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EMIGRATION FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM.
Years. North
American Colonies.
United States. Australian
Colonies
and New
Zealand.
All other Places. Total.
1825 8,741 5,551 485 114 14891
1826 12,818 7,063 903 116 20900
1827 12,648 14,526 715 114 28003
1828 12,084 12,817 1,056 135 26092
1829 13,307 15,678 2,016 197 31198
1830 30,574 24,887 1,242 204 56907
1831 58,067 23,418 1,561 114 83160
1832 66,339 32,872 3,733 196 103140
1833 28,808 29,109 4,093 517 62527
1834 40,060 33,074 2,800 288 76222
1835 15,573 26,720 1,860 325 44478
1836 34,226 37,774 3,124 293 75417
1837 29,884 36,770 5,054 326 72034
1838 4,577 14,332 14,021 292 33222
1839 12,658 33,536 15,786 227 62207
1840 32,293 40,642 15,850 1,958 90743
1841 38,lb4 45,017 32,625 2,786 118592
1842 54,123 63,252 8,534 1,835 128344
1843 23,518 28,335 3,478 1,881 57212
1844 22,924 43,660 2,229 1,873 70686
1845 31,803 58,538 830 2,330 93501
1846 43,439 82,239 2,277 1,896 129851
1847 109,680 142,154 4,949 1,487 258270
1848 31,065 188,233 23,904 4,887 248089
1849 41,367 119,450 31,191 6,490 299498
1850 32,961 223,078 16,037 8,773 280849
1851 42,605 267,357 21,532 4,472 335966


For the first ten months of the year 1851, the total number of emigrants from the United Kingdom was 285,898, or at the rate of 343,000 for the year. These were divided:—

Irish 216,724
English 55,031
Scotch 14,143
285,898

The emigration, therefore, for the first three quarters of 1851 was greater than the emigration during the entire of 1850.

The emigration during the last quarter, ending the 1st of January, 1852, appears not to have gone on at the same accelerated pace, but it still continues at certainly the rate, for the United Kingdom, of 330,000, and for Ireland of 250,000 per annum to all quarters of the world.

There is thus, yearly, a greater Celtic emigration from Ireland than from Gaul one Brennus led to Rome, or the other to Greece. Yearly, a greater multitude leaves Ireland than sufficed in old times for a Crusade. Happily, under more peaceful auspices, they go to plant the germs of civilization in lands yet uncultivated.

In addition to the famine of 1846, consequent on the failure of