The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-02 00:00:00

th'e ilk'l3l7RiDgdi,m—the latter by way of Bthtol,
vt: f-rn)';!* 1Y: -v,v r.f Lir rpool ? :;.b_
serve 0u the Cork Examiner of Monday expre,-
si9ns of v,rt, •=Qttou3 c,.mplaint thit Do steps
whatever tv,f-o) t4lc-At to afford that city
th.= advantage 3 :nevitlbtf froin the I,hy
ing down teleo- pLic coinfounicr;:tons-, so 115
to maintain the forward position of the locality, in,
stead of allowing it to be thrust back in the midst
of these gigantic and remarkable improve-
ments. The writer attributes the disregard
thus culpably evinced to the benefits certain to
result to Cork from the judicious and speedy
employment of the electric telegraph, to the
apathy of the Great Southern and Western Railway
Company. " With regard to the cost," it is observed,
" of a line of telegraph, it is at the utmost of very
paltry amount, and not to be put for a moment in
competition with the thousand ways in which it
would serve the interests of the company." Yet
this very question of the expenditure required in
any such enterprise appeari from the statement of the
same journal to have been the very one which has
hitherto prevented the Great Southern and Western
Railway Company from adventuring upon its com-
mencement. " Sometime ago it was rumoured," says
the same writer, " that the only delay in laying
down a line of telegraph along the railway arose
from some difference about the expense with the
proposed contractor. But, although abundant
time has elapsed to bring this haggling to
a close, they have slept profoundly ever since
on the subject." Thus, while the company at Cork
have been hesitating about the propriety, •or rather
economy, of laying down the electric wires simply
along the ,line of railway from Dublin, that
same magic medium of electricity has been
extended by laud westwards to Galway, and by
sea eastwards to Holyhead. The incident is worthy
of remembrance. Its recognition, and still more the
perception' of its significance, cannot fail to operate
beneficially in imparting an impetus to Irish
enterprise. Now that the telegraphic com-
munication has been completed from Howth
to Holyhead, thereby enabling London to correspond
almost instantaneously through Liverpool not merely
with Dublin, but nearly. 500 miles due west with
Galway, let us hope that we may perceive a promise
not altogether illusory of improvement in the com-
mercial activity of Ireland, and consequently in the
social prosperity and happiness of her hitherto ill-
fated population.

One of not merely the most interesting, but the
most pressing, subjects for consideration at the present
moment is that of Australian emigration. Its im-
portance can scarcely be overrated. Circumstances
have developed themselves in an imperious form, and
the attention of those in authority has been awakened
to the absolute and stringent necessity of a more ex-
tensive scheme of colonial emigration than has existed
hitherto.. A more enlarged, magnanimous, and ra-
tional spirit begins to prevail, and several of those im-
politic restrictions which have been permitted until
now to cramp and harass intended emigrants have
been, if not altogether abrogated, to a considerable
extent relaxed and modified. Nevertheless, this par-
tial relaxation of restraint by no means meets the
exigencies of the case. A more extended view ought
to be taken by the Government of an empire whose
wide-spread colonies should be the brightest
gems of its glory and its strength, and whose noblest
aspirations it • should be to lay the foundation of a
powerful and prosperous nation in that vast and
teeming continent which rises from out the waters of
the southern hemiaphere. We have before us the
letter of a highly intelligent correspondent, one of
the many whose thoughts are directed to this subject,
in which he says—" The helping hand of the
paternal Government should be more extended, and
instead of wholly restricting the benefits placed at its
disposal to the sending out of mechanics, and labourers
only, it might be suggested that a grade a little
higher and better edhcated should be permitted to
reap some of the like advantages." We cannot help
thinking that this suggestion is well-founded, and
entitled to attention, viewed both in the light of a
home relief and a colonial benefit. There are in the
metropolis, as all our readers are well aware, a
very large number of respectable young men, well
conducted, provided with at least the elements of
good education, of the class of clerks, shop-assistants,
and the like, who, despite their utmost assiduity,
correctness of demeanour, and capacity for business,
find it utterly impossible to obtain employment from
the never-failing, or, rather, ever-increasing number
of competitors with whom they are engaged. Indi-
viduals, whose great aim and desire it is to obtain
"employment"—to turn their abilities, such as they
may be, to anything that will afford them mainte-
nance, but whom the weary search, day after day
prolonged, the depressing recurrence of unsuccessful
solicitations, arising from the " overstocking of the
market," render burdensome to themselves and un-
profitable to society, with undermined and wasted
energies. Now, is it not as clear as noonday, that men
of this description and circumstances would be benefited
themselves, and benefit a new country like Australia,
by being lent a helping hand to emigrate ? What can
they do here, and what might they not do there ? It
is not to be supposed, nor is it requisite that every
single individual who would be thus assisted should
be possessed of first-rate capacity ; but a moderate
amount of talent, common sense, sobriety, a fair share
of energy and activity, these qualifications—and
there is nothing so very uncommon in their combina-
tion in such young men as we have been speaking of
—would not only command immediate personal suc-
cess in that distant land, but would, so to speak,
irrigate it by their advent. It is an admitted fact
that the constitution of Australian society is some-
what of a deteriorated tone ; indeed it would be im-
possible were it otherwise than affected by having
been so many years the receptacle for banished
crime, olicina gentium infamium, the sink of the
parent country. Would it not necessarily tend to its
speedier attainment of wholesome strength and purity
were it recruited by a salutiferous infusion of in-
tegrity and honourable worth— would there not, in a
word, be a sounder and healthier moral state of things
it u
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un-
less produced
the
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humann y ?
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traordinary revolutiom from a change of hemispheres,
and that the well-known Horatian maxim, 'Ceelum
non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt (a quota-
tion which, we parenthetically pray, may be let rest
in peace for the future with many other threadbare
brethren), turn out to be a gross fallacy, that a grate-
ful feeling would fail to be engendered and perpetu-
ated by this timely rendering of aid. Ins new
colonists would surely be inspired with, and perpetuate
a warm and affectionate adherence to the mother
country, which could not but be of advantage to the
consolidation of the imperial interests.
The concluding portion of our correspondent's
communication puts the matter so fairly and clearly
forward, that we shall more strongly enlist the in-
terest of the reader, and more conclusively show the
feelings which are being awakened in the public mind
on this very important feature in colonial emigra-
tion, by its insertion Than by an enunciation of our
own coincident views. " There can be no doubt,"
says the writer, " that thousands who have the de-
sire, but who lack even the Comparatively susall sum
necessary for their conveyance to a country, the
boundless resources of which are unquestionable,
would take advantage of a scheme which would be
alike benevolent and politic. Indeed means might be
taken to ensure the return of the whole, or a part of
the sum advanced. There are many whose inde-
pendence of mind would not allow them to accept this
service except as a loan, and respectable
security, .or a life assurance, might be re-
ceived as a sufficient guarantee for the faith-
ful psrformance of any required agreement.
Here, then, is an opportunity for the present Govern-
ment to perform a distinguished and patriotic service
for this country ; here is an opening that is net
offered to every Administration, and whatever may
be the political fate of the present holders of office,
energetic efforts in this direction will redound to their
credit, not now only, but in succeeding ages, when
Australia shall have reached that mighty maturity
which it requires little prophetic spirit to foretel that
she is destined to attain."

" TRH LAST DYING SPEECH AND CONFESSION"
or THE PrionterromsTs.—" The reign of monopoly is over.
The attempt to. maintain
it is hopsless."—From the second
‘ leading article" in the Afernieg Iferald of to-day.