The Express.
London, England, 1850-09-06 00:00:00

EMLGRATION AIM THE COLONIES.

Threjollowing article as prepared from a series
now Wag puhluilled is the -Daily News under the
itheye.title;
prom the year 1,828, to the year 1849 inclusive,
.2,283,181 persons have emigrated from Groat Britain
diferant parts of the. world. Out of this number,
808,740 haire emigrated to our North Ameriean cola-
Dies. 1,280,247 to the United States of North America,
and,185,386 to our Australian colonies (including
New. Zealand.)
The relative proportions of emigration to the
,United)3(sais, and-
to the British North American
colonies, appear to have changed ouneieerably of late
years. According to the ,reports of the officers of
emigration and the Customs, of 613436 persons who
eatigrated to North America in the ten years ending
1839, there were 320,785 whose desinatrou was the
British colonies, and 292,492 who were bound for the
United States. Of 1,340,496 persona who emigrated
to North America during the ten years ending 1849,
there were 428,376 who went to the British colonies
and 912,120 who went to the Usitud S aces.

Thers;cl at be noduttbt that the the emigra-
tion to the United States in lel9 was Irish. Of
919,450 emigrants wito.left the United Kingdom in
that year for the United• States, 163,138 galled from
Eoglish potty, 10,639 from Scotch, and 43,673 from
Irish. But of the 163,138 emigrants who took ship.
ping from English. putts 147,743 emharked at Liver-
pool, and at'alpw estimate Woe-tenths of the emi-
gration from Liverpool is Irish. This alone changes
the apparent impaction of Irish and Eigiiah emigra-
tion to 176,643 of the former and 32,16 s or the Litter.
Again, of the 10,639 emigrants, 10,636 sailed from
the Clyde, and the proper ion of Irian among the
emigrants embarking at Glasgow :and Or enoek is
known to be large, though the exact ratio has not
been ascertained.

The emigration to Canada and to the United States
is substantially of the same characti r ; the emigration
to the Australian colonies differs materially from it.
Among 219,450 emigrants who pnuxe.3id to the
United States in 1849, there were 212,233 steerage
and 7,217 cabin passengers. Among 37,520 emi-
grants to Canada in the same year, there were 30,330
steerage and 1,190 cabin passengers. Among 3,016
emigrants to New Brunswick, there were 2,884
steerage and 132 cabin passengers. That is, among
the emigrants to the Milted S ates there was rather
leas than one cab n passenger to every 30 steerage
passengers; the proportion in the Canadian emigra-
tion was nearly 1 of the former to 36 of the latter ; in
that for New Brunswick it was about 1 to 30.
The proportion of cabin paesengers among the emi-
grants to the Australian colonii a was materially
different. Among 8,403 emigrants to New South
Wales (exclusive of the Port Phillip dilerict) in 1849,
there were 705 cabia and 7,698 steerage passengers;
among 10,562 emigrants to Port Philip, there were
597 cabin and 9,965 steerage passengers; among
10,885 emigrants to South Auetralia, there were 690
cabin and 10,165 steerage passengers; among 1,725
emigrants to New Zealand, there were 193 cabiu and
1,530 steerage passengers. In other words, the pro-
portion of cabin to steerage passengers was among
' the emigrants to New South Wales one in twelve•,
among those to Port Phillip about one in twenty;
among those to South Australia ab nit one in four-
teen ; among: those to New Zealand about one in
elven.