We publish elsewhere an advertisement for the Emigration Committee of
"Mr. Take's Fund," who are willing to co- operate with, and supplement the action of, the Govern- ment,—while the Government also are equally willing to co-operate with them,—in promoting Irish emigration. They offer to take distressed families, without separating the mem- bers of the family, from the poorest parts of the West of Ireland to the Transatlantic States,—Canada or America. Our readers are aware how much this Committee effected with the relatively small sum originally entrusted to them, and the happy results of these efforts, and they will be prepared to find in the resuscitation of this Committee to organise emigration supple- mentary to that superintended by the Government—who have only £100,000 at their disposal for that purpose, when at least five times the sum is wanted—an agency of the utmost benefit to the poorest districts in Ireland. We trust that a liberal response will be made to the appeal of Mr. Take's Committee. No better work was ever undertaken in this world, or when undertaken, executed in a better way, than the cases of emigra- tion superintended by Mr. Tuke's Committee.
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