transactions op the sections. 
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ta. promoted. BOt fio much by fluctuations at the terms of life, 10-15, and 
»1,/tbe increase or decrease among persons of more of there 
aileat that over a period of eleven years, ending ‘‘'"X 
bingbeen an increase, there has been a positive decrease of enme at tne young 
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Prixs of the Cmalia and other Edihhs of Indm (md EngUind compared, 
£>/LieuU-Colonel Sykes, V.P.li-o, 
■nwirtthor-schlef object m this paper was to show that India 
Gngtind could be looked to with confidence for supply of 
Mag the advantage of its principal crops npemng m JaiiuMy and I 
■onent a failure of the crop should be known in htigland m ^“5“ *' .• 
pa irora the following January crops of India could be sent; and the 
"agland, even by the route of the Cape of Good Hope, two or three n‘««^bcfore 
tk ripenii of the crops in England. Colonel Sykes lurnished averaged nnces for 
itM,from various parts of Indiaj but he enumerates very many grains, ^ ^?P*. 
tnive.and in general cnnsuiuntioo, which do notajipcar in •* *» . 
*aii» even arc unknown in Europe, excepting to Uie learned. Ihe P 
fm an average from lS27 to 1845 at seven iiuirkcts in the Deccan under the Uom- 
bqr Preridency. llie uhimate result is shown in the following table . 
AvuirdupMMi 
weight of 
gmo for 2 f. 
Price i)€r 
Quarter 
English. 
Wheat .. 
lbs. OB. 
64 5 
fts d. 
14 11 
Rice .. 
36 13 
6j.24d.cwt. 
Grain .. 
6(1 5 
15 11 
Bajni... 
8310 
11 7 
Jowaree. 
100 8 
9 6 
Nov these lOOlbs. wt’cht of Jowaroe for two aWlUngs arc sufacieot for the sup- 
pft of a man for two months at the least. But in 1828 and 1 843, at thejnoBvket ot 
KdIIo., the . - 
C l 01 a man tor two months at the least, but in ioxo aim .«• 
IIk, the averago price of Jowareo was 2041b8. for two shillings, pr move Uian 
for a farthing j so that in those years a man could live for loss than a turthing 
ptf <Sem for meal. Colonel Sykes gives various other tables of prices at oo 
JUtons in Bengal.some for Qoojrat, &c., particularly one from the Saugor and iNer. 
**>11611 territories, from 1831 to 1840 and from 1843 to 1840. In 1843 wheat sold 
** iflTlbs. avoirdunois for two shillines. and at seven markets enumerated the pne 
U UIH 1001 VO I OtTf »llki II win W *i* j * a 
^ ifiTlK avoirdupois Tor two BhUUnga, nnd at seven markets enumersted the pne 
l*t luarier English varied only from five shillings and sixpence to seven shillings and 
•»|voce three farthinns- 
‘trj-oce three farthings. . , 
TJe Bengal tables independently of the bread stuffs, give the prices of beef, raiittou, 
sdt, sugar, &c. From these it appeared that ai some places a bullock could 
^ teeghi for ten shlilin^.n sheep for nnc shilling, and twenty low s for ’ 
^t’'«ied exceedingly in price fiUi Sllbs. for two shillings at Calcutta to J94lb8. at 
the average being 20ll)s. 9oV for two killings. Thegovernmeni soM he 
salt at frMiSOjlbsrto 25lbs. for two shillingss and acunous J 
^0® the table,, that nut of the liuiits of Benpal proper and beyond A^ad the 
^pnceof nahwas lower than the tukoleeak 
f" ^nttack salt being 20ilbs.. and the retail price out ol P^nn^v 
dist there am sources of aonply independent of the ‘JP^Xes 
^ I.*'*'® labourer’s wagesof six shillings per mensem, a third o a g 
yrid supply hi,„ J sufficiency of salt at the diflerent stations, varjir^ from 
“fw months in Calcutta to thirty-five months at Kheer in the Deccan, and forty- 
months in Bombay. The following table exhibits the final results 
