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two training-schools have been established, under com 

 petent masters. The sums voted for the support of these 

 common schools, during the years 1847 and 1848, have 

 been 12,250 and 13,882 respectively. 



Under the direction of the present energetic attorney 

 and solicitor generals, a consolidation and simplification 

 of the law also is in process of being effected. In 1849, 

 an act was passed, by which the criminal law was 

 methodised and consolidated ; and, in 1850, a similar one 

 was introduced for the same purpose in reference to the 

 civil law. 



On the whole, I think the reader will be satisfied that 

 more progress is making in the province of New Bruns 

 wick than is generally supposed ; and that the province 

 is in many respects more valuable than, in this country, 

 it has often been considered to be. 



In the province itself, it struck me as very remarkable, 

 that while, among their republican neighbours, all the 

 geese were swans, the provincials were constantly main 

 taining their own swans to be only geese. Everything 

 was wrong in the eyes of many I met, and everything 

 among themselves inferior ; although, in almost every 

 particular, when a close examination was made, their 

 own superiority was manifest. They present one of the 

 rare examples a traveller over the world meets with of 

 people to whom the remarks of Sir John Mandeville, 

 which I have prefixed as a motto to this book, do not 

 strictly apply. 



