The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-03-02 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.

TRI 04111 LAWN AND I'oo4 RILIIII,•=It appeare
that In the year 1456 255 women and TM children were
thrown upon the poor•rates In Zugland and Waite, at
a total soot of 4706 for their Rapport In and out of doors,
In amassment* of the persons by whom they were
usually maintained being Immured in pole for offenoes
against the game law. I'll. appears from a return
moved for by Mr. Colens, M.P.
INDIA.—The grefl Wig area of the " refutation" and
"non.replation'' districts of the North• Western Pro.
ohms of India Is shown, by a late return, to amount to
111,5143 square miles, and fie population to 54,165,1176.
The number of soul' to each square mile was gel the
land revenue amounted to 4,59,40,052 rupees, the
Akan, to V 5,01,651 rupee., stamp, to 1,652,166 rupee.,
miscellaneous and layer to 4,54,478 rums% and Ousnii
62,19,545 rupees, making a grand total revenue of
5,64,30,11115 rupee. The presents of taxation on each
inhabitant was Se. Sid., or 1,65 rupees. The area of
the Bombay Presideney Is returned AI 78,1/0611 square
miles, the population at 10,455,746, being 155 aouls to
lash nine ; the Government land and sayer revenues
in 186455) al 1,96,66,6110 rupees, and the misfire of
(taxation on Groh person it 8.. Iffd.,or 1,910 rupee..
1:1A,111011 BANKB.—Another return on &whip Hanks
shows that the gross total amount of principal money
rewired from, and interest paid and credited lath. tran.
teed of Barlnge-Hanks and Friendly Societies (inoluding
intasit) on Om 11011 of November last we. 976,777,642 ;
the amount of Wind* and interest money paid to the
trustees, Including ourplus fund draughts, 11419,870,92 M
the amount of money, principal and interest, due to the
trustewe by the Commiseioners, 837,200,713, and the
value of eecrarities held by CommiNdonere on the Mk of
November at the prices of the day, to provide the
amount due from the Oommisaioners to the Moslem on
that day tor principal and Interest, /181,961,3114. The
stook held included 65,820,11114 //3,144710.

Three per Cent. Reduced, £17,313,871. New Three per
Cents., £31,900. New Two-and-a-Half per Cents., and
£1,031,588. Now Three per Cents., Ireland, besides
£7,600,000 Exchequer-bills.
EXPENSE OF THE METROPOLITAN P0L1CE.—£444,212
was the suin total paid for the metropolitan police force
last year (1867). The receipts include a stun of £290,871
from parishes (police-rates), and £103,380 from the Con-
solidated Fund. The items of expenditure are £11,175
for office expenses; £l9l for legal charges; £349,315 for
the pay, clothing, and equipment of the police ; £3,087
for medicine, Az. ; £8,502 for horses and vans ; £18,779
for station and section houses ; £13,649 for light and
fuel; and £28,510 for retired allowances. A balance' of
126,989 remained in the hand on the last day of the old
year, 1857. The expenses of the police courts of the
metropolis last year amounted to £67,086, of which
£58,333 was contributed out of the Consolidated Fnnd.
Salaries consumed £39,376; the expenses of the Po/ice
Gazette (including £lOO for the salary of the editor),
£3,142; and contributions to the Civil Superannuation
Fund, £12,403. One chief police magistrate receives a
salary of £1,500, and the 22 ordinary magistrates £1,200
each. The pay of the force varies from £49 to £4OO at
year. The force includes 17 superintendents, 140 inspec-
tors, 630 sergeants, and 5,296 common constables or
policemen.
THE RELIGIOUS QUESTION iw INDIA.—A voluminous
but by no mesas interesting paper on this subject is
just published. It contains the copy of a despatch
from the East India Company to the Governor-Geuerel
of India, dated 21st of April, 1847, directing the issue of
orders to all public officers, forbidding the support of
missionary efforts, and of despatches from the Govern-
ment at Calcutta, with a series of papers referred to
therein, in reply to such despatch. The original des-
patch of the Directors of the Company (21st April, 1847)
runs as follows—" You (the Governor-General of
India) are aware that we have uniformly maintained the
principle of abstaining from all interference with the
religion of the natives of India. It is obviously essen-
tial to the due observance of that principle that it
should be acted on by all our servants, civil and mili-
tary. The Government is known throughout India by
its officers, with whom it is identified in the eyes of the
native inhabitants, and our servants should therefore
be aware that while invested with public authority their
acts cannot be regarded as those of private individvals.
We are, however, led by circumstances of recent occur-
rence to conclude that a different view of the subject ma
taken in India, and we therefore deem it necessary to
call your immediate and particular attention to the
absolute necessity of maintaining this most important
principle in its fullest extent." A good deal of the
following correspondence refers to the best and most
polite mode of acting on the above injunction of the
Company, but the details are barren of interest. A
ma's of papers follow relating to the temple of Jugger-
naut, the withdrawl of the government donation thereto,
and the placing of a military guard within or without
the temple, and including lengthy memorials from local
missionaries of various persuasions.