POPULATION OF AMERICA.

The Journal des Debats of Saturday last contains an interesting statistical statement, furnished by the celebrated M. de Humboldt to Mr. Coquerel, a Clergyman at Amsterdam, respecting the population of America, and the numerical amount of the Catholics, compared with that of the Protestants.

Total Population of America is stated at 34,284,000.

1. Roman Catholics 22,177,000 Thus divided--Spanish America 15,985,000 Whites 2,937,000.

Indians 7,530,000.

Mixed race and Negroes 5,518,000. 15,985,000.

Portuguese America 4,000,000 Whites 920,000.

Negroes 1,960,000.

Mixed races and Indians 1,120,000. 4,000,000.

United States, Lower Canada, andFrench Guyana 536,000 Haiti, Porto Rico, and the Antilles 1,656,000. 22,177,000. 2. Protestants 11,287,000 In the United States 9,990,000 Canada, Nova Scotia, and Labrador 260,000.

Guyana, English and Dutch 220,000.

The Antilles, English 734,500.

The Antilles, Dutch and Danish 82,500 11,887,000 3. Indians, not Christians 820,000.

Total Population 34,284,000.

The Protestant population is increasing much more rapidly than the Catholic population. M. de Humboldt makes again the following ingenious calculation as the result of his researches.

Whites 13,162,000, equal to 38 in 100 Indians 8,610,000 .. 25 .. Negroes 6,223,000 .. 18 .. Mixed Race 6,289,000 .. 19 .. 34,284,000

The Black population is composed of 1,440,000 Free Blacks, and of 5,079,000 slaves.

The different languages spoken are as follows:--

The English Language by 11,297,500 individuals.

Spanish 10,174,000 Indian 7,800,000 Portuguese 3,740,000 French 1,058,000 Dutch, Danish, Swedish, & Russian 214,500 34,284,000

This statement is given as the fruit of investigations made to the end of last year.