The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-09-07 00:00:00

EMIGRATION

Having breakfasted at the inn, I took my way towards the
quay where the steamer lay. The whole road from the town
presented an almost continuous stream of men, women, and
children hastening to the station, most of them decently
dressed, the women generally wearing bright coloured shawls,
but without bonnets, and many of them dispensing with the
immediate use of shoes arid stockings. These, I learned, were
emigrants (and their more numerous relatives and friends,)
about to take their departure from the several homes of their
infancy in the neighbourhood for South Australia, via Cork,
where they would finally embark. Captain Bingham gave
me a hearty welcome on board of the Garry-Owen, and the
scene that presented itself on the quay and on the deck—" the
emigrants farewell"—was one of affecting interest, relieved,
however, by no small admixture of the ludicrous. The few
articles the poor emigrants had gathered together, and which
probably constituted all their worldly wealth, were readily
handed on board, and the business of leave-taking became
general. Men, women, boys, and girls evinced tokens of
the most poignant distress, that to an English eye appeared
to be too openly extravagant, though, doubtless, sincere.
Young and old cried and wept, many of them uttering ejacu-
lations, accompanied by gestures indicative of the greatest
sorrow. Some of the females, seated on the stones that
strewed the quay, rocked their bodies to and fro, as if in the
deepest despair, while they chanted doleful lamentations in a
plaintive strain. Embracing and kissing, and violent, but
cordial, shaking of hands, served to complete the pathetic
portion of the picture. While this was going on, many others
in the back ground, not connected with the emigrants, were
dancing, and singing, and fiddles, and bag-pipes on the quay,
and occasionally bugle horns on the deck, were loud and
merry,—the hissing steam from the funnel forming a sort of
drene to the strange medley of the doleful and the comic.
The whole scene would have formed a subject for the pencil
of a Hogarth. We at length started, amidst the repeated
farewell cheers of the crowd on the quay, and in a short time
most of the emigrants regained their composure and their
accustomed cheerfulness. I was informed, however, that
this was but a reaction or revulsion of feeling, and that
these poor people would for years and years retain the most
affectionate remembrance of their early homes and kindred
when separated from them by the wide and tractless ocean,
and embrace every opportunity of communicating with them
by letter.

The day was fine, and the voyage up the Shannon was
rapid and delightful. There was a considerable number of
cabin passengers, and several amateurs entertained us as we
dashed along, by songs, glees, duets on the bugle horn, reci-
tations, &c. ; Mr, Parry, the chief engineer, an excellent
musician, and quite an original, also greatly contributed to
the general amusement, and we landed at Limerick, highly
gratified by our aquatic excursion.

The Princess Lieven is residing at the splendid hotel of the
lute Prince Tallevrand, at the corner of la place de la Con-
corde, Paris. It is now the property of Baron S. Rothschild,
and it at the present time displays one of the many incon-
gruities of the French metropolis to English eyes—namelyz
a placard at the entrance-gates, exhibiting "Apartmens a
loner presentment." What would our haute noblesse say if
such a practice were observed in London ? •
THE NEW ROUTE TO INDIA BY THE EUPHRATES.—
The Commerce publishes some private correspondence, dated
Aleppo, June 10 1814, which states that the English steam-
boats, Nimrod and Notocris, had arrived at Beles, on the
Euphrates, after a navigation of 16 days and a distance of 375
leagues. Lieutenant Campbell, who commanded the expedi-
tion, had ascertained that both the Tigris and Euphrates are
navigable for large vessels, and that those rivers present a new
passage to the British possessions in India, " Documents
stolen from M. Lascaris, at Alexandria, in the year 1814,"
continues the writer, " contained important information
collected by this gentleman," who was despatched by the
Emperor:Napoleon to explore Mesopotamia and the Euphra-
tes, in order to ascertain the possibility of discovering a
passage to India by the Orontes. The British Ministry
determined to verify those plans. Colonel Chesney was de-
puted on this mission in the year 1835. Great Britain then
ascertained that the Orontes, which falls into the Mediter-
ranean,Tiiatth e was navigable as far as Latakia (the ancient Antioch).
ancient harbour of Seluecia, situate at the mouth of
this river, could be rendered an excellent harbour at a small
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