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 has heard that plenty there abounds, and that want is unknown. These accounts he has gleaned from the representations of travellers, from cheap tracts and papers, or from a still more reliable source, the epistolatory commucations of friends who live beyond the Atlantic. Such statements are in general true, but are too vaguely given for purposes of correct information. In these pictures we are presented with the brightest lights, viewed from the most favorable positions; there are casual shades which must enter upon the scene if we wish to have a correct idea of the representation. The Utopia of the imagination, is not the United States of our experience. By substituting fancy for judgment, romantic hopes are first formed to be afterwards destroyed.—Thus it often happens that the Irish emigrant who imagines he has escaped from the misery and oppression of his own misgoverned Island when he abandoned it, from pauperism and its attendant ills, finds a thousand difficulties stare him in the face, and which he was unprepared to meet, when landed on the wharfs of some of our sea-board cities. Even supposing him to have escaped the extravagant demands of ship agents, the dangers of the sea, confinement in the sick hospitals, &c, if he lands friendless, and without sufficient funds, his case, indeed, is one that may well excite our commisseration. He sees, on every side, strangers or countrymen, all engaged in the active pursuits of life, but too little interested in his affairs, or too actively occupied by their own, to pay him much attention. He finds himself a stranger in a strange land, without a roof to shelter him or land to cultivate, in want of