The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-20 00:00:00

NOVA SCOTIA.

By the Royal Mail steamer Niagara, which arrived in
Liverpool on Sunday morning last, we have received a most
important document, for which we are indebted to D.
M‘Culloch, Esq., Financial Secretary to the B,ard of Sta-
tistics, shoWiog the present state of the populatior, pursuits,
industry, and resources of the province of Nova Scotia,
compiled from the official return just received. It appears
that the total population of each of the 18 counties composing
this interesting province is as follows:
Halifax

Lunenburg..... ......... 16,395 Colchester
Queen's
Saethumb
Yarmouth
Rigby ................•• .. 1'2,252 Inverness
Annapolis ..............14,25b Richmond
King's 14,138 Cape Breton / 2.
j . . ... 6580
Hants .... :7 . 7 .. . ....... 7
.14,330 Victoria

Total population of the province, 276,117.
Of married persons of both sexes there are 78,701;
widows, 5,916 ; ratepayers, 38,388 ; paupers,
1,072; deaf 23a8n;d dumb, ::3Q; blind, 136;. lunatics, 166;
1,056 ; coloured persons, 4,908.
had been 8,120 births, 2,802 deaths, and 1,710 mar.
There
g during the year 1851.
iwii413,92;, Indians,
riaThee schools number 1,096, and the scholars 31,354.
The religious denominations are thus stated : -Church of
England, 36,482; Catholics, 69,634; Kirk of Scotland,
18,867; Presbyterian Church of Nova Scotia, 28,767; Free
Church, 25,280 ; Baptists, 42,243 ; Methodists, 23,596; Con..
gregationalists, 2,639; Universalists, 580 ; Lutherans, 4,087 ;
Sandiminians, 101; Quakers, 188 ; other denominations,
3,791. These bodies have 567 churches.
Engaged in learned professions, commerce, &c., there are
-clergymen, 288 ; lawyers, 143 ; doctors, 145 ; merchants
and traders, 2,4! 5 ; persons employ ed in manufactures, 3,200 ;
mechanics, 8,895; farmers, 31,604; persons engaged in the
fisheries, 9 927 ; registered seamen, 1,413 ; persons employed
at sea, 3,961; persons engaged in lumbering, 1,254.
The inhabited houses are 41,455 ; families, 45,541 ; unin-
habited houses, 2,028; houses building, 2,347 ; stores, barns,
and outhouses, 52,758; probable value of real estate,
8,050,923/. ; highest rate for poor and county, 161. Bs. 4d.;
lowest Tate, 10d.
AGRICULTURE.-Number of horses, 28,789; neat cattle,
156,857 ; much cows, 85,856 ; sheep, 282,180 i swine, 51,533;
bushels of wheat, 297,157; barley, 196,097;
rye, 61,438;
oats, 1,384,437 ; buckwheat, 170,301 ; Indian corn, 37,74.5!
tons of hay, 287,837; bushels of peas and beans, 61,638;
grass seeds, 3,c86 ; potatoes, 1,986,789 ; turnips, 467,1
cheese,'
other roots, 32 ,325 ; butter, 3,613,890 lbs. ;
652,069 lbs.
n "13 • nets and
FISHERIES.-.Number of vessels employed, 812; tonnage,
43,333 ; men, 3,681 ; boats, 5,161; men, -•. -'• ;
434 barrels
seines, 30,154 ; quantity of dry fish cured, ; D,_ _
k r J 9130,047; her-
of salmon, 1,669 ; shad, 3,536 ;
ring, 53,200 ; alewives,lB9,2so;
15,409 ; value, 217,270/. ; quantity of fish
5,343; quanmtiaryc- of smoked herring,
value, 17,754/.
..,. mins, 1,153; value,
MANUFACTURES.-NUMber of Liar, ills 398 • value
-.6 . griSt In , , value,
89,8691.; hands employed, ci
1,1 7! steam mills or factories,
72,649/. ; hands employed, •-
43 28,762/. ; hands employed,
10 ; tanneries, `d37.;
man 73,654/. ; foundries, 9 ;
value, actured, 52,625/. ; value of
374 ; value of leather
boots and shoes manufactured,emploved, 138 ; quantity of iron
value, 12,900/. ; hands 4,635 L • value of castings, 3,4861.;
smelted, 400 ton;; value, 4,6351.;
81 ; value 11,690;
weaving and carding
handlooms, 11,096 ; values 24,486 ;
hands employed, 119'
manufactured, 119,698 ; yards of clot!:
not fulled rsanufkarceereries and distilleries, 17 ; value, 6,03 4/. ;
cilhured, 790,104 yards of flannel yards of
2o
If
91,u1351e2d;
hands emplYe:
~,,,, of distilled liquor manufactured, 11,900;
"42; gallons of malt liquor manufactured,
ts manufactured, 16,640/. value
78,076 ; ga 131 ; value, 14,382/. ; hands employed, 185;
value of ab•- eucabinet ware manufactured, 11,1551.; value of
Va and
of chairs
anufactured, 9,491/. ; value of other wooden ware
factories,.,f itural implemen
