CHAPTEB XXL 



General remarks on the province of New Brunswick. Want of frank 

 ness in the people. Official staff in the province. Provincial 

 salaries. Ultra-liberal speech. Tendency to discontent. Respoii i 

 sible government. Accepting inferior offices. Society at the &quot;Little 

 Court &quot; of Fredericton. Cathedral and College. Relative numbers of 

 the religious sects in the province. Position of the English Episco 

 pal church. Tractarian element. State of the University.- Alleged 

 grievances. Merit of its founders. Necessity for positive and 

 material instruction. Resources of the Province. Quality and 

 quantity of its several soils. Quantity of food, estimated in oats 

 and hay, which the several soils and the whole province is capable 

 of producing. Population it is able to sustain. Relation of the 

 supply of fossil fuel to the possible population of a country. How 

 it affects New Brunswick. Importance of early determining the 

 extent and position of available fossil fuel. Average produce of 

 different crops in the whole province. Compared with Great 

 Britain and Ireland. Compared with New York, Ohio, Canada West 

 and Michigan. Climate does not lessen the productive capability of 

 the Province. Effect of the winter s frost. Length of the agricul 

 tural year. Average prices of grain in the province. Compared 

 with Canada West and Ohio. Will it pay to farm in these provinces 

 by the aid of hired labour ! Opinions of the best practical men. 

 Who ought to emigrate to this province. People who may go out. 

 Procedure of parties with different amounts of capital. Not the 

 country for large landholders. Grants of land on condition of 

 making the roads. How bodies of emigrants might be located. 

 Amount of immigration to New Brunswick. How people are 

 induced to emigrate. Letters from relatives. Transmission of 

 moneys by Irish emigrants. Proportional emigration to Canada, New 

 Brunswick, and New York. Indirect value of settlers to a new 

 country. Commercial depression. Exports and Imports of the port 

 of St John, compared with those of all Maine, Vermont, and New 

 Hampshire united. Patriotic feelings of the members of the Provin- 



