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squire of the parish at home went to Queensland 

 with wife and children and good capital, and failed 

 in one of their bad times, even falling into want, she 

 and her husband helped them all to return home 

 again. The other daughter is married to a " Chinee," 

 and seems to like it, which is odd. She writes that 

 "Chinees" are considered to make good husbands 

 out there. There is no doubt she is well off in 

 money. A housemaid, a good servant, who had saved 

 money after four years with us, went lately to New 

 Zealand because she thought her chances of marriage 

 at home were grown rather stale (to use the Irish 

 expression). She writes in great prosperity. It is 

 quite certain in our part we consider ourselves to be 

 Citizens of the world, and are ready to take advan- 

 tage of any opening in any part of the globe that 

 promises success and gain. It may be different in 

 Connaught. But is it realised what a patch of bog 

 and rock in Connaught really is, to which such patri- 

 otic attachment is supposed, and which therefore 

 will be clung to, in preference to the magnificent 

 land of Manitoba and North- West America, where 

 splendid crops of corn grow in succession without 

 manure ? 



One thing at least is certain, that the spread of 

 education and intelligence that has made the Munster 

 peasant glad to emigrate anywhere, and even marry 

 a Chinese, will produce the same effect in Connaught, 

 so soon as it reaches the same point there. The con- 



