AMERICAN STATISTICS.

The following details have been furnished by M. Humboldt respecting America, and are considered accurate:--

Sq. leagues Inhabitants in 1823.

United States contain 174,300 10,220,000 Mexico 75,830 6,800,000 Guatimala 16,740 1,600,000 Colombia 91,952 2,785,000 Peru 41,420 1,400,000 Chile 14,240 1,100,000 Buenos Ayres 126,770 2,300,000 Brazil 256,996 4,000,000

The island of Cuba contains 700,000 inhabitants, among whom are 250,000 slaves; Jamaica, 402,000, among whom are 312,000 slaves; Porto Rico, 225,000, of which 25,000 are slaves; Guadaloupe and its dependencies, 120,000, of which 100,000 are slaves; Martinique, 99,000, among which are 78,000 slaves.

The whole population of the two Americas and the Carribee islands is 32,912,000 souls, among whom are included 5,047,000 black slaves, 1,389,000 black freemen, 13,471,000 whites, 8,600,000 Indians, of which about 820,000 are still independent, and 6,428,000 of a mixed race.

This population is thus distributed, according to the different forms of worship:--22,486,000 Roman Catholics; 11,636,000 Protestants; and 820,000 Indians, not Christians.

The following are the proportions in which the languages prevail in the New World.

The English language is spoken by 11,647,000; the Spanish by 10,504,000; The Indian by 7,593,000; the Portuguese by 3,740,000; the French by 1,242,000; the Durch, Danish, and Swedish, by 216,000 inhabitants; making, altogether, the number of 27,349,000 speaking the European languages, and 7,593,000 the Indian.