The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-07-13

vice TO Australia has latteriy become very cSnsi-
derable, and tho passages taken and required
equally 20. The cost Of passage averages E26,
which Gum lie little moro than what would probably
voyage 70 Australia. The plan adopted by some Of
the ships bound for tho gold country il to place all
the passengers on an equal footing as regards
accommodation, and consequently the arrangement
mediation, is quite done away with.
(From the Edinburg Courant.l
South st. David street, Edinburg has for some
in consequence of many hundreds of persons hav-
ing applied to Mr.. William Bowie at the Govern
ment Emigration Office, for passages to Australia
under the government scheme. On Thursday the
Notwithstanding the day being unfavorable. While
such is the desire amo ng farm servants and mocha
mics to proceed to Australia, we understand that
very many of the higher classes have at the Same
Office engaged passages to these colonies by private
ship
THE EXODUS FROM IRELAND.
The Westcrn Star, speaking of the exodus of the
people from the province Of Connaught, says there
is not put to the present outpouring Of the people
to America, and latterly to Australia-ttee ,cM
not be miuien of the present race of inhabitants to
be found 0ithin the compass Of the four provinces.
From tho west, 1t is added, they are flying in hum
dreds.
"No thoughts of the land of their birth seem to
enter their minds, although the Irish people have
heretofore been proverbia for their attachment TO
their country. The prospect Of an abundant har-
vest has not the slightest effect in giving pause to
their outward movement The predominant, and
in fact the only feeling that seems to peryade them,
is an understandable anxiety TO get out Of the coun-
try at all hazards. If war, famine and pestilence
were known to be close at hand, there could not be
greater avidity shown to fly from their houses than
is every day exhibited by the hundreds who crowd
high roads and railways in their journey to the
Il. ~T6n-
Limerick during the past week! And then we have
hundreds weekly from Waterford, Cork, Dublin,
Sligo, and Belfast. We have it from competent au-
thority, that within the past ia months close upon
ern province Of Ireland. The same authority, writ
ing from Belfast, on Monday last, says: You will
recoect that was the first, some two years since,
who called attention through your excellent jour
nal, to the exodus from Ulster / can assure you
that for tens going at that time we have hundreds
now, particularly since the accounts reached of the
gold diggings in Australia. In many cases the
younger male members of families are proceeding
thence, to pave the way for the other branches who
delaying their departure until they hear
liable accounts Of the chances for industrious farmers
in that country. tcannot be denied that among this
class in the northern province deep discomfort pre-
walls in consequence of the unsettled state of the
lations between landlords and tenants, and speak
my personal knowledge when | assure you that the
breach between those important classes has been
considerably widened since the commencement Of
the eectioneering canvass. lfmatters proceed at
present, look forward at distant day to see the
sturdy and industrious farmers of Ulster so few
and far between as to leave ample scope for any
immigration which either England or Scotland is
likely to supply. With respect to this same immi-
grafton, perceive that it is proceeding at no very
slow pace In Connaught alone we have at present
several hundreds of Scotch and English farmers,
cupying farms and in some places pretty extensively,
and perceive by the reports of the recent sales
in the lncumbered Court, that there have been
several English purchasers, that it is not at all
unlikely we shall have, to some extent at least
although brought about by different means-a new
plantation of Connaught, such Swallowed
forth by the late Sir Robert Peel, short time
previous to his death. This is a subject to which
we must return again; in the meantime we have
stated sufficient to indicate the social revolution
which is progressing around us, and which will
afford materials to the future historian who may be
tempted TO try his hand upon Ireland and the
Irish IN 1852 .