The Queen has appointed Lord Cowley, late Minister Plenipotentiary to

the Swiss Confederation, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Germanic Confederation.

Mr. Henry Sedgewiek Wylde, barrister-at-law' has been appointed one of the Registrars to the Court of Bankruptcy, in the room of Mr. Charles Waterfield resigned.

The death of Mr. Hill, formerly, of Hazlewood, near Birmingham, and in later years of Tottenham, near London, is an event of some interest to the public. Mr. Hill was a remarkable man, and the father of a remark- able family,. of whom the most widely known are the able lawyer and philanthropist Mr. Mathew Davenport Hill, and Mr. Rowland Hill, the author of Penny Postage. He was himself a public benefactor by the

England and Wales 3,276,975 152,570 26,529 17,905,831 Scotland 376,550 11,956 2,378 2,870,784

Islands in the Bri-

tish Seas 21,826 1,077 202 142,916

Persons. Hales 18,655,981 9,074,642 2,943,939 8,136,333

502,852 24,026 2,646

15,911,757 7,775,224 2,620,184 1,241,862

19,190 889 220 124,040 37,556 63,484

London 262,737 11,324 4,032 1,948,369 912,001 1,036,368

The Registrar-General appends the following note-" The Army in Great Britain, and the Na.vy, merchant seamen, and other persons on board vessels in the ports, are included in the return for 1851; the Navy, merchant seamen, and persona on board vesicle, were not included in 1841. The ap- parent decrease of houses in Scotland between 1841 and 1851 is attributable to the fact that in 1841 flats or stories were reckoned in many places as houses ' ; in the present census the more correct definition has been em- ployed."

In 1849, there were imported into the United Kingdom 9,651,956 quarters of grain ; hi 1850, 7,920,864. Of meal and flour, in 1849, 3,611,840 hun- dredweight; in 1860, 3,838,008. The live stock imported, in 1849, was 185,368 head ; in 1850, 217,247.

In the years 1849 and 1850, 680,347 persons emigrated from the United Kingdom. Of these, 328,090 started from the port of Liverpool, and 121,330 from divers Irish ports. According to a Parliamentary paper, there was voted, in the last five years, 192,8704 for the survey of England, 65,0001. for Scotland, and 50,200L for Ireland. There is a bill in the House of Commons to continue the Ordnance survey for four years longer.

An American gentleman has obtained the privilege for fifty years of erect- ing and managing lines of magnetic telegraph in the united kingdoms of Sweden and Norway. There is reason to expect that a similar privilege , will be obtained from the Government of Denmark ; and in all it is ex- '

Great Britain and

Islands in the Bri- Inhabited.

tish Seas. 3,465,981 England and Wales

Scotland

Islands in the British Seas

London 307,722 16,889 4,817 2,363,141 1,104,358 1,258,785

The previous census was taken on the 7th of June 1841.

Houses. Population.

candle-

bited. Building.

198,129 30,334

The whole of the postmasters in the kingdom are now allowed an im- mense stock of postage-stamps of all descriptions on credit, and they are compelled to ascertain daily that every letter-receiver in their official districts has a sufficient supply on hand for the accommodation of the public. The value of the whole of these stamps now furnished on credit to the various officials in the country is not less than a quarter of a mil- lion of money. This plan has been adopted preparatory to a general measure being put in operation for the compulsory prepayment, by stamps, of all prepaid letters posted in the United Kingdom. The ac- counts to be kept with the country postmasters in consequence of these regulations will cause a considerable. increase of business to the Stamp department, but they will ultimately cause a material diminution of Post- office labour.-10aily News.

The totals of the Census for 1851 have been summed up by the Regis- trar-General, so far as they concern England, Scotland, and the Islands in the British Seas : the numbers for Ireland will not be known for some time.

The present census was taken on the 31st March 1851.

Houses. Population.

Great Britain and Uninha- Islands in the Bri- Inhabited. bite& Building. Persons. /dales. Females.

tish Seas 3,673,451 165,603 29,109 20,919,531 10,184,687 10,734,844 reforms which he originated in the system of teaching youth. He reached a patriarchal age-dying in his eighty-ninth year ; and was to the last marvellously possessed of the keen vigorous intellect and affectionate sensibilities which made his character admirable through life. A writer in the Scotsman, evidently from an intimate personal knowledge, contri- butes the following truthful notice.

