No. 7.
Mr. Waddington to Mr.
Hammond.—(Received February 15.)
Whitehall,
February ——, 1864.
Sir: I am directed by Secretary Sir George
Grey to transmit to you, for the information of Earl Russell, as
bearing on the question of foreign enlistment, a copy of a letter
from the colonial office, forwarding a copy of a communication from
the colonial land and emigration commissioners, with tables
annexed.
I am, &c.,
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[Enclosure 1 in No.
7.]
Sir F. Rogers to Mr. Waddington.
Downing
Street,
February 10,
1864.
Sir: I am directed by the Duke of
Newcastle to transmit to you, for the information of Secretary
Sir George Grey, as bearing on the question of foreign
enlistment, a copy of a letter from the colonial land and
emigration commissioners, forwarding the usual return of the
emigration from the United Kingdom for the quarter and for the
year ended 31st December, 1863.
By the annexed tables it appears that in the three years
preceding 1862 (in which the effects of the recruitment may have
begun to be sensible) the emigration to the United States was
composed as follows: single men, 65,833; others, 141,734; total,
207,567. The proportion of single men to others was, therefore,
46.4 to 100.
In 1863 the number of persons other than single men who emigrated
was 93,783.
If the normal proportion of 46.4 to 100 had been preserved in
1863, the number of single men would have been about 43,476. It
was actually 53,030: that is, the emigration of single men was
about 10,000 more than the experience of the three years
preceding 1862 would have led us to expect. This furnishes a
faint ground for conjecturing that recruitment may have gone on
to about that extent.
I am, &c.,
[For enclosure 2 in No. 7, Mr. Murdoch to Sir F. Rogers, January
23, 1864, see enclosure 1 in No. 6.]
[For enclosure 3 in No. 7, “emigration returns,” see enclosures
2, 3, 4 and 5 in No. 6.]
