Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-07-26

These results are quite satiscory in point Of chespnes
and is only 10 be regretted that We fully advised
with TO the excellence and amount Of the instruction i'm
parted.
few more figures and shall close this Dilworhian COM
nunicaon The registry Of the Commissioners OF imm
grafton records the arrival In this port OF 70 alien pas
senger during The present month to The 2Sd instant Inc
total number of immigrants from Janusy is 1901 10 the
above date is 1855 Co., being increase the correspond
ing months of last year a6s62; thus showing that there
no dmnution in that tide Of immigration which is
stsnty setting n towards shores This ceaseiess influx
of foreigners oen in Of The greatest ndsence
of course entails upon our city and weghy evils
and were no, for variety eounteracng should
almost begin to fear fr the pepeuty Of naona identity
snd yernacular tongue The history of the world however,
i. an important aspect has been history of mgraions, and
no race has been more indebted the beneficial influence of
successive miga,ions and coonzations than the Anglo
Saxon few centuries ago and this dominant race did
not number quito three millions Of souls sixty ago and
il did not exceed IT. OOO O00 both in Europe and America
thirty years ago counted only a. and in 1861
is estimated the grand total including own country,
England and her colonial settlements, Of So That
this development has been chiefly due to its territorial aggan
dizement and expansion cannot admit moments doubt
The characteristic features Of are SO strongly marked
that though the population Of country may for time be
somewhat pebd and heterogeneous need cherish no fear
Of its absorption like Poland Of its repression like the gal
ant Magya Of Hungary, while the language Of Shakespeare
and Of Bacon instead Of being extermnaed oyegrown,
seems rather to aim universal prevalence As has been
remarked by late English journal, cat hundred points at
once plays the aggresso It contends with Spanish on
the frontiers Of Mexicodves French and Russian before
sit in Canada and in the Northern
Dutch at the Cape and Nsal-elbows Greek and Italian at
~ 4. thar; hsofA Apahir
uez and itself supreme al Lbe
ria Hong Kong Jamaica, and st. Helena-6ghts its way
seans, mu,udinous and various dialects in the Rocky
mountains 10 Central America, the Gold Coast, in the
interior Of Australia and among the countless islands Of the
eastern seas No other language spreading in this way
French and German find students among cultivated men
but English permanently destroys and suPesedes the idoms
with which ii comes in contact"
II has been already observed that the history Of the species
s in aspect history of msraons. Europe has been
peoped by successive Of population from the east and
the progress population and civilization seems hitherto to
have followed the Of the But since the occupa
on of California by citizens Asac and eastward
immigration bas ensued from China towards Pacific coast
When reflect upon the density Of population in the Ce
lesa Empire and the increased facilities that are teDg
prepared the construction Of steamers in this port for
the establishment Of expeditions communication between
San Francisco and Canton appears quite probable that
Chinese immigration, already considerable, will speedily
cevs fresh Impetus that the day may not be far distant
when thousands of native Chinese shall become naurazed
Americans for those already arrived said to have adopted
American customs having doed their national hat cut off
the pendant queue and ePuated their wooden soes for the
shoes Of Lynn We might indulge in further speculaons
on the prospective influence of such immigration
country and its reflex influence China, but for the present
must obear espass longer the patience Of your readers
EBORACENSlS.