The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852Various
History
The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852
Various
Art, Modern -- 19th century -- Periodicals; Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- Periodicals; Science -- History -- Periodicals
From England we have intelligence of no important movement since the
departure of Kossuth. No subject attracts more attention than that of
the extensive and systematic emigration which is taking place to America
and Australia. We learn from the report of the Registrar-General, for
the three months ended 30th September last, that during those months
85,603 emigrants sailed from the several ports at which government
emigration agents are stationed. This is at the rate of nearly 1,000
persons a day. It is probable that one-half of the total number were
Irish. Of the 85,603, 68,960 sailed for the Atlantic ports of the Union;
and the remaining 16,643 were distributed in the proportions of 9,268 to
British North America, 6,097 to the Australian colonies, and 1,278 to
other places. So far, the total emigration of 1851 exceeded that of the
corresponding period of 1850, and the emigration of 1850 exceeded that
of any former year. The Ecclesiastical Titles Bill remains a dead
letter. The Roman Catholic prelates assume and are called by the
prohibited titles, and no steps are taken to enforce the law. The
attendance of Roman Catholics on the "Godless Colleges" does not appear
to have abated, and the Roman Catholic journals complain of the extent
of proselytism from their Church. The Submarine telegraph between
England and France has been completed, and messages between Paris and
London have been transmitted in half an hour. The event was celebrated
by the firing of cannon alternately at Calais and Dover, the fire for
each explosion being communicated by the electric current from the side
of the channel opposite the gun. An announcement is made by the _Times_
of the intended creation of a fourth Presidency in India, and a proposal
to remove the seat of government from Calcutta to Lahore. The new
province is to be constituted by the spacious province of the Punjab, to
which, on the east, it will annex the broad districts of Agra and
Bengal, up to the banks of the Sone, embracing the populous and
important cities of Allahabad and Benares, To the southwest it will
include our anomalous appendage of Scinde, and will thus extend itself
from the Hindoo Kosh to the mouths of the Indus, and from the mountains
of Beloochistan to the plains of the Ganges.
On the 24th November, about seventy of the principal merchants and
gentlemen in Liverpool, and the members of the American Chamber of
Commerce, entertained R. J. Walker, late Secretary to the Treasury of
the United States, at dinner at the Adelphi Hotel.
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