The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-04-21

week, voted to instruct our senators, and re-
quest our representatives, to advocate the
Z" speedy repeal" Of the Fugitive slave law
Det Free Press.
Abolitionists petitioning for Mr.. Webster
We find the following curious paragraph r
the Boston Journal:
"A petition was presented yesterday by J. p
Jewett and fourteen others, Free-Soilers, re-
questing the Mayor and Aldermen to reconsider
their vote, and not to be influenced by the re-
cent action of the board in refusing Faneuil
Hall for the Free-soil convention. The petit
TONERS say "they would be happy to ASSIST the
officers Of the law in securing the utmost free
dom of speech and the quiet and good order OF
the city"
ew The New York Herald makes the fol-
lowing statement, which is suggestive of vari-
Gus reflections.
The congregation at London will be very
curious one, and among it's component parts
will doubtless be found many specimens Of the
classes which the Herald enumerates.
We only hope our expectations Of that char
acter may remain to gut the foreign market
EMIGRATION TO EURoPE-CoUNTER CURRENT.
We are every now and then making addi-
tons to our records of the amount of emigra-
ton from Europe to this country. The influx
of strangers is ceaseless and enormous, and
from eyery nation of the old world. Within
the last fortnight about eleven thousand souls
have arrived Mt this port alone, and the tide is
usually about as full as this ut every season OF
the year.
While we are contemplating the effect of this
rapid and still constant accession of numbers to
our population, our attention is also directed to
the emigration which has commenced from this
country to Europe. To-Day the excellent steam
ship Baltic, of the Collins line, sails for Liver
pool, with about two hundred passengers-the
LARGEST number ever yet known to be taken by
the steamship between New York and Liver
pool The character Of the passengers, how
ever, who are leaving our shores, is very differ
ept from that Of the crowds who come to set
tie in the United States from foreign countries.
great many anti slavery men, anti-renters,
and socialists, Of the most desperate, radical
opinions, are going from us, with the expecta-
ton of meeting the European radicals, of SINH
lar extravaQant notions, in some grand cOnvoca-
ton of revolutionary spirits of the Worlds
Fair, in London, on that very curious and high
" interesting occasion. Europe is not alone
tainted with the disease which deranges the
BODY polite. We have, in the United States
swarms of these political lepers, though ours
are of different color and darker hue than
those of Europe--their socialist doctrines being
chiefly confined TO the African race OF the South
ern States 1t is generally supposed that these
restless and aspiring zealots will succeed in urg
ging on any kind Of revolution that may give
them notoriety, and, in connection with the Eu-
ropean socialists, they will endvavor, probably.
to have convention, by which they may devise
some means, plans, or Instruments, to bring
about the result which they burn to bring to
pass.
This class ia not small one, but they will be
known at once by their special characteristics,
and will, at some rate or other force themselves
into notice. Another class, likewise, will seek
the shores Of Europe at this season, in order 10
show the world that they are still alive. II will
be comprised chiefly Of those, who, having given
the prandest and most expensive entertainments
in species of supposed fashionable life in this
city, propose to appropriate their diminished in-
comes, largely entrenched upon by extravagant
expenditures, to attempts at protracting the po-
sition in the community which they have as
sumed n. fashionables The plan is not origi-
nal, for il is that Of some Of the small aristoc-
rncy of Great Britain, who retrencb on the con-
tinent, when they cannot afford to i've at home.
We learn, Also from the police, that there is
another class going out to Europe, consisting of
gamblers, thieves, burglars, pickpockets, and the
like, who expect to find London and other large
cities favorable fields for the exercise of their
genius and the peculiar mysteries of their trades.
On the whole, the broken down fashionables,
the gamblers, pckpockets, burglars, and the
more theoretical robbers, the socialists and in
fdels, will present pretty strong preponder-
ance over the respectable persons who will leave
this country. However, the movement is a very
excellent one in many respects, and particularly
as it will give the two lines Of mail steamers
between New York and Liverpool valuable re-
turns upon their capital, such MS have been re-
allied BY the California steamships during the
last eighteen months.