The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-08-03

with 1887 about SO and for the ten wears nd
ing with 1S47 about 104 900 Thus the emigration OF
1S47 exceeded the decennia average the proportion
OF hye to two while that of 1882 exceeded it only
about five to three.
As to the direction of this stream of ernirration
during the last twenty years about half the emigrans
OF each year have gone to the United States and of
late years the number moving in that direction has
creased large proportion, also, of those landed at
the ports Of the British North American colo MES
eespseisny me mere iaborers find their way TO the
States within the FIRST year or two. Deducting an
average OF seven eight per cent for all other places
the remain der 20 to our North American colonies
In the four years 1884, there a considerable
increase OF the emigration to Australia and New Zea-
land In lSil the number reached $1,000 but since
1000 '''' eN'''N'N ''''' "a
OF the emigrants of 1s47 about three fths l53 9o0)
sailed from English ports, and $500 from irish and
Goo from Scottish ports But these numbers do not
show the proportion proceeding from each division of
the kingdom In the first place have to deduct the
2 from London These were 10000 in number. They,
therefore reduce the totalto about 2iS O00 aud the
apparently English section Of it to about 143 600
Further the number embarked at Liverpool was no
less Than lO2 GOO and Of these there is to
heye mat four hfths Gay sOooO were who had
come immediately, or recently from Ireland This
further reduces The English contribution to the total
properly 50 called e about % 600 And, further, Of
the whoe SCcU embark in Scottish ports no less than
oouO were nom Glasgow which has proportion of
Irish-born population quite equal to that Of Liverpool
and offers similar facilities for the enbarkation of Irish
enigrants, may perhaps, safely add 1900 more to
,he iIish section, deducng from that given to Scot
The British emigration of the year will then, in
round numbers, stand thus =
from Eneland. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. $1,000
r rron I.I'an"' ''.'...'' '....'.... b,o0O
FROM Ireland. ................... N9,400 g
2is GOO
Tie total number Of cabin passengers was only
$50 or these 81 were foreigners Thus IL proper
ton due to the British emigration would be 233ror
considerably less than three per cent Gut this nro
portion was evidently very uneQuslly divided The
s5,7O0 emierants who embarked at Irish ports had
among them only sll cabin passengers, or less than
I'M brad xu1gs ln
tsh ports had 709 about eight in the hund red The
English accoun: is disturbed by the large proportion
Of llish embarked ut Liverpool But taking these as
before at so COO and allowing them out Of the 7I3
cabin passengers mot foreigners) going from ENGLAND
the proportion of per cent, as indicated by the emil
grafton from Irish ports have about 600 cabin
passengers to total OF 65 coo English emgrants giving
about six in the hundred Whence we may infer that
the proportion of cabin passengers among the 70 600
English and Scottish grants was six or seven times
as great as among the $50 600 Irish
IL may also be worth while to observe the proDortion
OF each age and scN. The accounts before us being
framed under law which recognises only one distinc.
ton OF age-that marked by the age of 1.-THE division
cannot be otherwise than roughly made We have no
means Of ascertanng the various ages of those return
ed as adults or how large proportion of them were
more or less than 80 years Of age beyond the ace of IA
ahaso advancing towards an age uniting them for
the exertions of settlement The cabin passen-
gers are also excluded from this part of the inquiry
Theremaining PSI INCLUDING about $500 foregners)
were thus divided -
u.,.. ADORE a. Uadcr H. Total
Females ...t 7Ss5s a5 i iISSS3
nus, the WnOle number OF children under Ii was
nearly equal to the number Of females that age
and distributed in the proportion commonly assumed
a. me average OF three to each married couple, the
number Of couples provided would be only "a 500
leaving about 51700 of the females Of over without
children; Many, however, were no doubt unmarried.
though above that age; and some particularly among
the large proportion of Irish peasantry who do not wiz
lingy depart from their elderly relatives must have
been aged Generally the proportion Of the sexes is as
favorable as could be expected and is perbaps as
nearly equal as is desirable with reference to che first
arduous labors of new settlement II is remarkabe
q F.na 30 1ar H.,
larger among the emigrants TO Canada than among
those to the United States This is probably attrbuta
bic TO the wider and more various field exertion and
enterprise offered by Lbs States to young unmarried
men.
