EMIGRATION EXTRAORDINARY.

Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 20, 23 July 1881, Page 4

EMIGRATION EXTRAORDINARY.

? The great exodus from the Old World to the New (says the Home News) continues to flow on unchecked. Just now the largest quota is contributed by the Scandinavian nations, Sweden and Norway especially. So grsat is the movement that whole districts , are nearly depopulated, and the Swedish Government is becoming alarmed. These Norsemen nearly all pass through England on their way westward. Numbers are landed at Hull andtravel thence to Liverpool toembark, many more are despatched lrom London. The emigrants must suffer great discomfort, not to say hardship en route. They may be seen, in mournful, hapless bands, crowding the pierß and railway stations, surrounded by their boxes and humble household gods. There is gsnerally a captain or man in charge who speaks a little English, and who is hard put to it to keep matters straight. The condition of those who aro lodged in the East End of London, awaiting the departure of the Atlantic steamers, is considerably worse. The practice is to consign them to agents, who contract to supply them with bed and board for a small fixed sum, in some cases no more than foutpenoe per night. The accommodation is, in consequence, of the very worst, and the places used, mostly wretched dens in the purlieus of Whitechapel, are terribly overcrowded. Offioial inspectors have visited the emigrants, and have found them herded together with an insufficiency of air, the soxes scandalously intermixed, lying upon mouldy straw, and not another particle of furniture in the rooms. The law happily provides a certain remedy under the rules and regulations for lodging houses, and these agents will probably find their nefarious trade interfered with. But when the horrors of the sea voyage and the trials of the long land journey westward are added to these early discomforts, it is not unlikely that these enterprising Swedish and Norwegian emigrants will wish they had stayed at home.