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 Population ojf Cj.s,,a.-ia. i79933 i779933 Lord Mccartney lMsI carried to Europe the report gwen Alm by a Chinese officer, that ohlna contained three hundred and tnlrt}-three millions, !" of mouths, that, of human beings. 1t was, however, thought by many that the amount thus stated originated with the pride or care lessness of the persons who presented II, and of late III Europe 1t has heep generally disbelieyed. "A foreign gen tieman oi great talent and research, in an article OH the population of the globe, in the Oriental Herald of April last, says, ssthe numerous estimates re- specting the population of China, vary from fifty millions, to the mystical num- Der ct three hundred and lIlirtY=tEree. fine great imperial Map of the Celes- tial Umpire, published in the year l790, fixes, he says, the population of China proper at l43,000,U0O of taxable per sons, to whom may be added 7,O00, ,O00, of untaxable inhabitants. They will make altogether l50,0U0,0 1000 persons.

 A few days ago, however, we stum- bled on a passage in the Ia Tsing Hwuy Teen, which was never intended fer the eye of m European, that fully estab- fishes the report given to the English Ambassador, and 1t shows moreover that his Imperial Majesty Kienlung preced- ed Mir. Malthus in his fears of the hu- man < ssMouthsn exceeding the means of subsistence; the passage may be found lon the 3oth page of tine i4ist section or book of the work above named.

 | Aien-lang remarks that in the 18th year of the reign of Kang-he, "A. D. l7le,1 soon after the conquest, which had terribly thinned the population, the number of inhabitants in China was Eonly 33,3l2, ,200; but last year, he adds, the amount made out from the returns sent in from all the provinces was 206, 467, ,20O. The Empesor wrote ia the 59th year of his reign, A. D.. T773) the year before the Lord Mccartney arrived at the Court of Peking.

 The increase is so enormous in a pc lriod of about S2 years, that some error in the figures might be supposed. How ever, the Emperor makes the remark that the increase had been about fifteen fold, which shows there was no mistake. for fifteen fold would make the amount 345, 100000. And if the statement be fcorrect, 1t shows that China has doubled Eits population every twenty years since the accession of the Ta-tsing Dynasty. If this be the fact, it seems to speak a great deal in favor of the Tartar Go lvernment of China. After the war of 1 the conquest, the work we have quoted from, says, that there were large tracts ofunoccupied land, the owners of which had been destroyed or dispersed. These lands were given as q perpetual iifliieT- .itance to any who would undertake to HcuItivate them. The government even gave cattle and irnplementsofh ofhusbandry to the poor and destitute. And subse- quently to that period every encourage Ement has been given to carry cultivation to the utmost possible extent.

 The Emperor Kien-lung said he look ed with great anxiety to the future, for the land did not increase, although the

 mouths to be fed by it's produce did.- He therefore called upon allhis numer- ous subjects to use with great economy Ethe glftsofnature. Itisstrangethat with these facts before his eyes, the Chinese Government should punish emigration las a crime.-Canton Register.