The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-09-21 00:00:00

TIRE iIIORRORS OF,M, EMIGRANT FEWIR.—By the
embof, the-season there islittle doubt that 'the immigra-
tion rinto.Canada alone ,will have amounted•to 100,000 ;
nearly.allrieorni Ireland. We know the condition in which
these:poor creatures enkbarked on their perilous adven-
ture. 'They were only tflying from one form of death.
On the.authorityeef the Montreal Board of ditalth, we
are enabled :to state- that they were allowed to ship in
numbersitwo or three times greater than the same vessels
would have presumed to carry to a United States port.
The woretthorrors of that slave trade which itis the boast
or the aaihition of this ,empire to suppress, at any cost,
have been re-enactediin the flight of British subjects
from their native shores. In only ten of the vessels that
arrivedatllontreal.inJnily, four from Cork aril six from
Liverpool, out of el;427lpassengers, 804 had died on the
passage, :and 4147• were sick on their arrival ; that is, 847
were visraly diseased, for the result proves -that a far
larger number had in- them the seeds of disease. " The
Larch," sags the ,Board:ef Health on August 22, " re-
ported this morning from Sligo, sailed with 440 passen-
gers, of whom 108 died en the passage, and 150 weresick.
The Virginius sailed with 486-158 died on the passage,
186 were, sick, .and the -remainder landed feeble and tot-
tering ; the captain, mates, and crew were all sit*. 'The
Black Hole af Calcutta ,WAS a mercy compared -to the
holds of these ressels. Net simultaneously, as if in re-
proof of those on whom the blame of all this wretched-
ness must fall, foreigners,:Germans from Hamburgh:and
Bremen, are daily arriving, all healthy, robust, and
cheerful." 'Phis vast uumanageable tide of population
thus thrown-upon Montreal, like the fugitives from some
bloody defeat, or devastated country, has been greatly
augmented by the prudent, and, we must add, most
necessary, :precautions adopted in time by the United
States, where :more stringent sanitary regulations, en-
forced by severer :penalties, have been adopted to save the
ports of the Union from those-very horrors which a pa-
ternal Government 'has suffered to fall upon Montreal.
Many of these pest ships have been obliged to alter their
destination, even while at sea, 'for the St. Lawrence. At
Montreal a large proportion of these outcasts have lin.
gered from sheer inability to,proceed. The inhabitants ,
of course have been infected. Erem the official returns
of burials at Montreal, for the nine .weeks ending August
7, it appears that in the city three. died during that period
924 residents and 806 emigrants, .makkag a total of 1,730
deaths. Besides these, 1,510 emigrants died at the sheds,
making a grand total of 3,240 in the city of Montreal and
its ex tempore lazaretto, against only ABB, including resi-
dents and emigrants, for the correspquding weeks last
year. A still more horrible sequel is to come. The sur-
vivors have to wander forth and find homes. Who can
say how many will perish on the way, or the masses of
houseless, famished, and half-naked wretches-that will be
strewed on the snow when a Canadian winter once sets in ?