The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-05-22
The Immense Emigratlon rrom Europe.


Council Of Newark.
The Immense Emigration from Europe.
Our European files received by the Europa inform
that many twenty twoemgant took their
parture during the month of April from Liverpool bound
Soy the various ports Of the United States These twenty
Two vessels carried away fifteen thousand three hundred
sad forty persons. OF these ten thousand eight
hundred and twenty Eve Iish two thousand four
hundred and eighteen were English two hundred and
Gty five Scotch and eighteen hundred and forty
three natives Of other European countries but the
Ast nnmber made up almost entirely Of Germans.
be seen, by glancng at the returns Of the ship
masters that the aggregate thousands stated before who
went to form this huge human freight, entered as
serage passenger and hence may be freely received
BY democratic people constituting part and parcel
Of that class which once formed the countrys PRIDE
u Europe 1t s however, significant that, notwthstand-
ing the very paernal of the different governments
under which they born, the education which they
received love Of atherand which binds to the
place Of his birth, and the demand which now,
than ever, perhaps prevails in the Old World for the
commodity Of bone and sinew, many as fifteen thou
souls should, in one month, seek home in for
eigp land, and be compelled, at the very point
Of embarkaton, to learn the first lesson Of
the actual difference existing between and an
srisocra by ascertainng the ARTIFICIAL distinction be-
tween man in the cabin, who pays, and man
n the steerage, one who permitted to be-
able to pay and whose hazardous
conducted at the instance of class supposed to be supe
rior to that in which he born We merely mention
this fact in order to illustrate position which
tend to advance to the ee: that the Of
he millions in Europe when they reach the shore
on which they pause they hy from their heartbsn
and that life with its reborn energy and recruited
forx 1nu, in vsud
whore they received with hearty welcome a. TEL
low men
viewed In any other light, the emigration for the
past month might be attributed incidental causes
such as the opening out Of spring in the United King
dond the improved sanitary regulations observed
n emigrant ships the doubtful position which the
chief German Powers hold with regard to the royal and
jxuperial bellrerents who court the aid Of their
armed subjects We and however, that, notwithstanS
ing the severity of the winter sesentytwo ships left
during the quarter ended the 3lst Of March
INST The majority were bound to the United States,
and the remainder sailed for Australia. They carried
away seventy eight thousand three hundred and sixty
people, of whom already settled amongst u.s.
The immense emigration Of population from the one
sde Of the Atlantic, and its easy absorption on the
sther unerring evidences Of re vast differ
ence which exists betwessn tae adaptation of
Aoon~Ieno'"''ssS~ governments ana those reauy
resting on choice to the perfection Of human
bspiness. Troops Of persons who would have cousti-
tuted an army invasion If landed from foreign
try, in London Paris Vienna st. Petersburg, or Con-
utantnople have been thrown shores during the
st fortnight and easy the process Of assimilation
Of Kindred wh.h is progressing around us, that most
OF them find this comfor table quarters in their
second home.
During three days, counting from last Thursday
morning. we received from different European ports
twenty thousand seven hundred and sixteen strar:
gers, which accounts for the numbers which we
have already sad left Liverpool and includes all who
sailed from Bremen, Antwerp, Hamburg and HAVE In
this have the venerable burgher Of the
Hsnseatic Free Towns the peasant Of the Rhine valley
the erf Of Ireland the manufacturer and trader Of Eng
lAnd, and the hardy highlander Of Scotsud-wh their
wives children fathers mothers and household goods.
The at harbor and at the different railway
depots in this city, Friday and Saturday at
pleasing and cad. From Greenwich, Canal Hudson
West Broadway Leonard and Franklin Streets hundreds
of men, and children we're from an early hour
zee ling Of transit either to Western settle
suts or the fast improving towns which surround New
YORK At the depots old associations sundered fam
lily ties severed travelling acquaintance parted with,
ssd each out full Of hope for that destination
whore they convinced they would find home and
rent quitting actlVly winch perNAueu tAe PeoPfc
pleasant Witness but when reflected that forty
Eve ships lay At anchor ct the quarantine ground from
which hundreds of patients had been moved aborng
under smallpox, cholera, ship fever and other diseases
Incidental long winter passages Il considerably damped
the Joy which felt At the glorious sight and caused
fresh regret for the necessities which compelled
many to leave their homes. The appearance of the
healthy treasured us confident that the tenn
porary depression under which they labor viii quickly
disappear and that in the end the mighty emigration Of
Europe viii react for the developing of the Of
America and thus, by communication tend to elevate
the people Of the Old World by informing them Of the
rights wen the duties which their friends enjoy and
discharge in the New.