INCREASE OF FOREIGN PAUPERS.
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We publish below extracts from the late annual
report of the Mayor of New York, by which it
appears that the increase of foreign paupers in the
Poors- House of that City is at the rate of eighty
eight per cent. per e'laaea; or, in other words,
that while the number of poor among our own
countrymen increases yearly SO as to add twelve
more to the burthen of public support, the foreign
stock adds lightweight! Now, suppose we were
to carry this out according to the regular proper
ton which the foreign population bears to the ag
gregate native citizens, we would find that eight
twefths of the former live upon the rest of us in
the form of either public or private mendicants,
or, for greater security, as convics or culprits in
our jails and penitentiaries.


That this comparison will be offensive to the
pride of the foreign citizens, who so fortunate
or so worthy, as not to belong to either of these
evil classes, is very probable; but it is neverthe-
less true and if they who intend to make this the
home of their lives, the grave of their bones, and
the land Of their posterity, will merge present SEN
sibities and old prejudices, in the good of the flu
ture they will, SO far from dscouraging our eff
forts to prevent the curses Of crimes and poverty
upon us, by their own countrymen, cry aloud
that at length they are convinced ace are right
in our career, and say God speed us in the work
1t is an idle defamation to say we oppose men
because of an unchariable feeling towards sran.
gers. So far from it, many ofus wound our own
feelings, when, for the good of the country, we
give pain to any one in attacking the general mul.
titudc. Apart from the influence of crimes, deg.
radiation, poverty, and the hereditary consequen.