TABLE—SHOWING THE EMIGRATION FROM THE BRITISH ISLANDS FOR SIX YEARS BEFORE AND AFTER FREE TRADE. ┌──────────────────┬───────────────┬──────────────────┬────────────────┐ │In the years 1840,│ 90,743│In the years 1846,│ 129,851│ │ 1841,│ 118,592│ 1847,│ 258,270│ │ 1842,│ 128,344│ 1848,│ 248,089│ │ 1843,│ 57,212│ 1849,│ 299,498│ │ 1844,│ 70,686│ 1850,│ 280,896│ │ 1845,│ 93,501│ 1851,│ 335,966│ │ │ ——————│ │ —————————│ │ │ 6) 559,078│ │ 6) 1,552,570│ │ │ ———————│ │ —————————│ │ │Average, 93,179│ │Average, 258,761│ └──────────────────┴───────────────┴──────────────────┴────────────────┘ The emigration for the first four months of 1852, from the twelve principal harbours of Great Britain, was 103,316; nearly the same as in the corresponding period of last year, when it was 103,280. Since that, in May and June, the emigration, especially to the gold regions of Australia, has greatly increased, and it is now going on at the rate of about 5000 a-week. In all probability the emigration this year will reach 350,000, of which at least 50,000 will be to our distant settlements on the shores of Australia. There is enough to make the most inconsiderate pause, and to fill with the most serious reflections every thoughtful mind. From three hundred to three hundred and fifty thousand persons emigrating from a single country in a single year, and this at the close of a period of six years, during which the average exodus has exceeded two hundred and fifty thousand a-year! Such a fact as this would, at any former period of English history, have excited the utmost alarm in the nation; but so habituated have the people become to disaster since the Free-Trade policy began, and so entirely have they got into the habit of looking only to the moment, and disregarding altogether all remote consequences, that it excites no sort of sensation. The annual increase of the population prior to 1845 was usually considered to be 1000 a-day, or 365,000 a-year; and this was for long a subject of congratulation and boast. The population returns of 1851, however, showed that, down to the end of 1846, it was only 230,000 a-year. But now, as 330,000 emigrants leave the British shores every year, there is AN ANNUAL DECREASE UPON THE WHOLE OF 100,000 SOULS; and that not of infants, or worn-out old persons, but chiefly young men and women in the prime of life.