The Census Day next year is to be Sunday, April
5th. The particulars to be given in England and Wales will be the name, sex, age, profession or occupation, condition as to marriage, relation to the head of the family, and the birth- place of each person, and the return is to state any natural deficiency in relation to the senses or the mental powers of every person accounted for. The classification as to " rank " required in the last Census is to be omitted, on the recom- mendation of the Census Committee. It would have been of very little use indeed. In England, Scotland, and Wales, there is to be no heading as to religious profession. In Ireland, where both Catholics and Protestants are rather proud of their religion than otherwise, the religious profession is to be given. It is sufficiently strange that the same thing cannot be said of the people of Great Britain, or that, if it can be said, the pride in question should show itself by a profound distaste for describing as nearly as may be the religious creed of which they are proud.
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