892 Observations on the 
The average circulation of papers in the United States is 
1785. There is one publication for every 7161 free inha- 
bitants in the United States. 
Mr. Kennedy, the Superintendent of Census, in the 
performance of his important task, visited the capitals of 
many of the Governments of Europe, for the purpose of 
examining into the methods adopted for the procuring and 
classification of such facts as are enumerated in their statis- 
tical investigations, and of deriving all the aids which they 
were calculated to afford him. 
“Tt seems desirable,” says Mr. Kennedy, “ to possess 
every ray of light on this subject, when considering that 
the present census is one of unexampled importance to 
ourselves and our posterity, as exhibiting our condition to 
the middle of a century, and illustrative of the progress of 
a people, flourishing beyond all precedent, under a new form 
of government; one whose history and example must, as 
it becomes known, exert an important influence throughout 
the civilized world. This census, while it exhibits our 
progress for sixty years, with a precision and certainty which 
no other country has been able to enjoy, and giving a reality 
to the past unattainable with respect to any other people, 
discloses the present statistical history, and that for the 
first time, of a country embracing more than a million 
square miles of territory, the future destiny of which is 
inseparably connected with that of the original thirteen 
States. . . . . In England, several opportunities were 
offered for bringing the object of my mission before public 
audiences; and invitations were tendered me to address the 
London Statistical Society, and the British Association at 
Ipswich during its annual meeting, which was attended by 
Prince Albert. On each opportunity it gave me pleasure to 
present a full account of the character and extent of our 
