BALLINA CHRONICLE Ballina, Mayo, Ireland Wednesday, May 15, 1850 EMIGRATION Numbers of the more independent of the farming class and of our artisans are daily seen wending their way alongside a baggage cart in the seaport from whence the emigrant ship is about to sail, leaving their homesteads and their friends, to seek in a foreign clime that which they despaired of finding in their native land. These are the class of people we want at home. They possess industry and capital, which we can badly spare, and they leave behind them the idle and indigent. Their departure is not alone the withdrawal of the resources of a country's stronghold, but is the infliction of a positive evil upon those who remain and have to endure the burden of the poor rates. We do not now allude to the landlords, through they must suffer from the loss of a good tenant, and the payment of rates for waste lands, but to the rate-payer generally. It is a well known fact that the small comfortable farmers so assist hundreds of poor family connections in some way or other that they are not forced by object poverty to seek workhouse relief. When those are gone their dependents have none to look to but the Relieving Officers. However, how much this or any other injury a country must sustain by the emigration of the most valued of its inhabitants may be regretted, no remedy remains for the evil but a legislation that will afford the inducements sufficient to counter balance those which now draw them off to a foreign land. MISCELLANEOUS -A cricket club was formed at Ballinasloe on Saturday, under the patronage of Lord Clancarty. - Dr. West has resigned his situation in the Longford Infirmary. - Two young women of the name of Ashe, sisters, were drowned on Friday near Lack, Dingle. - Several bottle-nose whales have gone ashore at Glanders, county Kerry. - There are four screw steamers now laid on between Waterford, Dublin, Belfast and London. - Tuesday night a cow, the property of William Fisher, Esq., of Charleville, was cut across the throat with a knife on the lands of that gentleman. - The Professors of the Queen's College, Galway, have contributed £25 toward the Packet Station there. - The City Dublin Steam Packet Company have a fleet of 27 steamers exceeding 100 tons each, beside several smaller vessels, on the Upper Shannon. - Wednesday last a man named John Coughlin, of Esker, near Banagher, died at the great age of 100 years. - Three thousand crates of window glass were imported to Dublin last week, to reduce the market price of that article, which had risen enormously since the late hurricane. - The Portadown Orangemen have dissolved their lodge, and agreed to burn their banners, conceiving themselves relieved from all obligation to the Crown and government. - Mrs. Eliza Byrne, of Camden-street, Dublin, died on Monday of fright and exhaustion from what she saw and suffered at Whitefriars-st. chapel, on Sunday, when the lunatic attacked the officiating priests. -The total number of petitions presented to the Commissioners for sale of Encumbered Estates, from the opening of the commission to the 3d May inst., was 668, and the number of sales to the 3d. inst. being 24. Aggregate amount of sales £70,085. - The largest vessel ever built in Ireland will be launched this month, from the building yard of the Cork Steam Ship Company, on the Glanmire road. She is to be called the "Pelican" and is to be propelled by the screw. She is over 800 tons burden. - Many Poor Law Boards of Guardians in many parts of Ireland have sown flax on part of the lands attached to the workhouse. Among others flax seed had been procured from Belfast for the Galway, Roscrea, Longford and Ennis unions, and the printed instructions of the society, for the management of the crop, had been sent to each. - The South Dublin Union Guardians have passed a resolution "That Mr. Byrne, a member of this Board, having said of the Rev. Thomas Kingston, Protestant Chaplain, that if he could he would kick out of the house the Roman Catholic members of this board - that Mr. Byrne be required to adduce evidence of his assertion, in order, if proved, to ulterior proceedings." - In the Galway division of Annadown, the Sub-Sheriff had cattle seized for rent due to Horace Rochford, Esq. by Captain Burke, and the day of sale was fixed on Saturday, when it was adjourned, and the stock sent to grass in Annadown. They were not there many minutes when the poor-rate collector had them re-seized, and advertised for £12 poor rates, due by Mr. Rochford, which sum the Sheriff had to pay. Cathy Joynt Labath Ireland Old News http://www.IrelandOldNews.com/