IN SINGAPORE. 
Quantity of Opium 
paid for by the 
farmer monthly. 
Value. 
Yearly amount iu 
quantity and! value. 
Rupees. 
Rupees. 
r 736,640 Copper 
r 8,889,680 Cop. 
1842 
3,555 Catties. 
/- 
42,660 J 
f - 
^ 618,860 Silver. 
L 7,336,320 Sil. 
1848 *> 
r 765,450 Copper 
r 9,185,400 Cop. 
1844 } 
3,645 * 
s 
'/--- 
13,740 J 
/- 
1845 j 
L 637,87* Silver, 
L 7,654,500 Sil. 
’ 
r 760,150 Copper 
r 9,861,800 Cop. 
1846 
3,715 „ 
4,658 J 
/ 
L 650,125 Silver. 
L 7,801,500 Sil, 
1847 
3,381 „ 
/591,675 „ 
40.572 f 7,101,100 Sil. 
Taking' the average of these years we find that there are 3,597 
catties of legally farmed Opium consumed by the inhabitants of Java 
and Madura. Supposing that the farmer of Java is not capable of 
producing more Chandu from a given quantity of Opium than the 
Singapore farmer, and taking the 3,597 catties as equivalent to 36 
chests, this will give 3,168,000 hoons to which add | or 1,056,600 of 
Tinco, will make in all 4,224,000 as the monthly number of hoons con¬ 
sumed, or daily 140,806, dividing which by 5*, the monthly allow¬ 
ance of a Singapore Opium smoker, will give only 27,076 Opium 
smokers, hut as wages are much less, and thep rice of opium in Java 
much greater, it is more than probable that 3 hoons is the average 
quantity consumed by each Opium smoker daily, which will give 46, 
933 Opium smokers, hut as it is welt known that smuggling is car¬ 
ried on to a great extent, it is more than probable that only one half 
of the Opium consumed passes through the Government. A strong 
factoccured the other day proving this, 15 chests of smuggled Opium, 
being seized at Sourabaya. Reckoning that one half of the Opium 
consumed is smuggled, this will give 93,866 Opium smokers in Java, 
or 1 Opium smoker in 95 of a population of 9,000,000. 
K. 
