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Show 298 THE CITY OF THE SAINTS. CHAP. VI. 1854-55, 4716 souls; the total in fifteen years (1840-55) being 21,911. From 1855-56 they number 4395 souls, and from the No. I.-Continued. Date of Sailing. 1855, December 12. 1856, February 19. March 23 April 19 May 4 May 25 June 1 November 17. 1857, March 28 April 25 May 30 July 18 1859, April 11..., July 10 August 20.. 1860, March 30.., May 11 1861, April 15. " 22. May 15.. Vessel. John J.Boyd Caravan Enoch Train S. Curling Thornton Horizon Wellfleet (Miscellaneous Ships). Columbia George Washington... Westmoreland Tuscarora (Miscellaneous) Wyoming William Tapscott Antarctic Emerald Isle Underwriter William Tapscott (Miscellaneous) Manchester Underwriter Monarch of the Sea... Austin W. A. Sands. H.P.Rich.... S. Curling Collins Reed Westcott Captain. Hutchinson.... J. S. Comings., R. R. Decan..., Dunlery Brooks J. B. Bell. Cornish J. W. Roberts. J. B.Bell Trask .... J.W.Roberts. Gardner Total. 512 457 534 707 764 856 146 69 223 817 544 547 50 36 725 30 54 594 731 263 379 624 950 21,195 "Latter-Day Saints' European Publishing and Emigration Office,) "42 Islington, Liverpool. j " The above are the numbers of the Latter-Day Saints who have taken passage on ships chartered at this port by the Church Emigration Agent. Besides these, there are many who engage passages at other offices-not being able to arrange their affairs to go when we have ships chartered-whose numbers we do not have. The bulk of our emigration, for the past few years, has left here in the spring. This is the only time we have ships chartered. The scattering few who go over in the summer and autumn, with the intention of remaining in the United States until another spring, we do not keep any account of. GEO. Q. CANNON." No. II.-General Summary of Emigration, from Nov. 30th, 1855, to July 6th, 1856. (It was discontinued in 1858, owing to troubles with the U. S. Government.) Ship. Emerald Isle- John J. Boyd Caravan Enoch Train- Miscellaneous ) Ships (U. S.) J Captain. G. P. Cornish.. W. A. Sands... H. P. Eich Collins President of Company. P. C. Merrill.. C. Peterson . .. J. Ferguson . .. J. Or. Willie . .. Date of Sailing. Nov. 30, 18">5.. Dec. 12,1S55.. Feb. 19,1856.. Mar. 23,1856. April 19,1S56. May 14,1856.. May 25,1856.. June 1,1866.. Port of Disembarkation. New York.. New York.. New York.. New York.. Boston Total.. 1 h a ' 34 431 428 484 635 2012 Ordinary. 350 4T8 •4BT 103 2T9 280 221 146 69 2383 Totals. 359 512 451 534 TOT T64 856 146 69 4395 Of this number, as the table shows, 2012 are P. E. Fund passengers, of whom 333 were ordered out by their friends in Utah; also 780 members of many years' standing in the Church have been forwarded to Utah under the P. E. Fund Co.'s arrangements, and 28 are elders returning home from missions. We have not the means of ascertaining definitely, hut the approximate numbers of those who started to go |