The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-05-28 00:00:00

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IRISH EMIGRATION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY TIMES.
SIR,--You will greatly oblige me by inserting the
following few remarks in your valuable paper. We all
know* that the tide of emigration amongst the Irish is
still flowing fast; and, having just returned from a visit
in the county of Limerick, I had many opportunities for
11,qcertaining for myself, if what many have said, was
true. I found it too true. The farmers cannot get
hands to do the work that is required at such a season,
and what, with the bad weather they have had, they are
not able to take advantage of the present good season
far the want of farm labourers. This is truly a bad state
*4 things. I have seen many poor aged couples next
door to starvation, because their young sons have left
them to go in the tids which will sweep them and Ire-
land into the vortex of ruin. And I am told that it is
tot in Limerick alone that this state of things is going
on, but in every county in Ireland, more or less ; and
/et the Government and the people of Eugle.nd are heed-
less of the cry of anguish from Ireland. Is there no one
that will open the eves of Englishmen to the sight ?
Go, let them see for themselves. Let us beware, or else
ne day we shall awake from our dream, and find that
014 hold upon Ireland is but feeble. Hoping that you
will
,fi#d space lot this,—l remain, your obedient
ter;ant, JOHN LEEMING.
,50, Hunter-street, Liverpool, May 25, 1860.

The Directors of the Great Ship Company, on Satur-
day, decided that the .Great Eastern shall return from
New York to Milford ilayen.

The new eighteen penny duty on the special consign-
=cuts is regarded as a serious blow by the steam ship-
g interest, owing to the number of small packages
despatched by steam vessels. A cargo of wheat will be
charged only is. G. and a bushel of fruit the same.
A LADY CANVAZSER.—A correspondent gives the
following anecdotes of the late election for Clare :
' " The contest turned wholly upon personal popularity,
and Calcutt, who is a farmer-like, jolly Irish gentleman,
Was better calculated to win upon the people than the
fashionable young captain of a crack corps. His wife,
too, would make the fortune of any candidate. A tine
dashing woman, she rode about the country in a carriage
with her husband in his canvassing expeditions, and
When he was in a public-house seeing a parish corn- ,
naittee, and she was outside in the open barouche await-
ing his return, the frieze coats gathered arou d
n the
vehicle, gave three cheers for her honour,' and called
upon he: to make a speech. Prompt as lightning she
replied, I won't trouble you, my friends, with my
oratory, but I'll give you a song, which an Irishman
with music in his soul would any day prefer to a speech ;'
and with that, in a clear and pleasant voice, she struck
lip 'Let Erin Remember,' and followed the ditty with
several other well known melodie3 of Tommy Moore. A
person who witnessed the scene assured sue there was
uothing incongruous about it ; the lady sung ter best,
.and entered into the spirit of her song, and the frieze coats
listened entranced. From that moment forth, during
the canvass, she never appeared in public without having
to sing a song."

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of nervcus irritability. Cure No. 54,912. Miss Virginia
Zegners, essred of consumption, after her medical advisers had
abandoned 811 hopes of recovery. Cure No. 51,514. Baron de
Folentz, Prefect of Langenau, of many years horrible
sufferings of the nerves and an obstinate liver som-
flaint,• for which the German spas had been tried in vain
or years. Cure No. 48,721. General Baron de Zaluskowsk,
pf many years fearful disorders of the digestive functions. 25.
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WHITSUNTIDE HOLIDAYS.

This is the second season of annual holidays, and

is a universal festival in the humble ranks of life in

many parts of the kingdom. Unlike King Christmas
and Good Friday, Whit-Monday visits us when nature
wear her leafy honours, and when the woods and the
forests are filled with the music of the birds. Whit-
suntide is one of the most ancient festivals of the
Church. In the good old times, there were held in
some places games called " The Peppard Revels." The
Reading Afe>•cu;y, for May 24th, 1819, contains the
following advertisement :—" Peppard Revel will be
held on Whit-Monday, May 31st, 1819 ; and, for the
encouragement of young and old gamesters, there will
be a good hat to be played for at cudgels, for the first
seven couple that play ; the man that breaks most heads
to hay.) the prize ; and one shilling and sixpence will
be given to each man that breaks a head, and one
shilling to the man that has his head broke." We, in
our wisdom, don't do things in that style ; we have a
greater reverence for our heads, and prefer climbing up
greasy poles for a leg of mutton, and jumping in sacks
for the especial gratification of enlightened bystanders.
" Ain't that civilisation," cries Betty. On Whit-

