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STATE OF IRELAND.The emigration clauses of the Irish Tramways Act, although not being taken advantage of to the same extent as those of the Arrears Act last year, are^still by no means a dead letter. Preparations are being made in the Caherciveen Union, in the county of Kerry, for sending out about 600 emigrants. One of the guardians of the union took the initiative in the matter early in the present year, and gave notice that he -would bring it before the Board of Guardians. Some influence, however. wa* brought to bear upon him, and he withdrew his proposition. It is not pretended that a very large namber of the population in this exceedingly poverty-stricken district would not better themselves by emigration, and the only reason put forward by the guardians for refusing to take part In promoting the movement is that it is in opposition to the wiBh of Mr. Parnell. A* large number left Caherciveen Union— over 1000—and also the neighbouring Union of Tralee last year, and the reports received from these are of the most satisfactory kind. In Tralee Union too it may be mentioned that the number of inmates of the workhouse is twenty-five per cent, fewer than at this time last year— a result which, making all allowance for the favourable harvest and the plentiful crop of potatoes, may surely be attributed in a considerable degree to the emigration of last year. A considerable number of actual inmates of Tralee Workhouse were emigrated last year, and the reports from these are of the most cheering character. Already some of them have sent home money, and in one case an emigrant who last year was a pauper inmate of the Tralee Workhouse has sent home jewellery to a friend. The Local Government Board Inspector in the district, Major Spaight, states that in not a single instance bas he received a discouraging report of the emigrants, and the reports recently received by him of the emigrants cent from his former district in Mavo are of a similar*character. The general tone of the letters received is that of thankfulness for having been enabled to leave the country. Nothing is being done within the limits of Tralee Union, but in the Caherciveen Union committees have been formed at Valentia and at Caherciveen under the provision of the Tramways Act which enables the Lord Lieutenant to make grants to committees formed in places where the poor law guardians do not take action. These committees have conducted the necessary inquiries, and made the requisite arrangements for the emigration of 600 persons—a number which will be increased to about a thousand should the Government authorities grant some slight relaxation of the conditions. By the conditions as at present laid down a grant of only £5 per head is given in respect of emigrants whose destination is to the east of a certain line in the United States or Canada. That sum the committee find to be insufficient to defray the expenses of the emigration of a number of the applicants, and a representation to this effect has been forwarded to Dublin Castle, with a request that the regulation may be modified and the grant increased. A request has also been forwarded for a relaxation of the rules as to the class of persons eligible for assisted emigration—rules which in some cases prevent emigration of eligible persons in a way that never was intended. The people who are thus preparing to emigrate from Caherciveen Union are of a somewhat different class, or rather are emigrating under somewhat different circumstances from those of many of the emigrants of past years. They are to a large extent small occupiers who, having got their judicial rents fixed, have sold their holdings, having previously made up their mind to leave the country. In many cases the produce of the sale has done little more than enable the poor people to pay their debts, and in some cases the payment of their debts bas swallowed up the entire produce of the sale of their holdings. This will not surprise any one who knows how the small, and even some'of the moderately large, farmers of the west and south-west of Ireland had to struggle for existence ; how the gombeen man kept them vithin his grasp, and how the banks were resorted to bv them in order to raise money “ to keep things going.” It is, on the contrary, surprising that even with the additional assets derived through the Land Act of 1881 any considerable number of this class should be found to be solvent. A difficulty, however, has arisen with regard to a number of them. The amount granted by the Government of £5 per hea is found to be not quite sufficient, and unless a relaxation of the rule in this respect is conceded it will be impossible to emigrate many of them, and the result in those numerous cases in which they have sold the int t in their holdings will be that they will become paupers, chargeable on the rates of the union. Representations to this effect have been forwarded, as already mentioned, to the Lord-Lieutenant, and it is earnestly hoped that his Excellency will see fit to comply with the request which has been put forward.—Returnin to Dublin from Tralee by the evening train, says a corresponded of the Londo i News, I had two opportunities of again witnessing the extraordinary scenes which take *place on the departure of emigrants. At Headford, the station next to that of Killarney, one man, a fine young fellow, was leaving.He was accompanied to the station by a crowd of people, certainly not less than eighty in number—men and women, young and old. The crowding round, and the hand-shaking, and the crying and “ keening’’ were of the most pronounced, not to say affecting character. Even when the train was moving the people still hung round and shook hands, and cheered, or howled, or waved their handkerchiefs, and the demonstration did not cease until the train disappeared from view. At the next station (Rathmore) a similar scene, but on a much larger scale, presented itself. There appeared to be three or four people leaving—whether men or women it was almost impossible to discover in the confusion and partial dusk of the evening. One of them, however, was a woman, as I had time to note from the length of time it took to drag her into the carriage ; the struggle between those inside and those outside reminding me of a “ tug of-war 99 in the field of athletic sports. The guard’s whistle sounded, and the train began to move, but the people still hung on to the carriages in great numbers. It required the most forcible exertions on the part of the porters to drag them off to prevent accidents.At least two hundred people had gathered to say farewell, and in addition to the crowd on the platform numbers of men and women had planted themselves along the rising bank which bounds the line to wave their handkerchiefs and to cheer those who were leaving the country, most probably never to return to it.—The inquest on the body of the Dublin fireman Kite, who was lately killed by the falling of a house in Trinity-street, has been opened. 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