The College of New-Brunswick is established at Fredericton and endowed with a block of land containing nearly six thousand acres adjoining the town plot.
The Governor and Trustees of this College having surrendered their charter to the King, and petitioned to have the Establishment put on a more enlarged footing; their petition was graciously received and a new charter granted, bearing date the eighteenth of November, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three. A grant of a sum of money was at the same time made to the College out of the royal revenues in this Province, to enable the Corporation to erect a suitable building for the President, Professors and Students; and to procure a Library, and Philosophical apparatus for the same. The Legislature of the Province has likewise granted a liberal sum for the same purpose; in consequence of which a building on a liberal scale is to be immediately erected on a conspicuous part of the rising ground adjoining the town.
The most general seminary for the education of the bulk of the population is the Madras School. The Lieutenant-Governor and a number of the first characters in the Province, have the management of this seminary, which is incorporated by the name of "The Governor and Trustees of the Madras School in New-Brunswick." As most of the Parish Schools in the Province are on the Madras system of education, and under the direction of the corporation, I shall close this short sketch of the state of learning in this Province with a statement of that institution copied from the last report.
State of the Madras School in New-Brunswick, in July, 1824, viz.
| Saint John, | in daily attendance | 197 | — total entered | 1222 |
| Carleton, | " | 96 | " | 143 |
| Fredericton, | " | 50 | " | 79 |
| Douglas, | " | 22 | " | 45 |
| Queensborough, | " | " | 45 | |
| St. Andrews, | " | 94 | " | 156 |
| Grand Manan, } Grand Harbour,} | " | 42 | " | 89 |
| North Head, | " | 40 | " | 76 |
| Westcock, | " | 45 | " | 118 |
| Sackville, | " | 40 | ||
| Shediac, | " | 30 | " | 53 |
| Peticodiac, | " | 45 | " | 50 |
| Kingston, | 113 | |||
| Springfield, | " | 24 | " | 81 |
| Gage Town, | " | 25 | " | 117 |
| Sussex Vale, | " | 38 | " | 114 |
| Newcastle, | " | 39 | " | 166 |
| Northesk, | " | 42 | " | 66 |
| Chatham, | " | 40 | " | 51 |
| Hampton, | " | 26 | " | 75 |
| Norton, | " | 60 | ||
| Maugerville, | " | 28 | " | 52 |
| Maugerville, middle district, | " | 39 | ||
| Fort Cumberland, | " | 49 | " | 105 |
| Point Debute, | " | 52 | " | 62 |
| Jolicure, | " | 32 | " | 50 |
| St. Georges, | " | 38 | " | 72 |
| Woodstock, middle district, | " | 36 | " | 135 |
| Upper District, | " | 35 | " | 76 |
| Dow's District, | " | 36 | ||
| Wakefield, middle district, | " | 21 | " | 90 |
| Lower district, | " | 21 | " | 86 |
| Northampton, | " | 35 | ||
| Military Settlement, | ||||
| No. 1, | " | 38 | " | 140 |
| No. 2, | " | 36 | " | 131 |
| No. 3, | " | 24 | " | 159 |
| No. 4, | " | 24 | " | 116 |
| Scotch Settlement, | " | 20 | " | 36 |
| In July, 1824 | 4,379 | |||
| Add the number in the College at Fredericton, as reported last year | 357 | |||
| Total | 4,736 | |||
| In July, 1823 | 3,396 | |||
| Increase during the year | 1,340 | |||
The trade of New-Brunswick may be comprised under the following heads:
Exports to the West-Indies.
Boards, shingles, fish, and small articles. The principal return for which is rum, sugar, molasses, &c.
Exports To Great Britain.
Squared timber, masts, spars, oars, lathwood, deals, furs, &c. Ship-building forms also a considerable branch of trade at present. Some of which are built by contract for merchants in Great-Britain, and others are built and loaded by merchants in the Province, and either employed by them in the exportation of lumber, or sold in Britain. The returns for this trade are British merchandise, and specie.