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otkhEt, AUG. A.


Irish Fmigranis. Thirty thousand pounda
were voted by the Commons of the United King
dom, in June, for the promoting of Emigration
from Ireland TO Canada. Thirty thousand pounds
for this purpose, or hundred times that amount.
will do little good in Ireland. Justice is the only
specific tor the evils of nation Perhaps 10000
lrishmen were withdrawn annually from Ireland
during twenty years Of the lat war, to fight the
battles ofthe Empire BY sea and land, to die on
ship board in every sea and under every climate
to leave their bones in India, Africa and America.
Holland, the Peninsula, France and the Neither.
lands, and all the While the population tccntoa
Increasing Getting rid ofa people is no new
invention in the art of governing them. Some
body has prohted or will profit by the past, pre-
sent, and future grants; and we heartily wish that
the poor Irish cmigrants may also profit by them
What surpizes us, is that ,ome of our brother
Journalists in Canada, should express some de-
gree of alarm at the consequences of so many
Irish cmigrants coming TO these provinces. We
beg those gentlemen not 10 be alarmed. This
is large continent with plenty of room for every
body. We believe the greatest part of the Irish,
having been SO long confined, make use of their
liberty, to take an extensive range; but if they
do stay in the Provinces, they will endeavour to
live at peace with those amongst whom they
have come TO reside; ifno injustice is done them.
they are lett tree TO ENJOY the tiitS OF Their h
bo,lr, they will soon perceive that their happ
ness will depend on their own good conduct,
that if they so wrong, they will only have them
selves to blame; no one on whom TO wreall Their
vengeance, and charge with the evils sometimes
of their own creating. They will in short time
make good and peaceabc subjects in the Cana.
das, as thousands of them have already proved 10
be in the United States A very short time will
convince them, that Catholic and Protestant
Orange men and Ribbon men; and the hostile
feelings perpetuatedby system ofunequal laws,
are entirely misplaced in America. Peaccablc
industry, sobricty, obedience to the laws, at
tachment to the interests of their adopted coun-
try, the support Of free government, free IN
sttutions, and equal justice to all will form
common rallying point for all Ilishmen in Canada,
and make them useful, and We should hope.
thriving citizens Of this young and rising coul'-
try.