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Show 300 THE CITY OF THE SAINTS. CHAP. VI. total of 28,739 immigrants. They expect for the present year an emigration of 1500 to 2000 souls from the British Isles, independent of some hundreds from the Scandinavian, Swiss, and other missions. Already 200 teams have been dispatched from Great Salt Lake City to assist with transport and provisions the poor emigrants from Florence. The Holy Land of the West would soon be populous were it not for two obstacles: first, the expense and difficulty of the outward journey; secondly, the facility of emigration to the gold regions of Pike's Peak and the silver mines of the Nevada. The London Conference has seventeen places of worship, and numbers a little over 2000 men, scattered throughout Great Britain. In these isles there is a general Presidency of the Church, assisted by a counselor: these preside over the pastors or presidents of districts, ten in number, who also, assisted by counselors in their turn, direct and counsel the presidents of the twenty-four morganshire, having contributed £1000, and joined the 'brethren,' 200 of whom, including an old woman upward of eighty years of age, have just left Wales." No. III.-Latter-Day Saints' Emigration, Spring of 1861. Per Ship Manchester, Captain Frask. Males. Females. English 132 124 Scotch 3 2 Irish 2 0 Welsh 54 57 Danes 5 0 Americans 1 0 197 183 42 Islington, Liverpool, June 29th, 1861. Per Ship Underwriter, Captain Roberts. Males. Females. English 234 Scotch 32 Irish 3 Welsh 16 Norwegian 1 Americans 3 289 278 43 0 14 0 0 335 Per Ship Monarch of the Sea, Captain Gardner. Males. Females. English 97 Scotch 25 Irish 2 Welsh 17 German 1 Swiss 40 Carried forward... 182 105 27 1 17 0 48 198 Males. Females. Brought forward ... 182' 198 Italian 1 3 French 1 2 Danish 175 210 Norwegian 24 43 Swedish 61 68 Total 444 524 English 463 Scotch 60 Irish 7 Welsh 87 German 1 Swiss 40 Italian 1 French 1 Danes 180 Swedes 61 Norwegians 25 Americans 4 930 Summary. Males. Females. Total 507 72 1 88 0 48 3 2 210 68 43 0 1042 970 132 8 175 4 3 390 129 68 4 -1285 687 1972=1972 |