One or w features of the returns remain to be no.
tcsd The Australian emigration seems to be fur
nished almost entirely by England; by far the greater
part OF it from Plymouth, and nearly all the re from
London: Scotland sends nearly as many 60 the West
In dies (l6S) as England C95), Notwithstanding the
differences OF six to one in The population The Cape
like Austria, has scarcely any British emiNants ex
ceptfrom Plymouth and London All who embarked
from Irish ports went 10 North America excepting two
which went to the West ndies nd the foreigner who
embarked at London, like the Irish, also all to
North America-S651 to the United States and 1867
to Canada Hence it wonld appear that the newer |
fields of colonization chiefly occupied by the Eng
h that the Sc otch have nearly equal share with
them in the emigration to the lest Indies and other
that the IL or region absorbs all the emigration FROM
lreiand-whici. y quite in accordance with the rea-
tive distribution Of capital skill nd enterprise in the
three divisions of the kingdom.
National Assembly Portraits
Who does not know that sharp, but intellectual |
Looking lace, those now ,plnched and withered,
but noble features 1t Is the poet statesman La
maritime He has fallen in popular favor Since he |
has identified himself with the cause of the OBJ
noXlous ex-Mlnster OF the Interior but he will |
be listened to with respectful attention when he
appears IN the tribune and however weak in mo- |
ments OF passiveness, he will look again the hero
hen his spirit mounts with the storm, and he be-
comes The man of the moment | look at that |
stout man, with the full face, the nose raised aloi
lncpIpnt a huh l. nj
always In his walsicoat his head Is tossed back, |
with an air OF Indignation Ii is this same ex- |
minister, and now, by the grace Of his colleague,
member OF the executive government Iedru Roll |
I'm, the hrat cause Of all the il-wi the mIstrust,
the confusion, and the party anger that, after the
FIST few quleter weeks OF its BIRTH nursed the new
republic INTO It's present crippled form. He is
fallen into the dsiavor of his old friends the |
anarchists; he is still obnoxious to the moderate
majority he has been supported alone by has mis-
calculating colleague. But when, on rare occa-
slons, ne mounts the tribune, he Will still attempt |
10 overawe the Assembly, and impose his dicta-
iolshlp by his airs OF insoent dlsdaln but he is
not exempt from the stacks of clamor, tumut,
and interruption, continually arising from the dis
orderly representatives.. There Is Marie, also,
with his mild, gentlemenly air, which is not with
ont an under-current look, mixed OF suspicion
and Dqulslveness land GARNER Pages, with
his resolgte, but not l-in;ennoned air and
straightforward look, but with restless and
almost reckless manner. Marrast, Also is there
sometimes, with his bold but disseminated express
SION: That ugly, sharp-faced man yonder, with
The iIizzled head of hair, is Cremieux, who has
been lately obliged to retire from the Ministry OF
Justice on account of his slight devlatlons from
correctness OF memory. That heavy-browed stod-
looking man, who is often in the tribune, amidst
every mark of mistrust and opposition, Is Flocon,
the Minister OF Commerce. He openly ayows his
ultra republican principles, and Is no little suspect
ed OF completely in the plot OF the 10th of May.
But, see a servant OF the Assembly brings a
stool 10 the tribune a dwariish boyish-loolSing
little man, with a round sensual face, advances
ana hosts himself up a visible hei ght to address
the Assembly, with violent gesture aud Eliminating
but hesitatng defamation. Ii Is Louis Blanc, the
Reorganization de uaraa. But his day is gone
he is scarcely listened TO, and almost booted by
the Assembly; he has escaped, by the fear of an
insure elton OF the working classes from the accn