The Census was taken on Monday throughout the kingdom, apparently
with the greatest ease, and certainly without the smallest complaint. An old difficulty, the reluctance of the Irish emigrants to be counted, was this time completely overcome, through the energetic support given by Archbishop Manning to the Government, and we gather from the provincial papers that suspiciousness on the subject is declining. The only point upon which any " feeling " now seems to remain is that of, age, the reluctance to state the truth being in some quarters insurable.; and the main reason for opposition, the belies that it is an impious act to number the people, has entirely disappeared. It will be, we presume, the middle of May before even the first rough estimate can be published, but there is little doubt -that it will show a nation of about thirty millions of souls.
