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EMIGRATION.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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C.O.
THE emigration from the United Kingdom is directed almost exclusively to three quarters, viz.:
1. The United States,
2. British North America
3. Australia.
The emigration during the years 1848 and 1849,
was as follows:
1848.
1849*.
To the United States
188,233
194,749
British North America
31.064
47,940
Australia
23,904
31,977
All other places
4,887
6,386
248,089
281,052*
885
2 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
Considered as a relief to surplus population the emigration to the United States and British North America can alone be looked to. Independently of the expense of emigration to Australia, which, in- cluding outfit, can scarcely be less than from 161. to 181. per adult, the Australian colonies would, for the present, be unable to find the means of employing a larger number of immigrants than are now sent there. The whole number of emigrants who have been dispatched to New South Wales and South
• The Emigration Returns for 1849 are not quite complete, the returus from those ports at which there are no emigration officers not having been yet received from the Customs. The addition, however, will probably be very small.
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