... A Deputation on the subject of including in the census the number of rooms in the different houses, the number of children actually attending school, and of making a more satisfactory arrangement in regard to the matter of religious profession, had an interview with Sif G. C. Lewis, last week, at the Home-office. ...

... H. COOPER, Great Cambridfre-street, Hackney-road, and Pow. nall-tcrrace, Dalston, shoe manufacturer. M. COHEN, Landport, Hampshire, dealer in glass. A. STAPLEY, Old Compton-street, Soho, SIIOG mcrccr. H. P. BOLLARD and S. KEWSOJIE, Coventrv. ribbon manu- facturer. J. MOWBRAY, Sherwood Rise, Nottinghamshire, miller. C. ALLAN, Risca, Monmouthshire, grocer, G. SEATON, Kingston-upon-Hull, carrier. ...

... Hontum. CIVIL CONTINGENCIES.—A parliamentary paper has beenrissued showing in detail the expenditure of the grant for Civil Service contingencies for the past year. The total cost of special missions abroad amounted to £ 46,618, of which the most important item, £15,351, was the cost of the commission appointed to survey the boun- dary line between Her Majesty's possession-; iri North America ...

... An employer of labour, In a letter to the Times, says :— We daily read in your columns letters from ursf-rate officers, but we never read in them any fault attributed to an officer in command. According to them, admirals and captains are ever in the right; seamen, marines, ami letter-writers ever in the wrong. Look at the so-called mutiny on board the Princess Eoyal, at the harsh and fatuous ...

... Outturn in gmtcr. The corporation of the city of London have resolved 'to present to Capt. F. Leopold M'Cliutock, lt.N., the freedom of the city in a box of British oak of the value of fifty guineas, in admiration of his dauntless spirit, exhibited in repeated efforts to rescue. 1*8 of his fellow-countrymen; anrlm te., timony of his having after many years of unsuccessful se-irch, ascertained ...

... FATAL ACCIDENT.—Tt is painful to relate that the lifeless body ot Mr. James Rees, miller, Trosnant, was discovered near the water wheel, in the mill, about ten o'clock, on Tuesday last. It is thought that, deceased had been attracted to the spot, to examine the wheels which he had just previously oiled, and that venturing too near the lesser wheel, he was dragged in, and crushed to death. Mr. ...

... THURSDAY, AUGUST 16. Earl GRANVILLE gave notice that he should ) move the suApeilsioii of the standing order precluding iite second reading of any bill at this period of thesewijur, in reference to the Savings Banks and Friendly SoCietjies ...

... G-reat has been occasioned in Lisbon by the xepog th;tt yellow iey-er broken out at Oporto. ...

... Evan Jones v. Matthew Howell. Claim, £ 2 Is. 3d., for rent of potato ground. Defendant said the agreement was 6d. per perch without lime, and 9d. with. There was no lime brought; but some superphosphate was given in- stead. Defendant now said, as he did not have any LIMB, he was only liaole to pay 6d. per perch. Ordered to pay 9('. per perch, in a month. Same v. William Price. The defendant ...

... A DISAPPOINTMENT.—The last down train from Mon- mouth, on the evening of Wednesday last, was unable to proceed further than Dingestow, on account of a nut belonging to one of the valves of the engine being lost. Another engine was sent for to Pontypool-road, and the passengers after waiting several hours, made the best of their way home. The train was heavily laden with pas- sengers returning ...

... Personal. THE MYSTERY I-Two darkies had bought a quantity of pickled pork in partnership; but Sam having no place to put his portion in, consented to intrust the whole to Julius's keeping. The next morning they met, when Sam said, Good mornin', Julius! Anything happen strange or mysterious down in your wicinity lately ? Yass, Sam, most strange thing happen at my house yesterlast-night. All ...

... THE terrible disasters we have had at sea ought to teach our merchants and shippers the import- ance of some means of ascertaining and telegraph- ing the danger of the barometer. At least two days' clear notice was given of the storm which swept our coasts on Whit-Monday. The very quarter from which the gale would blow might have been foreseen, and experienced eyes could have read in the skies ...