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family in Ireland. However this may be, it is unques 

 tionable that much money is transmitted by the Irish 

 emigrants in this way. I was told of many interesting 

 cases, within the personal knowledge of my informants, 

 at different places during my tour. This transmission of 

 money, therefore, directly aids the increase of emigration 

 to a particular state or province, from a particular dis 

 trict at home, after it has once set in. 



The number of the home-born population in any of 

 our colonies ought, therefore, in some measure to deter 

 mine the amount of emigration likely to proceed from 

 home to that colony year by year supposing that, in the 

 colony, times are generally good, and the prospects of 

 rural settlers tolerably promising. 



Now, with this idea to guide us, if we compare the 

 immigration from these islands into New Brunswick with 

 that to Canada, and to the North-western States by way 

 of New York, we shall see that, though as yet absolutely 

 small, it is neither comparatively nor discouragingly so. 



AH Canada in- 1846 1848 184!) 



Received of emigrants ) oo-^n OT i o^*n^ 



S2./49 27,150 3/.604 

 from all countries, J 



Upper Canada alone has a population of 700,000, 

 mostly of British descent, and in larger proportion home- 

 born than is the case in New Brunswick. With a 

 population less than one-third of that of Upper Canada 

 alone, supposing the circumstances equally favourable to 

 emigration in both, from 5000 to 10,000 in a year is 

 the full share which New Bruswick ought to receive of 

 the annual swarms which leave our shores, supposing 

 Upper Canada to receive 32,000. 



Nor, if we take the immigration to New York as the 

 port of entry for all the North-western States, will it 

 appear that an influx of 



128,592 in 1848 and 151,534 in 1849 

 though the numbers be large, is disproportionate to 



