GERMAN EMIGRATION.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2515, 29 April 1882, Page 3

GERMAN EMIGRATION.

The heavy and continuous losses in population suffered by the German Empire, as the result of emigration from its shores, still eiote the liveliest apprehensions in the minds of its most intelligent statesmen. Fresh evidences of the extent to which this annual drain is going on is afforded (says the “ Globe ") by the last consular report* from German ports. The consul at Bremerhaven sends a tabular statement of the emigrants leaving that district at different periods ever since the year 1832, and by this it. appears that the number which sailed in 1880 was only once exceeded, and that in 1872, the year following the great war with France. In 1880 the emigrants numbered over 80,000, which is more than twice the average of former years, whether at the earlier or later part of the preceding half-century. Still more significant, however, is the statement of Consul Stokes that in 1881 the total seemed likely to exceed even that of the previous year. Tho principal cause of this increase is supposed to be traceable to the improvement of trade and commerce In the United States, for it is well known that a large majority of the emigrants (otherwise too poor to make the journey) receive free passages from their relations in America. Tho new customs tariff in Germany, together with the increase of rates and taxes for every necessary of life, has also a great deal to do with it. The protection system is not regarded by the English Consul as having worked well in Bremen; and tho agrarian taxes lately imposed on the population have not muoh benefited tho agricultural classes. “It is true,” he says, that these can now obtain a little more for their produce ; but, on the other hand, everything else they require has become so much more expensive that the benefits on the one hand are outweighed by the expenses on the other.” It is observable that of the whole 80,000 emigrants very nearly two-thirds were bound for New York.