The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-15
INDIA.
Important Statistics OF its Condition and
FroRroens

India has been issued, Although it has only
reached It's second annual number, this little
blue book of fifty pages has already become
compIeie summary of stat sites sho wing the
CUUdIuon and progress of India The area OF
British India is 947292 square miles, and the
population l43,585, 7S9; OF The native s ates the
area rs 500, 79O square miles, and the population
47,9J9, 1893; of native, or Indian States under
French gOvernn ent, 1873 square miles, with
population OF 203, ,SS7; under Portuguese gov
eminent lO66 miles, with BIB 262 people;
making a grand total of 1,545,3G6 square miles,
with population ui 1872, 0l2, 1877. The Ipulatlon
OF calcutta, according 10 he census OF 1866, was
377,S24; OF BOMBAY On 1861, SIC, j62: OF Madras
1853, 427,77l. The gross ampuut OF the plOllc
expenditure OF British India nas Increased from
f3l, l,60SS75 III the 6naDc al year 1856 81 TO
f47,333, l02 in 1886 In seven OF the ten
years there was deficiency; and the public
DEBT advanced from f59, 46l, ,999 to eos. .3Sl 65l.
All the prnCpaI sources o public revende have
increased laleelV IN proddctivenrss. Land re 1e-
nue. FROM fl7, ,722,l l70 in 1851 10 820, 473, ,s97 IN
1866; opium irr IN G5 002 400 to fS 5lS, 264; salt
tIon 6s5 574 10 f5 342 149; excise saSer, ETC.,
ftom 9l,486,684 to f2,6l2,556 staup from
1922 los to Fl 1884 632j tributes from 85040 030 to
Eos, ,632. table OF the principal items OF eX
stated, and is shown 10 have incIeasei
from f22Ol, ,542 in 1s56-57 to $500 625
in l865-66. The vessels Cncluding native
Iadia advanced, in the ten years, rom Al, 1885, of
4.549 27S tons, TO 4S.40l, 0t 1921 1884 tons-the
lASL DuUOer comprising 81, 4Jl 0tIlVe NpSSeIS OF
1888 43l tons, aud 1851 British OF 5,34S $40
tons, the British tonnage having more han dou.
bed in the ten years. The import OF neTCban-
disc advanced from 4l94, ,687 in 1861 to
f29, 599, 228 in 1SG5-66, aud OF treasure from
fl4 ALB, 697 to f26 557. .30; OF cotton gopds from
IA, 94l to ell S49.2l4. The exports Increased in
the ten years rom G26 SOL S77 to &67, ,656, ,475 of
raw cotton from fl,437 $40 TO f35.6S7, ,3S9; of
opium from f7,056,6 $50 to ell, ,l22 TAG; ot r,ce,
from G2, 3Ul, ls2 TO f4,909,5 562. The emigrauts
from British India were 1855 in 1867, 27779
in 1866, tWo-thirds OF them bound for NJ tur-
thus. At Ibe end OF 1860 f65 so, 7l2 had been
expended on railways. In the year endIng with
june, 1866, 1852 miles were open, aud TO- l20,9l0
pass epgers we're conveyed; the years receipt
were 1856, and the working expenses
f2,226, 995; l3 800 miles OF Government tele-
graph lines were then open; the years receipts
amounted to &ll2,944; the expenditure
for s1oo oO% working and ma'nensnce Inn Geo was
ters aud newspapers were transmitted through
the Fost Office of British India; in 1866,
5993l, ,904; The offices opened increased from 965
TO 2070. The troops employ ed in British Ind'a
in 1857 were 45,522 Europeans aud 1872 224
natives; in 1866 66,Sl4 Europeans and lI7O95
natives. In 1868, with an average strength of
762O9 European troops, there we're 1851 DEATHS
among them from ordinary causes, 344 by
cholera; in 1866. with an average strength of
59J4l the deaths from ordinary causes were
only $50, and by cholera 70. In the schools
and colleges maintained or aided by Govern
ment, the average attendance OF pupils was
l9O, ,656 in 1857, $50 3l7 in 1866 the Government
expenditure eta, ,357 in 1857, 944O, ,O3s in 1856.
These few figures NAV serve 10 give some idea of
ten years progress Of British India.
General ICems,
Telegrams from Bombay, India, of June O.
state that a scheme is beng elaborated to form
the central provinces into dependent govern
Or,hip.
case of Suite, in the Cawnpore district, nave
been convicted in Calcutta Thirty have been
transported for life and the remainder con-
demned to five years imorisonment
MtScsHaasous News.
The France, OF Paris, of July 3, gives posi-
tive denial to n report OF a considerable move
ment OF troops in Paris.
Addresses of Generalization were being sent
TO Prince Milan from all par OF Servia.
reciprocal agreement has been entered into
between Switzerland and the Pontiical States,
whereby the Two Governments have secured for
their subjects the same privileges of trading,
and the same rient OF residence in each others
| territory, as are enjoyed oy the subjects of the
most favored ma ions.
The PyOpugndtOre of Lecco, Italy, states that
| the Correctional Tribune there has had au i'm
| poTtant case nuder consideration. Toe Arch
| BISHOP OF BriudNsi was charged with appointing
large number OF priests as canons without
| having received the necessary eXrquatur. The
pre- late was sentenced To q hne OF 40Of and each
of the priests to one OF 200f.
tabular statement has been published of the
general situation of all the leading financial
establishments on the Continent of europe up
10 rhe 3lst OF May. From this statement 1t ayi-
pears that the unemployed cash amounted on
that date to 1l0, 572, ,446'.; whereas on the 30th
of April it was only 1858, l34 4Olf, being an
increase of 1872 243S,045f. during the month.
During the same period the bills and securities
diminished 88 TAO 379f and the loans Al, $685. $780,
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