IRELAND.
The emigration from Ireland threatens to equal that of 1846-7. This time the emigres are chiefly farm labourers and household servants, and their inducements to go to the United States and our colonies, are the large remittances and flourishing accounts they receive from relatives who have made the venture.
The Irish journals are in extasies at the change in the weather. Rain
has copiously fallen in the south, " rain worth millions" ; sunshine has followed, and the mischief arising-from 'a cdld'dry winter is averted.
Three extraordinary cases of kidnapping have occurred in Ireland. Eight months ago, Sherwood, a sailor, died and left a widow and-seven children unprovided for. Mrs. Sherwood, however, exerted herself to get aid, and a lady gave her an admission for her seven children to the "Protestant Orphanage," an institution in Galway, where they would be maintained and educated. The children were sent by train under charge of the guard, and the matron was to meet them at the Galway station. In the same carriage were two men, M'Robins and O'Connor 1Dy name. Tinding from conversation where the children were going, and being Roman Catholics- M'Robins was, in fact, interested in a rival institution—these two men re- fused to give up the children to the matron, carried them back to Dublin, and bid them after the manner of the Roman Catholics! The ease is before the Courts, but the principal kidnapper has been hidden like the children whom he stole.
A similar case, cne of very long standing, is also before the Courts, the kidnappers eluding justice most successfully up to the present time.
A third case came before the Judges on Tuesday. Alice Murphy, widow of a Dublin tailor, obtained a writ of habeas corpus, calling upon Henry Corr of Donnybrook, to bring up the bodies of Patrick and Alicia Murphy, her children. From her statement, it appears, that she was induced in 1857 to allow her daughter to go the Josephine Orphan House ; that up to Sep- tember 1858 she was allowed to see the child, but that since then the child has been removed. The answer to her inquiry was that the child had gone to the country. In July1858, she deposes that her son Patrick was abducted from her house. A Reverend Mr. Heffernan, besought her to send the boy to school. At length, he induced her to go with him and look at the school, leaving the boy at home. Heffernan left her in the school and did not re- turn. When she reached home, she found that her boy had been carried off. Until November last, she did not find out where he had been taken; but she then learned that both the children were at Donnybrook in charge of Henry Corr. This person offered to let her see the children, providing she would sign a written undertaking not to interfere in their education. She refused, and as soon as she could obtain professional assistance, applied to the court.
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