RELIGION, &c. 329 them; a ministry should recollect that if they want to sit firm, it must be by upholding the immense domestic and colonial industry of England, which seems now abandoned for fallacious doctrines of free trade with France and other countries, while maxims, that if carried into operation, would speedily ruin a private mercantile establishment, are absurdly supposed to be the surest guides for promoting and securing the business and welfare of a commercial empire. RELIGION, EDUCATION AND THE PRESS.-There has usually existed a very commendable harmony of religious feeling between the different persuasions,-the Wesleyans, Roman Catholics, Congregationists, and Dissenters generally, being more numerous than the Episcopalian Church, over which there is an archdeacon; the Romish Church has a bishop. Since the introduction of a local legislature, the clergy unhappily have taken an active part in the elections, by which course they have distracted the community; but it is to be hoped the excitement will gradually subside, and things will assume their former tone. 99.66 As regards the Press, there are no less than five newspapers published at St. John's weekly, namely, the "Royal Gazette," "Public Ledger," (twice a week,)" Newfoundlander," Times," and "Patriot;" their politics are various, but the latter is most distinguished by the peculiarity of its character, which is furiously radical, and at variance with the sentiments of a vast majority of the population, though edited with much industry and some talent. At Harbour Grace they publish the "Conception Bay Mercury," and at Carbonear the "Star," also weekly, both respectable journals. Of late years, the taste for literature has greatly increased, and it is but due to Principal Stations, with their Portugal Cove .... Torbay Trinity Ship Cove North Side... Cuckold's Cove.... Old Bonaventure. Upper Island Cove St. John's Central School...... 1824 1248 121 1825 90 102 River Head or Southside 1828 155 24 117 50 1828 180 73 100 56 ... 193 1825 247 101 60 1828 71 1829 64 Day Schools. Schools. Schools. Total...... Established in Total 1825 451 129 Sunday Adult Indivi duals. Total ... ... 30 ... 71 56 64 53 412 123 77 1829 151 1830 151 1829 266 132 335 135 109 1831 120 58 152 71 63 1832 1825 187 58 50 65 126 73 1828 1829 207 90 198 106 1829 102 52 112 54 1830 56 46 137 40 41 40 37 222 Branch Schools. 1830 40 1828 186 130 220 135 1829 20 ... 1829 45 32 47 32 29 29 ... 98 1832 85 11 ... Total ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ admitted. 221 5335 1733 3540 1529 1072 154 6560 2312 VALUE OF PROPERTY. NATURE and VALUE of PROPERTY annually created in Newfoundland', and if not consumed, converted into Moveable or Immoveable Property:Animal food for 80,000 mouths, at 200 lbs. each per annum, at 4d. per pound Fish for 80,000 mouths, at 150 lbs. each per annum, ...... at 1d. per pound..... Bread and other vegetables for 80,000 mouths, at Butter, milk, cheese, and eggs, for 80,000 mouths, &c. for 80,000 mouths, at 3d. each per day... Food for horses, cows, &c. 40,000, at 17. each Clothes and furniture worn out, for 80,000 mouths, at 11. each .... Domestic produce Income from business, or profits on professions .... ...... .... 331 £266,666 50,000 365,000 .... 120,166 80,000 500,000 100,000 10,000 £1,896,832 365,000 40,000 Total annual production of property VALUE OF MOVEABLE PROPERTY. Horses, 1,000, at 107. each Horned Cattle, 10,000, at 51. each. Sheep, 10,000, at 17. each Swine, 20,000, at 17. each House furniture, &c. 15,000 houses, at 107. each.. Bullion and Coin Ships, boats, timber, and other merchandise Total moveable property 1 The statistics of the island are so vague, that a very imperfect estimate can only be made of property; an estimate is however given for the purpose of promoting further inquiry. £10,000 50,000 10,000 20,000 2,000 150,000 400,000 20,000 60,000 200,000 £922,000 VALUE OF IMMOVEABLE PROPERTY. Houses, 15,000, at 10%. each Warehouses, mills, &c. .... per acre Roads, canals, dykes, bridges, wharfs, &c. Total immoveable property.. Total moveable and immoveable ... ..... £150,000 100,000 500,000 200,000 250,000 50,000 300,000 1,000,000 £2,550,000 .£5,368,832 SOCIAL STATE.-On this head there are not many remarks necessary, even did space permit; the inhabitants are principally divided into fishermen, traders, and merchants: the population is of a shifting nature; but under the fostering care of a local legislature will probably become more stationary. Agriculture is extending annually, and in general it has rewarded the toil and labour of the careful and industrious husbandman. The land might be made extensively useful in grazing farms; and as potatoes can be raised with much facility, hogs may be fed with success after the country is more opened and cleared.-It has been suggested the new government house, erected at an enormous expense, and quite disproportioned to the salary of the governor, might readily be converted into apartments for the legislative council and assembly to hold their sessions. At St. John's they have a Commercial Society, out of which a Chamber 7 333 of Commerce is chosen annually, to watch over and promote the trade and fisheries. There is a branch of the Bank of British North America now open at St. John's. The capital has a Benevolent Irish Society, and two Benefit Societies, under the denomination of the "Association of Fishermen and Shoremen," and a "Mechanics' Institution." There is also a Benevolent Irish Society in Conception Bay. SOCIAL STATE. |
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