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D E W S B U R Y —D HULEEP SINGH Spain, and ordered to “capture or destroy the Spanish Government canals; the number of police was 945; the fleet ” at the Philippines, he departed for Manila with his children at school in 1897-98 numbered 34,298, being 3-4 squadron, after procuring coal and provisions for the ex- per cent, of the total population; the death-rate in 1897 pedition. Steaming into Manila harbour, his fleet was 37'57 per thousand. The principal crops are millets, advanced on 1st May at early dawn against the Spanish pulse, and cotton. The centres of the cotton trade are vessels sighted at the other end of the bay. His flagship, Hubli and Gadak, junctions on the Southern Mahratta Railthe Olympia, led in a fight at close range which lasted, way, which now traverses the district in several directions. with slight intermission, until the afternoon, when the Dholpur, a native state of India, in the Rajputana last Spanish flag was hauled down. The surrender of the city of Manila followed later. After remaining in agency, with an area of 1156 square miles. The population in 1881 was 249,657; in 1891 it was 279,980, giving the Philippines under orders from his Government to main tain control, Dewey returned home, October 1899, receiving an average density of 242 persons per square mile. In great ovations. He was advanced to rear-admiral, with the 1901 the population was 271,496, showing a decrease of thanks of Congress, soon after his victory, and was pro- 3 per cent. The estimated revenue is Rs. 12,50,000. There were six schools, with 366 pupils, in 1897-98; and four moted to admiral on 2nd March 1899. dispensaries, attended by 25,843 patients. The state is D©WSbury, a municipal and parliamentary borough crossed by the Indian Midland Railway from Jhansi to and market-town of Yorkshire, England, on the Calder, 7 Agra. In recent years it has suffered severely from miles east-north-east of Huddersfield by rail. The old church drought. In 1896-97 the expenditure on famine relief of All Saints has been enlarged; besides, there are five amounted to Rs.1,22,859. Established, a Roman Catholic, and several Nonconformist The town of Dholpur is 34 miles south of Agra by churches, grammar and technical schools, an infirmary, and, rail. Population, about 16,000. of recent erection, a town-hall, a free library, and public Dhrangadra, a native state of India, in the baths. The hall and library in the buildings of an Gujarat of Bombay, situated in the north of the industrial co-operative society also deserve mention. A peninsuladivision of Kathiawar. Its area is 1156 square miles. public park was opened in 1893. There are iron foundries The population in 1881 was 99,686, and in 1891 was and works for machinery. Area of municipal borough, 1468 103,754; the estimated gross revenue is Rs.5,75,110, of acres. Population (1881), 29,637; (1901), 28,050. which Rs.25,790 was expended on public works in 1897Dhar, a native state of India, in the Bhopawar 98; the tribute is Rs.44,677. A railway on the metre agency, Central India, includes many Rajput and Bhil gauge from Wadhwan to the town of Dhrangadra (21 miles) feudatories, and has an area of 1740 square miles. In was opened for traffic in 1898. The town of Dhrangadra is situated in 22° 59' N. lat. 1881 it had a population of 151,877, and in 1891 of 169,474, showing an average density of 98 persons per and 71° 31' E. long. There is a printing-press, issuing an square mile. The revenue in 1897-98 was Rs.8,57,909; official gazette. Population (1891), 15,209. the police force numbered 1015 men. The state includes Dhuleep Singh (1837-1893), Maharajah of the ruins of Mandu, or Mandogarh, the Mahommedan Lahore, was born in February 1837, and was proclaimed capital of Malwa. Maharajah on 18th September 1843, under the regency of The town of Dhar is 33 miles west of Mhow, 908 feet his mother the Ranee Jinda, a woman of great capacity above the sea. Population, about 15,000. It is a centre and strong will, but extremely inimical to the British. of the opium trade, and has a high school and hospital. He was acknowledged by Runjeet Singh and recognized by Dharampur, a native state of India, in the the British Government. After six years of peace the Gujarat division of Bombay, with an area of 794 square Sikhs invaded British territory in 1845, but were defeated miles. The population in 1881 was 101,289; in 1891 in four battles, and terms were imposed upon them at it was 120,498; the estimated gross revenue was Lahore, the capital of the Punjab. Dhuleep Singh Rs.4,12,712, of which Rs.88,000 was expended in public retained his territory, but it was administered to a great works in 1897-98; the tribute is Rs.9000. The state extent by the British Government in his name. This has been surveyed for land revenue on the Bombay system. arrangement increased the Regent’s dislike of the British, The number of police was 170 ; the number of schools was and a fresh outbreak occurred in 1848-49. In spite of the 20, with 940 pupils in 1897—98. The population of valour of the Sikhs, they were utterly routed at Gujarat, and in March 1849 Dhuleep Singh was deposed, a Dharampur town in 1891 was 4775. pension of £40,000 a year being granted to him and his Dharwar, a town and district of British India, in dependants. He became a Christian and elected to live in the Carnatic or Canarese-speaking division of Bombay, England. On coming of age he made an arrangement with a railway station. The population in 1881 was with the Government by which his income was reduced to 27,191; in 1891 it was 32,841. It has two ginning £25,000 in consideration of advances for the purchase of factories and a cotton-mill with 10,000 spindles, employing an estate, and he finally settled at Elvedon in Suffolk. 200 hands; two high schools, one maintained by the While passing through Alexandria in 1864 he met Miss Government and the other by the Basel German Mission, Bamba Muller, the daughter of a German merchant who with 466 pupils in 1896-97; training schools for masters married an Abyssinian. The Maharajah had been and for mistresses; fourteen printing-presses, eleven of interested in mission work by Sir John Login, and he met which issue periodicals in Canarese and Mahratti. Miss Muller at one of the missionary schools where she The district of Dharwar has an area of 4603 square was teaching. She became his wife on 7th June 1864, miles. In 1881 it had a population of 893,587, and in and six children were the issue of the marriage. In the 1891 of 1,051,314, giving an average density of 228 year after her death in 1890 the Maharajah married at persons per square mile. In 1901 the population was Paris, as his second wife, an English lady, Miss Ada 1,113,426, showing an increase of 6 per cent. The land Douglas Wetherill, who survived him. The Maharajah revenue and rates were Rs.33,01,157, the incidence of was passionately fond of sport, and his shooting parties assessment being R. 1-3-5 per acre; the cultivated area were celebrated, while he himself became a persona grata in 1897-98 was 2,076,808 acres, of which 94,323 were in English society. The result, however, was financial irrigated from tanks, &c., including 4381 acres from difficulty, and in 1882 he appealed to the Government for