Show indias andias overcrowded d population the tha population of british india is in in creat lag ilag so BO rapidly that at a date data not far distant the question of how to actual starvation will la iso a press lag anil and a prevent one the london spectator speaks of the situation in the follow following in 9 terms the iho timms borre in in ichta states that some loma of the recent indian census have bare been published from which it appears that among the ilia Inh inhabitants a stants ot of the northwest north west wast provinces and oude oada the ilia increase of population has been 5 per cent cant in uina nine jears ears while among the aj of the punjab it has bein been 6 t per cent As indian statistics of population owing tn in the reluctance to mention female children ob ildren ure are rarely in 10 excess and us as bengal proper lei ia the most rapidly advancing province pro vinoa we may assume one halt half per cent per an num to bo be well under the general rate of i tease that does dees not seem mach I 1 nt at it means an addition of one million a year to the population of british in die dia every period of teo tell years pro pra santa bents her majesty with a now cow no cation of indian subjects ton ten million strong or double the whole population of ireland this happens to in a country where there is little wild land and noun owned land where outside of Ita bengal migal the sell boil la is becoming slightly exhausted ond and where u clear two thirds of the people depend upon the produce of there is so BO far an ad we w know no ren remedy sedy unless tho the brahmins Brah Bra mins limina wake up tip to the its danger aud and abolish all restrictions on emigration they cando it for Ilind la i n its prime occupied java abut but it Is ia oily to deny dany that the increase of population tiou in india conal tates gates a most formidable problem in the future of at that country we must mast aad a id that we believe it will be found when nheu the whole census is published that we have understated the increase which bits baa occurred occa during a decatte decade lly marked blinked by famine |