New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-05-25
IRISH EMIGRATION.

The large Increase Of the Irish emigration to the
United States which the present season exhibits,
compared with that of two or three years past, is
attracting good deal of notice on the part of the
British journals. That emigration received o
sudden and violent check in consequences Of the
panic of 1851, and the diminished demand thence
arising especially for railroad laborers. The great
decline in the prosperity of the Western farmers,
ond their ability and disposition to employ hired
labor operated in tie same direction. The falling
off in The amount of remittances sent TO Ireland
BY which Of late years the emigration has been 80
largely sustained, must have worked still more
ehectually TO put temporary check to it. 1t was
natural therefore, tina. these causes having speLt
their force, the emigration thus temporarily cur
tailed should return again to its old limits. A
short crop followed by very severe Winter, ap-
pears to lave added a special stimulus at this mo-
ment, while The facilities lately furnished for pas
saees in steamships direct from ireland have given
an additional impulse to the migratory movement
Although tie potato ro, and the consequent ex-
tinction Of the system, formerly 30 much il vogue,
Of subletting land in small patches, to be planted
IN potatoes, has diminished the population of Ire
land by some two millions or more, econom-
zeal changes are still going on, which tend
to still further diminutiop, and consequently to
keep up the current of emigration. We refer to
the gradual extinction of the small holdings of
from ten to fifteen or twenty acres, and their
'olidstion into large farms, after the English
fashion. The introduction Of agricultural ma
chiIery, such as reapers and mowers operates in
tbs same direction. II is reasonable, therefore, to
expect that for some years to come the Irish emf
grafton will continue TO maintain ITSELF if not
without occasional fluctuations, yet without any
great decline from the average of five or six years
past. So
Not content with this rational view of the case,
The London Times goes great deal further. Ii
We are TO listen TO that journal, Ireland, by the
progress Of this emigration, is TO be emptied of her
Celtic inhabitants while the United States are to
be turned into new ireland. 'The day may
g come" NO are told, "when Ireland win be
81 no more Celtic than the Scotch lowlands are
Saxon, the Eastern counties Danish, Cornwall
" PhGDican, or Ireland itself Milesian or Span
"Ish.' SO far as Ireland itself merely is con-
cerned, The Times, which has no great partially
for The Irish race, would be well enough satisfied
if such change could be wrought in the popula-
tion But TO bring il about there must be not
only an emigration from Ireland, but an immigra-
ton into it, Of which as yet there il neither ap-
pearance nor occasion. Tie Times suggests that
when English agriculturi5ts take farms in Galway
or Kerry, they viii take English laborers with
them. But as yet English agricuturists do not
take farms in Galway or Kerry or anywhere else
in Ireland unless as rare exceptions. II was
supposed that the incumbered Irish estates sold
under the act of Parliament for that purpose,
would pass largely into English hands. The re.
turns show, however, that they have been almost
exclusively purchased by native Irishmen. Even if
the tenancy of the lands should pass largely to
English farmers of which there is at present no
prospect, they would doubtless continue to cult.
yatc them by Irish labor, of which, notwthstand.