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of 34,179, and 641 had arrived by sea at their 

 own expense. The income from land of vari- 

 ous descriptions in 1865 was 537,029, in 1866 

 it was 647,138, of which 226,452 was from 

 actual sales, and 272,531 from rents and assess- 

 ments on pastoral runs. The duty and fees 

 for export on gold produced only 27,410. 

 The total ordinary revenue was 1,938, 656, and 

 298,578 was raised by loan. The total ex- 

 penditure was 2,315,794. The exports in 

 1865 were valued at 8,191,170, showing a de- 

 crease of 304,803 in the export of gold, and 

 an increase of 4,379 in the export of wool. 

 The imports in 1865 were valued at 9,925,595. 

 The ecclesiastical statistics of the colony in 

 1861 were as follows : 



Church of England 159,958 



Presbyterians 34,692 



Wesleyans . 23,693 



Congregationalists 5,411 



Other Protestants 9,863 



Koman Catholics 99,193 



Hebrews 1,759 



Mohammedans and Asiatic creeds. . 12,909 



All others 3,393 



There were at the same period, 270 churches 

 and 447 chapels, or buildings used as such, pro- 

 viding accommodation for 119,075 people, that 

 is, rather under one-third of the total popula- 

 tion, having an average attendance of 86,674, 

 or under one-fourth of the population. 



Victoria. On January 1, 1865, the popula- 

 tion was 605,501; on December 31st it was 

 626,639; there had been an immigration of 

 10,862 persons from the United Kingdom, 

 18,435 from neighboring countries, and 1,709 

 foreigners, a total of 30,796, of whom 15,872 

 were unassisted. TheEegistrar-General of the 

 colony states that the excess of arrivals over 

 departures was only 5,684. Of the total popu- 

 lation, 258,247 were employed at the gold 

 diggings, on September 30, 1866, of whom 

 227,486 were Europeans, and the remainder 

 Chinese. The number of births had been 

 25,915 ; the deaths, 10,461 ; the marriages, 

 4,497. The value of imports in 1865 was 

 13,257,537, against 14,974,815 in 1864. 

 The exports amounted to 13,150,748, against 

 13,898,384, of the previous year. The value 

 of the colonial export in each of the years 1864 

 and 1865 was as follows: Gold, 6,206,237 and 

 6,190,317 ; wool, 3,250,128 and 3,315,106 ; 

 tallow, 60,230 and 15,566 ; hides and skins, 

 102,724 and 83,361. The total revenue of 

 1865 amounted to 3,058,338, and the disburse- 

 ments for the service of the year were 2,229,- 

 747. The customs revenue was 1,256,686. 

 The public debt on the 31st of December, 1865, 

 was 8,733,445. 



The ecclesiastical statistics of the colony in 

 1867 were as follows : 



Church of England and Episc. Protestant 205,695 



Free Church 454 



Protestants (not otherwise defined) 5,919 



Presbyterian Church of Victoria 5,052 



Church of Scotland '; 26,917 





244,037 



Brought forward 244,037 



Free Church of Scotland and Free Presbyterian 21,219 



United Presbyterian Church 16,734 



Other Presbyterian Churches 346 



Presbyterians (not otherwise defined) 6,835 



Unitarians 1,430 



Society of Friends 273 



Calvinists and Calvinistic Methodists 650 



Other persuasions 1,257 



Koman Catholics 107,610 



Catholics (not otherwise defined) 2,219 



Greek Church 239 



Israelites and Christian Israelites 395 



Latter-Day Saints, or Mormons 108 



Jews 2,903 



Wesleyans, Wesl. Meth., and Methodists.... 40,799 



Primitive Methodists 5,775 



Wesleyan Methodist Association and United 



Free Methodist Churches 1,446 



Bible Christians 651 



Other Wesleyan Methodists 140 



Independents or Congregationalists 12,777 



Baptists 9,001 



Lutherans and German Protestants 10,043 



Unsectarian, no denom. and Secularists 952 



" No religion" 441 



Mohammedans 189 



Pagans (inclusive of Chinese) 1,672 



Chinese 24,551 



Unspecified adults 2,391 



" children 642 



Objecting to state 11,536 



Unenumerated migratory population 3,361 



Total 540,322 



The report of the Royal Commission on pub- 

 lic education in this colony records 1,080 pub- 

 lic and private schools in 1866, or one school 

 to every 586 of the population. The number 

 of scholars was 79,378, or one scholar to every 

 797 of the population. The number of teachers 

 was 2,130, or one teacher to every 297 of the 

 population. In the last ten years great ad- 

 vances have been made in the number of 

 schools. In 1857 the number of schools re- 

 ceiving aid from the revenue was 540, the 

 number of scholars being 33,234. In 1861 the 

 numbers were: schools, 671; scholars, 51.- 

 345; and in 1865 they were, schools, 676; 

 scholars, 64,926. Of the 79,378 scholars in 

 1866, 68,000 were attending schools that re- 

 ceived aid from the revenue. Mr. Archer, the 

 Eegistrar-General of Victoria, states that the 

 amount voted for education in 1866 was 

 174,247, averaging 5s. 6fd. per head of popu- 

 lation, or 3. 7s. 8d. per scholar in average at- 

 tendance. The average attendance of scholars 

 in common schools was 51,500. 



Queensland. The number of immigrants in 

 1865 was 12,750, of whom 1,485 were sent by 

 the Emigration Commissioners, 9,494 went in 

 ships belonging to the Black Ball line, and 

 1,771 went from German ports ; but the annual 

 report of the commissioners only gives 87,775 as 

 the total population on December 31, 1865, of 

 whom 53,297 were males, and 34,478 females. 

 The extent of land sold in 1865 was 145,790 

 acres, producing 224,403, an increase of 

 13,677 over the preceding year; and there 

 were 14,414 acres under cultivation, an in- 

 crease of 2,407 acres. The total amount of 

 land alienated in fee was 580,034 acres, on 



