[TABLE]

[Transcription note:  The data presented below was originally in the conventional tabular row / column format.]

Row 1.  Headings
Column 1:  Year. 
Column 2:  England. 
Column 3:  Ireland. 
Column 4:  Scotland. 
Column 5:  Total.

Row 2
Column 1:  1829
Column 2:  8,110
Column 3:  2,443
Column 4:  948
Column 5:  11,501

Row 3
Column 1:  1830
Column 2:  16,350
Column 3:  3,497
Column 4:  1,584
Column 5:  21,433

Row 4
Column 1:  1831
Column 2:  13,808
Column 3:  6,721
Column 4:  2,078
Column 5:  22,607

Row 5
Column 1:  1832
Column 2:  18,947
Column 3:  6,050
Column 4:  3,286
Column 5:  28,283

Row 6
Column 1:  1833
Column 2:  —
Column 3:  —
Column 4:  —
Column 5:  16,000

Row 7
Column 1:  1834*
Column 2:  —
Column 3:  —
Column 4:  —
Column 5:  26,540

Row 8
Column 1:  Total
Column 2:  —
Column 3:  —
Column 4:  —
Column 5:  126,464

* The returns for 1834 are made up to the 20th November of that year.

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III.  AMERICAN PASSENGERS’ ACT.

The 9th Geo. IV., c. 21, commonly called the “American Passengers’ Act,” was repealed during the Session of 1835, by an Act then passed, the 5 and 6 Will.  IV., c. 53.  The intention of the new Act is, of course, to secure, as effectually as possible, and more effectually than the previous Act did, the health and comfort of emigrants on board of passenger ships.  By a clause of the Act, copies or abstracts are to be kept on board ships for the perusal of passengers, who may thus have an opportunity of judging whether the law has been complied with; but the discovery of any infractions of the Statute may be made at a time when, in the particular instance, it may be too late to remedy it, so far as the comfort and even the health of the passengers are concerned.  It is to be hoped, therefore, that the humane intentions of the legislature will not be frustrated by any negligence on the part of those (especially of the officers of customs) whose business it is to see that the regulations of the Act have been complied with before each emigrant ship leaves port.

No passenger ship is to sail with more than three persons on board for every five tons of registered burthen.  Nor, whatever may be the tonnage, is there to be a greater number of passengers on board than after the rate of one person for every ten superficial feet of the lower deck or platform unoccupied by goods or stores, not being the personal luggage of the passengers.

Ships with more than one deck to have five feet and a half; at the least, between decks; and where a ship has only one deck, a platform is to be laid beneath the deck in such a manner as to afford a space of the height of at least five feet and a half, and no such ship to have more than two tiers of berths.  Ships having two tiers of berths to have an interval of at least six inches between the deck or platform, and the floor of the lower tier throughout the whole extent.