The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-05-21

THD IRISH ExODus.-Tho English papers
| are noticing the remarkable exodus from Ire.
land now taking place. The London Times
says: =
The Irish emigration still continues at q
rate which threa tens results far beyond the
calculations Of the economist, perhaps even
the wishes Of the statesman It is no longer
the overflow Of vessel full to repletion, but
the operation OF syphon which drains to the
very bottom. If that syphoD may be regarded
in any visible form, it is the railway system,
which, in the eyes Of every IrishmaB, appears
70 nave one common terminus across the At
lantic He sees trains Of hopeful. II not hap
py. faces going of to the Land of PrOmiee,
from which friends and relations have sent
not only Invitations, but the means of accept
Ing them. A train starts To catch an emigrant
vessel as regularly as in England to catch a
steamer across the channel. The emigrant
snips have no longer TO peep into every little
port to pick up their passengers. They as
9emble at Cork. aud pass in a continuous
stream, If ii may be SO called, across that
ocean which, wide as it be, is easier to an
Irishman than the gulf which divides him
from England. AT present il cannot be said
that there leaves ireland much as the ma
tural increase, but the causes in operation
are not unlikely to make it exceed that rate
As the small holdings are thrown into larger,
and the farm grows to the English scale, there
must be numbers everywhere bred to the oc-
capatlon OF land, and with all the ideas
adapted to it, but unable to get holdings that
will require little or NO cafitaI They 30
across the Atlantic, as a matter of course
Brothers, uncles and neighbors have gone
long before, and send, not only good news, but
the substantial pledge Of its trut in the shape
OF orders on Irish banks. In Ireland the
remark is, that these are welcome to 60. They
are the Irish surplus. They constitute the
storehouse OF independent enterprise, which
providence would seem to have prepared
through long ages for the peopling of the New
World. But there is class who are not bid
God speed" quite so cheerfully. Laborers-
that Is, men with strong siLeWs and thews
who can do good days work and are content
70 receive wages, are, as they always have
been, the chief want of Ireland. The new
rae OF farmers do not like 10 see them 90
But who can pick and choose in human at
fairs There are good, easy souls, who enter
life with this spec ulation, who expect in eyery-
thing the fruit without the husk the meat
without the bone, the sweet without the sour,
the harvest without the tillage In Ireland
they expect good farm, a good house. a good
landlord and some good labOrers, who shall
come when wanted and do good days work.
But the postman knocks at all DOORS and
brings to these as we'll as their prouder neigh.
bors, letters and remittances, and good ac.
counts from the Western States; so off they
60, leaving the new tenant farmers TO manage
as we'll as they can.
THE ADRIATIC ABROAD.-The noble steam
ship Adriatic is creating quite a sensation at
Hayre. The Courier du Havre Of May 1st
says that Capt. CONS took had invited a num-
ber of the prominent citizens OF the place 20
visit his magnificent vessel The editor was
among the party, and says:
"Our recent visit to the Adriatic leaves us
impressed with two sentiments: The first,
that of a profound admiration for the genius
Of the inventors who have successfully de-
signed these powerful vessels, and also for the
energy of a nation which, owing to its spirit
of enterprise, which no partial failure dis
courages, has known how to realize them
The second impression is one OF painful re-
gret that our nation, during the last fifteen
years. has so far lost sight of transatlantic
navigation that we have not single steamer
worthy of bearing the tri-color, and proving
that France is yet, and above all, Ia grande ma
ton.