The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-05-22 00:00:00

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Eumeteroir.—The second exodus proceeds at full
speed. numbers flying from the strictly agricultu-
ral county of Roscommon exceed, according to • local
Finer. those of any past year. Nearly every day groups
of comfortable. well-alresseal people, of the small farm-
ing clams, with their large red boxes,
.may he seen at
our railway station ra route for America, yr 1. Galway
and Cork. In Carlow, too. a thriving district, large
nunibers of persons principally belonging to. the farm-
ing classes, natives of Carlow and the adjoining district
of the Queen's County, leave the Carlow and Athj
Railway stationa on their way to the " Far West."
THE 'Polies ISHMI iIuMADE. --The recruiting for the
Pope goes on merrily, and Dr. l'ullen's object in rais!ng
• money tribute is now patent to the meanest under-
standing. A despatch. dated Cork, the 11th, and pub-
lished in one of the local papers, thus reports " One
hundred and fifty young inen arrived in this city Oda
morning, by train from Killarney, for the purpose of
joining tho Pope's army. They are fine young nice,
belonging chiefly to the fanning clam, and appear filled
with enthusiasm for the cause which they have espoused.
They were accompanied by two priests from the die-
tnet whence they hail conic; anal we understand that
!Irge additional reinforcements may be expected from
Kerry. In Dublin, too, the recruitingaergeant—who.
ther in black or scarlet—has met, it is said, with
some MIOCCBII. Ono account states that two hundred
drapers aasiatants have volunteered for the Papal army,
while another repreaenta tbe number as high as three
hundred and fifty. In the adjacent counties of Meath
and Louth tire new eruaade is being carried on with con-
siderable vigour
AORIcr I.TI. MAL PRomPF:Crit. --Matters continue to inn-
prove, and a heavy fall of rain, which lasted the whole
of last night, has still further bettered Om prospect of •
speedy decline in the present famine prices of nearly all
articles aaf consumption. The following rather remark-
able communication in supplied by the Limerick corrres•
pondent of the Frreman'a Journal : —"The weather is
all that the fanner can desire. For several days past
we have had hourly falls of refreshing rain, anal the
country begins to exhibit • decided improvement. The
crops, which presented such • hopeless appearance •
fortnight ago, are looking strong and healthy. I have
seen large tracts of oats upwards of ten inches over
ground. Wheat nnainiaes to be abundant, anal potatoes.,
if one may reckon on early indications, will be equally
productive. A great change has come over the country
since the occurrence of this genial change in the wea-
ther. A fortnight ago the gloomiest anticipations were
entertained regarding the food prospects of the approach-
ing summer. Potatoes, as an article of human food,
have almost generally fallen into dianse in consequence
of their badness and the high figure which they fetch at
market. The prevailing price is 101. per stone. In
many parts of the country they have rotted wholesale
in the pits to such • lamentable extent that they cannot
now be used even as food for pigs, consequent on the
continued drought. Butcher's meat fetched an enor-
mous price. In Waterfonl mutton rated last month as
highas 10d. per lb., and beef, not of the primed descrip-
tion either, at Bd. Similar rates were maintained in
this market ; and litre and in Waterford breadstuff'
were rapidly attaining famine prices, the cattle were
perishing from starvation. and three-fifths of the labour-
ing population were either unemployed, or hired at
wages totally insufficient for their maintenance. I can-
not help thinking that this hopeless Mate of affairs con-
siderably stimulated the tide of emigration which the
last two months saw departing from the Irish shores.
Localities which the emigration mania had not pene-
trated since the terrible years of famine, have been
almost depopulated in a few weeks. Frightened by the
impending ruin, whole families hastened to disengage
themselves from a soil which threatened to absorb more
than it produced ; and I feel confident that the coming
harvest will find the faruier deeply embarrassed by this
enormous drain on the rough working muscle of the
country. Just now affairs begin to look better. The
farmers have begun to turn out fat cattle, and the de-
mand for rural labour is increasing, cheap vegetables
deluge the markets, and the supply of butter, which had
fallen off one-third, is slowly reaching its former impor-
tance. Soule weeks, however, must elapse, before Irish
butter can take its usual stand in the market. The de-
scription of new grass on which the cattle are fed at
present partakes largely of the nature of all rapid vege-
tation ; it is rank anal soft, and the butter, as • natural
result, is deficient in firmness and flavour. All
descriptions of breadstuff.' exhibit • tendency to
decline, and the alarm which pervaded all classes is
subsiding."