We are glad to see that the emigration experiment in
the West of Ireland is succeeding admirably, not only in its prac- tical working, but in the popular favour it commands. Yester- day week, 350. souls were embarked from Belmullet, County Mayo, under the personal supervision of Mr. Sydney Buxton, one of Mr. Tuke's ablest lieutenants, for Boston, Massachusetts. The ` Nestorian' came into Blacksod Bay for the purpose,—two gunboats, the Seahorse ' and the Orwell,' with a much less draught of water, conveying the poor emigrants to the steamer, after they had been rowed in the boats of these vessels to the gunboats. The whole scene seems to have been a thoroughly cheerful one, in consequence of the non-separation of the families ; nor can there be any doubt that emigration thus supervised is extremely popular in Mayo, in spite of the violent efforts of the Connaught priests and Bishops to discredit it. The reporter of the Irish Times speaks very strongly on this point, and of the admirable character of the arrangements made.
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