The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-07-18

[From the London Times
= In another column will be found a painful but we be-
Neve authentic ion on the Irish census
That census Is this the cumming of and
changes such as have rarely afflicted disturbed dern
civiisation Indeed the tenor and Of human
affairs In these latter times have left the mind aim ,
unprepared for results vast and strange ss those
We have now to contemplate 1t appears that the popu-
lation of Ireland at this very little than
six millions and half 1t Is absolutely than 1t
In 1921 ana more than two millions short of the mum
Der that would have been reached in the order
OF things but for the extraordinary occurrences OF the
last Ten years 30 starting Isct wiz Oh course oe
the subject Of the closest Inquiries aud IL only
the first step In very long controversy that the at
tenon Of readers Ia directed to obvious consd
erations The whole emigration from these islands during
the last ten years, has been 6OOO0o or that nun
Der 1t ia ascertained that ut least 100000 have
emigrated from Ireland alone. There is, however, no
doubt that If the remaining mauy thousands
Irish who have only used England as stepping stone
to the new world and it is also the places
many English and Scotch emigrants have bsen supplied
by Irish The population Of this island as re-
TURF ed In the census is more than enough to be sc-
counted for by the natural rate OF increase Although
have had cholera influenza, dearth and emigration,
the increase for Great Britain though little below the
from the natural growth Of the population Hence for
every Engshman that has fallen victim to epidemis
has left this island ut least native of ireland has
stepped into his place In the colUmn to which
fer attention is called to another consideration familiar
to those who have watched the increase oi
tropolitan and other civic populations The great
staple Of large emigration Is just the very from
whom the increase Of population it to be expected
The great inducement to step in itself perlous and
80 painful Is the wish to provide for family coming on
OF to settle and marry with prospect Of comfort
the decsysd and barren stocks are left behina and the
prolific young shoots are taken away in the funess Of
their bearing and growth Hence the i'm Increase
which has provoked such sanguine specuations ms to
the future Of the United States Hence the additional
two millions found in this island after the Of dis
and the drain Of emigration. Hence also the
nous and increasing gap left in Ireland, deserted
as it Is, by the young the healthy the abe, and the
industrious and resigned to the orphan the widow the
sick and the aged Nor must We forget that this fact
prospective The six and half millions remaining in
Ireland are not as whole the prolific race that the
eight millions and two hundred thousand in 1871.
There can indeed be doubt that Of the
Of this unparalleled most obvious and pain
full Unquestionably, several hundreds Of thousands
have persisted prematurey by famine by fever by cho
leIa by darrhea by slow hunger by by want
of fuel by insufficient habation by want of medical aid
by neglect of neghbors by deeron Of friends by the
lowest possible rate Of existence and by the uermost
prostration Of spirits quarter q million poor
lures hudded at one time in warehouses extempore
additions to them, and even than that number OF
habtatons swept from the earth. testify the almost
incredible straits to which the Irish population has
lately been reduced Health, streDgth, wealth hope
and life ITSELF have fled from these i'll fatei shores leav.
ing oenna miserable remnant cent nually more inca
OF Christian community. 1t must needs fare i'll with
the orphan the widow, the cripple aged and all tho
other feeble classes when the healthier element has been
filtered away and they left the dregs behind In
deed it Is due to those upon whom have devoved the
duties Of public charity in Ireland and dis
changed those duties hitherto with such indifferent
to observe that their burden has been aggravated
as we'll as their hearts hardened by the continus flight
If those who should have borne the burden in the first
instance These miseres and difficulties too have not
been equally difused the whole island Their ope
ration has been concentrated in certain districts and
rendered thereby more potent and disastrous. This will
be she by the details of the As to the exact
proportion Of the various contributing to the
whole decrease Of two millions the will give us
but partial assistance 1t will not tell Us the premature
deaths the deficiency of births. nor IL there
gistraton in Ireland to supply these facts 1t will not
tell except in the rough the mgrations to foreign
countries this island; is it easy to see how we
shall obtain exact information on these points
One singular result out on comparison OF the
British and Irish 1t appears that the aggregate
population Of these islands is only about half million
than II ten years and that instead OF in
creaspg the Of thousand day as is generally
supposed have only increased at the rate Of thou
sand week; is there any immediate probability OF
the rate being considerably increased.