The Sun.
London, England, 1870-04-22 00:00:00

EMIGRATION.

The Standard thinks that the facts brought to light at
the last sitting of the managing committee of the British
and Colonial Emigration Fund are sufficient to shew that
emigration is taking firm hold of the working classes.
Here we find the emigrants themselves contributing to-
wards the cost of their passage. 'Shipload after shipload
is going out, and one vessel alone will take 560 from the
Thames next week. Berths are engaged in the various
ships up to a total of 1,800 statute adults, which may be
reckoned as equal to about 2,400 souls. The emigrants
themselves will contribute something like 25,500,
and Mr. Goschen's splendid gift will soon be ab-
sorbed. While the Thames is sending forte
its crowds, there is a report of an enormous
increase in the emigration from the Mersey both to
Canada and the United States. We shall very soon be
told that the movement has gone far enough, and may be
left to take care of itself. But those who know best the
state of the working classes will be as little influenced by
such an argument as they have hitherto been by the posi-
tive statement. that the destitute poor would not emigrate,
or, if they did, the exploit would end in failure. Emigra-
tion is a fact and a success. We may regret the necessity
for such a movement ; but as the necessity exists, the
remedy may not be rejected. It is also extremely pos-
sible that those who are thus helped to go will afterwards
help others to follow them.

MR. MOORE, THE MEMBER rOR MAYO.

The Daily Nev.. 3 declares that the death of Mr. George
Henry Moore, the member for Mayo, will occasion very
general regret. His absence from Parliament will be de-
pl,:r.3d on both sides, and by men of every shade of politi-
cal opinion. Mr. Moore was one of the few men who
helped to give individuality to a House of Commons sin-
gularly lacking politicians and debaters of note save for
some three or four men sitting either on the Trea-
sury Bench or immediately in front of it. The
present. Parliament is a house of respectabilities,
containing. few persons, it is true, who sink below
a fair average of ability, but still fewer who rise above it.
Mr. Moore had, to some extent, a representative and
even a historic character. He may be described with sub-
stantial truth as the last of the Irish Nationalists. We
make no account of the newspaper traders in what Is
called nationalism, of the Fenian promoters of social dis-
order, of the passing aberrations of excited Orangemen, or
the electioneering tactics of Tory candidates.. Mr. Moore
was the only public man of social standing, of personal
respectability, and of a certain degree of eminence, who
advocated what are vaguely called National principles,
which we suppose to involve in their very mildest and
most loyal form the legislative independence of Ireland.
The National movement, in the sense in which it aimed
at legislative independence, lost its lost representative in
Mr. Moore. He was a respectable historic sentimentalist,
far more English than Irish, save for a certain fire-eating
temperament, in disposition, training pursuits, and tastes ;
an Oxford man, a good classical scholar; and a sportsman
who had taken up with Irish Nationality as other
gentleman of means and leisure take up, as a resource,
with Church architecture and ritual. It is a pity that
his energies and talents had not more useful and innocent
direction ; but regret for his sudden death absorbs all other
considerations,