The Dublin Miw dor of , 11 It into contains
a long reportof the pro- eeediags at a meetimtg I. tlalway. Tie, meeting was attended
by nearly all the . 'eel:sloes (Ail:ale_ Mr. Tor- rens delives..1 ;•: U.. veleide e the Wsleefield prin- ciple of col..., : • ssiiel op:reticle in South Austra- lia ; and zdtempte to colonize on the principle of dis .si land over a large terri- tory. A ppesselle: as the es „ce,.. of South Australia, Mr.
'J.'orrens, with e hronaht into strong light the disad- vantages Of other colon', s' ---eseecially the evils attending upon the
convict system in New soot:. 'es amid an Diemen's Land.
The main olciect of thy was to set Oa foot a scheme for " dispauperizing " the 1 • ... I , ,agh rea. whieh i-; about to fall under
the operation of the Isis It ; and relieving the ownees of land from the burdea o, 1):■:1:.,•ee ointhltiOn; by re- moving a !milieu of . LUZ: Atietralia purchased
for the Union. Mr. 'II a..,' ieemiesheen Chaiemeu of the meeting,
explained the course it ;mended J The Poo. -law Act, is ' to cowe into lnaive operation in this
peradte the rate-pay...... . I hmiumt Ie E.. property within that
Union tu the minma.:o, mt 'ti,. ia the but the stint SO raised will Iv r. paid . rams. cannot, hawevcr, be levied isor at least oa:. : ti.ae, I would recommend the landed proprietora. I ti. it he L t s to molt some of their surplus cot- tier tenants. T ids of cote s.• 1:71; linty eta discretion, and the wants of their estates; he:, to gi%.. !node of doing this under the Poor-law Act— V. lieu a i;mt.. s.maim Imeon leried, I will suppose the rate- payers ofthe Eiden a I....;emas to carry into practical operation the eystem reemenended is Nas, of emigration to South Australia, and for the p:::•p.,se m,.m.rected for them by competent hathorized ; mid to give 5 per cent. in- terest to the psi- .::- ;.: ml IL. p.r I...T.', will amount to 4,0004 It will in I., e, : a a rate of 60 ./, a y,nr, tor Ii iv years, to repay the prinsilei s e' st,$) 1., e ed. aa additional tame t m rm ply the interest airmen; y Lich a. : , ..tmly 4u/. tot-tie nr,:t year, bring 1 per cent. tot 400/.., •I pet' cc,, 101' OM: yc;.,r Iii mmm:i.a of
this miasma lode in tlic
the third-- ". f I tee the fifth, e hsn Inah principal and interest would de ; tle for ever attached to the Union of Loughrea, 4,000 acres oi• else ted leud hi 13outh Australia— a quantity
I calm-
capable of affording iam :I.:: the paupers in the Idnion. late Ihat there will be an mm: tam a property much. exceeding 100,000/. a year (to be rated in the 1Thie:1.) A. rale or m1. in time p.,,Ela will raise 1,000/. a •emer—which will more than tio u u mnimuu'i:mI mid interest to be raiseml the first year, and mere thaa sit:tit:tent to ra:se the saill for each of the succeeding years ; or one rate at the fall sum areesed by the act (Is. in the pound) would itt one year be ample to raise the entiro stun of 4,000/. Vero this tioae, L'um) industrious persons of bath sexes might he sent out free of expeme, and leave time property whale and make to the use of the poor of Luugureu. •1•1•e May select that tees., ity of' land in the best situation, call it Loughrea ; and there Ittny lien lmmum.Ct,ommme lake too, attached to it ; and thus these settlers miAt tautly thenisetveS still in their dear Loughrea, with their aewciations mai niends alemt them; the only ilitfer.:te being, that those they leave behiud will be Mum: e-, hit more and better-paid eimiloyment, whilst they tla'immsm'lsa swill have mu field open. 1. to them leadieg to affluence and prosperity, such as must initiate others a their poor brothrem to follow their example and emigrate, until in a few, a very tar years, there will really be no extent of pau- perism in either place."
The Dowager Countess of Clanricarde, who was enthusiastically cheered, immedietely acted on Mr. Bermingham's suggestion, and sub- scribed loot ; and Sir Julio Burke put down zoo/. Other landowners were expected to follow their example ; and thus the scheme of emi- gration from Ireland to Se tIm A ustralia has taleen a Lir start.
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