

1852.] 



EDITORIAL. 



73 



€\)t CiinaMim Sntirnnl. 



TORONTO, NOVEMBER, 1852. 



The Cauadian Institute has just completed its first year of 

 existence under the Royal Charter of Incorporation, which w;is 

 granted hi November of last year. It was not until the begin- 

 ning of April, 1852, that the officers required by the Charter for 

 the government of the Institute entered upon their duties. 



Thus tar its pecuniary resources have been limited to the 

 annual subscriptions of its members, and its hope of future use- 

 fulness and success in the great work of collecting and diffusing 

 useful information, to the zeal of a few whose confidence in the 

 possibility of organizing a powerful scientific and literary society 

 with ramifications throughout the country, has been sufficiently 

 warm and vigorous to infuse into them that ardour which almost 

 invariably commands success. 



We shall not anticipate the report of the Council to be laid 

 before the Institute on Saturday, Dec. 11th; it is our grateful 

 privilege, however, to announce that one oppressing difficulty 

 towai'ds the extension of the Canadian Institute has been most 

 happily removed. 



The Provincial Parliament has generously responded to the 

 petition of the Institute for pecuniary encouragement, and by 

 voting Two Hundred and Fifty Pounds for the purposes of the 

 Institute, gives to it the means of developing its latent resources 

 and enables it to call at once into vigorous and united action, a 

 large amount of native wealth and native power in science and 

 literature, which languish only for the want of opportunity to 

 biing them to the light, and direction to indicate the couree they 

 ^ should pursue. 



"We have also much pleasure in announcing that the future 

 meetings of the Canadian Institute will be held in the Hall of 

 Assembly, Parliament Buildings, Toronto. That magnificent 

 apartment, together with three adjoining rooms, having been 

 kindly placed at the disposal of the Institute by the Commis- 

 sioners of Pubhc Works. Subjoined is the reply to the application 

 of Capt. Lefroy, R. A., F. R. S., on the pai-t of the Institute:— 



Public Works, 

 Sir, — Quebec, 11th Nov., 1852. 



I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of youi- letter of the 

 10th insfcmt, applying, on the part of the " Canadian Institute," 

 for permission to occupy the Chamber in the Parhament Build- 

 ings at Toronto, together with some other rooms, and in reply, I 

 have to inform you that the Commissionere are willing to grant 

 you the use of the Hall of Assembl}-, with the three rooms 

 adjoining it, to be occupied by the " Canadian Institute," so long 

 as it may not be required by the Go^•ernment; and upon condH 

 tion that the former shall make an ari'angement with the Insur- 

 ance Company relative to any additional risk. The Institute will 

 also be required to arrange with Mi-s. McElderry, the Keeper of 



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the building, as to the times when they will use the building, in 

 order that they maj' not meet with any difficulty as to access, &c. 

 I have the honour to be. Sir, 



Your obedient Servant, 

 THOMAS BEGLY, 

 Captain Lefroy, R. A. Secretary. 



The second session of the Canadian Institute will commence 

 most auspiciously, and if fi'om the present we may draw conclu- 

 sions respecting the future, this new proof which we have just 

 recorded, of the desire of the Prowncial Government to advance 

 the interests of Science, Literature and Art in the Canadas, coupled 

 with the willing courtesy of the Commissioners of Public Works, 

 will unquestionably awaken both far and neai' a spirit of enquiry, 

 annually producing useful and interesting results, if not — as we 

 would hope — results of moment to the jjeople of British America. 



The Treasures of our Forests. 



The products of the forest embrace the most important items 

 of Canadian exports, and from their bulky nature secure to us 

 a greater amount of intereoui'se with Great Britain than all other 

 articles of export or import collectively. 



The relation which the products of the forest bear to other 

 productions, in a commercial point of view, is represented below 

 for the years 1849, 1860, and 1851 :— 



1849. 



Value of the products of the forest exjiorted. £1,32*7,537 



" of all other productions 1,000,027 



Balance in favour of the products of the forest £327,510 



Value of the products of the forest exported to Great 



Britain, not including ships built at Quebec £1,009,669 



Value of all other productions exported to Great 



Britain 338,755 



Balance in favour of productions of the forest 



exported to Great Britain £670,914 



1850. 



Value of the products of the forest exported £1,360,734 



" of all other productions 1,309,264 



Balance in favour of products of the forest £51,470 



Value of the products of the forest exported to Great 



Britain, not including ships built at Quebec £971,375 



Value of all other productions expoi-ted 229,474 



Balance in favour of products of the forest exported 



to Great Britain £741,901 



1851. 



Value of the products of the forest exported £1,509,545 



" of all other- productions 1,315,085 



Balance in favour of products of the forest £184,460 



Value of the products of the forest exported to Great 



Britain, not including ships built at Quebec. . £1,180,000 

 Value of all other productions exported 325,350 



Balance in favour of products of the forest exported 



to Great Britain £854,658 



