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The total emigration from Ireland has averaged during the same interval about 90,000 a year. If therefore this emigration has been so swollen by evictions, the annual average of such evictions ought to be proportionate to that emigration; but the average of evictions during the same period, as compared with the number of emigrants, has been at the rate of about two to every 100. That is to say, among every 100 persons who have left Ireland during the last six years about ten persons, if we include the family of each indi-

Table showing the emigration from Ireland and its provinces from 1860 to 1865, both years inclusive.
	Ireland.	Leinster.	Munster.	Ulster.	Connaught.
1860	76,756	13,366	27,428	27,790	8,172
1861	58,427	8,576	22,404	21,323	6,124
1862	65,179	11,368	33,452	14,115	6,244
1863	110,202	15,020	54,870	22,497	17,815
1864	106,161	19,790	48,397	19,853	18,121
1865	92,728	20,524	37,426	22,301	12,477
	509,458	88,644	223,977	127,879	68,953
Not stated	42,472
Total 6 years	551,930
Yearly average	91,988