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three troops of provincial cavalry, and one pro- vincial coloured company, both of which were reduced 1,850. On the 1st October, 1854, the force was reduced to 1,882 soldiers. With Sir respect to the militia little can be said. E. Head has taken great pains to get a legis- lative enactment passed on the subject (sce abstract thereof), and an effective force is in course of formation.

With the exception of California and Australia there is perhaps no part of the world known to modern history where a greater increase has taken place than in the population of Canada.

In the Lower Province the increase has not been so rapid, owing to the tide of emigration flowing westward, but nevertheless the increase there in the last 25 years has been 90 per cent.: the population in 1829 having been 500,000, and in 1854 1,048,000. In Upper Canada the popula- tion, which in 1811 was 77,000, reached 952,000 in 1851 exhibiting an increase in 40 years of eleven hundred per cent. The population of the United Province is now 2,250,000.

This country continues to pay a charge for Indians, which was incurred many years ago for war services. It is being gradually reduced, and now amounts to only £7,010, it will soon be altogether extinguished.

We contribute also to the support of certain bishops and clergy in this province, in pursuance of an old pledge; but this charge too is in process of extinction as lives fall in. For the year ending March, 1856, the vote was £7,397.

TABLE A.

Extracted from Blue Book for 1954.

A. B.

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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Population.

Revenue.

Expenditure.

Imports.

Exports.

2,250,000

a. d. £ 1,590,635 7 6

黑 s. d. 1,737,186 4 1

£ 1. d.

£

I

d

9,119,098 ± 1 | 5,179,917 15 8

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B

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CANADA.

The total debt of Canada, including the public guarantee lent to railways, and municipal debts, is estimated by a Committee of the House of Assembly at £9,650,506; and this debt, it .should be observed, has been chiefly incurred for

public improvements.

TABLE B.

Value of Imports and Exports.

Year.

Imports.

Exports.

£

2.

d.

1847

1848

2,966,870 15 0 2,629,584 17 11

£ 2,209,054 3

3.

d.

8

1

2,302,830 17

1849

2,468,180 6 9

2,198,078 0

1850

3,489,466 3 5

2,437,886 1

1851

4,404,409 0

1852

4,168,457

2

8 8

2,663,983 14

2,888,213 19

1858

6,571,527 19 9

4,528,060 19

6 3 2 4

3 1

TABLE C.

Revenue and Expenditure.

Year.

Revenue.

Expenditure.

£

I. d.

£ .. d.

1847

416,669 18

4

876,456 6 4

1848

812,037

6

0

889,992 14 11

1849

421,998 4 0

870,618 15

2

1850

578,822 11

8

1851

692,206 4 9

1832

723,724 7

4

8 487,812 11

8 521,648 11 585,171 6 7

1853

982,834 10

2

611,667 16 5

TABLE D.

Canal Tolls.

Year.

Gross.

Not

£ ⚫. d.

£

.. d.

1847

41,204

4 5

28,830 12

0

1848

88,214

1

8

14,828 18 4

1849

46,193

5

0

88,217 14 O

1850

68,335 6

2

88,607 4 7

1851

65,122 6

8

48,975 14 0

1852

1858

71,684 18 4 1 82,880 6

48,777 9

8

60,811 19 10