Show the decline in immigration the total number of immigrants landed at this port up to november 3rd ard is is only about one fourth the number which used to arrive to the same date a few years ago the cause of the decline is obvious since the encumbered cumb ered estates act went into effect in ireland the condition of that country has rapi rapidly idly improved and the wretched failure of the political attempts of 1848 has diverted mens minds into better and more profitable channels germany has lost so much blood that it is not in in a healthy state and the progress of german manufacturers affords employment to the entire population europe for r nany many years the harvests have been good a blessing which must be ascribed partly to the bounty of providence v vi and partly to the improved agricultural methods lately adopted that the united states is a better country for young men to settle in than any of the countries of europe must be obvious to all who study rightly the economical consequence of abundance of cheap land and absolute freedom industrial commercial and social no coun try of europe offers such opportunities of 0 f well doing to the hardy emigrant as the united states if the truth were known therefore and no such feeling existed as love of home it would ie be de t populated opu and the united states would be 0 filled with foreign n immigrants of every race I 1 type and nation but the checks of the operation of the rule are powerful notwithstanding ahe the large emigration to america a very in imperfect perfect notion ef cf the prospects of immigrants mj rants here is entertained in europe in the rural di district triet of continental europe the united states are still a land of adventure of uncertainty of peril no man will risk himself here if he have any prospects at all at homat homa farther furthermore ther more the home feeling is powerful in the mind of all the Eu european races germans english scotch french and irish regard the united states as an inferior country to their native land they would rather stay at home and live moderately than come here and feast feair plenteously the feeling may be un philosophical but it is natural and it is general register |