Emigration Office,
January 26, 1856.
EMIGRATION.
Early emigration.
1816-1830.
1831-1845.
1846.
1847-185-4.
1855.
Destination of
emigrants.
THE records of emigration commence with the close of the Peninsular War. For many years after 1815 the number who emigrated was small and the variations from year to year were considerable; but the tide flowed on, increasing in the fifteen years between 1816 and 1830 inclusive, from 12,510 in the former year to 56,907 in the latter. The. average of the fifteen years gave 24,582 a-year.
In the fifteen following years, between 1831 and 1845 inclusive, the emigration increased very much, the minimum having been 33,222 in 1838; the maximum, 128,344 in 1842. The average of these fifteen years was 78,099.
In 1846 the numbers reached 129,851.-the largest emigration up to that time; but in 1847, in consequence of the famine in Ireland, it attained to the large number of 258,270 souls, or nearly double the emigration of 1816, and, with the excep- tion of 1848, it exceeded that number in every year to the end of 1854. A table of the whole It will be seen that the emigration is annexed. average emigration of the eight years ending with 1854 was 305,600 souls.
In the year which has just closed (1855) the number of emigrants who left the United Kingdom was 176,807, or less than three-fifths of the average of the preceding eight years.
The early emigration was directed, as will be seen, almost exclusively to the American continent, and on that continent to the British colonies rather than to the United States. Thus during the nine.
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