REVENUE, ARMY, AND POPULATION.

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Revenue, Army, and Population.

The revenue and expenditure of the federative government was as follows, according to official returns, in the three financial terms 18(54-67 : —

Years

Revenue

Expenditure

1864-65 1865-66 1866-67

Pesos 2,200,000 2,715,128 2,350,000

£

440,000 543,025 470,000

Pesos 2,700,000 2,020,000 2,351,000

£ 540,000 404,000 470,200

The public debt was reported to amount to 49,646,000 pesos, or 9,929,200/., in 1867, three-fourths of which sum was due to British creditors, who hold as security on mortgage the chief source of revenue of the Kepublic, that derived from the customs. In the year 1867, the customs produced 205,510/., while in the year 1866 the receipts amounted to 250,242/.

The federal army, by the terms of the constitution, is to number 2,000 men on the peace-footing. In case of war, each of the states is bound to furnish a contingent of one per cent, of the population.

The area of the Republic is estimated to embrace 432,400 English square miles, on which lived in 1864, according to a rough enumera- tion then made, 2,794,473 inhabitants of European descent, besides an aboriginal, or Indian population, estimated at 170,000. The white, or European-descended population, was divided as follows between the nine states of the confederacy : —

States

Population of state

Chief town

Population of chief town

Panama Santander . Cauca Boyaca

Cundinamarca . Antioquia . Tolima Bolivar Magdalema

Total

173,729 496,000 437,102 442,996 391,096 327,322 250,938 175,006 100,284

Panama

Pamplona

Popayan

Tunja

Bogota

Antioquia

Purificacior

Carthagena

Santa Mart

aa

18,000 3,200

20,000 8,000

46,000

20,000 500

25,000 2,000

2,794,473

The most important of the nine states of Colombia, the State ot Panama, comprises the whole isthmus of that name, known histori-

cally as the Isthmus of Darien. The extreme length of the state