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COCK—COCKBURN May to July, and from the middle of August to the end made provinces, to secure uniformity of nomenclature of of September. administrative areas. Cochin-China is represented in the The area of Cochin-China is returned at 23,160 square I rench Chamber by a deputy. Asiatic foreigners are miles, and in 1899 the inhabitants numbered 2,323,499, subjected to a declaration de sejour, and also pay a of whom 4451 were Europeans, 1601 being officials, and capitation fee. Besides French troops maintained by 1023 the members of their families. The Annamese France, there are 2405 native soldiers maintained by the number 2,054,831 ; the Cambodians, 182,659; the Mois, budget of Indo-China. 6374; the Chains, 2656; the Chinese, 65,801; the Commerce.—About one-sixth of the total area is cultiMalays, 4130. The remainder consists of Tagals, Indians, vated, the chief crop being rice. The imports of merchandise Japanese, &c. Saigon, which in 1882 numbered only in 1898 amounted to 54,964,222 francs; the exports to 13,000 inhabitants, has now a population of 44,764, and 108,010,322 francs. The chief exports in 1898 were rice, is the capital not only of Cochin-China, but also of French 772,789 tons (of which 296,845 tons were cargo rice, and Indo-China. In 1899 there were in the colony 232 286,841 tons white rice), of a total value, according to schools, with 115 European and 1183 native teachers, and the customs returns, of £3,557,525; fish, value £233,440; 28,000 pupils. The Homan Catholic population numbered cotton, £64,928; silk, £77,225; hides, isinglass, pepper, 73,234; and the Buddhists, 1,688,270. Cochin-China cardamom. Coffee culture is increasing, the number of was autonomous until 1887, when it was divided into six coffee plants in 1899 being 429,228, mostly belonging to provinces under the authority of a governor, assisted by a Europeans. Cochin - China and Cambodia now forms a Colonial Council. The prosperity of the colony grew single customs district, and the commercial statistics for rapidly, and when Tongking and Annam were conquered, both are included under one head. The total trade Cochin-China contributed 5,000,000 piastres to the Tong- for 1889 amounted to 177,238,958 francs, of which king budget. This contribution fell in 1892 to 4,000,000 66,234,008 francs represented imports and 111,004,950 francs exports. At Saigon, in 1899, 669 vessels of 811,157 tons entered; of these, 234 of 333,714 tons were French, and 435 of 477,443 tons foreign. There are 51 miles of railway, Saigon to Mytho, and 2676 miles of telegraph line, and 85 telegraph offices. There are 79 post offices. The construction of 850 miles of new railway is proposed. See also Indo-China. (j. m. A. DE L.) Cock, Edward (1805-1892), British surgeon, was born in 1805. He was a nephew of Sir Astley Cooper, and through him became at an early age a member of the staff of the Borough Hospital in London, where he worked in the dissecting room for thirteen years. Afterwards he became in 1838 assistant surgeon at Guy’s, where from 1849 to 1871 he was surgeon, and from 1871 to 1892 consulting surgeon. He rose to be president of the College of Surgeons in 1869. He was an excellent anatomist, a bold operator, and a clear and incisive writer, and though in lecturing he was afflicted with a stutter, he frequently utilized it with humorous effect and emphasis. From 1843 to 1849 he was editor of Guy's Hospital Reports, which contain many of his papers, particularly on stricture of the urethra, puncture of the bladder, injuries to the head, and hernia. He was the first English surgeon to perform pharyngotomy with success, and also B V.Darbishire & O. f.RUowarth Oxford iQOl SKETCH MAP OF COCHIN-CHINA. one of the first to succeed in trephining for middle meningeal haemorrhage; but the operation by which his piastres, and on the unification of Indo-China it ceased, name is known is that of opening the urethra through the Cochin-China furnishing, as do the other countries, its perinaeum (see Guy's Hospital Reports, 1866). He died share to the general budget. The local budget for 1900 at Kingston in 1892. wTas estimated at 4,439,500 piastres for revenue and expenditure ; for 1901 it was estimated at 4,204,244 piastres, Cockburn, Sir Alexander James revenue and expenditure. According to official accounts, Edmund, Baht. (1802-1880), Lord Chief Justice the actual receipts to August 31, 1899, amounted to of England, was born on 24th December 1802, and came 4,253,192 piastres. The local government is now ad- of ancient Scottish stock. An ancestor, Alexander de ministered by a lieutenant-governor, who has a seat on Cockburn (descended from Petrus de Cockburn of the Superior Council of Indo-China, and is assisted by a Berwickshire, a.d. 1214), was granted in 1358 the Colonial Council composed of fifteen members, of whom ■barony of Carriden, county Linlithgow, and was eight are Europeans and seven Asiatics. Four of the appointed with his heirs for ever Ostiarius Parliamenti European members are elected by universal suffrage, two (usher of the White Bod) by King David II. A subare delegated by the Chamber of Commerce, and two by sequent ancestor, Sir William Cockburn, who was created the Privy Council, which assists the governor-general. a baronet of Nova Scotia in 1627, had some difficulty Cochin-China is divided into six provinces, Saigon, Mytho, in asserting his right to this office, but ultimately sucYinh-Long, Bassac, Saigon, and Cholon; and twenty ceeded, and afterwards alienated a moiety of it, becoming districts, each having at its head an administrator of a joint usher with Colonel Cunningham. His son, Archinative affairs, who presides over all civil service not bald, however, in 1674, bought back the half-right so undertaken by the general government. The self-adminis- disposed of, and obtained a fresh grant. The fifth baronet tering municipalities of Saigon and Cholon districts used fell at Fontenoy in 1745, and his cousin, James Cockburn, to be, but by a recent decision these arrondissements were at one time M.P. for Peebles, succeeded him as sixth