City Suburbs .. 9219 5661 6158 2251 2518 16588 9850 9621 4061 4903 28435 45023 4747 1338 1446 637 4081 5355 5388 2187 2603 15533 19614 Total 13966 6999 7604 2911 3155 20669 15205 15009 6248 7506 43968 64637 I give the area and population from separate manuscripts at the India House, which do not agree in the names of the districts. + Gangam is exclusive of the Zemindaries, Jaradah, Vizianagaram, and Daracote, in which no census appears to have been taken in that year, thus accounting for the apparent decrease. This includes Ramnad, 2500; and Dindigul, 2624 square miles. Males. Children. Females. Total. Grand Total. The census of the Bombay Presidency is less to be depended on than that of Madras; combining Colonel Sykes's information with the scanty intelligence laid before Parliament, I make up the following return, as the nearest approximation to truth which is at present attainable. A census of the city of Agra, taken in 1829, by Mr. Macsween, the magistrate of Agra, gives the following results :- Houses, 21,014; shops (some attached to the houses and some distinct), 5,513; temples and ustuls, 153; musjeeds, 107; churches, 2; other public buildings, 235; male inhabitants, 52,211. This census does not include the suddur bazar, the fort, and bullock establishment. A new census of the whole district is preparing. The Agra Ukbar of October 31, 1832, gives the following as the number of houses and inhabitants of Agra :-Houses, 29,788, viz. pukha, 25,536; and kutcha, 4,252 inhabitants, 96,597, viz. Hindoos, 65,018; men, 25,085; The grand total is 1,630,662 in 28,006 houses; less women, 29,933; Moosulmans, 31,579; men, 16,059; than five to a house. Neither the palace or the suburbs of the city are included in the foregoing: their population is about 50,000 of both sexes. women, 15,520. Census of the Population of the Islands of Bombay and Colabah, taken in the months of August, September, October, and November, 1826. Remarks. In the Deccan, which includes an area of 48,987 square miles, and a population of 3,285,985, the average number of mouths to the square mile is 6,708, and the proportion of males to females about 100 to 86; the Mussulmans form only from 6 to 8 per cent. of the whole population; the Mahrattas from 60 to 70 per cent., the Brahmins from 5 to 10 per cent., Rajpoots from 3 to 6 per cent., and outcasts, &c. from 9 to 10 per cent. Total. The following estimates are derived from Dr. Buchanan's Official Survey: the data on which these estimates were founded, in 1809 to 1816, are given in Vols. I. II. and III. of “Eastern India," published in 1838. Statistical view of the Districts of Behar, (Patna City), Shahabad, Gorukhpoor, and Dinajepoor. Statistical view of the Districts of Bhagulpoor, Puraniya, and Ronggopoor. 1 Patna city 5 Sherpur 20 214500] 145 106 97500 312000 18000 75525 25175 100700 3500 52000 31200 83200 1500 } 88 52400 30770 44 15100 15100 Total 403 409525 199745 83170 2400 30200 600 609270 26000 1 Gaya 2 Nawada 3 Sheykhpurah Behar 7 Helsa 968 282375 169425 15069 200 105481 8 Holasgunj 9 Jahanabad 10 Daudnagar 11 Arwal 12 Vikram 6 Kangwargunj 37125 99000 3050 52900 158700 211600) 8300 167 20200 44300 64500 1850 481 39600 87100 126700 4200 788 28200 122300 150500 4400 92 5600 16900 22500 600 113 11400 33900 45309 1350 103 12375 27225 39600 1120 146250 156000 3350 134900 179800 4500 172000 226090 7600 76300 89000 2700 193700 4000 18 Aurunggabad 120 16700 28000 44700 1400 26000 52000 2000 239700 240000 8800 38000 38000 20000 20000 8225 460000 1559900 2019900 62475 26000 It is difficult to say how near any of the foregoing the Seiks, 3,000,000; Nepaul, 2,000,000; Cashmere, returns, except those for Madras, approximate towards &c., 1,000,000; Sinde, 1,000,000; total, 51,000,000. correctness; the estimated population of 422,990 This, of course, is but a rough estimate by Hamilton. square miles here given is 89,577,206, leaving 91,200 VII. The government of British India possesses a square miles of British territory, of the population of feature which has rarely or never been found in any which no account can be traced; but if we allow the nation or in any age, I allude to its toleration of every low rate of 90 mouths to the square mile, it will mode or form of religion in which different sects may make the population of the British territories about choose to adore the Creator; to its protection against 100,000,000. Now to this vast number we are to hostility, forcible opposition or oppression by one add the inhabitants of the protected and allied states; rival sect against another, and to its auxiliary pecuthe area of which is greater than that of the British niary aid when solicited by any congregation or comterritory by 100,000 square miles; and allowing an munity. An account of the Hindoo, Mahomedan, equal amount of population to the British territories, and Parsee forms of religion, and of the different sects it will give a grand total of 200,000,000 inhabitants, of Christians, will be found in my "Colonial Library” directly and indirectly under the sway of Great Bri- and "History of the Colonies." tain, and subject to the government of the Honourable East India Company! The number of whites, or Europeans, does not, including all the military, amount to 100,000. We may now proceed to observe how far the established church extends, premising that every aid has been afforded by the E. I. Company's Government which could promote the cause of true religion and The following estimate has been made of the popu- its concomitants-charity, peace, and happiness. The lation of the allied and independent states:-Hy- following detail shews, first, the state of the Estabdrabad, 10,000,000; Oude, 6,000,000; Nagpoor, lished Church in Bengal, according to the latest return 3,000,000; Mysore, 3,000,000; Sattara, 1,500,000; in 1830, and the expenses incurred there, from the Gaickwar, 2,000,000; Travancore and Cochin, date of Calcutta being made a Bishop's See in 1814 1,000,000; Rajpootana and various minor princi- to 1831. palities, 16,500,000; Scindia's territories, 4,000,000; The returns of the congregations attending the | Saugor, Howrah, and the chapel at the European churches at Neemuch, Boglepore, Cuttack, Futtyghur, Barracks are not given. |