100 MANUFACTURING POPULATION. 



The state of commerce will be evident from the 

 statement here given. As must always be the case, 

 it has given a great stimulus to Agriculture, especi- 

 ally of late, from the greatly increased demand for 

 Sugar-cane. 



The district contains a large manufacturing 

 population, and they have been obliged to resort 

 partially to Agriculture as a means of subsistence, 

 without entirely deserting their former avocations. 



A Society has lately been established. 



The natives have not the slightest turn for im- 

 provement. It remains to be seen, what effects 

 the Society now established may have in rousing 

 them from their apathy, and inducing them to 

 exert themselves for their own benefit.* 



Poverty, ignorance, and apathy of the inhabitants, 

 and the retired situation of the district, remote 

 from any of the great lines of communication, are 

 the obstacles to improvement. 



* Under the indefatigable exertions of Mr. Tucker, the late Collector 

 of the district, this Society has grown up to some consideration, and 

 several medals, and many prizes, have been awarded at the Annual 

 Prize-show, for sugar-cane and vegetable cultivation. As many as 

 seven silver medals were forwarded by the Agricultural and Horticul- 

 tural Society of India last year (1840.) H. H. S. 



