17-3-1852 A Dublin letter in the Limerick Chronicle supplies the following statistics in reference to the emigration from the former port:-- "Talking of emigration, it is idle to ask--Where will it end,? Why it is only beginning.? In the Liffey this moment there are three vessels advertised to sail this week--The Coronet (Roche Brothers), an admirable ship, capable of accommodating comfortably 300 people, the Samuel (Miley) also about 300; and another shy looking craft, rather the worse for wear, which has been christened the British Queen, belonging to a third house. Here, then, this very week, nearly 1000 people will leave this port alone for the 'Model republic'. But this affords a very imperfect idea of the depopulating drain which is going on, and which is last causing Ireland literally to sink into the bosom of the Atlantic. We have two companies, you are aware, engaged in a goods and passenger traffic between Dublin and Liverpool--The old established City of the Dublin Steam Packet Company, and its new rival, the Scotch Company. The former starts two steamers every night, and, when the demand renders it necessary, a third, each containing 300 to 400 passengers, 99 out of 100 being intending emigrants proceeding to take their berths in vessels lying in Liverpool. The Scotch Company has one vessel every evening, but it is also invariably well supplied. So that we have this result staring us in the face:---From this port alone, either direct to America, or via Liverpool, you have an exodus of the Irish people to the tune of at least 7000 people every week. Roche Brothers, alone, have within the last few months despatched upwards of 8000 emigrants for shipment to Liverpool. A friend, who returned this morning from a tour of Tipperary, Limerick, and Clare, assures me that if the current of migration proceeds in its present full and rapid flood, Ireland, if inhabited at all in five years hence, will not be peopled by Irishmen-at least so far as the South and West are concerned. The people, he alleges, who have been in the habit of paying 30/s. an acre will not now remain on the land if it were reduced to 20/.s or 10/.s,--they will have it at no price. Their minds are completely made up to go after their friends---to go home, that home not being 'Old Ireland' but the 'Far West'. In Parish after Parish he found hundreds of people on the eve of starting for the nearest sea-port, the principal delay in most cases being caused by the necessity of turning the crops into cash. It is not for me to moralize on this condition of things-unprecedented in the history of any people since the days of Moses--but it might be a very proper theme for the study of the first Cabinet Council that is announced to be held. In March 1841, the population of Ireland was 8,175124; and there can be no doubt that, before 1846, it had increased to near 9,000000. On the 30th of March 1851, the population of Ireland was only 6,515724, which number has been still further reduced through subsequent emigration. The United States Census of 1850 showed a gross population of 23,000000. According to the statistical tables presented by Mr. William F. Robinson. M.A., in his lecture delivered on the 22nd July, 1851, before the delegates of some American Universities and Colleges assembled at Clinton, in the State of New York, that mixed population was made up as follows:--- Irish Born-------------------------3,000000. Irish by blood--------------------4,500000. French and other celts----------3,000000. German, birth or blood---------5,500000. Anglo Saxon by birth or Blood------3,500000. Coloured, Free or Slave.--------------3,500000 Total-------------------------------------23,000000. >From these figures it appears that, at the commencement of the present year (1851), the total number of Irish, by birth or blood, inhabiting either Ireland or the United States was about 14,000000;--of whom about 6,500000 were then in Ireland, and the remaining 7,500000 in the States, where they constituted the most industrious and enterprising portion of the active population. It may be fairly estimated that, before the next decennial census of 1860-1861, the above 14,000000 of Irish will have increased to about 16,000000; of whom, should Irish emigration continue to proceed at a rate exceeding a quarter of a million per annum, it is not improbable that about 12,000000 may be found in the United States, and not more, perhaps, than, 4,000000 in Ireland, including among the latter number most of the impotent poor, and the least energetic portion of the Irish people. The United States would thus become three times as Irish as Ireland. Dublin Evening Post.