The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-05
Irish Emigration.

The emigration statistics OF Ireland
for 1882, compiled by the Registrar
General of Ireland, have been issued as
parliamentary paper. The number
of enicrants who left Irish ports in the
wear was 80. 500, an increase of 10,S47 as
compared with 1881, the number of
males being 1926, or 1929 more than
che previous year, and of females 49,
800. an increase of 1913. OF the total
number of emigrants 80, 136 were natives
of Ireland, and 430 were persons be-
longing to other countries. Of the
natives of Ireland who left in 1882, &c.
O57. or 1926 per 900 of the population
of the province in 1881, were from
Leinster; 2S,848, or 21.7 per 1000 from
Munster; 1881, or $50 per 1000, from
Ulster, and 1880, or 22.1 per 1000,
from Connaught-the 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 LIST of May, 1851
(the date at which the collection of the
returns commenced), to the 3lst of De-
cember, 1882, was 2,804, 740-1, 493, $50
males and 1,311, $50 females. Emigra-
ton from Ireland steadily increased
from 81, 587 in 1976-the year in which
the smallest number was registered-to
3S,503 in 1877, Al, 124 in 1873, AZ, 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 8S,272, while in the
four preceding years, from 1852 to 1856,
the number averaged 14S,985 annually.
The numbers fluctuated from 100, 322in
1852 to 81, 587 in 1876. 1t appears Tat
74.8 per cent. of the persons Who
left Ireland in 1882 were between
the ages of fifteen and thirtyfive
years, the percentage over that
age being 9.8, and of children
under Is years 15.4. The corresponding
percentages in 1881 were 76, 93, and
14.7 respectively. The proportion of
the emigrants in 1882 who were from
10 to 80 years of age was less than in
1880 and 1881, but greater thal in 1877,
1878 and 1879; in 1881, it was 100; in
1880, 75.7; in 1879, 1872; in 1878, 6S.5,
and in 1877, 67.2 per cent. Of the total
number of Irish emigrants last year,
7S,4S0, or $50 per cent went to the
colonies or to foreign countries, and
1866, or 12.0 percent. to Great Britain.
The United States of America in 1882
absorbed 65,972, or 74.0 per cent. of the
entire number of emigrants, compared
with an average of 1854, or 664 per
cent, on the four preceding years. The
numbers to New Zealand, which had
increased from 1924 in 1873 to 3, 100 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
7,26S in 1882 and 2,916 in 1881. The
emigrants to Australia in 1882 num-
bered 4,614 against 1916 in 1881, 1876
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, 3
to Asia and 2 to the West Indies. OF
the 10, 656 persons who left Ireland with
the intention of settling permanently in
Great Britain, 1884 went to England
ana w aleS ana 0,oIZ 10 scotland. The
averages for the four preceding years
were 1881 and 6,19S respectively. OF
the AZ, 246 males who emigrated in the
year, 80, 955, or 69.8 per cent, were re-
turned as laborers. In 1881 the proper
ton of laborers to the entire male emil
grafton was 6S.4, and in 1880, 731 per
cent. The instances among males in
which no occupation was specified only
numbered $500, which includes 1888
children under 10 years of age. OF the
AZ, 800 females who emigrated in 1882,
"a, 623 were returned as servants, 1854
as housekeepers, 2,0S8 as seamstresses,
582 as dress-makers and milliners and
230 as mill-workers. The ''unspecifed, :"
including wives and children, number
II, 945.-London Times.