e North American colonies,
compared with the United States, was as _ten_ to _four_, and the
increase of population as _ten_ to _three_.

In imports, the United States, compared with the colonies in that
period, increased as 40 to 9, exports 120 to 19; but then the
Americans had the whole world for customers, and the colonies Great
Britain only, until very lately, and then, even in the West India
trade, they could scarcely compete with their rivals; whereas the
Americans started with four times the shipping, nearly double the
population, six times the import, and four times the export trade, and
the people of the republic had already occupied at least ten great
commercial ports, whilst Quebec, Halifax, and St. John, were yet in
infancy as mercantile _entrepots_.

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 and } }An increase of two
assessed property } L5,043,253 }millions and a
}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, steam-boats, 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 L524,637
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 capt