The Returning Tide

If the United States takes froin us the largest number of emigrante, they also give back to us the roost considerable iinrnigration. In the last three years nearly a quarter of a inillion of persons 1 ave come back to this country f rom the States. The commercial crisis and depression of business in the United States may have had much to do with this observed resul t, tvhich it wouid be rash to consider as other than a teniporary modification of the main tendencies of population changes ; but it justifies the observation that either the number of emigrants who have gone to the United States for permanent settlement has diminished recently, or " their place has been laken by emigrants of an older date or native-born Amencans coming to this country." It is significant enough that last year the inward current almost precisely equalled the outward in volume. More than 81,000 persons left our sliores for the United States, and more than 80,000 returned f rom the United States to the British Mes. - London Times.