Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1860-05-24

.7.s r..5... DepcpulatiOn Of Ireland. "a r...r
The present condition Of ireland is represented bv
~ nuos English writer's az exhiatng great appearances
prosperity The working Of the Encumbered Esafea
@ MEASURE originally suggested by Sir Robert Peel.
anu nnaly pueinto shape by the late John Salierl ID
WIN tni: prosperity The facts however, show
condluon It affairs, and are themselves not to
w GoYefnment writer's becauSU thew are
collected and exhibited by Government Officials '-0
The Registrar General Of Ireland, Mr. noralIv verv
recently issued his annual tables for ls5o me- to
points to these to which we here desire to r atts
ton are the estimated average produce of crops for tho
year 1859, and the emigration from Irish ports durnr
the same period. ..r3t qs5fL ! 1851 q II .
1t is shown by evidence collected all over Ireland by
the excellent machinery of the Registrars Office that
here was great dimnution in the yield of the crops in
1907 compared with the previous year the cereals pro-
duced less by 1183 519 quarters Potatoes show de-
crease OF 5627O2 tons, about sufficient to supply
every family In ireland, averaging five persons to
family, with stone of potatoes each day for nearly two
months and half turnips show reduction Of 9O2717
tons mangod-wurtze of 96477 TONS cabbage of 81 487
tons and hay of 379,227 tons The only crop which
SHOWS an increase the important one Of fax which
eueu o'sS4 IONS above the produce in 1863 but this
was OWING 10 44656 acres having been sown in
1897 1t appears from other returns furnished that the
rates OF produce per in 1859 were lower Than the
average of ten years-l850 to 1S59-for every cron
with the exception of wheat cereal crop which Is
chiefly exported The dminuton Of laborers in the ag
rcultura parts of ireland may account in degree
for the above amentable state of thngsor one of the
finest and most fertile countries in the world perpetuay
becoming deterorated and depopulated This is fact,
supplied by the British Government and not to be de-
MED or challenged. .-a ..r--f-
From the Registrar Generals report we quote the
following interesting details which show that the exodus
OF the Irish peasantry continues undiminished
The emigration from Irish ports during the past
year exceeded that of the previous by 1896 per-
sons, 60093 having left the country in 1885, and a.
500 in 1859; Of this latter amount 6,43l were males
and 49, l67 females These include 2,679 males and l.
32l females, or 1900 persons, who did not belong to
Ireland leaving the remaining 80590 to represent the
emigration of the Irish during 1859. Owing to the
continued want of general measure for tie registration
of births and deaths in this country it necessary in
the computations to the averages of these events in
England and Wales given in the reports of the Re-
gistrar General The births therefore assumed to
have been to 81 and the deaths to 45 of the
population in each year. 1t is greatly to be regretted
that there not satisfactory data upon which to
base this important and interesting calculation and it
earnestly to be desired that this session Of Parliament
may not pass without supplying great want il
the social legislation Cf this art of the United King
DOM which presents the strange anomaly of being the
only civilized country in the world in which the births,
deaths and marriages of the inhabitants not syste
naticaly recorded. According to the computation
there would appear to have been in Ireland the LIST
of January of the present year, 5988820 PERSONS be-
ing less than at the time of the of 1851
This estimate, however, should only be considered
approximation the immigrants who have settled per-
udueULy III InS SlHCe 1901 uOt lutO
account and the number of the births and deaths during
the period has been obtained by using the English
erages. The emigration continues to be chiefly COM
posed Of persons between the ages of five and fyve
years thus in Leinster 935; in Munster, 92.3; in
Ulster, OLA and in Connaught, 1858, in every
hundred persons who emigrated were between these
ages The proportion who left the entire country at
these ages 92.2 per cent while those aged from ff
teen to fOrtyfve included 500 in every one hundred
emgrans OF the entire number of emigrants the lar
gest proportion from the county and city of Cork
which contributed than II per cent. OF the total
emigration The other counties and cities in Munster
also gave large proportion owing to which it would
appear that this province lost greater number of its
inhabitants by emigration since 1851 than either Lem
ster, Ulster. or Connaught."
A country which is thus deserted by its laboring
classes cannot be considered prosperous. Let us just
examine the main fact in the above extract. ---
The population of Ireland appears to have been rap
| the depopulatDg famine of 1867. We shall here
show the population of Ireland at various periods during
the last forty years