The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-05-03

doscncc oi tudt OuStle ana ANIMATION That usual
ly prevail in all quarters OF our city, from the
landing ofemigrants, has been made the subject OF
remark; but the progress of the revolution in,
Europe, and the consequent necessity for keep
ing the people at home, has worked this change.
We may be prepared, also, in a measure, for its
continuance, inasmuch as the people of the diff
ferent parts of Europe where revolutionary
principles have been triumphant, will, undoubted-
ly, remain at home participate in the blessing 9
of their hard-won freedom. Should the present
struggle in the British Isles, or elsewhere in Eu-
rope, prove abortive, we may be prepared for
steady increase of emigrants upon our shores.
The discontinued masses, should they fail to
extort some concessions, would gladly flee their
homes and their friends, who have preceded
them here, have, doubtless, fully enlightened
them ON the subject of our national institutions,
and the vast facilities they would have for &C.
curing independence and comfort in every part
OF this immense Union, by settling down on the
public lands Should the masses feel discon-
tented with any offered concessions, or be over
awed by the powers that control them, they will
undoubtedly make wholesale emigration der
nier resort; and the question, therefore, must
arrest the attention of the European govern
ments.
1t Is a fixed fact'' that more than three
fourths of Ireland alone is mortgaged to British
capitalists, and the Irish estates must, many of
them, In time, revert to these mortgages The
Irish people, harrassed and CALLED by designing
demagogues for so long a series of years-im.
poverished, and subjected to periodical vista
tons OF famine and dlsease-would gladly es-
cape their doom, and embrace every opportunity
Tor emigration. The natural channel for them
is to these shores; for. place them as voluntary
emigrants in Canada, or in any of the British
colonies, they would import with them all the
old seeds of faction and disunion, and prove a
source of fresh annoyance to the British govern
ment. If landed in Canada, too, they would
eventually find their way to the United States.
Emigration was encouraged last season, to
some extent, to Canada, by an Irlsh landed pro.
prietor, with view to thin off his estate, and
substitute in place OF his Irish tenantry, body
of the comfortable classes of English yeomanry;
but the condition of the country deferred them
from trying the experiment, as assassination was
dreaded as the probable-the certain result Ne
yer was the condition of that Country in so
critical a position as now; and should her
present efforts prove abortve, and all the late
movements on the part of her revolutionary
leaders turn out a mere farce, like the Char
fist humbug-or should few volleys of mus
kerry have the effect to suppress the present
agitation in the isand-emigratIon will I'M
doubtedly be reserted to, upon a more extended
scale than ever known before.
Our national resources had not been suffi-
centy developed at the period of the Irish rebel
lion in '98, or emigration would then have been
the result. We had but partially recovered from
the panic of our own revolution. But since that
period we have advanced some centuries in
civilization and the arts; and these facts, coupled
with the events connected with the Mexi-
can war, have all tended to awaken the eyes
OF the European dynasties, and the oppressed
masses upon that continent, to a sense of our
growing Importance as a nation. Emigration,
therefore, in the present convulsed state of Eu-
rope, may be looked upon as forming a promi-
nent feature in the great question of the day. BY
the very last steamer we had it, that no less
parsonage than Louis Philippe himself had ar
rived Here we have not only safe asylum
for dethroned kings, who have proved them
selves tyrants, but for the very victims of their
oppression and in no part of Europe can either
feel more perfect security than here. mighty
problem Is now in course of being worked out;
and let the result be what it will, its solution
will have strong and direct bearing upon the
question of emigration to this continent.