The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-01-21
:, !, From the London T'iinesof Jsn. End.

discovered more Than century, d contin,fot,.
stream had set across the Atlantic FINN ,he
Southwestern countries Of Earope, and ne
cities, cathedrals, colleges, and empires were
the Gulpil Of Mexico and on The ahores n ,hs
Pacific. But there was not one Enel;shman.
as far as history informs us, in the New World.
Adyenturers, some of them the grea,est minds
OF the age, had proposed schemes for colonies
and some had paid the penalty OF their nobls
enthusiasm by lives Of misery and deaths of
disgrace. The sixteenth century, however,
was lost TO British enterprise, and it remained
for the weakness of the Stuarts to effect thar
which had surpassed the strength of the Tu-
dors.s Two centuries and haif, tund no more.
have passed since the -6rst, Englishman found
rest for the sole of his foot in America, and
already we see an independent and powerful
empire Of twenty four millions, some fosrish
ing provinces, comprehending three or four
millions, and numerous fertile Islands, peo-
pied mainly with descendants of our fofefath-
efs. But what acinaliyexistsi only the be.
ginning OF q grandeur which seems destined
to surpass all the precedents and the very con.
cepiions Of the Old World. IF the population
of the United States only keep up the same
rate OF increase as il has, with great uniformi-
~, for the last go years, before our school,
poys become old men it will amount to a hun
dfed millions, and little more than century
1t viii be two hundred millions. These isles.
which did not contribute one permanent set
tier to America from its discovery to the reie n
OF our James l., arenow contributing a thou.
sand7a day. All Ireland is thrown into the u.
STATES AS IN vast laboratory some master
workman reserves one material ill another is
apgmeated to lis due bulk and rpened to it's
proper consistency, and then no longer hesi-
tates TO throw in the new ingredient, the Celtic
race, long md mysteriously reserved in it's
aboriginairudeness and intfactability is poured
INTO the very heart of the Anglo. o.American no.
pniatlon, forced through all It's channels. and
driven to its most distant recesses. A mighty
power unites and assimilates that vi which SEEM
ed irreconcilable. E
| ~
The change which has taken place IN the
population and condition of Ireland is made
quately expressed in the fact, prodigious as il
is, that during the ten years ending with 1850
about 100000 have emigrated from that
island. That calculation is itself below the
truth, for 1t assumes the emigration from Ire
land into Great Britain to be no more than
that from Great Britain to the colonies or for
eign countries. The change is inadequately
expressed in the gloomy figures at the foot Of
the census return, putting the decennial de.
crease at ,659, 800. There are two ifnpor.
tant considerations that must aggrayate the
populntion of Irish cities and towns has very
generally increased during the ten years in
cluded in the census. Dublin, Cork, Lime
rick, Waterford, Belfast, Galway, aud many
other places of which return has moi vet been
made, have increased, either from their own
comparative prosperity, or from the influx al
refugees from the neighboring determinations.
When these towns, therefore. are deducted,
the depopulation of the rural districts is much
greater than appears in the grand total; and
that depopularion. we know, is still going on.
The second consideration is the greatly in
creased proportion of women, and the proba-
bilty of the disproportion being increased
instead of diminished.
In the year 1871, with a total population
of 8, ,l75, ia, the excess of women over men
was I35, ,972. Had the same proportion been
found under the diminished population of 1851
the excess would have been only about I0S,.
900. The actual excess Of women, however
in 1851, as appears from the census, was 162,
$40. 1t, then, the former excess was natural
| and proper one, the latter excess was $4,000
| beyond the natural proportion, and there is
| now that number of women in ireland beyond
the demands-that Isl lbeyond the usual female
OF rcupations OF the country. This faetiassumes
still further gravity when it is considered thai
| the census of this metropolis and other popu
lous districts of Great Britain, exhibits SINH.
| lar result so that there is not much prospect o
| the redundant women of Ireland being absorb.
| ed in this country. The increased excess o
women cannot but have injurious consequences
| in an island which offers so little female en-.
| ployment-where houses of better class
| good shops, and manufactures are so few
| The fact suggests grave doubt whether, after
all, il is wise to leave Irish emig ration so en-.
| tireiy to spontaneous and accidental causes:
and whether for our own good al home, as well
as for the colonies, it may not be worth while
| TO promote female emigration at the public ex.
| pense on much larger scale than has hitherto
| been attempted. Ess.a se siIf 8
| As for Ireland herself we. resign ourselves
| without reserve, though not entirely without
Inisgiving, TO her continued depopulation until
only half or q. third of the nine millions
claimed fJr her by O'Connell remain. We may
possibly live 10 see the day when her chje
! produce will be cattle, and English and
| Scotch the majority of her population. The
nine or ten millions who BY that time will have
settled in the United States cannot we'll bf
| much less friendly, and will certainly be much
| better customers, than they now are. When
the Celt has crossed the Atlantic, he begins
for the time in his life, to consume the manu-,
| factures of this country, and indirectly 10 con-
trbuteto IFS customs. Unquestionably there
| is much that is consolatory, and even confor.
table, the extraordinary turn that We wifnes,
in Irish affairs. We have said that, while we
willingly acquiesce in il, we cannot do so with.
out shadow of misgiying. Sinew and bone
af,er all, are no. contemplate consideration
A whole people are not 10 beldespised, and
dismissed as if they were rubbish. We may
miss those whom We lose. Brethren are made
for adversty, and should thar hour come. we
| may have reason to remember the sorrosing
departure ofseyeral millions Of broad should
ers and stalwart fo.m ms, containing hearts
which. with all their feyersh cravings and tu-
multuous passions, were never known 10 be
craven or untrue in the presence of foreign
foe. -. - q
| Loss Of the Steamer Cambridge.
| BALriMoaE, Jan.l7, 1851 noticed in my