Monday the friendly societies turn out, carrying
the flags and the banners of their orders, and parade
the streets during the morning to the-sound of music.
At the close of the day the brethren sit down to dinner
provided by mine host of the inn, and in some instances
the night is spent in "tripping on the light fantastic
toe." Sunday school teachers are regaled with tea and
cake; innocent games follow in the yard behind the
school-room. " Kiss-in-the-ring," perhaps better known
as " drop handkerchief," is the favourite game. The
ring is formed ; the handkerchief is dropped by a bloom-
ing maiden, who bounds away with the swiftness of a
roe, followed by a gentleman ; the chase ends in a cap-

ture, with a kiss stolen, taken or given, as the case may
be, for the gentleman's trouble. We know some of both
sexes very fond of this amusement. Dewhurst says
that in Cumberland and other places fancy fairs are
held, where servants are hired, and love matches made.
The operatives in the manufacturing districts have a
general holiday. In all places, and with nearly all per-
sons, Whit-Monday is selected for pleasure parties and
pie-nits in the country. Lancashire is not behind hand.
True, the day is not observed to any extent in Liverpool,
for here we toil from day to day, more intent on
the means of living than of recreation. But there is a
different state of things in Manchester, Bolton, Wigan,
and the other great seats of manufacturing industry. The
factories are closed. The clanking of the machinery, the
puffing and the roaring of the steam engine, the sound
of the eternally falling hammer, and the hum of the
spinning machine, are hushed. The weaver deserts his
stool, the smith lays down his hammer, the collier
emerges from the bowels of the earth; and dressed in
their holiday clothes, all seek health and recreation in
the fields and in the woods, or come a pleasuring into
Liverpool and Cheshire. Jrirke White thus ,describes
the festival :
Hark, how merrily from distant towers
siting round the village bells ; now on the gale
-They rise with gradual swell, distinct and loss t.
Anon they die upon the penfive ear,
Melting in faintest music. Thy bespeak
A day of Jubilee, and oft they bear
Coal:mixt along the unfrequented shore
The sound of village dance, and tabor loud,
Startling the musing ear of solitude.
Such is the jocund wake of Whitsuntide,
When happy superstition, gambling old,
Holds her unhurtful gambols. Ail the day
The rustic revellers ply the mazy dance
On the smooth-shaven green, and then at eye •
Commence the harmless rites and auguries;
Anditnany a tat of ancient days goes round.
They tell of wizard seer, whose potent spells
Could hold in dree4ful thrall the labouring MO3ll,
Or draw the fixed stars from their eminence,
And still the midnight tempest; then anon
Tell of uneharnelled speetres, seen to glide
Along the lone woods' unfrequented path,
Startling the flighted traveller; while the sound
Of undietinguished murmers heard to come
From the dark centre of the deepening glen
Struck on his frozen year.
THE IMIALORATION.—ARRIVALS IN LIVERPOOL.

The manufacturing hives of Lancashire always swarm
at this season of the year ; and to-day, by two railways
alone, we shall have about 20,000 persons added to the
ordinary population of the town. The arrivals will
continue almost daily for the next six weeks ; and the
tide has already begun to flow. It is.true that they
do not stop here ; but the visitors are well aware that,

apart from its own intrinsic attractions, Liverpool is the
best and cheapest outlet to everywhere. The Mersey,
in fact, flows around the world. The arrivals on Satur-
day were not numerous, but from what we learn an
immense migration this season may be looked for, and
special trains from every part of the country will for the
next few weeks be emptying their thousands of happy
excursionists into our streets.

