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The Legislative Council of Michigan Territory, convened at Detroit, on the l7th November. A Message from the acting Governor was received on the day follow- ing, from which we make extracts, as be- low:

 l herewith communicate for your action the returns of the census of the Territory. so far as received at the Secretary office, as taken in conformity to the act O, the Le- glslative Council, entitled $ An Act to pro- vIde for taking a census and other purpo- ses," approved September 6, 1854. The returns from the counties west of Lake Michigan, have not as yet arrived. So soon as they are received, they vii be coll,- municated to you. 1 have not considered 1t important to await their arrival, as the population of the peninsula of Michigan alone, amounts 10 S5,S56 souls. The OF. daance of l7S7, requiring only 6o,000 free inhabitants, to entitle Michigan to admission into the Union, as an independent State, deem It important that you should have in your possession without delay, the neces- sary information on which to base the Ie gtslatlon contemplated by you, al the time Of your temporary adjournment.

 cannot refrain froinc congratulating. both you and my felow-citizens generally, upon the rapid improvement of our Perrilory, IS $ es!aeed hy ihe great and unparalleled in-- crease of her population. By the census taken under the asthprity of the United States, in June, 1880, the number of in. habitants within the peninsula, amounted to 2S,00o; the whole population of the Terri- tory amounting to 3.59S souls. Since that period the hde of emigration has been so great, that in the short space of four years, the number has increased more than three fold; and while we contemplate cur