573,199 acres. The population, according to the census
of 1841, was 202,033—viz., 97,918 males and 104,115
females. The population, by the last census (1851),
was 179,793—viz., males 86,770, females 93,020. The
decrease of population, therefore, in the ten years,
amounts to 22,243. The total number of inhabited
houses in the county in 1841 was 33,507; of uninhabited,
1108; and building, 102. The total number of
inhabited houses in 1851 was 29,479; of uninhabited,
1776; and building, 50. The result of the return, therefore,
shows a decrease of population of 22,243; of
inhabited houses, 3828; and of houses building, 52. The
only increase shown by the return is in the number of
uninhabited houses, which presents an increase, in 1851,
of 668 as compared with 1841.

PERSONAL NARRATIVE.

The Queen, Prince Albert, and the Royal Family,
have paid a visit to the King and Queen of the Belgians,
and are preparing to go to their Highland residence of
Balmoral.

The Marquis of Londonderry has renewed his
remonstrances to President Bonaparte in behalf of
Abdel Khader, reminding him of his promises last year.
But the Marquis's letters, written with his characteristic
warmth, have received no notice from the French
Ruler; and Lord Londonderry, in his last letter dated
the 9th instant, speaks with natural indignation of
M. Bonaparte's discourtesy and duplicity.

"Mon Prince," he says, "I could not have conceived it possible,
after our former intimate relations, and my letter of 3rd May
last, (sent through your Ambassador in London,) that you should
have shown me so little courtesy as again not to vouchsafe any
reply. Such a course cannot now be from accident or occupation,
but must be from design; and I have only to leave the
world and Europe to judge, by the immediate publicity of our
correspondence, between my humble and repeated solicitations
and your word of honour, pledged to me that, sooner or later, you
would liberate Abdel Khader.

"Mon Prince, if any event could hasten your mind to adopt
the Emir's liberation more than another, it would be the sudden
and lamented death of your former intimate friend and companion
Alfred d'Orsay. You cannot but know, mon Prince, he anxiously
aided me in our common and unceasing efforts to bring your
conscience to a clear sense of what was promised under your
own hand; and his important letter I now annex in attested
copy. I forbear adding the lengthened former details that have
been already published; but I would place on record communications
from that highly talented spirit that has flown to that
Tribunal before which we must all appear. If, to show his deep
sympathy, together with my own, aught can move your
Highness to act nobly, generously, and bravely, it will be the
words of your departed friend. Girardin, your great and gifted
writer, has proclaimed, 'Palaces have only two doors open to
truth, the door of friendship and the door of adversity—of friendship,
which is to adversity what lightning is to thunder,
invisible justice, equal justice for all. The justice of which
death holds the scales counts days when it does not measure
gifts.'

"Remember, mon Prince, there is but one step between us
and death. If the Emir languishes and dies in prison, who
would be in your Imperial robes—who would envy blighted
faith and broken promises?

"I remain, mon Prince, an Irish soldier, devoted to military
honour and well-deserved glory. VANE LONDONDERRY."

Michel Ney, the grandson of the famous Marshal, has
entered the seventh regiment of French dragoons as a
private soldier.

Mr. Samuel Warren, Q.C., author of numerous works,
popular and professional, has been appointed to the
Recordership of Hull. He succeeds the late Mr. T. C.
Granger, M.P.

The statue to the memory of the late Sir Robert
Peel, raised by subscription in the borough of Leeds,
was publicly inaugurated on the 20th inst., with
becoming ceremony, and amid thousands of spectators,
including all ranks, from the peer to the humblest
artisan. The general body of shopkeepers in Leeds kept
the day as a holiday; and as the inauguration took
place between twelve and one o'clock at noon, the dinner
hour for all the factory hands, a favourable opportunity
was afforded for their attendance, which they did not
fail to embrace.

OBITUARY OF NOTABLE PERSONS

ALFRED COMTE D'ORSAY died at Paris, on the 3rd inst.,
aged 54.

JEFFERY HART BENT, Esq., Chief Justice of British Guiana,
died on the 29th of June, aged 72.

THE HON. WM. ROBERT BURRELL, brother of Lord Willoughby
D'Eresby, died at Calais, on the 27th ult., in his 64th year.

THE HON.RICHARD WATSON, of Rockingham Castle, died at
Hamburgh, on the 26th ult.

SIR JOHN WENTWORTH LORING, K.C.B., K.C.H., Admiral of
the Blue, died at Ryde, on the 29th ult., in his 77th year.

LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SIR T. DOWNMAN, K.C.B., Commandant
of the Royal Artillery at Woolwich, died there suddenly, on the
10th inst.

LORD KENSINGTON died on the 10th inst., in the 76th year of
his age. He is succeeded in his title by his eldest son, the Hon.
W. Kensington, a commander in the navy.

VICE-CHANCELLOR SIR JAMES PARKER died at his country
seat, Rothby Temple, In Leicestershire, on the 13th inst., in
his 49th year.

MADAME MARIA MAZZINI, the mother of Joseph Mazzini, late
triumvir of the Roman republic, died of apoplexy, at Genoa, on
the 9th inst.

HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF HAMILTON, Premier Peer of Scotland,
died at his house in Portman Square, on the 17th inst., in
his 85th year.

COLONIES AND DEPENDENCIES.

By the Bombay Overland Mail of the 5th of July we
learn that the Burmese made a second attempt to retake
Martaban on the 26th of May, but were driven back.
On the 3rd of June, Pegu was taken, and its fortifications
destroyed by a detachment of the force under General
Godwin. Our loss was very insignificant. By the
steamer which arrived from Rangoon on the 21st of
June, with dates of the 20th, all was quiet, and the
troops enjoying good health.

The West India Mail has brought accounts from the
different colonies, to the end of last month. In Jamaica,
small-pox was virulent at various points, but somewhat
on the decrease at Kingston. St. Thomas-in-the-East,
an estate of 1600 acres, with good dwelling house and
some £500 worth of new machinery, had been sold for
£1,000. In consequence of the alarming spread of
the small-pox in Kingston, orders had been issued to
the troops stationed at Up Park camp to keep within
barracks for the present. A similar order was to be
issued to the soldiery in Kingston Barracks, and all
communication between them and the civilians would
be prevented for the time.

Barbadoes had been favoured with its wonted
sunshine and showers, whereby a crop of 48,500 hogsheads
had been shipped off, and an equally good one is
anticipated for the coming year. The island was
generally very healthy.

The recent advices from Georgetown, in Demerara,
confirm a previous report of the discovery of gold in
that colony. Two persons had arrived at different
periods within the last few weeks, bringing accounts of
the existence of the metal in the interior, together with
specimens, which sold respectively for 240 and 800
dollars. A party of twenty young white men had already
set off on a digging expedition; and the planters were
in great alarm, as it was feared that the general business
of the country would be thrown into confusion.

Intelligence from the Cape of Good Hope has been
received to the 3rd of July. It is very unsatisfactory,
and gives no prospect of a termination of the war. The
details consist of narratives of marauding inroads by the
Caffres; captures of cattle, followed by pursuit and
recapture; skirmishes, military forays, murders;
seizures of the mail; and other matters which go to
make up what is called the Caffre war. The depredations
have been committed within the colony, which is
represented as swarming with small parties of Hottentots.