Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1865-12-01

\ WAESING. immigrants are now much sought
after, with the view Of cOnyeIt.ng them into Farm
laburers and hence immigration agents have started
m here and there 1t behooves hirers TO he
careful what Kind Of raw stock they get nasmuch
a. tAer, Is danger of bad characters being imported
here out of the vast supply of that class with which
| New York is furnished by the British Government.
| This assertion may aStouish some people, but III
pr,of thereof we submit the following extract from
| The twrnty-second annual report OF the New ork
Association tor the Relief of the Poor. II says:
The Board have learned with regret that the Brit
iSh Government still persists in the shipment Of con-
vcted ielons TO this country. Previous reports oi
this Association have referred to this disgracetul
method OF rddmg themselves of thieves, burglars,
| eauoters and cut-throats' by paying their passage
money and transporting them to this country The
fac; that they Smugged or exported Clandcstlnc-
iy. implies the part OF the English authorities,
conscious meanncSs in the act which they are will
| mg To do. but ashamed TO avow. The miserable
Suhteriules IeSured to, do not dctraCt from the in
Jury and insult they are in this way inhcting upon
! u But these OutcastS, through all their steathy
DISCUSSES, are occasionally detected and sent back
tp their own country The ungenerOus course puI'
sued in re gard % this class of immigrants though
long known 20 our state authorities has not, III
most cases, been so identified with foreign govern
mental sanction, aS to warrant the re>hpment OF The
criminals. Lattcrly, however the proceedings O
the London prison officials have become more open
aud the ais OF that metropolis, we learn, are ire
uurut'N cleared, anu many Ot the cOnNlctS are sem
by the London Prisoners Aid Society to Oul
shore. These well known facts have recently re
ceiyti additional confirmation by the afidavits o
several of these released criminals who, having been
shipped from England by the official authorities,
were arrested in this city aud on their examination
seycyd!ly verified each others testimony
The Daily NeIrs, speaking Of the crimes in Great
Britain, says
Now, we have some statistics which prove The
faslty vi the 'odious comparison" and which place
Ireland in proper light in this category They al,
taken from the judicial journals OF last year, an(
vouchcd for by the officials utruSted with their pre-
parltion. From these we learn that there are iewe
known thieves in Ireland than in England-ffty
nine per cent. fewer-allowing even for difference o
population. or all classes of criminals Ireland haC
In the wear named, thrty-four per cent less "knowI
or suspected criminals in prison or at large thar
England and " ales
-Of crimes reported in Ireland" says the report
lin lSo4, and not disposed of summarily there wcp
10 s65. and of persons apprehended 6T7I. In En-
land in 1863 there were 80 2ll crimes reported an,
3n4IO convictions. Had the Irish offences beel
complrativclv as large as the English, they would
instead Of numbering 1855, have amounted t,
l4Iu."
This settles the question to the greater crimi-
nility of Ireland and puts it beyond doubt that the
Insulting boasts of the English moraists had no
foundation outside OF the motive which generated
them