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flight from the British shores ; no matter at what risk or 

 with what amount of danger and privation in perspective. 

 Day after day vessels leave this port freighted with 

 human cargoes, without any diminution being perceptible 

 in the throngs of peasantry which swarm the streets in 

 the neighborhood of the quays. 



The rush, too, from the South is rather on the increase 

 than otherwise, and is on a far more extensive* scale 

 than we in the metropolis have any idea. On Saturday 

 a steamer left Waterford for Liverpool with nearly 400 

 immigrants on board. The day was intensely severe, 

 but wind and weather, be they what they may, have no 

 terrors for these voluntary exiles. The average number 

 from Waterford alone, since the season set in, is 500 

 weekly." 



These people worked and rose in the scale of society ; 

 and day after day American money flowed into Ireland,* 

 and Irish emigrants sought these shores. America 

 prospered ; and the English now turn round, and are but 

 too happy, even at the expense of truth, to put down, not 

 only the Irish emigrants from English ports as Anglo- 

 Saxons, but to represent the whole of the Irish as British 

 emigrants, by carefully avoiding to note or classify 

 those who do leave the British or Irish shores. 



Taking another view of the case : the whole world has 

 heard of the powers of the Irish to propagate their species. 

 Many have been the nostrums put forward by the people 



* The amount of money sent to Ireland is enormous, through the 

 Catholic clergy and Agency Houses. "One agent in the city of Cork 

 has acknowledged the receipt of 1,000 in one day from America." 

 London Timet, Oct. Sth, 1851. 



