From Home News of April 18 we extract following— IRELAND.

Auckland Examiner, Volume IV, Issue 276, 27 June 1860, Page 3

From Home News of April 18 we extract following— IRELAND.

A couple of years ago, says the Fermanagh Mail, we chronicled with pleasure the appointment of a young Enniskillener, the son ef highly respectable'and much es e -med parents,. to an ensigney in one of her Majesty’s regiments ;. falling into “ fast” life ere a year, we think not more, had elapsed, he was cashiered. He was then sent 30 a foreign country, where it was thought a professional acquaintance of his father whould be able to procure him employment ; his stay abroad was very brief. Having returned to England his first act was to enlist as a gunner in the Royal Artillery. In vain were applications made at the Horse Guards to purchase his discharge. At the instance of his mother’s unceasing solicitude for the welfare of her prodigal son, a few weeks ago he obtained a furlough, and proceeded to visit a brother holding a commission in the militia regiment, when probably stung by remorse, upon contrasting his own degraded position with the respectable one in which his younger brother- moved, he broke from the latter, when his leave wss nearly expired, jumped over a parapet wall into the sea at Li-

verpool, and hasheen lost to sight for ever, as his remains cannot be recovered.

One Irish revival having died out another and an older one has made its reappearance in the public journals- In a word, the exodus of the population is again a standard topic of wondermeni, especially as for a few pastyears we have been continually hearing through many sources of the growth of Irish prosperity, and of the improvement in the moral and social condition of the pesantry. There must, however, be a screw loose somewhere, otherwise, how are the emigration statistics of the Registrar-General to be accounted for, or why is it that the ‘Nation’ and its kindred organs have assumed the desponding tone in whieh’tbe former spoaks of the hegira of iB6O ? In an article headed “Flying,” the‘Nation’ thus ventsits grief:—

They are flying; through Dublin our flying people pour daily in weeping crowds. For years our streets have not beheld such scenes as those of the past week, though, alas! the ebb of population has not wholly ceased at any time for a quarter of a century. Long lines of woe ful faces, strangely mocking the holiday attire in which the poor creatures attire themselves as they quit for ever their fathers’ clay;, caravans of vehicles, piled; with the bright red painted boxes and trunks, with owners’’ names marked rudely on the fronts, aged women, with hair white as the hoar of December ; old men, bent and broken by 60 years of toil in furrow and trench ; young men who try to look hopeful that the mother may weep the less t young women, feeling all the more deeply, as women do, at rending the thousand silent tics that link them to-home; while children, too young to know the cause of all the sorrow they see on every face, arc only delighted with the wonders of the great big streets through which they pass. Away, away—and not willingly nor happily. They are not a nomade race. It is not an Arab community that has struck the tent-poles; they are not dull-hearted, plodding Saxon people, who for a meal more in the month would cross the globe itself, and call it folly to feel less- at home in Kamstschatka than in the land where their fathers’ ashes for -centuries repose. No, no ; these area people whose very heart-strings are wrung by the idea of eternal exile j apeop'e who, almost to a fault ' —if a virtuoso beautiful could ever be a fault —cling to- the ancestral home ; a people who, if they-could but live —if they could but eat :an humble crust, broken amidst the hardest toil—in Ireland, the land-of their hearts’ affections, would deem it sweeter than the bread of luxury in a foreign clime. Away, away, away I . Men thought it had ceased, this terrible exodus; they thought this fearful haemorrhage bi d ceased to drain the lifeblood of our country. But here it- is, full upon us again ; the wails are rising once more in- every village. Whole communities are quitting for ever, in sorrow and despair, a land for which they would-freely die.”

A strong body of the clergy of- the diocese of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross have expressed their concurrence with the views of the Primate on the question of education. They declare their belief “that the principles of the national system of education in Ireland are the best under the circumstances,” and they “earnestly hope that the late declaration of the intentions ofher Majesty’s Government to uphold the system my lead the clergy generally to secure for their schools-the advantage which it affords.” —Home News, April 18th, SCOTLAND. A grand banquet is to be given by the citizens of Edinburgh to the 78th Highlanders, in the Corn Exchange there, on April 24th. The Lord Provost is to preside, and Sir John M'Neill, G.C.8., is to occupy the vice-chair. About 600 officers and men of this gallant and renowned regiment will be present. Lord Brougham has been elected President ofThe Edinburgh Philosophical Institution in succession to the late Lord Macaulay. A crowd assembled on Sunday, March 18, in St. Andrew’s Catholic Church, Nethergate, Dundee, to see two young ladies take the veil. The candidates first appeared dressed as brides, attended by nuns in black robes and linen swathed faces. The ceremony was performed with all the customary gorgeous paraphernalia of the Roman Catholic Church. At the fitting moment the young ladies underwent the usual metamorphosis,, and appeared in complete monastic habits to receive the veil from the hands of the bishop. [There is a convent in Dundee, withits cells, nuns, school and chapel, an offshoot of a larger one at Wellburn, Lochee.]