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Show FOUR MILLION IRISH PEOPLE IN NEW HOMES Special Cable to The Tribune. DUBLIN, May 4. The newly Issued Irish emigration statistics showed that .30.57.1 IrlKh people, or 7 per 1000 of the population, emigrated last year; 22.010. or 72 per cent of the total went to the United States, 10.87P as steerage passcn-ger. passcn-ger. Of tho latter 6306 had thoir passages pass-ages paid for thorn in America, which means that relatives had preceded thorn and made a little money. Tho highest number of emigrants ln anv year was 100,322, or 30 per 1000. In 1S2, tho first completo year of the returns, re-turns, nnd the lowcot 25,295, or 5.3 per thousand in 1808. Slnco 1CB1, 4.21S.01IT Trieh have left the country, a number only ulightly losjlhun tho present population of Ireland. |