590 
Victoria. 
Males. 
Females. 
1854 
1857 
1857 (ages 20 to 40) 
1858 (office returns) . 
1860 
155,876 
264,334 
84,790 
308,983 
341,628 
80,900 
146,432 
34,843 
176,786 
203,049 
“ Tasmania, again, according to the population returns of 1857, 
shows the following results : — 
Males . . 45,916 
Females . . 34,886 
Excess of Males . 11,030, or 24 per cent. 
Ages 21 to 45, males 20,913, females 13,610. 
New Zealand, 1857 . Males 29,435 Females 22,720. 
Western Australia, 1857 Males 9028 Females 4573.” 
(The following extract was given from the Twentieth General 
Report of the Emigration Commissioners, 1860, regarding the dis~ 
parity of sexes in Victoria, showing distinctly that the evil produced 
at home by emigration was productive of serious evil in the 
colony: — ) 
“ The census of 1857 discloses some remarkable facts respecting 
the disparity of sexes in Victoria, which is thus noticed by Sir 
Henry Barkly in his despatch transmitting a portion of the tables. 
“ It now appears that, though considerable improvement in this 
respect took place between 1854 and 1857, yet that the effective 
disproportion at the latter period was far more serious than would 
be deducible from the fact of there being 163 males to every 100 
females in the entire population. Since tabling the portion of it 
above the age of twenty years there were no less than 217 males to 
that number — the proportions below that age being pretty nearly 
equal. 
“ The effect of this disparity may be more clearly deduced from 
the tables relating to the conjugal condition of the people, which 
show that there were 88*355 unmarried men of twenty years of 
age and upwards to but 12*545 unmarried women of corresponding 
