TABLE II.—Showing the Number of Persons, Males, and Females, of different Religious Denominations, living in Victoria in 1854, 1857, and 1861, and the Numerical and proportionate Increase or Diminution of each Denomination in the interval between each of those periods.

Religious Denominations.	Numbers, 1854.			Increase or Decrease from 1854 to 1857.						Numbers, 1857.			Increase or Decrease from 1857 to 1861.						Numbers, 1861.
				Numerical.			Rate per cent.						Numerical.			Rate per cent.
	Persons.	Males.	Females.	Persons.	Males.	Females.	Persons.	Males.	Females.	Persons.	Males.	Females.	Persons.	Males.	Females.	Persons.	Males.	Females.	Persons.	Males.	Females.
Church of England and Episcopalian Protestants	99,978			57,841			57.84			157,819	99,409	58,410	47,876	24,094	23,782	30.34	24.24	40.72	205,695	123,503	82,192
Free Church of England				218			Infinite			218	129	89	236	110	126	108.26	85.27	141.57	454	239	215
Protestants (not otherwise defined)	8,024			7,297			90.91			15,321	10,844	4,477	-9,402	-6,628	-2,774	-61.36	-61.14	-61.98	5,919	4,216	1,703
Presbyterian Churches :
Presbyterian Church of Victoria													5,052	2,732	2,320	Infinite	Infinite	Infinite	5,052	2,732	2,320
Church of Scotland	16,924			10,904			64.44			27,828	17,347	10,481	9,089	4,669	4,420	32.67	26.91	42.18	36,917	22,016	14,901
Free Church of Scotland and Free Presbyterians	12,033			7,308			60.74			19,341	11,337	8,004	1,878	785	1,093	9.70	6.92	13.66	21,219	12,122	9,097
United Presbyterians Church	2,841			6,474			227.88			9,315	5,499	3,816	7,419	4,107	3,312	79.61	74.69	86.79	16,734	9,606	7,128
Other Presbyterian Churches*	276			-23			-8.33			253	154	99	93	76	17	36.75	49.35	17.17	346	230	116
Presbyterians (not otherwise defined)	10,243			-1,800			-17.57			8,443	5,568	2,875	-1,608	-1,290	-318	-19.04	-23.17	-11.06	6,835	4,278	2,557
Wesleyan Methodists :
Wesleyans, Wesleyan Methodists, and Methodists	13,989			10,751			76.84			24,740	14,399	10,341	16,059	8,002	8,057	64.91	55.58	77.92	40,799	22,401	18,898
Primitive Methodists	738			1,306			176.96			2,044	1,237	807	1,731	891	840	84.67	72.03	104.09	3,775	2,128	1,647
Wesleyan Methodist Association	557			647			116.16			791	431	360	355	144	211	44.88	33.41	58.61	1,146	575	571
Bible Christians										268	133	130	383	215	168	142.90	155.75	129.22	651	353	298
Other Wesleyan Methodists*										145	81	64	-5	19	-24	-3.45	23.46	-37.51	140	100	40
Independents or Congregationalists	7,709			3,023			39.22			10,732	6,253	4,479	2,045	816	1,229	19.06	13.05	27.44	12,777	7,069	5,708
Baptists	4,727			1,685			35.64			6,412	3,688	2,724	2,589	1,301	1,288	40.35	35.28	47.28	9,001	4,989	4,012
Lutherans and German Protestants	3,014			3,474			115.25			6,488	5,165	1,323	3,555	2,455	1,100	54.79	47.53	83.14	10,043	7,620	2,423
Unitarians	1,180			282			23.89			1,462	1,031	431	-32	-42	10	-2.19	-4.07	2.32	1,430	989	441
Society of Friends	221			104			47.06			325	238	87	-52	-46	-6	-16.00	-19.33	-6.90	273	192	81
Calvinists and Calvinistic Methodists	1,383			389			28.13			468	334	134	182	158	24	38.88	47.30	17.92	650	492	158
Other Persuasions*										1,304	931	373	-47	-139	92	-3.60	-14.93	24.66	1,257	792	465
Roman Catholics	40,711			29,441			72.31			70,152	38,781	31,371	37,458	19,666	17,792	53.38	50.71	56.71	107,610	58,447	49,163
Catholics (not otherwise defined)	4,400			1,948			44.27			6,348	3,774	2,574	-4,129	-2,489	-1,640	-65.04	-65.95	-63.71	2,219	1,285	934
Greek Church	65			62			95.38			127	124	3	112	102	10	88.18	82.26	333.33	239	226	13