other missiles projected from the explosion, and some of
these projectiles alighted in the bed-rooms and on the
beds where Mr. Sutcliffe's children were sleeping, but
fortunately they escaped without injury.

A Horse was Killed by a Boar a few days since at
Marlborough. They were grazing together, when the
boar made a desperate attack on the horse, biting its
legs, and at last ripping up its belly with its long
tusks.

SOCIAL, SANITARY, AND MUNICIPAL
PROGRESS.

The "Population Tables" recently published contain
a summary of the information collected by the census
in 1851, respecting the Occupations, Ages, and General
Condition of the People of Great Britain. The information
obtained upon this occasion on the subject of
occupation was more exact than heretofore, and a new
classification has been adopted. There is—1. The class
engaged in the general or local government of the
country. At the head stands her Majesty with the
royal family, and the court and household; then come
members of parliament not otherwise classed, persons
employed in the civil service and the dockyards, 2,302
magistrates, 18,348 policemen. There are in this class,
71,191 men above 20; 37,698 are in the civil service of
the nation; 29,785 are in the offices of local government.
2. The second class comprises the persons engaged in the
defence of the country. The active force was 1 in 158
of the population. Of every 100 officers and men there
were 68 effectives and 32 non-effectives. 3. The next
class contains the three learned professions, with their
immediate subordinates. Their number was 110,730, or
about 37,000 each. There were, 17,621 clergymen, and
1,093 Roman Catholic priests; 3,111 barristers, and
13,256 attorneys and writers to the signet; 2,328
physicians, and 15,163 surgeons. Eight women are
returned under the title "Scripture reader, missionary,
or itinerant preacher."  4. The literary class comes
next. The return of authors, writers, and literary men,
comprises 2,866 persons; to whom are added 8,600 artists,
architects, &c. (doubtless including many drawing-
masters and builders), 496 professors of science, 34,378
male teachers, and 71,966 schoolmistresses and governesses
—the latter returned as 21,373. 5. The-fifth class
comprises wives and children at home. There were
3,461,524 wives in Great Britain, of whom one in four
was engaged in some extraneous occupation; and
795,590 widows, of whom two in three were referred to
occupations in other classes. 6. The next class consists
of persons engaged in entertaining, clothing, and
performing personal offices for others. There were 28,881
innkeepers. The domestic servants were above 1,000,000;
133,626 males and 905,165 females; one-third of the
latter under 20 years of age. There were above 270,000
shoemakers, and nearly the same number of dressmakers,
besides 72,940 seamstresses or shirtmakers, and 12,769
staymakers. This whole class comprises 2,420,173
persons. This is the chief field of labour for young
women, who, as they advance in years, marry, and
re-enter the fifth class. Above half the women of Great
Britain, 20 years old, are entered in the fifth class;
nearly a fourth in this sixth class. 7. The seventh class
contains persons who buy or sell, keep, let, or lend
money, houses, or goods, but not including such shop-
keepers as grocers or tallow-chandlers, who are returned
as dealing in particular descriptions of articles. It
includes 105 male and 101 female "capitalists," 10,103
merchants, 43,741 male and 19 female commercial clerks,
9,395 male and 14 female commercial travellers. 8. The
carrying class comes next, and includes 285,686 men,
and 100,345 boys; 1,597 women are toll collectors, and
2 are in the telegraph service. 9. Next comes the
agricultural class, with woodmen and gardeners; it
numbers 2,390,568 persons, of whom 385,193 are boys
below 20. Of the men above 20, 277,816 are professedly
farmers or graziers, 824,587 out-door labourers, and
109,452 in-door farm servants; 27,986 women are
returned as farmers. One-fourth of the men of Great
Britain are included in this ninth class. 10. The tenth
class comprises 100,262 persons engaged about animals
—horse-dealers and the like. Rat-catchers, and mole-
hunters come under this class; there are 2,072 men
whose lives are passed in hunting and destroying noxious
animals. One man calls himself "an apiarian." 11.
Artisans, machinists, and handicraftsmen are numbered
next, and, adding those who work and deal in matters
derived from (12) the animal (13) the vegetable, and
(14) the mineral kingdom, we find 2,250,369 men,
550,759 women, 615,961 boys, and 299, 328 girls engaged
in trades, mechanical arts, handicrafts, and manufactures
—in all more than 3,700,000 persons. 15. A
number of persons are returned indefinitely as
"labourers," 367,472 men, and 9,079 women; the
class is supposed to include many who are ready to take
the place of any one that falls out of the ranks in any
line of labour. 16. Persons of independent means, not
otherwise classed—10,604, are returned as gentlemen,
and 15,318, as gentlewomen; 23,032 men and 121,222
women as annuitants. 17. Persons supported by the
community. In regard to 157,402 persons, we have no
account of their occupation but that they were paupers,
lunatics, prisoners, pensioners or vagrants. There were
also 76,250 males and 108,814 females of whose condition
no return was made. The total number of in-door
paupers in England and Wales was 126,488, or 1 in 142
of the population; in Scotland, 5,438. There were
26,855 persons in criminal and debtors' prisons in Great
Britain, or 1 in 785 of the population; and 18,803 in
lunatic asylums, or 1 in 1,115.

A gathering of Literary and Mechanics' Institutions
took place at Worsley Hall, near Manchester, the seat
of the Earl of Ellesmere, on Saturday afternoon, the
26th ult., for the double purpose of securing a friendly
and social reunion of such people, and of aiding a fund
to purchase a library for what is termed the Institutional
Association of Lancashire and Yorkshire. The meeting
was under the joint management of Dr. Hudson, of the
Manchester Athenæum, and the Secretary of the
Manchester Mechanics' Institution, who made arrangements
with the London and North-Western and East
Lancashire Railway Companies to carry passengers upon a
scale which would leave a handsome profit to the
institutions. The scheme answered very well, for there
was at least two thousand persons of both sexes assembled
at Worsley in the afternoon, from Manchester,
Congleton, Macclesfield, Staleybridge, Stockport,
Ashton, Oldham, Colne, Burnley, Accrington, Bacup,
Newchurch, Bury, Bolton, Stoke, Radcliffe, Heywood,
and some thirty other places. Lord Ellesmere, who is
suffering severely from gout, was not present; but the
Countess, together with Viscount Brackley and the
younger branches of the family, came out in front of
the hall, towards evening, to witness the dancing on the
terrace, and remained there a considerable time.

At a meeting of the City Commissioners of Sewers,
on the 29th ult., the Medical Officer of Health reported
that sixty-one Cases of Cholera had occurred in the
four weeks ending on Monday; but, "in consequence
of the vast exertions of the Commission, the dreadful
disease had not appeared in a severe form in any of the
districts in the City where on former occasions it had
assumed the very worst features." The chief clerk
stated that the New River Company had consented to
supply water for cleansing courts and alleys when
required.

Inquests lately held by the Coroner, in Upper East
Smithfield, show how the Cholera is encouraged in
London. In a court four feet wide, with eight houses,
the most restricted accommodation for decency, a wall
sixty feet high to shut out pure air and keep in foul, 150
human beings herd together, further oppressed in many
cases by want of food. Several have died of cholera—
three in one room. The Coroner candidly confessed
that he was "afraid" to enter the place: it was
dangerous for the jurymen to go there to view the bodies.
The verdict called the immediate attention of the parish-
officers to the dangerous locality, which is called Hurn's
Buildings.

The Board of Health has issued a general circular to
the public and to the Board of Guardians, giving some
useful information on the subject of the Removal of