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4 5 per cent, emigrated or say from 1811 to 1821, Irish 

 emigrants, 251,965. 



In 1821, the population in Ireland was 6,801,627 

 and in 1831 was 7,767,401, showing an increase of 

 14 j per cent., allowing for the whole increase only 20 

 per cent, instead of the statement that it had been 35 

 per cent., the ten years prior, this would show that 

 5j per cent, emigrated, or 414,496. 



For 1831, the population in Ireland was 7,767,401 

 and in 1841, 8,175,124 showing an increase of 5J per 

 cent, only calculating the natural increase at 20 per 

 cent, it would show that 141 emigrated, or 1,145,697. 



For 1841, the population in Ireland was 8,175,124 

 and in 1851, 6,515,794 showing a decrease of about 20 

 per cent. calculating the increase as usual at 20 per 

 cent, up to 1845 prior to the famine, the population in 

 that year would be 8,992,636, in 1850, of that number 

 only 6,515,794 remained. Therefore more than 2,476,842 

 souls disappeared from Ireland (there must be some 

 births in '46, '47 and '48) then in 1849 and '50 there 

 must be an increase say at the rate of 2 per cent, for two 

 years now in this decade 1,684,892 emigrated from 

 Great Britain and Ireland, of that number there has been 

 returned as Irish 1,100,000; and of the 584,471 the 

 London Times says "many thousands were Irish;" 

 which must be the case, as it is well known the majority 

 of the emigrants from England are Irish and Irish de- 

 scendants. 



Therefore, say of the 1,684,892, there were of 'Irish 

 1,263,169 this number would be in proportion to the 

 ratio of Irish and to the English who emigrated for the 

 last years to New York. Well, beyond this number, we 



