rious obstacles to trade in other parts of India,
have, in reality, no injurious influence whatever
in Singapore ; for there are none which affect the
population generally, so as to obstruct the daily
transaction of business. I t is much to be regret-
ted that the local Government should of late,
where no revenue is raised from duties of customs,
have adopted so injudicious and capricious
a measure as imposing all the forms and shackles
of a custom-house. The mode of transacting business
among the European merchants is simple
and efficient. Instead of trusting their affairs to
native agents, as in other parts of India, they
transact them in person, with the occasional assistance
of a Chinese Creole as an interpreter and
broker.
In 1819, as already named, Singapore was inhabited
by a few hundred piratical Malayan fishermen.
About five years after this, or in January
1824, the first, census was taken, and the
population was found to amount to ten thousand
six hundred and eighty-three. The following
table shows its progressive increase down to the
latest accounts:—
ohH
H <1
£>
Pk
O Pk
Total.
l0>0* 0000 0rH5 CrHO rH
777
244
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rHHjT CO
CM CO
rCHO
1827
5
£ (Xt
0rH0 CQO CO to tCoO CM tC^OC 0O5 C0O5 ^-H CO to CM CO
CM
to
CO
”3
0O5 CCMO CrHO MCO rH
1C>M* !>•
209
IT5 CCOO OrH Ti* 4>»CM CO to H
CM tp
10,307
1 Total. I
rHH? OOC rH0 1rH> rH ©q
605
384
^CM t0>5* TCp0 '05 CO rH CM
rH to ^
12,905
1826
Females. 1
COOCOW5
CM CO
127
*0>5* CCO0 CCOO C0O5 to ^ CO
cm'
0o0 !>.
CO
Males.
0H0C COO CrHO rHt^' !C>O• to tCoM
CCOO C^O rCHO CCOO CO C5f«M 00
CO CO. .
9,197
Total. |
00 CrHO rH
690
226
^O COO CCOO CCMO l>.rH 00
rH to' CO
11,851
1825
Females.
CM ^CO rH CO
30
nto CCOO rn CCMO
CM
3,231
Males.
COO C0O5 00 orH 00 CO
C0O5 rH
0O5 r0H5 CCMO CrHO rH to
pH CM CO
8,620
CCMO rH
«o
Hf ^ 5rH0 trHo
390
366
trOH COO *r->H• CO to CO
rH ^ CO
C£O5 CO
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52
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From this statement are excluded the floating
population of strangers, commonly estimated at