including all individuals not enumerated under the three great outlets of British emigration, namely, the United States, the North American, and the Australasian colonies.
Years
To the North American Colonies
To the United States
To the Australian Colonies and New Zealand
Total
1855 17,966 103,414 52,309 176,807
1856 16,378 111,837 44,584 176,554
1857 21,001 126,905 61,248 212,875
1858 9,704 59,716 39,295 113,972
1859 6,689 70,303 31,013 120,432
1860 9,786 87,500 24,302 128,469
1861 12,707 49,764 23,738 91,770
1862 15,522 58,706 41,843 121,214
1863 18,083 146,813 53,054 223,758
1864 12,721 147,042 40,942 208,900
1865 17,211 147,258 37,283 209,801
1866 13,255 161,000 24,097 204,882
1867 15,503 159,275 14,466 195,953
1868 21,062 155,532 12,809 196,321
1869 33,891 203,001 14,901 258,027
The number of 258,027 emigrants who left the United Kingdom in 1869 comprised 90,416 English, 22,559 Scotch, 73,325 Irish, and 65,752 foreigners, the nationality of the remaining 5,975 individuals not being distinguished in the returns. The ports from which the emigrants of 1869 embarked were few in number. There sailed 172,734 from Liverpool, 29,607 from Cork, 21,077 from Glasgow or Greenock, 15,672 from London, 8,723 from Londonderry, 4,751 from Plymouth, 2,519 from Southampton, 1,674 from Portsmouth, 808 from Dublin, 382 from Falmouth, 47 from Swansea, and 33 from Cardiff. The year's emigration consisted of 160,244 males and 97,783 females. The number included 28,975 married men and 31,489 married women, while 99,524 were single men and 39,392 single women; 40,862 children from one to twelve years of age, and 11,849 infants not a year old. More than half of all the emigrants of 1869 are described generally as 'labourers;' 9,913 are registered as miners and quarrymen, besides 655 distinguished as coal miners; 9,459 as farmers, and 1,591 as agricultural labourers, gardeners, carters, &c. Of the rest, 7.506 were gentlemen, professional men, and merchants; 2,627 were carpenters and joiners; 72 builders, and 1,519 bricklayers, masons, plasterers, slaters, &c, while 1,119 are described generally as smiths, 224 as blacksmiths and farriers; 1,026 clerks, 878 tailors, 792 domestic servants, 707 spinners and weavers, 615 shopkeepers, shop-
