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able indication, under the existing circumstances of society, of the relative degree 
of attention which the mass of the population has received from the more educated 
classes in each district, or of a superior energy of character and independence of 
circumstances hereditary in the inhabitants of a whole district. A faltering of the 
figures to declare in favour of the counties of most instruction occurs scarcely any- 
where but among the northern and midland mining and manufacturing counties. 
Here the lowest proportion of crime is found in the counties which are most notorious 
for their largest amount of factory population, viz. Lancashire, the West Riding of 
Yorkshire, Derbyshire, and Nottinghamshire, while the most criminal are Cheshire, 
Staffordshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, Warwickshire, and Leicestershire, on 
the whole more noted for dispersed and domestic manufactures. The firstementioned 
counties, however, are low in every other feature brought to account; and yet a 
greater diffusion of instruction is seen to be the concomitant of every promising figure. 
Vital Statistics of a District in Java. By Joun Crawrorp, F.G.S.; with 
preliminary remarks upon the Dutch possessions in the East, by CoLoNEL 
Sykes, V.P.R.S. 
In connexion with Mr. Crawford’s paper Colonel Sykes gives a general view of the 
progress of population in Java,—of the extraordinary development of the commer- 
cial and agricultural industry of the Dutch in the East; and of the vast extent of the 
domains which they claim. The total area of the eastern archipelago, including Java, 
Sumatra, Borneo, Celebes, the Moluccas and the other islands, is 31,428 square 
geographical leagues, of which the Dutch claim 25,872, or five-sixths of the whole, 
comprising a population of above twenty-five millions of souls, ruled by a few Euro- 
peans. The progress of the population in Java is remarkable. By successive cen- 
suses it appears that it has risen from 6,368,090 souls in 1824 to 9,542,045 in 1845: 
commerce and agriculture progress in a greater ratio. In 1826, the coffee exported 
was 340,049 picals of 125 lbs. each, in 1843 it was 1,018,102. Sugar, 19,795 to 
929,769 picals for the same period. Indigo, from 76 picals to 1,890,429 lbs.! Tin, from 
13,800 picals to 45,705 picals: other products are also remarkable in their increase. 
From a communication of the Colonial Minister to the second chamber of the States- 
General in 1844, the total receipts of Netherland India were 81,784,671 florins. 
Mr. Crawford’s paper contained the vital statistics of a district in Java for one year. 
In the city and neighbourhood of Yugyakarta, to which locality the observations were 
chiefly confined, the births were fewest and the mortality greatest in the town; while 
the opposite state of things prevailed in the country, and especially in the more ele- 
vated part. The author inferred from the data which he had collected, that a native 
population under the tropics, in the enjoyment of peace, with a fair share of industry, 
a sufficiency of fertile land and a favourable climate, may increase as an European 
one in a temperate climate with similar advantages. 
On the Annual Increase of Property, and of Exports and Imports in Canada. 
By Joseru Hume, U.P. (communicated by J. FustcuEr.) 
These statements demonstrate the great rapidity with which the most valuable and 
fermanent species of wealth accumulates in Canada, and the extent to which the 
province is already able to consume and employ goods of various kinds sent from 
this country, and to pay for them by its exports to Great Britain and its dependen- 
cies. That power will henceforth increase annually, at a rate greatly exceeding that 
of former years, under the influence of a principle long recognised. 
The rateable property in Upper Canada amounted in 1825 to £997,025; in 1840 
to £5,691,477; in 1841 to £5,996,609; in 1842 to £6,375,140; in 1843 to 
£5,916,162 ; and in 1844 to £7,139,901, according to the assessment returns for the 
last three years. 
In the United Province of Upper and Lower Canada, the imports into Canada by 
sea, from 1838 to 1847 inclusive, increased. 
On comparing a few of the more important articles of import by sea for the years 
1846 and 1847, the following results are obtained :—Against 313,076 gallons of © 
