IRELAND.

New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 776, 21 September 1853, Page 3

IRELAND.

The Exodus. —According to a Kerry paper, 1000 emigrants Lave already left the town of Tarlee for America” and a large vessel is daily expected to arrive in that port to embark passengers for New York direct. Besides this continued stream to the new world, there is an extensive current of emigration of the able-bodied working classes, particularly female servants, maintained per steamer to London. Over 100 of this class left Tralee last week for the English metropolis. The Waterford Chronicle, too, has the following statement in reference to the •* flight” from that quarter of the southern province “ The Sophia, Captain Bellord, left our quay on Wednesday for Mew York, taking with her 80 passengers, and the Mars steamer let lor Liverpool this morning, having 180 passengers on board, bound for the United States and the gold regions. Among them we notice some of the middle-class farmers, who once were happy, but owing to the change caused in the times by the fatal blight of the potato-crop, combined with the rapacious grasp of (unrelenting andjtyrnauical landlords hod to adopt (Though unwillingly) emigration from the land of their forefathers, being the only resource left them to avoid becoming inmates of th© workhouses. We have no doubt that, unless some means be adopted to stem the current of emigration that is more then decimating our population, there will beascarcity of hands to cut down the coming harvest. We fear not contradiction in thus speaking. Will not our renders be surprised to hear, that during the months of October, November, and December, of 1852, no Uss than 3700 and odd persons left the quay of Waterford for America ? and we have no hesitation in saying, that the number who have since left are beyond this. We have daily accounts from farmers in all parts of the country complaining of this state of things—particularly where the landlords expelled the cottiers off their property by givingthem a nominal sum ot money.’’ As the inevitable suit of this continuous drain of the population, the labor market is rapidly rising, and in consequence of the enormous advance in the prices of all the necessaries of life, agriculturists and mechanics are demanding, and in many Instances receiving, and increased rale ot wages. The journeymen carpenters of Waterford have put lorth a temperate appeal to their employers, pointing out the many difficulties under which they have been suffering, and asking the modest addition ot 4d. per day to their present rate of wages; which is 3.5. 4d. i hey also state that they cannot work longer than 1~ hours- from G in the morning to the same hour in the evening—unless they me paid something extra for the overtime. There is nothing very unreasonable in either of these demands. The Irish Wjr Journals. — The following pungent paragraph appears in the Cork Reporter of Saturday : “ In the Nation of this day is a short article, attacking by name the editor of this journal, and written during Mr. Duffy’s absence in Loudon by some person in that gentleman’s employment. We have only to say, in reference to it, that it not only goes far beyond the line which separates a public from a personal assault, but further, that it so completely oversteps the boundary which distinguishes the act of a gentleman from that of a scoundrel, that the person to whom it alludes feels himself no more called on to defend himself from the writer, than he would think it necessary for him, if as sailed by a ruffian in the street, to inflict personal chast sement on his agressor, instead of band mg him over to the police.” The absence of personalities bad been hitherto a redeeming feature in the journals professing tube the organs of Young Ireland, but ot late ample amends have been made for the deficiency, and some of their writers can now compete in the abusive line with the most case-hardened journal Sts of the old school,Times Correspondent,