§ MR. BRADLAUGH (Northampton)asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether 22,749 emigrants landed at Bueno Ayres in November last, and if it is true that employment was only found for 9,536 of these; whether in December 29,235 emigrants landed, and in January upwards of 35,000; whether he could give figures to any later date; and whether the Foreign Office had any information as to the total number of such emigrants without employment, and as to the number of such emigrants unemployed now in the Argentine Republic who are British subjects?
§ *THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Sir JAMES FERGUSSON,) Manchester, N.E.We do not know how many immigrants landed in November, or if any considerable number are unemployed. An interesting Report from Her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires on the subject of the immigration into the Argentine Republic is in the Press, and will be shortly presented. Mr. Jenner has been directed to report upon the question asked by the hon. Member. I may say that in the last 30 years, up to the close of 1888, nearly 1,375,000 persons have entered the Republic from abroad, of whom only 23,000 were of British origin.