The New York herald., 1870-01-23

Emlsratioa from the British YsIes asd Ger.
many-Ths Material Necessities or che Old
World Peoples.
The emigrant rush from the British islands
and Germany to countries abroad increases
in volume and, apparently, in intensity
Of spirit and earnestness Of purpose. One
hundred and seventy-two thousand seven
hundred and thirty-one persons embarked
at the port. Of Liverpool during the year
1861 larger total Of voluntary British
exiles fleeing from the land Of their birth
than that which has been seen there since tho
year lS52-the year Of the most extreme social
suffering consequent on the effects OF the Irish
famine. Ninety-three thousand six hundred
and seven of the gross number were subjects
Of Queen Victoria. Forty-four thousand
seven hundred and seventy-lve are classed as
foreigners" being for the most part natives
of the Continental countries-Germans par
ticularly, who went to Liverpool to take ship.
Fifty-seven thousand three hundred and
twenty of the whole number were English,
seven thousand two hundred and thirty-one
Scotch and twenty y-nine thousand and ffty-six
Irish. The Irish figure appears small but we
must recollect that the great bulk Of the
exodus from Ireland is just now conducted
directly from Irish ports. Some Of the British
emigrants went to Australia; but the great
majority of all, no matter of what nationality,
came to the United States.
These highly interesting statistical returns
20 to prove still more conclusively the grand
politico- economic and chronological facts that
man will and must move in the direction
which presents the most profitable opening for
the exercise Of his industry, as well ss
the greatest certainty for the attainment
of an equitable compensation for his
labor. The Gladstone disendowment Of
the Irish Church does not serve to keep the
Irishman at home. He is very we'll content to
permit Professionalism to go ito the deuce" 10
its own way and according to Parliamentary
fashion, so that he can get off to land where
he is sure to obtain "a fair days wages for
fair days work." The 'sman of Tipperary"
does not wait to learn the result of the "great
thing. of the return of ODonovan Rosss to
Parliament but HES away to New York,
determined to qualify himself as soon as he
possibly can for seat in the New York
Municipal Council or the Legislature at
Albany. 1t is the same case-in cause and
result-as was so we'll put by Sydney Smith
in the words -" 'Erin-go- -Bfagh nonsense;
let the cry be, erin 60 bread and cheese;
Erin 20 pantaloons without holes in them.'
mt - Il; rtor fra ohi
to the masses, the reduction and equalization
of the public taxes, the reform Of the criminal
law, the abolition Of the law of Imprisonment
for debt, with the personal condescensions
OF the Queen and aristocracy, do not serve to
bind the Englishman to home in which tho
fluctuations between the earning of q bare
competency for to-day and the prospect Of .
domiciIe inside the walls of poorhouse to-
morrow, are too sudden for his present
home comfort and too sharp in the realistic
extinction of his hopes for the future prosperity
of his children. German consolidation, with
its accompanying and pleasing attestation OF
the popular national power, does not serve to
restrain the educated, Industrious plodding
Teuton in the land of military draft, of royalty,
of complex taxations and feudal baroaial
service and rents, and hence he fees to that
off.ee churches, free schools, free democracy,
free army organization and free lager, with
plenty of s'stamps" and ''greenbacks" pouring
in from free labor. We announced in
our issue on Friday morning that the
ice was broken up in the Elbe, the
rl oR on tho
of January, and that it remained drifting,
I with the rivers still opening, on the 9th
| inst. This important meteorological fact will
give great impetus to an early, steady and
voluminous emigration from Vaterland to our
shores, so that, what with q great flow OF
people and money from abroad, New York
| may prepare for an early and profitable
spring trade, and the HERALD for the accom-.
| mediation of a still increased and increasing
advertising patronage.
This grand movement of the European peo-
ples westward is vastly aided by the working
of the penny postage system and cheap
ocean postal charges. It comes from the
evangelism Of the pen, the newspaper press,
steam and the telegraphs. Every mail steam
ship which leaves an American port for
Europe constitutes moving propaganda Of
modern enlightenment tending to elevate the
foreign peoples, and at the same time neutral
ize the consequences Of the stationary or
reactionary propaganda in Rome. This diffu-
sion of knowledge serves to render the era
! more glorious.
The only regret which we experience in con-
nection with the subject Of the European emf
| grafton comes from the fact that it is entirely
conducted under foreign flags, and that the
exile does not commence his career of per-
sonal regeneration on the very shore of his
old home by stepping on board steamships
showing the Stars and Stripes from the main
the emblem of his hopes and coming citizen