The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-04-16
Emigration 10 Europe-Counter Curreat.


We are every now and then making additions to
cur records Of the amount q emigration from Ea-
rope to this country. The influx u strangers Is
eeaeeless and enormous, and from every nation Of
the old world Within the last fortnight about
eleven thousand souls have arrived az this port
alone, and the tile is usually about a. lGl this
:. every season u the yesr.
While we are contemplating the effect q this
rapid and still constant accession q number. to
car population, our attention j. a-o directed %
the emigration which has commenced from this
country to Europe. To-day the excellent steam
chip Bal.c, # the Collin. line, sale or Liverpool,
With about two hundred passcngers-ihe largest
number ever yet known % be taken ~ the .team-
ship. between New York AMI Liverpool The cha
raster Of tho passengers, however, vLo arc lcay-
ing our shores, i very different from that II
the eiowds who come - settle IA the L nitel
States from foreign countries. 4 grea, many anti
slavery men, antircnters and socialists Il the most
desperate radie.ropinions, are going from II. with
the expectation If me, ting the European radicals,
Of similar cxtrav notions, il some grand con-
vocation 4 revolutionary .Iiri,s a. The Worlds
Fair, in London, that very curious AMI highly
interesting occasion. Europe /. not clone tainted
with tho disease whi,h dsranges The body polite.
We have, in tao cited state. swarm- q tho.e
political lepers though ours are 81 dfcre 4 color
anj darker hue than those Of Eurore-thsir social
IL doctrine being chiefly confined % the African
race of the southern states. II Z generally sup
posed that these restless and s.ridng lcaots viii
succeed in urging on any kind u revolution that
may give them notorety. and. ia connection with
The European socialists. they Ill endeayor. TO
badly, to have a convention, ~ which they may
devise some means plans, Or instrun cnts 70 bring
about the result which they burn t. bring 70 pass
This class i not small one. bd; they viii lie
known at once ~ their special characteristics, and
will, at some rate Or other force Themselves into
notice. Another class likewise win seek thc shores
Of Europe, at this season, in order to show The
world that they are still alive. Il viii b conpri.cd
chiefly Of those, Who having given the grAndast
49, ---~sive entertainments in 4 sTcccs II
,upposed fashionable lie NV ~
tropriate their diminished incomes, largely a.
trenchcd upon by ex,ravagant expenditure II e
tompts az protracting the position in the commit
nifty which they have assumed a. fashionables. The
plan Il not original for il is that Of some Of tie
small aris,ocraey Of Grca, Britain Who rctrcnch On
the continent, when they cannot Afford y i've ~
homo.
We learn, nlso from the police, that there J.
another class going ~, % Europe. consisting Of
gamblers, thieves, burglar. pickpockets, and The
like, who expect - find London and other large e.
ties favorable hcd 81 the exercise Vi their genius
and the peculiar mysteries e their trades. Ga the
whole, the brokendpTn iashioaailcs, The gamblers,
yickpockets, burglars en3 TIE more theoretical
robbers, the socialist AMI uhlcls, viii present.
pretty strong prcpondsrancc Der tie respectable
persons who viii leave this country. However, the
movement il a very excellent one u many respects
and particularly as II viii give ,he ~, lines Of mail
steamers between New y OK and Liverpool valuable
returns upon their capital such a. have boebr.altcd
by tho California steamships during tAe as, eighteen
MVniLs.