In the Indian Seas, the Mauritius, with its de pendent islets, has its area of 708 miles, closely packed with a thriving population of 330,460 inhabitants, the Indian immigration numbering hero on the census day 153,703. West Australia has not yet been, in the proper sense of the word, colonized, and has only 24,785 inhabitants to its 978,000 square miles of domain. South Australia, with an area of 760,000 square miles, has 185,626 whites and 3369 aboriginal inhabitants. Victoria, with an area of 84,000 square miles, has 731,528 inhabitants (including 17,935 Chinese and 1300 aborigines). New South \Vales has on its 323,437 square miles, 503,931 inhabitants, the population in 1821 having been no more than 29,000. Queens land has 120,104 inhabitants. Tasmania's present population of 99,328 is only 10 per cent. greater than that registered in 1861. Norfolk Island con tains a total population of 401 souls. New Zealand white population numbered, in 1871; 256,393, while the aborigines (all, except a couple of thou sands, established in the North Island) were estimated at 37,500. In 1851 the immigrant inhabitants were only 26,000 in number.
The island of Ceylon showed a population of 2,405,267 ; Singapore had 97,000 inhabitants; l'enang, 67,000; Province Wellesley, 71,000 ; and Malacca, 77,000. The island of Hong-Kong and the peninsula of Kowloon have an aggregate population of 120,000.
India is divided into twelve provinces, two ruled by governors, three by lieutenant-governors, and seven by chief commissioners, the Viceroy being supreme over all; it is distributed for administra tive purposes into 53 divisions, 231 revenue and judicial districts, and 1114 executive subdivisions. 1 l'he village is the ' recognised territorial unit,' and averages in area something like the fourth part of an English parish. The population of the British Empire in India under direct Braila' control, in 1881, was 209,217,694; and within its borders, under sovereigns in alliance or as feudatories, the people numbered 43,323,596, being a total of 252,541,210. In British India and its feudatory states, about 190,000,000 profess tame forni of the I I indu or aboriginal religions, about 95,000,0 JO are Malionulans, and 3,000,000 Buddhists and Jain*. The empire possesses 7,769,449 square miles of territory, The United Kingdom, 121,608 square miles; the colonies, 6,685,021; India and Ceylon, 962,820. There are 38 persons to a square mile in the empire ; 260 in the United Kingdom, 201 in India, and 141 in the colonies. It should be ob. served, however, that in some parts of India the density of population more than equals that of Britain. The Empress Queen Victoria, the British sovereign, rules over 234,762,593 souls; her people dwell in 44,142,651 honses.-77rnes.