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THE SCHOLARSHIPS AT OXFORD.
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American Scholarships.I further direct my Trustees to establish additional Scholarships sufficient in number for the appropriation in the next following clause hereof directed and those Scholarships I some-

    The following is a list of Colonies to which no Scholarships have been appropriated:—

        POPULATION.
        White. Coloured.
    Canada Nova Scotia 459,000 about 100,000
    New Brunswick 331,000
    Prince Edward Island 103,250
    Manitoba 246,500
    North-West Territories 220,000
    British Columbia 190,000
       

        1,549,750 100,000
    West Indies Bahamas 15,000 38,000
    Leeward Islands 5,000 122,500
    Windward Islands 5,000 92,500
    Barbados 15,000 180,000
    Trinidad and Tobago 10,000 262,000
       

        50,000 695,000
    Mediterranean Gibraltar 22,000
    Malta 5,000 179,000
    Cyprus 237,000
       

        264,000 179,000
    Indian Ocean Mauritius 10,000 360,000
    Ceylon 10,000 3,562,000
       

        20,000 3,922,000
    Far East Borneo 1,000 174,000
    New Guinea 250 350,000
    Hong Kong 2,500 97,500
       

        3,750 621,500
    Indian Empire 150,000 295,000,000
    Egypt 108,000 9,700,000
    Soudan 10,000,000

    The following is the population of the Colonies to which scholarships have been allotted:—

        POPULATION. Scholarships.
        White. Coloured.
    South Africa Rhodesia 11,000 800,000 9
    Cape Colony 500,000 1,850,000 12
    Natal 64,900 865,000 3
    Australasia New South Wales 1,359,000 7,200 3
    Victoria 1,193,000 7,500 3
    South Australia 359,000 7,000 3
    Queensland 473,000 30,200 3
    Western Australia 152,500 30,000 3
    New Zealand 770,000 46,000 3
    Tasmania 173,000 3
    Canada Ontario 2,168,000 3
    Quebec 1,621,000 3
    Atlantic Islands Newfoundland 210,000 3
    Bermudas 6,500 11,200 3
    West Indies Jamaica 15,000 730,000 3
       


    Total   9,075,900 4,384,100 60

    Thus a population of 13,460,000 persons in the British Colonies is allotted 60 scholarships. A population of 76,000,000 in the United States is only allowed 100 scholarships. But a population of 7,405,000 persons, excluding India, Nigeria and Egypt, are allotted no scholarships at all. The average of scholarships to population is one in 760,000 in the United States, and one in 224,000 in the fifteen British Colonies to which they have been allotted. If the omitted British Colonies were dealt with on the same scale as the fifteen, 33 new scholarships would have to be founded.