Alexandria Gazette, Commercial And Political

Emigration to the United States.

The continued and increasing emigration from this country to America, becomes every day more alarming. The immediate and earnest attention of government, to this serious drain of the most useful part of the population of the United Kingdom, to the growing privation of its best hands in arts and manufactures, and to the almost daily accumulating loss of the mechanical means of the country's prosperity, is imperiously directed.

We have before us the New York shipping list, for one week, from the 5th to the 12th of last month. From this official document it appears, that the following number of passengers reached that port from Ireland, in that very short period :--

Dido from Newry 20

Elizabeth from Belfast, 16

Active from Londonderry 26

North-Star from Dublin, 40

Hero from Galway, 29

Nancy from Newry, 20

151

The arrivals from England, within the same time, and taken from the same list are proportionably alarming :

Hero, Bristol, 11

Electra, London, 40

Ocean, London, 5

56

Among the passengers from England and Ireland, we may fairly venture to class carpenters, masons, weavers, blacksmiths, shoemakers, hosiers, and even shipwrights. It is, at length, come to this, that man is to be the only safe and productive commodity, for the carrying trade? If so, the article is, unfortunately, in great abundance, and the supply has been considerable. It is computed, that from Ireland alone, the total number of emigrants has amounted to 6000 within the last 12 months.

While this constant emigration must, in a national point of view, be the subject of painful regret, we have however to observe, that it is not confined to Great Britain and Ireland only. We find the same shipping list, that the Eugene, of Havre-de-Grace, brought over twenty passengers from France among whom were several officers and a member of the national institute.

From Ireland, 151

England, 56

France, 22.

229

In all, one week, at one sea port, two hundred and twenty-nine individuals!

These facts certainly are serious. Coupled with the sentiments which are now prevalent in America with regard to England, and with respect to the probability of another war, at no distant period, with this Country, they cannot fail to awaken reflections of the most gloomy kind, to all who wish for the peace and harmony of the world.