With this number is also published the preceding list of Houses and Families, corrected to January 1, 1832. It may be useful to print it annually, corrected to New Year's day. The numbers of Houses should not be altered till the Census of 1841. New houses should be marked with the number of the nearest old house, and distinguished by the addition of a, b, c, &c. as is done in the corrected list, at No. 92, 273, &c. The districts lately published by the Board of Health are arranged according to the present plan, which will enable every person, interested in the welfare of Bodmin, easily to survey the whole parish, to ascertain the condition of any poor family, and to form a correct view of the entire population of nearly 4,000 persons, scattered over an area of 81 square miles, within an irregular circuit of upwards of eighteen miles. The arrangement is the result of much labour and inquiry, and, if generally adopted, will, it is presumed, tend to the introduction of a beneficial system into all parochial business.

Let each person, who can afford it, mark his own outer door, or gate, with the number in this list, and means may be found for numbering the remainder, and for painting the names of the streets, &c. Such a measure would supply a necessary guide to strangers in a Town so extended as Bodmin, (more than a mile long,) especially during the Assizes and Sessions, and when the Militia are embodied. Indeed, if it were made imperative by statute to number all the houses in every parish, the returns called for by Parliament would be far more correct and satisfactory.

FURTHER OBSERVATIONS ON THE TWO LISTS,

Of May 30, and January 1.

The houses in streets are numbered in batches or sections, including both sides. The advantage of this mode is, that in a continuous list, opposite neighbours appear together, and are not separated as they would be if the numbering were pursued first on the right side, and then down the left, as is usually done.

An alphabetical index of Places and Families will be printed in the next number. By dividing the latest list, and allotting a portion to ten or twelve persons, the population of the whole parish might at any time be easily taken and made up within the short space of six hours. In the list of January 1, the “No. in each Family" is given as it existed on May 30, excepting some few instances, such as the Work-house, Gaol, Asylum, new Families, &c. which have been enumerated at the present time. Blanks are left for the totals, so that any one, if he see occasion, may correct and make up his own street, part, or district, and compare it with the official returns. The alterations during seven months must be trifling, as the average increase of the last ten years is only fifty, and of the last thirty years exactly the same. See page 55. The name, age, and description of every individual of the 3,812, the total enumerated on May 30, are copied into a book which is preserved as an authentic record of the population existing at that day. For the use of visitors, inspectors, &c. who may require room for remarks, the corrected list should be interleaved. The easiest and quickest mode of inspecting every family throughout the whole parish, is by following the arrangement adopted in these lists. It will also be found the most eligible scheme for drawing up an accurate parochial history. Let observations be written on the numbers, and, as houses are a permanent and certain guide, they will serve to indicate every natural, antiquarian, or other object of interest. Examples of this plan will be given in a subsequent number. Within the last ten years a new but unfinished house at Little Norton, two cots at Wagmuggle and Sheep's All Inn, a Stop Gate cot in Gaol Lane and another in Bore Lane, have been removed or have fallen into ruins. An out-house, behind No. 374, was at one time occupied by a poor man, a broom-maker, and lately a barn at Higher Sandsgrove, No. 92 a, by a poor silly female, now at 534. Two families have also possessed themselves of an old ruinated inn, called the Crispin, No. 638.

Such places are not fit dwellings for human beings: too often they become the receptacles of poverty, filth, and disease. The changes in the Inns and Beer Houses, since the 30th of May, see the list, page 57, have been only four; viz. Colly and Harper have closed their houses, 379, 664, as Beer Shops, Stephens is succeeded by Crabb, at 444, and Harris has just opened a Beer Shop, at 566. Of the twelve oldest people, mentioned at page 62, five have since died; viz. Francis, Stribly, Honor Climo, Pasmore, and Wills. The oldest, Lucy Tom, aged 94, is still living at No. 634. She was baptized at St. Merryn, October 9, 1737.

PARISH REGISTERS.

See pp. 58, 63, 64. During the last eleven years, from 1821 to 1831, the greatest number of Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, entered in one year, is

Baptisms, 1822,-112. Marriages, 1825,-33.

Burials, 1830,-80.

From the commencement of the Registers, in 1558, the Baptisms of 1822 have never been exceeded, and the Marriages of 1825 only once, in 1799, when there were 41. The Burials of 1830 have been exceeded in the following twenty-three years; viz.

In the fatal year 1576, the deaths occurred in the different months as follows;-January, 15,-February, 9,-March, 12,-April, 11,-May, 6,-June, 7,-July, 33,-August, 172,-September, 104,-October, 43,-November, 8.-December, 4. Total, 424.