We clip the following interesting statement as to the civilisation of the natives in some districts of the Philippines from the "Manila Times" of March the 21st:
"General Bell, in command of the 3rd Brigade, has submitted ate vater port on the social conditions existing in the territory occupied by his troops, and in connection with the civilisation attained by the native inhabitants. Of the 934,800 inhabitants of his province, only one por cent of that number are civilised according to the best standa' comparison tunished by the more entighte of Europe and America. And even of this small percentage, 9,000 is considered as a high average. General Bell estimates that about 90,000 Batangas natives may be classed as civilised. In other words, only about ten per cent. There are only about 20,000 who Lave had any glimmering of a higher life, whilst there are at least 1,000 ¥ho wander about the wilds in primitive crance and restricted freedom. The sume of the report in question is as fol-fows:—Savages, 1,000, Barbarians, 20,000, Civilised, the remainder of the 934,800 with the percentage applied above, compared according to American and European civilisation, or that of Central American states.
"General Grant, reporting from Nueva Caceres, upon a total of 737,140, virtual-Ly agrees with General Bell on the te: cent estimate on the highest civ standards. He gives 393,100 semi-civilised, 600 barbarians and 76,993 savages. He classed as civilised some 405,716, stating, however, that such as occupy for living Purposes barrios and houses, may be class ied as civilised."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.