The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-19 00:00:00

IREL AND.

DUBLIN, FRIDAY.
THE FOREIGN ENLISTMENT ACT.
Recruiting is going on briskly in the south of
Ireland. Mallow and Killarney seem to be the chief
places for the live stock which now form so large a
portion of the exports of Ireland. A Cork paper of
yesterday says :

"An awkward squad of raw recruits, who by their ap-
pearance and conformation appeared better adapted for
tailors or shoemakers than for soldiers, came by train from
Mallow to Cork on Tuesday aad yesterday. It is stated
that the son of a well-known solicitor in the West Riding
has obtained a commission in his Holiness's army. A gen-
tleman named Sullivan is also stated to have obtained a
commission."

Referring to the proclamation, Dr, Cullen's
official organ, the Morning News, is instructed to
say :

" We know what all this means, and what we think of it
all may be told in a few words. The only effect of this pro-
clamation will be to proclaim to Europe what the British
Government would fain do if it only could. That Irishmen
are going to Rome is, indeed, true ; and that those who
may settle there may be found, arms in hand, defending
the Pope should he be attacked, is no doubt probable. But
it is not true that any one is violating the enactment which
is dragged from the dust of half a century and flourished in
our faces. What is being done is not being done secretly.
So ample and implicit is the reliance of those who know
them best that Irishmen would, of their own free resolve,
act as becomes brave men and true friends of justice, liberty,
and right in any land in which they might be found,
that the ardent desire of our countrymen to emigrate to
Rome is encouraged by all who wish well-tu the in,n,c,
'happiness, freedom, and prosperity of Italy; no 'engage-
ment,' no 'retaining,' no stipulation, no violation t,f any
law being necessary, and none being attempted. This is a
movement which no tiroclamation' will prevent—unless,
indeed, one from the Pontiff-King, whose peril has called
forth such a glorious spectacle of fidelity and devotion.
We counsel, and have for weeks backs been counselling,
compliance with the laws which regulate emigration. 'NG
wish to see laws worthy of being obeyed, and not only
cheerfully obeyed, but honestly and impartially adminis-
tered. We have no fear that the noble zeal which Catholic
Ireland has shown in support of the cause of justice, of
liberty, of loyalty, and of religion, will fail or falter before
this shabby attempt to wrest the law against ' foreign enlist-
ment' to the advantage of invaders annexes assassins and
pirates." , , ,

EMIGRATION.
The cork Constitution of yesterday thus re-
marks :-,
ci Two river steamers left this city yesterday for Queens-
town, crowded with persons who intend leaving for Ame-
rica by the screw steamships Glasgow and Nova Scotian,
the former cf which sails from this port to-day for New
York and the latter for Quebec. They were mostly from
.the Queen's county and Kerry, and the great majority were
young people. On beimg asked their reason kir leaving the
country they replied that there were no opportunities for
young persons of the fanning class to get on here, and they
considered it their best course to go away to a place where
land was cheap and easily got."