The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-05-04
Irish Emigration.

The emigration statistics of ireland
or 1882, compiled by the Registrar
General of Ireland have been issued as
parliamentary paper. The number
Of emigrants who left Irish ports in the
year was 1856, an increase of 10,S47 as
compared with 1881, the number of
males being 1926, or 6,929 more than
the previous year, and of females A.
800, an increase of 3,918. Of the total
number of emigrants 80, 1876 were natives
Of Ireland, and 430 were persons be-
longing to other countries. Of the
natives of Ireland who left in 1882, 49,
)57, or 1876 per 1000 of the population
Of the province in 1881, were from
Leinster; 28,848, or 21.7 per 1000 from
Munster; 26,O81, or $50 per 1000, from
Ulster, and IS, $50, or 22.1 per 1000,
from Connaught-th total number be-
ing equal to 17.2 per 1000 of the popu-
lation of Ireland in 1881. The total
number of Irish emigrants who left the
Irish ports from the 1st of May, 1851
(the date at which the collection of the
returns commenced), to the 31st of De-
eember, 1882, was 1904, 74O-1, 493, $50
males and 1911, 100 females. Emigra-
ton from Ireland steadily increased
from 81, 587 in 1S76-the year in which
the smallest number was registered-to
38,503 in 1877, Al, 124 in 1878, Al, 065 in
1879, while in 1880 the number rose to
91,517, but fell in 1881 to 7S,417. In
the decade from 1866 to 1875 the aver
age number was "A, 667, and in the pre-
ceding decade, from 1856 to 1865, the
average number of emigrants per an
mum amouted to 1922, while in the
four preceding years, from 1852 to 1855,
che number averaged 14S, 1886 annually.
The numbers fluctuated from 100, 322 in
1852 to 81, 5S7 in 1876. 1t appears that
74.8 per cent. of the persons who
left Ireland in 1882 were between
the ages of fifteen and thirty-five
years, the percentage over that
age being 9.8, and of children
under Is years 1874. The corresponding
percentages in 1881 were rs, 9.3, and
l4.7 respectively. The proportion OF
the emigrants in 1882 who were from
ID to 35 years of age was less than in
1880 and 1881, but greater than in 1877,
1878 and 1879; in 1881, it was 100; in
1880, 75.7; in 1879, 1872; in 1873, 6S.5,
and in 1877, 67.2 per cent. Of the total
number of Irish emigrants last year,
70, 4S0, or $50 per cent. went to the
colonies or to foreign countries, and
1866, or 12.0 per cent. to Great Britain.
The United States of America in 1882
absorbed 65,972, or "a. per cent. of the
entire number of emigrants, compared
with an average of 43,544, or 66.4 per
cent, on the four preceding years. The
numbers to New Zealand, which had
increased from 1924 in 1873 to 3, 160 in
1879, decreased to 492 in 1881, and fell
to $50 in 1882. Emigration to Canada
showed very large increase in 1882
compared with 1881, the numbers being
1858 in 1882 and 2,916 in 1881. The
emigrants to Australia in 1882 num-
bered 4,6l4 against 2,795 in 1881, 2,57G
in 1880, 1862 in 1879 and 4,251 in 1878.
Of the 256 persons to "other countries"
81 went to Buenos Ayres, 172 to South
Africa, Is to various parts of Europe, 8
to Asia and to the West Indies. Of
the 1866 persons who left Ireland with
the intention of settling permanently in
Great Britain. 1884 went to England
and Wales and 1852 to Scotland. The
averages for the four preceding years
were 1881 and 6,198 respectively. Of
the A, 246 males who emigrated in the
year, 32,955, or 69.S per cent, were re-
turned as laborers. In 1881 the proper
ton of laborers to the entire male emf
grafton was 68.4, and in 1880, IS. l per
cent. The instances among males in
which no occupation was specified only
numbered $500, which includes 1883
children under 10 years of age. Of the
1890 females who emigrated in 1882,
"a, 1923 were returned as servants, 1854
as housekeepers, 2,0SS as seamstresses,
$50 as dress-makers and milliners and
230 as mill-workers. The ''unspecified,"
including wives and children, number
II ,945.-LOndOn Times.
A.