The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-05-28
Transferring tho Old world to the New

character by which those places were pur-
chased.
Transferring tho Old World to the Now.
Among all the phenomena of history there
| cannot be found more remarkable or puzzling
episode in the progress of nations than that now
exhibited by the daily transfer Of the population
of Ireland to the States of this nation. Acted
upon by the immigrants who have found COM
Portable homes here, and urged to emigrate by
the possessors of the soil at home, the great mass
of the Irish people seem to have no choice In
the matter, but are drawn from their country by
or are driven away from their homes by those
to whom they have right to look for protec
ton. BY force of the two causes-one entreat-
ing them to come, the other urging them to go,
and, more powerful than all, both parties offer
ing to pay the cost-the inevitable mission of
the Irish peasant is to leave his native soil the
moment he becomes fit to cultivate it. The
constantly increasing emigration from Ireland is
rapidly depopulating that part of the British
empire, and adding to the material wealth of our
own country in degree that must confound the
calculations Of political economists. 1t is stated
in English papers that the census just taken
shows decrease in the population Of Ireland
since lS4l of two millions. The Limerick
Chronicle states that the present population OF
that borough is A 600; in I84l it was 4S 800.
An English statesman once said that the
only way to cure Ireland Of its evils was to
submerge it ten feet under the sea; and the same
thought seems to possess the landed proprie-
tors of that naturally fertile spot; for they are
striving to accomplish, by eviction, the results
that could be so much more summarily brought
about by submersion, viz: Kidding the island
of its inhabitants. The London Illustrated
.Ns,cs, in publishing some pictorial illustrations
Of Irish emigration, says:
"The census returns, when published, will ena-
BILE US to ASCERTAIN, in some degree, the extent
of the combined ravages of famine and pcstience,
in the first place and of despair and emigration,
in the second, in the depopulation Of Ireland
But even these returns, authentic rs they will be-
cannot be complete; for the emigration that has
gone on since the census taken, and which
still continues, will compel the statst to make
large deductions from the amount which the cen
sus will yield, if he wish to ascertain the real
number Of the Irish people. The annals of the
modern world offer such record Mat pre-
sented in the history of Ireland, since the memo
rable and deplorable years of the potato famine.
and of the pestiience that followed in its track.
The splendid emigrant ships that ply between
Liverpool and New York, and which have suf
feed in previous years to carry to the shores Of
America Irish emigration, amounting on the
average to $50 900 souls per annum, have, during
the present spring, been found insufficient to
transport to the States the increasing swarms OF
Irish who have resolved to try in the world
to gain the independence which has been denied
them in the DID,"
Since the establishment Of steam-packets be-
tween New York and Liverpool, the splendid
sailing packets have been deserted by the bet
ter class Of passengers, and are now given uI
almost exclusively to the emigrants, who in.
crease so rapidly that ships cannot be con
structed fast enough nor large enough to bring
over the crowds that are swarming to the Irish
seaports and Liverpool in searcho conveyance
across the ocean. A letter from Ulster, pub
lished in the .Ne,rs, says:
s'The rcmttances from America arc far create
| in amount than in any previous year, and con
| siderable sums are paid by the banks and by pri
vate commercial establishments, from day to day
i on orders from the United States. From some dis
| tricts in Ulster numbers Of the smaller tenantry
| are taking their departure. From of tn
| principal estates in Monaghan nearly one thou
| sand persons of the cottier class about to b
| sent to Canada at the expense OF the landlord
who, it is stated, has made arrangements for pro
viding them with comfortable passage ant
come small allowance Of money to each famil.
after reaching the port of their Destination"
What strikes us with most establishment j
that, Notwithstanding the rapidly increasin:
numbers Of the voluntary emigrants, the evic
tons appear to be in no degree abated; and tn
landlords appear TO be more impatient than eve
to be rid of their tenantry. The Galway Yin
Dictator states that the number Of evctions il
Connemara, this season, amounted to four thou
sand, and that each eviction sent at least fiv,
persons upon the parish, and from the parisl
abroad. The same journal says that in Limericl
and Kerry the same relentlesssystem is carrie,
on, the victed remaining in the Union workhous
until remitiances arrive from America to enabl
them TO shake the dust OF their native Ian
from their feet and join their friends across tn
Atlantic. This sending out of the country tn
n sinew and muscle upon which its prospert
must depend, reminds US Of that PECULIAR