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 D E P T F O R D —D E R B Y ability assured him a long lease of power, but his influence there are manufactures of scarves and inlaid wood-work. Here is the tomb of Sir Henry Durand, Lieutenantupon Italian public life has been permanently deleterious. Governor of the Punjab. (h. w. s.) The district of Dera Ismail Khan contains an area of Deptford, a town of England, in the county of 9440 square miles. The population in 1891 was 486,201, London, partly in Kent and partly in Surrey, at the junction of the Ravensbourne with the Thames, 3^ miles east being 52 persons per square mile—much the lowest density of London Bridge, 5 miles from Charing Cross by rail. in the province. Since 1881 the increase had been at the The parish of Deptford St Paul has been formed into the rate of 10 per cent. According to religion, Mahommedans new metropolitan borough of Deptford. There are two numbered 420,189 ; Hindus, 62,961 ; Sikhs, 2840;. open spaces, namely, Deptford Park, consisting of the site Christians, 204, including 108 Europeans ; “ others,” 7. of the gardens of old Sayes Court (11 acres), and Tele- In 1901 the population was 527,705, showing a further graph Hill (9J acres). The Trinity House was founded increase of 9 per cent. The total amount of land revenue at Deptford, and the old hall was pulled down in 1787. and rates was returned as Rs.6,02,437, the incidence of A new building was erected, which was used by the cor- assessment being about 1| annas per assessed acre, but poration until the Trinity House on Tower Hill was nearly 15 annas per cultivated acre; the number of police ready for occupation, and occasionally for many years was 627. In 1896-97, out of a total cultivated area of afterwards. The population of Deptford St Nicholas (now 588,413 acres, 159,849 were irrigated from private canalsincluded in the metropolitan borough of Greenwich) was and wells. Wheat and wool are exported. There are (1881), 7901 ; (1896), 7722; of Deptford St Paul (1881), manufactures of cotton cloth. The North-Western Railway runs through the CisTndus portion of the district for 76,752; (1901), 110,513. 93 miles. In the other portion there are 108 miles of Dera Ghazi Khan, a town and district of British metalled roads for military purposes. The Indus is. India, in the Derajat division of the Punjab. In 1881 the navigable by native boats throughout its course of 120 town had a population of 22,309, and in 1891 of 27,886; miles within the district. Education is making fair prothe municipal income in 1897-98 was Rs.1,57,532. There gress, particularly in the English-teaching schools at the are several handsome mosques in the native quarter. The towns. In 1896-97 there were altogether 441 schools, cantonment accommodates one cavalry and two infantry attended by 7714 boys. The proportion of boys at recogregiments of the Punjab Frontier Force. There is an nized schools was 13‘5 per cent, of those of school-going efficient high school. age. The death-rate in 1897 was 50 per thousand; thfr The district of Dera Ghazi Khan contains an area of rainfall in 1897 was 9‘77 inches. 5606 square miles. The population in 1891 was 404,031, Deraj at, the name of a division or commissionerbeing 7 2 persons per square mile, an increase since ship of British India, in the west of the Punjab, consisting 1881 of 11 per cent. Classified according to religion, Mahommedans numbered 349,587, largely Baluchis ; of the four districts of Dera Ismail Khan, Dera Ghazi Hindus, 52,903; Sikhs, 1424; Christians, 117, of whom 73 Khan, Bannu, and Muzaffargarh, the last having been were Europeans. In 1901 the population was 445,163, recently transferred to it. It contains a total area of showing a further increase of 10 per cent. The total 22,315 square miles, and a population (1891) of 1,643,703, amount of land revenue and rates was returned as being 7 4 persons per square mile. Rs.6,83,807, the incidence of assessment being 3 annas Derbent. See Daghestan. per acre; the number of police was 514. In 1896-97, Derby, the county town and a municipal (extended out of a total cultivated area of 443,749 acres, 230,074 1877), parliamentary, and county borough of Derbyshire, were irrigated, mostly from Government canals and wells. England, on the Derwent, 15f miles west by south of The exports are wheat and indigo. The only manufactures are for domestic use. There is no railway in the district, Nottingham, and 127 miles north-west by north of London.. and only 25 miles of metalled road. The Indus, which is It is the central station of the Midland Railway system. nowhere bridged, is navigable by native boats throughout The enlarged parliamentary borough was in 1885 identiits course of 239 miles. Education is making some pro- fied with the municipal borough, which was created a, gress. There are three Mahommedan institutions and one county borough in 1888, and is governed by a mayor, 16 Hindu for religious instruction. In 1896-97 there were aldermen, and 48 councillors. In 1898 the civil parishes altogether 233 schools, with 5784 pupils, the proportion of within the borough were constituted one parish, though still boys at school to those of school-going age being 11’9 per ecclesiastically distinct. The water-works of the town, cent. The registered death-rate in 1897 was 36 per costing over £350,000, became in 1880 the property of the corporation. Electric works, lighting the principal thousand; the rainfall in 1897 was SHI inches. streets, were erected in 1893. There are 17 churches, 2 Dera Ismail Khan, a town and district of Roman Catholic churches, and over 30 dissenting chapels. British India, in the Deraj at division of the Punjab. The Derby school was in 1879 reconstituted as a first grade town is situated near the right bank of the Indus, here school. Among recent erections are a free library and crossed by a bridge of boats during half the year. In 1881 museum, an art gallery, a mechanics’ institute, a Midland it had a population of 22,164, and in 1891 of 26,884; Railway institute, a grand theatre, an infirmary, and an the municipal income in 1897-98 was Rs.54,889. It takes infectious hospital. The Midland Railway storehouses, its name from Ismail Khan, a Beluchi chief who settled workshops, and engine and carriage factory employ altohere towards the end of the 15th century, and whose gether over 10,000 men. In Little Chester are chemical descendants ruled for 300 years. The old town was swept and steam boiler works. In 1891 there were 3375 away by a flood in 1823, and the present town stands 4 engaged in iron and steel manufactures, 1031 in the miles back from the permanent channel of the river. The manufacture of silk, 963 in the making of carriages, and native quarters are well laid out, with a large bazaar for 290 in the manufacture of china and porcelain. There Afghan traders. It is the residence of many Mahommedan are two daily newspapers. Area, 3450 acres. Populagentry. The cantonment accommodates a force of all arms. tion (1881), 81,168; (1891), 94,146; (1901), 105,785. There are several efficient schools, one missionary. A Derby| a city of New Haven county, Connecticut, vernacular newspaper is issued. There is considerable through trade with Afghanistan by the Gomal Pass, and U.S.A., on the eastern bank of the Housatonic, at the420