names altogether. Finney, after his return from Galway, said he wanted tiptop men; he did not say how many of the persons witness did get would suit him, but said he would see about it; witness saw money with him, and got 8s. 6d. from him at different times. Afterwards Finney showed him the bounty that was being given for the American army, and from. some conversation with him he believed that was the purpose for which he wanted the men; Finney said he conceived they would all join the army when they saw the amount of wages and the bounty that were being given; witness called on him for a settlement at different times. Mr. Allen. You were not going to America yourself? Witness. No. I don't intend to go. I have been there before. Mr. McKenna. You did not intend to go? Witness. At first I did; he said he came here to give the people bread, but, from the conversation I heard afterwards, I thought it was lead he wanted to give them. To Mr. McKenna. I wrote letters for him, and a copy of the agreement that the men were to sign; I wrote one letter to Sable & Searle, of Liverpool, by his direction; I wrote it in his name; I wrote a copy of the agreement for him on the Monday he went to the park. The substance of the agreement was that the undersigned, in consideration of Finney advancing them various sums of money, would proceed to Boston, in the United States, and agreed to work in the Charlestown water-works, in the city of Charlestown, for the Barr Valley and the Franklin Coal Companies, for the Boston and Hartford railway, &c. At first Finney said he would pay witness and others better than any one else could for their trouble, but later in the evening he said he would give them 2s. a man for every man they got. Mr. Allen. Were you to get anything else? Witness. Yes, I was to get a free passage and a position in America. The witness said, in reply to the defendant's attorney, that on different occasions he brought Finney able-bodied stout men, and not a mere list of names; brought him more than twenty, and he said, “ All right, that will do." Finney showed him that the soldier's pay was equal to £40 a year; that the government city bounty was $85; and that, on the whole, the person accepting the engagement would have £140 to his credit at the end of the year. Mr. Allen. Did you get it from his own mouth? Witness. I did, when there was no other person present, in the little parlor in the hotel in D'Olier street; he calculated it on paper at the table, but took the calculations away with him. The memorandum now produced is my own. Mr. McKenna submitted that if there had been an enlistment for foreign service the plaintiff could not recover his demand. Witness. He was talking about the army; he said, "You see the difference; it is a far better place than Ireland; we can't hold them if they go into the army, but we can hold them if they attempt to work for any one else." He did not say he wanted them for the army, but he showed the difference. Mr. Allen. I am afraid I cannot give you anything. According to your own statement, this gentleman came to you to agree with him to get recruits from Galway and different places for the American army. Now, to raise troops in that manner here is illegal, and no one can get any compensation for doing what is contrary to law; in fact, the only recompense you can get here is punishment. I dismiss the case. The defendant said he got his agreement examined by Lord Duncannon. The complainant, in reply to Mr. Allen, said he did not know what became of the men he did get. [It is almost unnecessary to say that the conversation referred to by the witness in the above case as having taken place in Saunders's News-Letter office, must have passed between him and some reader of our advertising sheet in the outer office.) No. 6. Sir F. Rogers to Mr. Hammond.—(Received February 10.) DOWNING STREET, February 10, 1864. SIR: I am directed by the Duke of Newcastle 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 land and emigration commissioners, forwarding the usual return of the emigration from the United Kingdom for the quarter and for the year ending 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, 65,883; 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., FREDERIC ROGERS. [Enclosure 1 in No. 6.] Mr. Murdoch to Sir F. Roers. EMIGRATION BOARD, January 23, 1864. SIR: I transmit, herewith, for the information of his grace the Duke of Newcastle, a return of the emigration from the United Kingdom for the quarter and for the year ending 31st December, 1863. 2. I also enclose a return distinguishing the sexes of the emigrants and adults from children, and exhibiting, so far as can be ascertained from the passenger lists furnished by the custom-house authorities, the trade, occupation, or profession of the adults. 3. As much attention has recently been attracted to the emigration from Ireland to the United States, and to the probability that a portion of the emigrants go with the intention of enlisting, I add a table showing the numbers of single men and of Irish who have emigrated to the United States during the last five years, and the proportion they bear to the whole emigration of those years respectively. What is the exact number of Irish among the single men it would not be possible without much trouble to ascertain; but as the Irish constitute nearly two-thirds of the whole emigration to the United States, it may fairly be assumed that they constitute an equal proportion of the single men. This would give something more than 35,000 Irish single men. 4. The proportion both of the single men and of the Irish was larger in 1863 than in any of the preceding four years, though not to such an extent as to justify the assumption that any great effect is attributable to the temptations. offered to recruits. It is more probable that the high wages now prevailing in the United States, as contrasted with the distress existing in Ireland, is the inducement which has led so many emigrants from that country to America. The number of Irish who have gone to other countries is 21,914; but the largeness of the number to the United States as compared with the number to all other countries is to be accounted for by the large remittances sent home by Irish emigrants already settled in the States to assist their friends at home, and the consequent facility in reaching that country as compared with other countries. I have, &c., T. W. C. MURDOCH. [Enclosure 2 in No. 6.] Return of the emigration from the United Kingdom to all parts of the world during the year 1863, distinguishing adults, children, and infants, also the sexes; and showing the trade, occupation, or profession of the adults as far as can be ascertained from the passenger lists furnished by the customhouse authorities. |