ty in obtaining their full
complement of passengers. Two large ships went round to Berehaven, a few
days ago, and have, since, left the shores of that bleak district, with
over 200 passengers. Several other vessels have proceeded, or are about
to proceed, for Baltimore and Berehaven, localities in which the
destitution of the present year has been severely felt. Three hundred
persons have been ready, for the last fortnight, to embark from Dingle;
but, not being able to get a ship to visit them, sufficiently commodious
for their accommodation, have been obliged to make the best of their way
to Cork. Several vessels, now lying at Passage, will sail this day,
these taking five hundred and fifty passengers . . . At a moderate
computation, about 9,000 emigrants have, or, within the next month, will
have, left this port for America. It is to be hoped their anticipations
will be realised. There can be little fear, however, that their
condition could be worse, or their prospects more disheartening than
those which the 'potato famine' in this country, little mended by the
promise of Indian corn, had occasioned. _La faim chasse le loup hors du
bois_. To starve, or emigrate, are the only alternatives of the people."

The _Waterford Chronicle_ thus comments: "There will have gone, after the
season is over, upwards of 3,000 people, from this country, by this port
alone. Not to talk of the rearing of these people--the trouble and
expense of bringing up a healthy man, woman, or child, and, especially,
leaving out the irreparable loss to society, in this country, of their
affections, hopes, and family ties--all, now, sundered and destroyed--not
to talk of the countless living deaths of wholesale emigration from a
feeling and warm-hearted mother country--the amount of capital taken by
these 3,000 is immense. Assuming that each individual spends 10 pounds
in his passage, and before he settles, and that he has 10 pounds more to
establish himself, here is direct taking away, in hard cash, of 60,000
pounds gone out of the bleeding pores of Ireland, to increase the misery
which is left behind. We are in possession of facts which show that many
cunning landlords are sending away their people yearly, but by degrees,
and not in such a manner as to subject themselves to a 'clearance
notice.' If this system be continued, we shall be tempted to give names.
After these things, who will blame the people for outbreaks occasioned by
famine?