500 



quantity of laud of the proviuce, exclusive of the northern portion, is 

 245,329,920 acres. Area sold, 4,198,999 acres. The live stock is reported 

 as follows : Horses, 83,744, increase 9,910 ; cattle, 136,832, increase 

 17,135 ; sheep, 4,400,655, decrease 36,300 ; goats, 25,008, increase 11,031 ; 

 pigs, 76,025, increase 12,199; poultry, 550,420, increase 182,587. The 

 large decrease in sheep is accounted for by losses from drought, and 

 overstocking in the far north, the absence of inducement for breeders 

 to augment their flocks, and to the practice of boiling down and meat- 

 preserving. 



The ROADSTEiivrER IN Great Britain. — English papers publish 

 an account of the trial trip of a new road-steamer, which made the run 

 from Ipswich to Edinburgh by road, a distance of four hundred and fifty 

 miles, in seventy-seven hours' traveling time. The engine is one of 

 four now being built for the Indian government, under Thompson's 

 patent, with India rubber tires, and is of 14 nominal horse-power, but 

 which has been worked up to 80 indicated horse-power. Her weight is 

 about 13^ tons ; length, 15 feet ; breadth, 8 feet 8 inches ; height to top 

 of chimney, 15 feet. The omnibus weighs about 3^ tons, and seats 21 

 passengers inside and 44 outside. The chief difficulties encountered by 

 the engine on her journey appear to have arisen from foraging for water 

 and coal. Since" this trip she has made several of an experimental 

 nature, in one of which she took 40. tons of gross load up a hill one mile 

 in length, with an incline of one in seventeen. After a return journey 

 to Ipswich, she will be shipped to India. 



Indian department of agriculture. — A department of agricul- 

 ture, revenue, and commerce has been created in British India, to take 

 official cognizance of the following subjects: land revenue and settle- 

 ments; advances for works of agricultural improvement; agricul- 

 ture and horticulture; fibers and silk; studs and cattle-breeding; 

 cattle disease; forests; meteorology; commerce and trade; customs, 

 sea and inland; opium; salt; excise; stamjis; minerals and geological 

 survey; fisheries; industrial arts ; museums; exhibitions; statistics; 

 gazetteers; weights and measures; census; surveys, revenue, topo- 

 graphical, and trigonometrical. 