4. Yr. Rill was celebrated as the founder and organizer of the Hialewood school, in which the earliest attempt was made in England to render educa- tion not solely classical and verbal, but real, scientific, and character-form- ing. A description of this interesting seminary appeared many years ago in the Edinburgh Review, and excited much attention. The school of Bruce Castle, near Tottenham, under one of Mr. Hill's sons, is the offspring of the parent school formerly at Hazlewood, and is improved to the most ad- vanced views and requirements of the age. In this school Mr. Hill never ceased to take the warmest interest. He was a man of genius and originality, acuteness of observation, consequent extensive knowledge, and natural and improved soundness of judgment. His opinions were, in the best sense of the term, liberal, unalloyed by prejudices ; and, to his latest day, every step of social progress was hailed by him with almost youth- ful enthusiasm. A high-toned morality, humble piety, and expansive bene- volence, characterized him ; while a singleness ot heart, earnestness of pur- and never-failing cheerfulness and kindliness of disposition, endeared not only to a numerous kindred, of which he was the beloved patriarch, but to a wide circle of friends, who lament his loss and will long cherish his memory. Mr. Hill has left five sons, all well worthy of such a father. The eldest, -Mathew, Queen's counsel, is an eminent lawyer : he is a Commissioner of Bankruptcy, and Recorder of Birmingham, where he has done much for criminal reform and sanitary improvement. On these subjects his charges to the Grand Juries are valuable treatises. Rowland Hill's name is a household word' in both hemispheres of the earth. Frederick, long In- spector of Prisons in Scotland, more lately in England, and now Assistant- Secretary in the General Post-office, is well known for his efforts to reform criminal treatment and prison discipline. Arthur is the head of the school of Bruce Castle; and Edwin, who holds an office in the Stamp Department of the new postage, is known for inventive mechanical genius; a proof of which he has given, among others, in the beautiful machine for folding envelopes, at work in the Crystal Palace, to the attraction of crowds of spectators. He has written ably and clearly, no common merit, on the Currency question, and has suggested, but not yet published, a scheme for rooting out criminals in London and other great towns, in the same manner that vermin are got rid of, by destroying their nests. All the brothers, like their father, are publicly useful men ; and, by a sort of confederacy of ta- lent, accordance of opinions, and unity of sentiment, strengthen each other in their several departments. Mr. Hill has left one daughter, the wife of Mr. Clarke, kite of Birmingham, and now settled with his family in Aus- tralia; and as all the Messrs. Hill have families, Mr. Hill rejoiced in a nu- merous tribe of grandchildren, in the midst of whom he peacefully passed to his final rest."

, ,026 2646 173,234 27,468 8,754,554 9,151,277 1,363,622 1,507,162 66,511 76,405

Females. '

9,581,839 peeted that some 3000 miles of telegraph communication will be conferred on the Scandinavian peninsula by Yankee enterprise.-New York l'ribune.

The Emperor of Austria has just appointed M. Aaron Wolfgang Messeley, a Jew, to the office of Professor of Criminal Law at the Univel sity of Prague. This gentleman had long filled the chair of the Hebrew Language and Litera- ture in the same University. The number of Jews now attached as profes- sors to the different universities and educational establishments in the Aus- trian states is seventeen ; of whom fifteen were named by the late Emperor, and two by the present. A wealthy Englishman arrived at Aix-la-Chapelle a few days since with his family on strip to the Continent. As he had made the same journey several times before, he was satisfied with the assurance that his English Ministerial passport required nothing more than the vise of the Belgian Am- bassador. With this he arrived at Aix-la-Chapelle. Two police agents ex- amined his pass, called him out of the carriage, and told him he could not be allowed to proceed farther into Prussia till he had procured the signature of the Prussian Consul at Wines. In vain the Englishman referred to his frequent former journeys, his ignorance of any new passport regulations, un- dertook to obtain in Cologne the very best legitimation.' All was useless; his family was sent on by the train, but he was kept by the police at the sta- tion. It happened that the next train brought the Prince of Prussia, who was on his return from England. he English gentleman without hesitation introduced himself to his Royal Highness, and explained his position. The Prince immediately invited him to take a seat in his train ; an offer, of course, thankfully accepted. As he took his seat, the Englishman appeared not to know whether to laugh or to be angry at the great contrast the sudden and extraordinary politeness of the police agents presented, compared with their former behaviour to him.-amstitutionnet.

One of the "own correspondents" of a Paris daily paper, sent to Lon- don to describe the Exhibition, gravely relates as a specimen of English manners, that a great sporting nobleman recently gave a magnificent ban- quet to his friends, and when it was over told them that they had eaten the winner of the Derby, which he had had specially killed as a mark of respect both to the hone and them.-Globe.

Robert May, the widower of Mary May, of Wix ha Essex, who was exe- cuted in 1848 for poisoning her half-brother, has hanged himself.

James Watson, a driver on the Caledonian Railway, finding that the snail- train was losing time, climbed over the roofs of the carriages to see if any- thing was amiss.; he discovered that the "drag" of a truck caused the de- lay, and attempted to put it right; but he fell upon the rails, and his leg was cut off. An engine was sent from the next station to look alter him, and it was found that he had wound some of his clothing round the limb to endea- vour to stop the flow of blood. He died as he was placed on a bed in an Edinburgh hospital.

A little girl, one of the slaughters of the Reverend L Cooper, of Emping- ham, has been drowned in a well in the garden of Sir Astley Cooper, at Gadosbridge in Hertfordshire. The well had been disused for years, was covered with boards, and a flower-bed had been arranged over it ; Mr. Cooper's children were playing in the garden, and the flowers over the well drew them to the spot ; the decayed boards gave way, and the little girl fell in and lost her life.

Low Mills, at Kendal, the extensive woollen-factory of Messrs. Ireland and Co., has been burnt down. The fire was unusually rapid, and in

little more than an hour nothing but the walla remained. loss is esti- mated at 10,000/.