Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-05-08
IRISH EMIGRATION.
Nearly 100000 People Leave the Green
Island in 1880, Most of Them for

Nearly 100000 People Leave the Green
Island in 1880, Most of Them for
America.
London Times.
A Parliamentary paper has been issued
containing the emigration statistics OF Ire
land for the year 1880. The number of
emigrants who left Irish ports during the
year was 90, 857, an increase of 46, 493 as
compared with 1879; the number OF males
being 80, 1S9, or "a, ia more than IN the
previous year, and of females, 45, 66o, an
increase of "a ,319. All the emigrants except
$40 were natives of Ireland OF the 80, 5I7
persons, natives of Ireland, wholeft in 1880,
Is, 169, 12.1 per l, 900 of the population OF
the province in 1871, were from Leinster +;
80, 654, or % per- 1000, from Munster /;
%, 122, or 1873 per 1000, from Ulster; and
20, $40, or 24.2 per 1000, from Connaught,
the total number being equal to 176 per
1000 of the population in III. The
total number of native emlgrants
from the LIST of May, 1851, (the
date at which the collection OF
these returns commenced), to Dec. II, 1850,
is 2, 637, 1877, 406, 476 males and l, 2oO, III
females. During these thirty years the an
nual numbers of emigrants have Huctuated
between 19O 1922 in 1852 and 81, 5S7 in 1876.
Since 1876 the numbers have been steadily
increasing The number of 2, 637, 1877 ma
tive emigrants who have left Ireland during
the last thirty years represents proportion
of 45. 5 per cent. of the population, accord
ing to the census of 1861; Munster having
contributed CO.'S per cent. of its population,
Ulster 4O7 per cent, Connaught 36.o per
cent, and Leinster 1873 per cent. Of the
persons who left Ireland in 1880, 1877 per
cent. were between the ages of Is and 35
years, the percentage over that age being 10,
and of children under Is years 14.3. The
percentage of 1877 is considerably over that
of some recent years-in 1879 it was 1872 3;
in 1878, 68.5; in 1877, 67.2, and in 1876,
&c., Of the 95,517 native emigrants of
1880, 81 1868, or 85.S per cent. Went 20 for
eign countries or the colonies, and Ii, $40,
or 14.2 per cent. to Great Britain. Com
pared with the four previous years,
commencing with 1876, in which
wear the destinations were first registered
the United States of America absorbed, in
1880 IA, 636, or 70.1 per cent. of the entire
number, as against an average of 16, 246, OF
1876 per cent. Emigration to Canada
has also considerably increased, while that
to Australia and New Zealand has dismin-
ished In the emigration to Great Britain
there has been remarkable decrease-the
numbers being 7,741 for England and Wales
and 5,S0S for Scotland in 1880, as compared
with 1906 and 1885 respectively in the
four preceding years. : Nearly, one-half-
| 3,S61-of the number who went to Eng
| land and Wales in 1880 were Munster PEG
pie, and of the 5,S00 who went to Scotland
no less than 1926 were from the province
of Ulster, 1862 of these being natives Of
the county Antrim. Of the so, 1S1 male.
who emigrated from ireland during the
year, 36,68S, or 73.1 per cent. were re
turned as laborers." In 1879 the proper
| ton of laborers to the entire male imigra
ton was 66.1, and in 1878, 60.4 per cent
Next to laborers come farmers. In 1880 a
many as 1894 of these emigrated, as com
pared with 874 i'll 1879 and 500 in 1878
Of the IS, sos female emigrants in 1880
30, 304 were returned as servants"