IRELAND.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 588, 22 March 1851, Page 4

IRELAND.

The Emigration Mania.—A letter ■from Dublin, dated November 7, says: — “Still the emigration continues on as great a scale as at any time during the spring or summer, and I have heard of instances where farms have been offered at half their former ■rents, and the tenants have refused to remain. It seems as if the rural population, who had struggled through the famine, were determined to fly the country at a time when lands can be had at comparatively moderate rents, and there is fair ground to hope that brighter prospects are before us. From all the outports, emigrants are proceeding on a winter voyage across the Atlantic. In general they go by Sicaiuer io Liverpool; but sailing vessels are going direct to New York, New Orleans, and Quebec. At this moment there are some vessels in the port of Dublin preparing for the reception of emigrants; and the quays are daily crowded with families taking passage by the steamers for Liverpool. A great deal of this emigration is self-supported, where farmers and small traders are taking out the remnant of their substance ; but a large proportion of the emigrants have been induced to go out by remittance from their relatives in America. I have ascertained that considerable sums in the shape of money orders, varying from £4 to £l5 are received by every arrival from New York, through the banking ■houses in Dublin, as well as some private •mercantile establishments. The average received through the National Bank is £lOO per week, and the total sum is often £2,000 weekly. The remittances through the Cork, Limerick, Waterford, and other country banks, are much larger. A return of the money transmitted from America for emigration purposes during the present year, if it could be obtained, would exhibit a very formidable amount. The question is now asked on all sides “ Where is this tremendous emigration to end what will be its consequences upon the condition of Ireland ?”—Within the last week or two several emigrants have returned to various parts of Ireland from America; but their discouraging statements seemed to produce no effect whatever in abating the emigration mania.