Passing over all but Western Canada, we shall examine the state of that province after the rebellion of 1839, when Lord Durham informed us that
| The population was | 513,000, | |
| Value of fixed } | {An increase of two | |
| and assessed } | £5,043,253 | {millions and a |
| property } | {quarter in ten years. | |
| Cultivated acres | 1,738,500 | |
| Grist-mills | 678 | |
| Saw-mills | 933 | |
| Cattle | 400,000 |
and yet Upper Canada was only a howling wilderness in 1784.
It is now supposed, upon competent authority, that the British possessions north of New York contain not fewer than two millions and a quarter of inhabitants, a fixed and floating capital of seventy-five million pounds, a public revenue of a million and a quarter, with a tonnage of not less than two millions and a quarter, manned, including the lake craft, steamboats, and fishing-vessels, by one hundred and fifty thousand sailors; and this Western Britain consumes annually seven millions of pounds sterling of British goods.
The Inspector-General of Revenue for Canada alone gives us the following data:—
| 1845. | ||
| Revenue of Canada | £524,637 | |
| Expenditure | 500,839 |
Now let us see what the Standing Army and Militia of the United States are in 1845:
Standing Army—7,590 officers and men, including all ranks.
Militia—627 Generals, 2,670 Staff-officers, 13,813 Field-officers, 44,938 Company-officers, and 1,385,645 men.
Naval Force—11 ships of the line, 14 first-class frigates, 17 sloops-of-war, 8 brigs, 9 schooners, 6 steamers: with 67 captains, 94 commanders, 324 lieutenants, 133 passed midshipmen, 416 midshipmen, and 31 masters.