The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-08-23

PBOPLpa NEW WoRLDs.--The twenty-sixth
report of the Emigration Commissioners, lust
issued, states that in the tfty-one years tnat
have elapsed since 1914 there nave iels me 0ySo @
Kingdom 5,9O1, $40 emigTants, OF whom 3,ogI,le9;
or nearly 81 per cent, have gone TO the Onlted
states of America, 2,177,S50 to British colonies,
and 1851 to other places. Of the composlhQn
of this emigration in the earlier years the com
missiopers do not venture to offer an opinion;
but of the 827, $50 who have left the United
Kingdom during the last twenty-five years, they
believe that upwards Of so per cent. were irish,
and that of these the great bulk have gone to
the United states. The Irish emigration may
be calculated at an average of upwards of
ll6OO0 a, year during the whole OF that period,
which is considerably more than the natural
increase of the people could supply. The reduc-
tion of the population of Ireland In the last
twenty-five Years is thus to a great extent
accounted for irrespective Of the mortality IN
year 1865 was 2O9,S0l, of whom there we're
English, 6l,345; Scotch, 1850; Irish,
1O0,676; foreigners, 2s,6l9; not distinguished,
629t total, 2Os,sOl. The Irish emf
whole, and 1914 per cent. Of the emigrauts who
went to the United States. There were among
the Irish who went to the United States 81, ,943
single men, being in the proportion of 3S to
the whole lIish emigration. OF the emicrants
to the United States an British North America
1923, or 73 IL per cent, proceeded IN steam
vessels, and ,546 in sailing vessels. The pro-
portion OF those who went in steam vessels was
IluCu larger Indu III any previous year, anu tto
the average price of passage in those vessels was
from 30 to 90 per cent. higher than in sailing
vessels, the extent TO which they were resorted
to is proof that there was no pecuniary dis
tress among the emigrants. The resort to steam
vessels is now so general that from the CLYDE
there were no sailing vessels carrying emigrants
last year, nor from Liverpool were there any
such vessels to British North America. The
mortality, as far as the commissioners have
returns, amounted in steam vessels to '0i DER
cent, in sailing ships to 10 per cent In the
emigration to Australia and New Zealand there
is a decrease as compared with 1854 OF 1869. and
as compared with 1868 of III. The principal
decrease is in the emigration to Victoria -
PdH Mall Gazette.
HoNoRs TO A GEoLoGIsT.-A bronze statue of
Andre Dumont, the celebrated Belgian geolo-
gist was erected at Lioge last month. The
King and Queen attended the opening Cere-
monies Dumont was the aulhor of q "Memou
Of The Geology OF the Province OF Liege,n for
which he received the medal of the Belgium
Academy and the Wollaston medal of the Geo
logical Society of London in lS40
ENGLAND's ExPENsEs.-It is remarked in Eng
land that although Earl Derby's Government
has been in power only month, 1t has already
increased the expenditure by close upon hall
million pounds. OF this goodly proportion
is for breeCh.loaders and a turret ship.
GRASS PAPER. The proprietor of L'oyGS
Newspaper, in London, has Just imported two
hundred and seventy tons OF Esparto grass
from Algeria, Tor the manufacture OF paper fol
that journal. The cost of this kind OF paper
is one-half that of the linen fabric.