The following is the result of the Census of 1851, as
given by the Registrar-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.

The previous census was taken on 7th June,
1841:—
                                               HOUSES                 |             POPULATION 

The sixth annual meeting of the Metropolitan Asso-
ciation for Improving the Dicellings of the Poor was
held on the 14th. Sir Ralph Howard, Bart., in the chair.
The Chairman gave a favourable account of its progress.
Though one of the buildings (that in Albert Street) was
not filling so quickly as might have been expected, yet
the capital embarked was now giving a remunerative
return; and there was no reason to doubt but that the
association would ultimately accomplish its object.
Viscount Ebrington owned he was disappointed at the
result of the experiment in Albert Street, for he
certainly did anticipate that the single men of the labouring
classes, seeing the low rate at which so much comfort
and such admirable arrangements were placed within
their reach, would gladly avail themselves of the
opportunity there offered them. But it was difficult to
communicate to the classes which most needed the
information that such accommodation was to be obtained
at such small cost. Dr. Southwood Smith gave a striking
account of the salubrity of the Metropolitan buildings.
During the last year there were only seven deaths out
of 571 residents; being a rate of mortality of 1.2 per
cent., or one-third less than the mortality of Lewisham,
the healthiest district of the metropolis, and one-half
less than the mortality of the parish (St. Pancras) in
which the establishment is situated. Out of 352 children
there were only four deaths, or 1.1 per cent.; proving
that the children enjoy a degree of health almost
unexampled; the general mortality among children in the
metropolis under fifteen years of age, on an average of
five years, being 3.4 per cent., or more than three times
greater than in this establishment. During the late
epidemic there was not a single case of cholera in the
establishment, though at a distance from it of not more
than four hundred yards three deaths occurred in one
house; and in one spot within a space of two hundred
feet in length there were no fewer than twenty fatal
cases. Within the last two months seventy-two cases
of fever had been received into the Fever Hospital from
the courts in Gray's-inn Lane alone, eleven from one
house, and twenty cases were stated to have occurred
in a single house in Tindall's buildings. Yet there had
not been a single case of fever in the Metropolitan
buildings from their first opening three years ago; nor
had a single case of fever occurred in any similar
establishment in the metropolis, including even the lodging
houses for single men. These facts (said Dr. Smith)
more than realised the most sanguine expectations of
the efficacy of sanitary arrangements in the prevention
of disease, and proved that typhus and other forms of
fever were more under our control than any one had
been prepared to expect. They afford the highest
reward for past exertions and the best encouragement
to perseverance.

PERSONAL NARRATIVE.

The Queen held a levee on the 28th of May. It was
more crowded than any levee for several years past.
Many presentations took place in the diplomatic circle,
including several noblemen and gentlemen officially
connected with the Great Exhibition. The Earl of Roden
presented three addresses from Ireland, one signed by
fifty thousand persons. In the evening, the Queen gave
a concert at Buckingham Palace, to which upwards of
three hundred persons were invited. Mr. and Mrs.
Alfred Tennyson, Mr. Samuel Rogers, and Dr. and Mrs.
Whewell, were among the company.

The Queen's 32nd birthday was celebrated on Saturday
the 31st, instead of the 24th, of May. Her Majesty held
a drawing-room, and in the evening there were brilliant
illuminations.

On Monday, the 2nd inst., the Court left London for
Windsor, to be nearer to the races on Ascot Heath,
which the Sovereign never omits to patronise. A large
party of royal visitors and of English guests accompanied
the Court to Windsor, or proceeded to the Castle in a day
or two after. The Queen's party was present at the
races on Tuesday and on Thursday. On each day the
Queen gave banquets, and evening parties, at which
appeared several of the Ministers, and a great number of
the English nobility.

The King of the Belgians, with his children, the Duke
de Brabant, the Count de Flandres, and the Princess
Charlotte, arrived on the 18th at Buckingham Palace,
on a visit to the Queen.

The Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress gave a scientific
and literary conversazione in the magnificent rooms of
the Mansion-house, on the 4th inst. Most of the Foreign
Ministers, and of the eminent foreign visitors now in
London, a number of the aristocracy associated with
science and literature, and a crowd of professors and
litterateurs, were present; altogether, the assemblage is
estimated at nearly fifteen hundred. Topics of conversation
were suggested by the display of articles of vertu,
and of scientific antiquarian interest, and by a beautiful
collection of ship-building models, lent for the occasion
by the Lords of the Admiralty.

The subscription at Liverpool to the Rushton
testimonial, which amounts to £8500, has been closed, and
the sum has been placed in Hey wood's bank, to be
disposed of as the family of the deceased Stipendiary may
desire.

Kossuth and his fellow captives still continue at
Kutayah. The great Magyar is said to be in good
health, but much broken in spirit, owing to his long
captivity. He has again been promised his liberty, in
September next, by the Turkish government; but faith
has so repeatedly been broken with him through the
machinations of Austria, and Russia, that there is no
certainty when he will he suffered to go at large. Kossuth's
wife and child are with him, and about twenty-five
Hungarians, who are still prisoners in K utuyah. There
are now remaining prisoners in the Turkish dominions
about forty Hungarians.

Mr. Deas has been appointed her Majesty's Solicitor
General for Scotland, in the room of Mr. John Cowan,