re college, the means
of providing this last are beginning to accumulate. Mr. Thomas Moore, of
Liverpool, in New South Wales, who died in 1840, has left the site of
his house in Liverpool, with ground adjoining, together with 700 acres
of land, in trust towards the establishment of a college in immediate
and exclusive connexion with the Church of England and Ireland. This
bequest, in itself insufficient for the proposed purpose, will yet serve
for a foundation to begin upon; 3,000_l._ were voted in January, 1840,
by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge to advance the same
good object, and it is expected that the fund will increase and gather
strength before the time shall have arrived when it will be thought
advisable to commence the college. A new school, attached to the Church
of England, is also about to be begun in Van Diemen's Land. It is to be
called Archdeacon Hutchins's school, being intended by its promoters for
a lasting and useful memorial of their respect for the late lamented
Archdeacon of Van Diemen's Land. In the last published account of this
undertaking, it is stated that about 850_l._ was subscribed for this
purpose, but at least 2,000_l._ will be wanted. Our noble Society for
Promoting Christian Knowledge, ever active in advancing the glorious
purpose for which it was formed, has contributed 100_l._ towards this
school, which is to be built at Hobart Town. And it may be observed,
that henceforth Van Diemen's Land will demand even more spiritual care
and assistance than the elder colony; for by recent arrangements, the
transportation of criminals to New South Wales has altogether ceased,
and Van Diemen's Land is now the only colony to which convicts are
conveyed.[220]

[220] For the particulars here stated, see the Report of the Society
for Promoting Christian Knowledge, for 1842, pp. 56-64.

A census of the population of New South Wales was taken on the 2d of
March, in the year 1841, and the general result of this is here added
for the satisfaction of the reader. In the whole colony, including its
various dependencies, but exclusive of Van Diemen's Land,[221] the
total of inhabitants was 130,856, of which number 43,558 were females,
and 87,298 males, being as nearly as possible two to one in favour of
the latter. The number of houses, mostly built of wood, was 16,776,
nearly in the proportion of eight inhabitants to each house. The return
of the various religious persuasions was as follo