur-
geon, dentist, oculist, general practitioner, &c., or are "not
practising."
Professors, teachers, public writers, authors, and scientific
men, to state the particular branch of science or literature
which they teach or pursue ; artists, the art which they
cultivate. Graduates should enter their degrees in this
column.

kersons engaged in commerce, as merchants, brokers,
agents, commercial travellers, to stale in all cases the parti-
cular kind of business in which they are engaged, or the
staple in which they chiefly deal. Members of the Stock
Exchange, East India merchants, &c., may be so described.
Commercial Clerk—always add in what branch of busi-
ness. (Note.—Clerks in the civil service, and in solicitors'
offices, should be distinguished as above directed.)
The term farmer to be applied only to the occupier of
land. Example: "Farmer of 317 acres, employing 8
labourers and three boys ;" the aetual number of acres, and
of men and boys employed on the farm, on April 8, being
in all cases inserted. Sons or daughters employed at home
or on the farm, may be returned—" Farmer's son," "far-
mer's daughter." Farm servants sleeping in the farmer's
house must be described in his schedule as "carter,"
" dairymaid," &c., as the case may be.
An out-door labourer working on a farm must be de-
scribed as "agricultural labourer," "shepherd," &c., as the
case may be.

In trades, manufactures, or other business, the employer
must, in all cases, be distinguished. Example: "Carpenter
—master, employing 6 men and 2 boys ;" inserting always
the number of persons of the trade in his employ, if any, on
April 8. In the case of firms, the number of persons em-
ployed should be returned by one partner only.
In the case of workers in mines or manufactures, and
generally in the arts, the particular branch of work, and the
material, are always to be distinctly expressed if they are
not implied in the names, as in " coal-miner," " brass-
founder," silk-throwster." Where the trade is much sub-
divided, both trade and branch are to be returned thus,
" watchmaker—finisher ;" " printer—compositor."
Artisans and mechanics should invariably state their
particular branch of art or business.

Weaver should always write " silk," " wool," " worsted,"
" cotton," &c., before this general term, so as to express
distinctly the material which he weaves, thus, "ilk"weaver.

Messengers, porters, labourers, and servants, to be de-
scribed according to the nature of their employment on the
day of the census.
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liament, and received the assent of her Majesty the Queen
on the 6th August, 1860. This paper will be called for on
Monday, April 8, by the appointed enumerator, and it is
desirable that the answers should be written in the proper
columns by the morning of that day, in order that his pro-
gress may not bo delayed. It will be his duty, under the
act, to complete the return if it be defective, and to correct
it if erroneous. Any person authorised by the occur"
may write in the particulars if he is himself unable to do so.
Persons who refuse to give correct information are liable
to a penalty of five pounds, besides the inconvenience aence and
annoyance of appearing before two justices of the peace,
and being convicted of having made a wilful mis-statement
of age, or of any of the other particulars.
The facts will be published in general abstracts only, and
strict care will be taken that the returns are not used for
the gratification of curiosity.