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utmost capacity. At the present time there are not half 

 enough ships to carry those who want to go. I called this 

 morning on two or three of the leading shipping houses to 

 ascertain the true state of the business, and will briefly de 

 tail what I learned. Imnan s steamers the Liverpool, 

 New York, and Philadelphia line told me that every pas 

 sage on all their steamers up to the 18th of May next, is 

 now engaged, and one-half of those of the steamers to sail 

 after this period up to the 1st of June. Guion & Co., and 

 C. Grimshaw & Co., two other large houses, told me that 

 all the passages on their respective vessels to sail between 

 now and the 1st day of June next, are already taken, and 

 that they are turning off people every day for want of ac 

 commodations ; that they are so pressed that they do not 

 know what to do. They have not half vessels enough, and 

 cannot procure them to carry the passengers that want to go. 

 What they say will apply with equal force to all the other 

 shippers at this port. A large proportion of the emigrants 

 have had their passage paid in the States. These have a 

 preference. They have raised the price of their tickets for 

 passage, within the last few weeks, at least a third higher than 

 they were. All the vessels sailing are filled with passengers, 

 and the only way emigration can now be increased, so far as 

 England and Ireland are concerned, is to increase the means 

 of transportation. One of the houses told me this morning 

 that they could send out fifty thousand emigrants in two 

 months if they had the ships to carry them.&quot; 



Here, then, is one way to get a farm. It is, be 

 yond all question, the cheapest, surest, and most 

 expeditious of any that can be suggested. It may 

 also be the least laborious ; but whether it is the 

 most desirable in the end, each aspirant must de 

 termine for himself. It will suit many, but cannot 



