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Afterwards were read /Statistical Illustrations of the Principal 

 U^iiversities of Great Britain and Ireland, by Rev. H. L. Jones. 

 The best authorities were employed in the preparation of this 

 document. The college revenues were minutely detailed, and 

 the results may be thus stated : — 



Other tables were constructed, giving the number of members, 

 and their ranks, also the stimulating forces, that is, the amount of 

 pecuniary advantage offered for exertion. 



Mr. W. Cargill offered a paper 07i the Educational, Criminal 

 and other Statistics of Neiocastle. 



Mr. L. Hindmarsh made a communication on the State of Agri- 

 culture and Agricultural Laborers in the north division of the 

 county of Northumberland. On the whole, the agricultural statis- 

 tics of this district are of a gratifying character. They present a 

 soil well cultivated, under the vicissitudes and difficulties of a very 

 variable climate ; and a peasantry who, in their general intelli- 

 gence and moral habits, are a credit to themselves, an honor to 

 the country, and an example worthy of imitation. 



Dr. W. C. Taylor read an Account of the changes in the popu- 

 lation of New Zealand, communicated by Saxe Bannister, Esq. 

 late Attorney general for New South Wales. The New Zealand 

 group consists of the N. and S. islands, Stewart's island, and some 

 smaller isles ; the extent of these is 95,000 square miles. The 

 population was classed under the following heads, — natives, white 

 residents, white visitors and mixed races. The probable number 

 of natives is 130,000. The white residents are about 2,000. As 



