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Show Tiik extraordinary number of K.oOO immigrants arrived at this port last werk from various countries of Europe; and of this vast body of peoplo less than 10,1 were debarred as undesirable, liy inquiries of (he inspectors, it was learned that nearly three-quarters of the uew-comers uew-comers lei'i the citv, the majority of them goiig to the western states. Tho advices from European ports recently receive. I at the barge olliee lead to the eoneliuion that tho immigration of lxil wid far surpass that of any previous year. New Vork Sua. There is no desire on the part of any class of citizens to restrict the immigration immigra-tion of desirable people, but it is to be doubted whether tho 11)0 wended out of that IT. oilO were all who were actually undesirable. We ha been receiving a ast Hood of immigrants from southern south-ern Europe, a largo majority of whom are nut desirable. They are not all criminals and are not nil under contract; con-tract; but they are of a class that never becomes assimilated, that introduces the worst modes of life kuowu to the poverty stricken districts of Italy and Hungary aud that sets up ignorant, debased foreign eommiiuities right in the midst of our American institutions. Thousands of these peoplo aru a hopelessly un-Americuu in (heir idoas aud in the possibilities of their residence hero as aro the Chinese. The peoplo of the country have made up their minds that they do not want to receive anymore of that class; they know that there wore probably prob-ably many hundreds of them iu the 17,500 who landed in New York duriug thd week referred to, and they will expect ex-pect congress at its next session to enact en-act an immigration law that will w eed out more of them. |