r f Med,
, 19,2331. ; quantity of coal raised, 114,992
mane
a'au: casks of lime burnt, 28,603 ; value, 4,433/. ;
elnl2,,dtrj°tyn-o't bricks made, 2,845,400; value, 3,211/. ; tons of
quantity quarried, 79,795 ; value, 10,493/. ; grinding stones
otherc
arlisges
gypsum
quarried, '
- • value, 5,857/. • value of soap manufactured,
277 • value of candles
28, / • manufactured, 21,210/. ; quan-
tity of maple sugar manufactured, 110,4411b5. ; vessels
built, 486 ; tonnage, 57,776 ; boats built, 2,654. -Euro/gas
Times.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]—THE ROYAL EXHIBITION.--A
valuable, newly-invented, very small powerful waistcoat.
pocket glass, the size of a walnut, by which a person can be
seen and known 11; miles distant ; they answer every purpose
on the Race-course, at the Opera-houses ; country scenery
and ships are clearly seen at 12 to 14 miles; they are invaluable
for shooting, deer stalking,
.yachting, to Sportsmen, Gentle-
men, Gamekeepers, and Tourists.—Te be had at Messrs. S. and
11. Solomons, Opticians, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, ob-
serve, opposite the York-hotel. Telescopes—A new and most
important invention in Telescopes, possessing such extra-
ordinary powers, that some, 3i inches, with an extra eye pieet
will show distinctly, Jupiter's Moons, Saturn's Ring, and_
rth°
Double Stars. With the same Telescope, weighing only tbe6
ounces, can be seen a person's countenance 3i miles distant,
every
and an object from 16 to 20 miles. They supersede and ail
other kind for the waistcoat pocket, and are of argaenrd Race.
sizes,: with increasing powers accordingly. Operae can be
course glasses, with wonderful powers; El
clearly seen from 14 to 16 miles distant.
valuable preserving
Solomons, Opticians, have invented inbefore impel..
Spectacle Lenses, immediately they areanpd
distinct, the most
feel 71,i0n, every object appears clear and
brilliant, is brought to
aged defective sight becomes bright and luessrs. S. and B.
The Invisible Ore
its youthful, natural, awl original t
Second Heat.
Browne 1
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of extreme deafness.-39, Alber
2
the York Hotel.
••••• .................................. game Vibrator, and all kinds ofAracoaruise.ticatinresettr,umpeienctasdfiollry,reoltf
serve opposite
il,rAricEßY.—Amongst the ix any
Landsman's Oars Match tor a Silver Cup.
' N EW ORDERS IN •,--
First Heat.
Bain and Holmes
is entitled to credit, is a recent reguls.-
Fergu9ott and Sheen 2 sent Lird Chancellor is
solicitors, and suitors, are debarred.
improvements in the Court of Chancery for which the pre-
Wharf and Macaulay
ontents of their little sandwich boxes,
These latter will have to be rowed off to-day, in ttddition from enjoying th
to the match for Mr. Sim psOU'S skiff, which will be contested provided as a sting„ in court. Lunches are abolished, and
for by Coombes, Barrow, Campion, and Leach, so that it is watching and f
oevecntive to dyspepsia,
orewho shall presume to appease their baffle'
°precincts of the court will be guilt
and punished accordingly. tesniiiiwihe
produced by the long
certain to prove highly interesting to all lovers of aquatics. henceforthatniieY
The heats will take place from Vauxhall-bridge to Cre- ; ger within
inpt,
shall
morne, and thence from Putney to Cremorne. ' high conte
forth against newspapers, and any re
on
The gardens were thronged, the ballet much applauded, has g open a "best possible instructor" in the augus
and - 0 iental brilliantly supported, the perfor- dare to .
of hisLordshipyill be severely reprimandea A
manses of the Italian brothers causing much interest. _ , presence with' . .ti ,

Lawn ''' ............. . .......... .....
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Parker .....
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, t. From Putney to Cremorne.
Third i-Ae
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Wharf............ •
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—.„,,,, Match for Silver Bidge, Coat, and Freedom.
Apptent“--
First Heat.
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