Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1847-07-30
IRISH COLONIZATION.


The New" York Sun has the following re-
marks upon this subject:
The great and constantly increasing dispari-
ty between capital and labor in Britain is now
agitating Parliament, and the earl of Lincoln
has proposed, as means of relief, that gov
eminent shall enable the mass of unemploy-
In late speech before the House of Commons,
labor is insufficient to employ millions, who
are at this moment suffering and starving. By
the census of 1871, there were in Ireland 3d.
Al 900 people. The surface of the country
comprices 100000 acres, of which 1884,
900 are arabic land, and the remainder 1885,
900 waste. The thirteen and a half millions
are held in the following order: Persons hav-
ing from l to 80 acres, 1874 ,544; from l to
10 acres, sos 900; from l to 5 acres, 317 900;
having l acre, 1856, 3l4; leaving about 7,OOO,-
900 to seek employment as they best CAN
The number of persons out OF work and In
distress during 80 weeks Of the year is not less
than 100000, and the persons depending on
them over 300 900 making, in the whole,
near two million and half. The number of
persons rated under the poor law union is A.
200, 900, of whom $50, 900 are rated under H.;
1874 900 under o.; III, 900 under g.; 100000
under Al. AS the land stands affected by the
present poor law, landlords are consolidating
and charging the area of their farms as much
as possible, still further reducing the chances
of the laboring classes. Uuder these Cir
cumstances, and the increasing disability OF
the Irish people-threatened by government
prescription on the one side, and famine On the
other-the attention of the deepset thinking
men of England has been aroused to some
remedy for the accumulating evil, A plan
was some few years ago proposed for self
supporting colonization, to be maintained by
the sale of lands, and the appropriation of the
proceeds of the sale to the emigration of labor
Another propoposed the emigration of both la.
Dor and capital. Another, that the original out
lay of government should be repaid by plats
of land, mixed with the locations of the colo
nists, which would give such a value to then
as to easily refund the original expense. Thi:
plan intended that, for the first year, the emf
grant should work for wages, with a view tc
his settling on the land at the expiration of {
particular period. This would be the means
of forming what is called a nucleus for settle
ments Villages were to be planted at the ex
pense of government, government was to senC
out emigrants, and to feed them by species
of commissariat; but one great objection ha
arisen to all these schemes. NOTWITHSTANDING!
there are 1900, 0UO of acress according 70 tn
Toronto Globe, awaiting emigration, the supe
rior inducements afforded to enterprise both o
capital and labor in the United States, serves
at once to draw the emig rants, even wher
sent out by government, from Canada to gu
side of the line. Long experience has prove
this very complimentary fact, and, in spite o
it, Lord Lincoln proposes more colonization.-
Not that he would force single man to leav
his old bone, but because he believes all thei
hopes lie in emigration. Earnestly do W
4 trust that the British government may decid
upon such move-that 1t may grant mean
for thousands TO reach America What mat