THE REVIVAL OF EMIGRATION. (From the Daily News.)

New Zealander, Volume 3, Issue 207, 24 May 1848, Page 3

THE REVIVAL OF EMIGRATION. (From the Daily News.)

Bitter and obviously too well founded, complaints lontinue to be made by the journals of Canada and Mew Brunswick respecting the reckleis manner in which the emigration from Ireland has been conducted luring the season which has closed. It seems hko Harping upon truisms to repeat the sound ptinciples ef emigration. Emigration is a mode of relief only fitted "or those who ate sufficiently robust and versatile in relources to benefit themselves by the change of scene. In the case of such emigrants, the regulator of a natural healthy emigration U the success ot those who smitrate. Men will not continue to leave home aftec it ha* become obvious that advancement has become as slow in the colony as in the mother country. So long in the want ot labour, enterprise, and capital continues in the colony, so long wi 1 this advancement be more rapid there than iv the old country. The surceis of the robust pioneers of colonisation in their new homes is uniformly followed by attempts on their part to reunite their families around them, and thus the less rebust part of a land's redundant population is got rid of. This is the natural and humane progress of emigration, and such only ought to be countenanced or encouiagcd by a state. Now, what has been the practice of this season's emigration from I > eland? In the St. John's (N. B ) Courier of tbe I3th ultimo, we find an official report on tfte state of the emigrants arrived in the colony by the ship Molus. Mr. Harding, the health officer of St. John's, alter deliberate inspection of the ship, repoits that among the passengers are " many superannuated people, and others of brokendown constitutions, and subjects of chronic disease, lame, widows with very large helpless families, feeble men (through chronic diseases, &c.), with large helpless laniilies." "In iac(Alr. Haiding proceeds), all those causes which rent dered them piupers upon the hands of their landlords are now in existence with added force, from recent dis« ease, ixc, to fasten them upon us. And when nearly lour hundred, so glaringly paupers, aie thus sent out— • who so tame as would not feel indignant at the outrage?" At the meeting ol Common Council, to which this repoit was picsented, it was resolved that "as all public buildings erected for almshouse purposes aie ah eady filled to oveiflowing with Irish emigrants," no means of ai resting the evil presented thcmbelves " except by inducing a large portion of those lately arrived in the /Eolus and otherß, begging from door to door, to return to their native country," and to this we have determined to offer a free passage, with provisions and water, to all who will accept them, and to reqeest the clergy "to use their influence in inducing these distressed people to accept a passage to Ireland upon the terms proposed." To this conclusion lias the reckless depoitation oi paupeis by some liish landlords, and the connivance of government brought us. The victims are to be sent back to Ireland as a less holeless reluge than that they have been induced to seek. Aguin and again we have been compelled, during the course of the last season, to raise our voice against the culpable negligence by which vessels of questionable sea qualities were repeatedly allowed to sail, overcrowded with passengers, and deficient in stores, But the case now brought before us by the New Brunswick Press, and the Common Council of St. John, is worse than all that have preceded it. It is a case of the utterly helpless, t callously thrown upon a I'oreigu hhore to die. On the deep culpabili y of such an act it is unnecessaiy to enlarge. But its consequences are far moie wide-spreading than may at fust appear. This abuse of emigration cannot fail to discredit a process which, judiciously adopted and in moderation might piove an important auxiliary measure ior restoring ii eland to a healthy condition. And we have good ground to fear that unless the public and parliament speak out earnestly and peremptorily on the subject, the abuse may be carried still further. Strange rumours have reached us about the manner in which the resumed emigration ot labourers to Australia under government auspices is being carried out. We sciuple not to say, that it the representations made to us aie but halt true, this emigration bears suong maiks of an unworthy concession to landloids in the south of Ireland anxious to clear their estates by any means, and that the New Brunswick tragedy is about to bere-euacted at bydney; that great cruelty is about to be perpetrated on the Irish poor, and New feouth Wales is in danger of being swamped with an unmanageable and unavailable swarm of paupers. Nor is this all . alreauy are the promoters of the Munchauaen-like project, ot last session for transporting hall the population ol Ireland to Canada, by means ot a loan of eight millions, preparing to urge their job again upou tlic parliament oi* Great Britain.