206 INDIRECT VALUE OF NEW SETTLERS. 



the actual population, previous emigration, and yearly 

 influx into New Brunswick ? 



The actual or absolute numbers who arrive at St 

 John, therefore, are neither a test of the comparative 

 merits nor demerits of New Brunswick, in the eyes of 

 the classes from whom the emigrants are recruited at 

 home ; while, if the principle I have stated be a really 

 influential one in giving a direction to the emigration 

 movement, every new settler has an indirect value to 

 the country he goes to, and to its revenue, much beyond 

 that which directly arises from the transference of his 

 own labour and capital, and from his personal consump 

 tion of imported duty-paying articles. Every new 

 means, also, which the authorities take for the purpose 

 of promoting new settlements of persons who have 

 themselves no acquaintance in the colony, will continue 

 to operate indirectly in producing a current from home, 

 long after these means have ceased to be employed by the 

 authorities themselves. 



I have already adverted to the rapid progress which, 

 as it appeared to me, this colony, though still infantile, 

 has in reality of late years been making. My illustra 

 tion was then drawn from the internal improvements 

 which I saw had been made at various places in my 

 route. But a test of the prosperity of this province, 

 which will be more intelligible to many, may be drawn 

 from the amount of its exports and imports. 



I have stated that the recent stagnation of trade and 

 the failure of the crops was a very probable cause of the 

 diminution of the immigration, which, in ordinary cir 

 cumstances, though absolutely and seemingly small, is 

 comparatively large. 



That trade has so suffered, will appear by repeating 

 here the table of exports and imports at the single port 

 of St John, which, for the three last years, to which I 

 have access, were, in pounds currency 