At the Exchange Station, on Saturday, three special
trains arrived, one of them from a distant part of York-
shire; and to-day not less than 7,000 excursionists are
ospected from Preston, and about 4,000 from Black-
burn. Special trains from Yorkshire and Miles Platting
will bring from 2,000 to 3,000 more. On Thursday.
and Saturday extraordinary arrivals are expected. Spe-
cial trains also run to-day from the Exchange Station
to Southport and to Preston.
At the Lime-street Station the station-master, from a
glance at his sheet, informs us they will be as busy at
this season with excursion trains, if not busier than ever.
So far, the preponderance is with trains proceeding out-
ward from Liverpool ; but of course before the week is
over, this condition would be reversed. 'Would it be
credited, however, that not less than nine excursion
trains will leave the Lime-street Station to-day
for different parts of the country ? Two of these
proceed to Birmingham, one to London, one to
Stafford, one to North Staffordshire, one to Bolton,
and two to Manchester. Six excursion trains
are also expected here, coming respectively from
Manchester, Bolton, Stafford, Crewe, Birmingham, and
London. On Tuesday two cheap trains will arrive;
Wednesday, three at least; on Thursday the Arrivals
will be very numerous ; on Friday, four are expected
from Bolton alone, and two from Manchester ; for
Saturday, including four for London alone, they are
almost too numerous for enumeration.
Trade has been so prosperous of late in the manu-
facturing districts, that a more than ordinary influx of
visitors into Liverpool may be confidently expected ;
and our different shopkeepers, in the beautiful displays
with which they decorate their windows, would appear
to be alive to the fact. Too often in past times, at this
season of the year, timid strangers have been scared
from coming by reports, often exaggerated, of epidemic
disease prevalent in the town. We are, fortunately,
particularly, free at the present time from any such
possible source of danger, due partly no doubt to the
sanitary operations for which we pay so pear. The
town was never in a more healthy condition than at the
present time, the mortality last week being lower than
it has been in any week for the previous ten years.
• SMITS FOR STRANGERS.
Without setting up as cicerones exactly, our country
cousins may, perhaps, he indebted to us by a running
recapitulation of the leading objects of interest which
they ought to see before quitting Liverpoel--that is if
they wish to render their stay at once pleasing and
profitable. Their steps, of course, will be first directed
to St. George's-hall, which will be open as usual. They
may fall into transports, if they like, with its noble pro-
portions and the richness of the decorations; strangers
may do this, but the admiration of the resident is quali-
fied by the thought that the building cost £300,000 at
least, and lost us the town-dues. The Exchange and Town-
hall, will, of course be visited, and for the next few
weeks we shall have a perpetual circle of gaping groups
around Nelson's monument. This never seems to lose
its wonderful attraction for country people, one of whom
we once heard pronounce a most original but excellent
criticism upon it. It was very grand, the rustic censor
admitted, but it stood terribly in need of whitewashing.
St. John's market is also a perennial wonder ; the
Custom-house, especially if its cellar could be thrown
open as freely as the long room, would be well worthy
of a visit; but we have lost one of our lions in the
destruction of the Sajlors' Home. A visit to the tobacco
warehouses is a privilege easily attained, but which few
even of our local residents have sought to enjoy; and it
would
bae
peep
a t interesting,the ofmariners' course,e church,
and down at
see howth the docks,
to
beau-
tifullytake
the cock-pit of a man-of-war has been converted
into a unique but becoming place of worship. isto
It be
hoped that every visitor will think it worth while to cast
a passing glance at the beautiful Free Library on
Shaw's-brow, though few we fear visll be so reverent as
the
structure. Brougham, who doffed his hat in honour to fle
structure. Few towns can boast finer museums than
we possess in Liverpool ; and the two principal, we
should suppose, will be thrown perfectly open for the
next few weeks. The Derby Museum with its magni-
ficent, collection of specimens in natural history, and
its models of ancient and modern Liverpool, must, of
course, be visited ; as well as that of the Royal Institu
tion, with the adjoining permanent Gallery of Art. The
Egyptian Museum is rich in treasures, but which can be
valued only by the really learned. It is not a show, but
to the appreciative visitor will afford a rare gratification.
It may be mentioned, in this connection, that the Exhi-
bition of the Society of Fine Arts continues open; and
as the charge fer admission is low, we should expect that
the rooms will be crowded. It is well when pleasure can
be combined with charity ; and we cannot do better than
conclude this part of our notice with the recommenda-
tion to strangers to pay a visit, which they will find
deeply interesting, to our Blind Asylum, where useful
and ornamental articles—the ingenious productions of
the poor blind inmates—may be purchased as chearly as
at any other establishment in town.