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Show CHAP. VI. MORMON EMIGRATION. 299 1st of July, 1857, to the 30th of June, 1860, they count 2433, making for the five subsequent years (1855-60) a total of 6828. Thus, in the twenty years between 1840-60, they show a grand through to Utah on their own means is 38S, making a total of those who started from here, with the intention of going through to the Valley this season, about 2397, which will leave 1998 who have located for the present in various parts of the United States, in order to obtain means to complete their journey whenever circumstances will permit. Latter-Day Saints' Emigration Report, from July 1st, 1857, to June 30, 1860. Ship. Wyomiug Wm. Tapscott Antarctic Emerald Isle. Underwriter. Wm. Tapscott Miscellane- ) ous Ships ) Captain. - Brooks . . . J. B. B e l l . . . . - Cornish... J. W. Roberts J. B. BeU.... President of Company Chas. Harman. Robt. P. Neslen Jas. Chaplow.. Henry H u g g .. Jas. D. Ross . . . Asa Calkin Port of Embarka. tion. Liverpool Liverpool Liverpool Liverpool Liverpool Liverpool Date of Sailing. July 18,1857 Apr. 11,1853 July 10,1859 Aug. 20,1859 Mar. 30,1860 May 11,1860 Port of Dbembarlc-ation. Hiiladel. N. York.. N. York.. N. York.. N. York.. N. York.. P E. Fond 54 1 IT 72 Hand-cart. 196 140 128 Team. 149 106 246 States. 36 326 30 54 34T 340 263 464 50111396 Total. 36 T25 30 54 594 731 263 2433 Of this number, as the table shows, 1037 purposed going through to Utah under P. E. Fund, hand-cart, and team arrangements. But we have good cause to presume that a large number of those who left here with the intention of settling for a short time in the States (and are included in the table under that head) have also gone through to Utah, without settling on the way. The number of natives of the various countries may be classified as follows: From the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland-English, 1074; Scotch, 126; Welsh, 173; Irish, 12. The total number from the Scandinavian Mission is 762, of which there are 528 Danes, 193 Swedes, and 41 Norwegians. The total number from the Swiss and Italian Mission is 211, of which 209 are from the Swiss Cantons, and 2 from Italy. There are also 2 French, 3 Germans, and 70 elders returning home from missions, making a grand total, as per table, of 2433 souls. Countries.-The number of natives of the various countries may be classified as follows: England 2611 (Principal counties-Lancashire, Yorkshire, and Staffordshire.) Scotland 367 W a l e s 667 3645 Ireland 54 America 19 French Mission (Channel Islands)... 9 Denmark ) ( 505 Sweden V Scandinavian < 67 Norway. ) | 46 Swiss Cantons 19 Piedmont, Italy 31 East India Mission 2 Germany 1 -750 Total i 4395 souls. The emigration in 1861 is progressing satisfactorily, as the following extract proves: "A party of Mormonitcs, consisting of 17 men, 25 women, and 11 children, left London lately by the Northwestern Railway for Liverpool, en route for the Salt Lake settlement. The emigration of Mormonites from Great Britain, particularly from the southern district of Wales, has during the past ten weeks been on a large scale. Their number embraces all classes; one gentleman, an inhabitant of Merthyr, Gla- |