The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-10-22


26 ID in the emigration To the Australian colonies,
and 1886 in that to the United States. In Tho
emigration 70 British North America there 10
We estimate the Irish emigration of the four years
ending with 1862 at
ls4e ......... lis, s47 1851. ......... 254,537
1850. .2la,s4g 1851 -; "a 49,; $50
1853 may be estimated st 1895
The number Of foreigners who emigrated from the
United Kir gdom in 1853 was 81 ,459, OF whom IL
7sl emigrated from Liverpool, and s,46l non Lon
The following table shows the number Of ship
' - gss;s:.. Pa.'sr' q Crew.
Char. cred by this Board ;. l33 l4o,3oo None.
From port. under smigra' !. az 400
Fro m ports not under emil
grafton officers. ...... 1911 Is s7,ns lSs
Total. o. 2,sil,l7s 1867
With respect to the mortality on board passenger
ships the accounts show that in thirteen ships wAsh
sailed for New YoI between the sth Of August and
the 22d Of October, carrying 1873 passengers, the
deaths amounted to 1855, equal TO 9.69 per cent.
That In ship carrying $50 passengers, IS deaths
occurred, equal to 1912 per cent In another, Car.
10 1926 per cent; and in another, carrying 52s pas
sengers, IS Deaths equal to l425 per cent.
1t appears from the returns made to IA that there
sailed for Australia in 1853, exclusive Of the ships
chartered by this board les passenger ships carry
ing 81 l65 passengers. In addition to which there
were $50 "short ships" not carrying sufficient
number to bring them under the Passengers Act,
carrying AIS passengers making total Of s4,57o
In New South Wales new principle has been in.
troduced Of great important and which, it sue
ceeds, will effect considerable change in the po-
sition Of the emgrants selected and cent out by this
board. The object Of this change is to make the
emigration to agreat extent selEsupporting. With
this view, the price Of passage to . frstclass emf
grant is fixed ct fl3 and to the second class at Els
and these amounts are required 30 be paid by on
account OF each emgrant either in this country or
In the colony.
To carry out the scheme, an act was passed by
the Legislature, providing that all emigrants sent
out at the expense Of public funds, should before
to repay the amount still remaining due from them
within fourteen days Of their arrival in the colony,
or to take service for two years with an employer
who should undertake to repay that amount out Of
their accluiDg wages. But power is reserved to
the engrant to terminate such agreements after the
first twelve months, by giving three months notice,
and paying up the unpaid instalments OF the passage
money.
This scheme isnow in operation, and since Feb
ruary last We have chartered nine ships, of which
We have despatched four, carrying lA77 emigrants,
under this 8 heme. And we have . very large num-
Der Of spp cations for passages to New South Wales
now before us.
To Victoria, where the land fund, during the first
three quarters Of 1852 amounted to FL 004 $780, aud
to South Australia, where the Legislature has not
Gas at Sydney anticipated the produce Of that
revenue, We have been able to continue steady
supply Of emigrants, at a rate rather exceeding
1000 month to the former and 400 to the latter
tralia, by aid Of the parliamentary vote, we have
despatched only limited humble, of emigrants, in
GLIDING t. e families Of convcts re commended for
passage by the authorities. To the former colony
we desr atched 93l souls, and to the latter SS7.
In order to secure In the government emigx alton
that preponderance Of females which Ii required to
counter balance the spontaneous influx of ales, out
Of 1905 unmarried persons sent out by US, (be-
o1d ncA s,yanA Ro,n nlAn
and 5,008 males. In Victoria, where the demand
fer women is greatest, the excess is prsp0rt0naly
much greater, 8, 049 single women above the age Of
fourteen having been sent out, against Ill single
men.
We state last year, that the mortality which had
taken plafe in some OF ships bad led US to dis.
COZ tinue the employment Of large ships and to re-
time to relax respecting the nonacceptance Of fa-
miles having large number Of young children.
The proportion Of children to the whole emigration,
which in 1852 was 1928 per cent, or rather more
than third Of the whole, has thus been reduced in
1858 to 1921 per cent or rather more than fourt
and we are glad to observe that the total mortality
on vessels despatched during last year. 50 far Is yet
reported, mad materially lessened being among the
whole number Of emigrants l.69 while on the ves-
sells despatched during 1862 it was, among the
adult LIS, among the children 1881, and ON the
whole number embarked, 6.07 per cent.
NEW SOUTH WALEs.-The total receipts on &C
count Of tie land revenue, were COT SAG 1885, 1ld.
At theend OF 1862 the population Of New South
Wales amounted to 2os 254 souls being an increase
between the sexes is considerable, the numbers be.
ing 1882 males to 89,567 females, An excess Of
20, l20 males. But as the excess of males on the
year 1869 Was only 22i, notwithstanding an ex ,ess
Of male immigrants In the year Of no less than H.,
S76. The explanation Of this contrast is supplied by
the fact that, in 1852, males and only 1,264
females emigrated by sea to Victoria.
In 1879 the uuantitv If land under crnO within
the settled districts wss $50 643 acres being some
what less than in the previous yesr; but the Guilt
Walton Of the vine was extending, and there were
produced in 1862 nearly 10 600 more gallons Of wine
than in 1861.
The imports and exports were also upon the in.
crease; the declared value Of the former having
amounted in 1851 to sl,563,93l,. and in 1852 to
fl,796,9l2 in 1861 to "a GOA .O34 in 1852 But the
latter sum included f2,660 946 for gold, which in
the previous year had amounted TO only Gags ,336.
The incre ase in ton years Is immense, a. l843
total value Of the exports was only fs9464s. In
1852 the total export Of wool was IL 1854 096 lbs,
which was diminution on that Of 1851 of Ill 5S9
lbs but, nevertheless, the export was larger in 1862
than in any year previous to l647.
In the year le43 the total number Of convictions
for all offences was $780, while in 1862 there were
only 527. Litigation during the same period has
also very greatly decreased since there were tried
IN lS43 as many as 652 causes in 1852 actually less
The total revenue Of 1862 amounted to 1852 1877
Is ID, and the expenditure to f6O0 1922 0s. I'd.
The numbers OF emigrarts despat he'd TO New
South Wales in the course of last year were as fol-
lows:-By Government 1902; unasaisted, 3,671;
total, 1868. OF those sent out by this board, q
very large proportion were females; while Of the
unassisted So per cent were males.
The rum received by us last January was flO0, 000
and we have since had advice of further remit
lance of like sum. In fsmtting the first f100 900
should be despatched, Until the money was ex
pended In the uonth Of January we chartered
one vessel expressly to take out the nominees OF
colonial depostors, but since the receip. Of insruc
February, we have, as we have already stated, char
tered nine ships, and alreaty despatched four
rying CIT emigrants and the remaicing five, car.
rJipg about 100 adults, will sail before the end Of
this month.
vICT oRIA.-Tte amount Of land sales effected in
Victoria during the year 1852 seem, by the detailed