Those who were at all startled by Mr. Parnell's declaration
that Mr. Tuke's Irish emigrants were, for the most part, languishing in dreary attics in the great American cities, should read Mr.
• Take's interesting letter to Monday's Times, with its ample store of evidence that success had attended the steps of all those of whom news had been received. The Bishop of St. Paul, Minnesota, writes in the most gratifying terms of the emigrants sent thither ; Mr. Howard Hodgkin and Captain Rutledge-Fair, who have just returned from a visit of inspection in Canada, were perfectly satisfied with the prospects of the Canadian emi- grants, which they had carefully investigated; while of the prosperity of the emigrants to the United States,—two-thirds of the whole,—the many letters and remittances received from them in Ireland are the best evidences. Mr. Tuke himself, the soberest of philanthropists, is perfectly satisfied not only that the experiment has succeeded admirably, but that the people in the West of Ireland are well aware of its success, and are eager for the chance of following where so many of their friends have already entered on the path to pros- perity. Mr. Parnell probably only desires to bear of the coffee where, from one cause or another, the experiment has not been fruitful of good. And amongst 5,400 emigrants, some such there must be.
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