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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1287, 13 September 1872, Page 4

It is probable that the numerous strikes which have taken place lately will soon perceptibly affect the labor market, many of those who have left their work having also left their country. The past month, says the Mancliester Examiner, has been remarkable in Liverpool for emigration to the United States, Canada, and other parts of the American continent. The number of steamers which left Liverpool daring May is 52, 34 of which went to Boston, 8 to Quebec and Montreal, and 2 to Halifax, Norfolk, and Baltimore. Of these vessels 17 belonged to the Cunard Company, 1 1 to the Inman Company, 5 to the National Company, 5 to the White Star Company, 10 to the Allan Company, and 6 to the Guion Company ; indeed, there is not in the records of the Liverpool Govornment Emigration Office such a list of steamers as that which left the Mersey for the United States, Canada, &c., during the post month. The number of vessels which left Liverpool "under the Act" in May were :— To the United States, 39, with 1164 cabin and 25,225 steeragepadsengers ; 7 ships to Canada, with 225 cabin and 4,480 steerage passengers ; J, for Valparaiso and intermediate ports, with 65 cabin and 126 steerage passengers ; and 2 to Halifax, Nova Scotia, &c., with 48, cabin and 84 steerage passengers ; making a total " under the Act" for May of 3J,317 cabin and steerage passengers, of whom 1 1,765 were English, 442 Scotch, 5344 Irish, and 13,766 foreigners. The number of vessels which sailed during the past month without coming under the provisions of the Emigration Act was 28, having on board 749 passengers, which number, when added to these which sailed under the Act, makes the total emigration for the past month 32,066— an increase of 4754 over the same tnunth of 1871) and a total increase since January, as compared with the corresponding period of last year, of 17,598. An interesting memorandum on the expenditure of the German War Department in thd Franco-German war has been laid before the Federal Council. At the beginning of the war, says this document, the war establishment of the army proTided a sufficient force for military operations, but it was found necessary to raise fresh levies and send them to the seat of war. The levee en masse in France compelled Germany to employ the greater part of her landwehr in the enemy's country. The garrison troops, too, had to be increased considerably beyond the normal establishment, in order to provide for- the security of the Fatherland and to guard tho prisoners, whose numbers were tyiprecedentedly large. For all these extra troops it was necessary to obtain clothing and equipment. The expenses were further increased by the dis ance of the seat of war from the homes of the soldiers, who had. to be sent on by rail so as to prevent any delay in tho arrival of roin£or,cempntß. Moreover, the failure of the. harvest in France and the Ehine provinces in 4870 rawed tho price of corn, while at the same time the cattle plague caused; a corresponding increase in the price oi meat ; and in some districts the troops of the enemy had so exhausted the local supplies that the German armies had to send long distances'for provisions. Other heavy expenses were caused by the transport of immense quantities of artillery material and guns for the subjugation of twenty-eight fortresses, by the provision of flaunel shirtß and belts and fur cloaks for the troops during the severe winter, and by the maiotenanco of the P" 80 ™ 18 . of war» of whom there were JOT, 159 in North Germany alone. The accounts of the war expenditure are as yet incomplete, but the memorandum shows that up to the end of 1871 the cost of the war to North Germany was 356,611, 122 tbalers (about L 54,000,000). This, of course, does not include the expenses of the troopa at home, which were covered by the budget of the peace eitabliahi&ent,