220 



PRESENT AND FUTURE OF AMERICA. 



British Poss 



1848, 248,089 of these 31,065 



1849, 299,489 " 41,365 



1850, 280,436 " 32,965 



U. States. Australia, &o. 

 214,283 28,791 



219,450 38,681 



223,078 24,810 



Total, 828,014 



105,395 



656,811 



92,282 



The number of emigrants to the British possessions in 

 America, bear, if not a greater proportion, at least an 

 equal one, of Irish emigrants, as the numbers of Irish to 

 New York does. The emigrants to Australia of farmers 

 from Ireland, preponderate equally over the British and 

 Scotch. 



It is found that in three years alone, out of 25 years 

 of returns, there are of Irish to New York, 



Say the Irish were in the same ratio to the British 

 Possessions. English to New York, 79,513 ; Irish, 

 337,335 ; or say Jf w were English, f Irish,* . 



Say the total emigration from Great Britain and Ire- 

 land for the prior 22 years, to be as per returns, 

 1,794,181 /yV of which were English and Scotch, 

 111 Irish, or 



Total Irish to all America for 25 years, 



337,335 



85,383 



1,453,700 

 1,876,413 



Total emigrants from Great Britain and Ireland to 



America,- ..... 2,325,020 



Total English, Scotch and Welsh emigrants, in 25 

 years, to America, . . 455,616 



British and Irish emigrants to all parts of the world 

 241,007. Say there was a less ratio of Irish, or y 

 English. Total English, Scotch and Welsh to all 

 other parts in 25 years, .... 80,335 



* Census of 1844 shows the population of Lower Canada at 690,782 

 ( making an increase of 178,863 since 1832) of whom 624,307 are of 

 French origin, 11,895 natives of England, 43,892 of Ireland, 13,393 of 

 Scotland, 85,660 natives of Canada, of British and Iri^h extraction, 

 and 1329 natives of Europe. 



