THAT CONFIDENTIAL CIRCULAR.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 41, 8 February 1884, Page 21

THAT CONFIDENTIAL CIRCULAR.

The recent exposure of the " confidential " circular of the English (^-vernment agents on the wholesale emigration scheme for Ireland coated such a profound sensation and called out such a storm that the Government disowned it. The English denial comes in a letter from the Under Secretary for Ireland addressed to the Archbishop of Tuam. This official •tates that the circular was intended merely to prepare for the proper distribution of the £60,000 allowed by Parliament for emigration purposes in the Tramway Bill. n ...JJ H c falseh °°3 of this is oa its face. The " confidential " circular outlined a scheme that was gigantic in its grasp. It arranged a bureau of emigration, with a chief, inspectors, itaff of clerks, ail all the machinery of a department under the Local Government Board Then it went on thus: "It would be desirable to assign a certain sum of money for the payment of the union officers who manage the S,! f fi cm H Sr f«° a -\ "ft* "^ration," the circular* adds! T^:fMo7JZ^r nts ' £65 for 500 ' £116 for >" ™ Jf a < * i . s . fcril ! ute £S P' OO0 _- ™s i fc ? No, but to distribute millions of pounds this infernal scheme was proposed. The Dublin FreeTu^ber*- 1S be ' credited w^h the exposure of the schemersays 17 was ever u y cl erk of a union to be a paid emigration agent, but there was to be an army of touters for emigrants in every country m Ireland and a contract, for which all the great sMpS SS PP o a fTeS£^ einV ' ted t0 tende *' *» *• wJLI. deJSfc follows?-l daySafterthe exposure * the London ®™>s confeased as ■r, *r,!l?? c E "S ]ish Government has resolved to settle 40,000 families in Northwestern Canada, each to be supplied with 100 acres of land buildings^ animal,, seed, and food, the whole to be free for tbrVe HI nd after that a rental of fifteen dollars a year to be pad? SatSdX lbe . we "^ 1 « r byatleast2oo,ooo,ooodoli if the con tornniJhpS6^? 0^ 116 / 1 ? 1^ 0^^ 0^ The above total is based Z^^l&^t&jr*^*^ is a »»*»*■ «* w TeS I a m d lieland w °uld be 200,000,000d015. poorer. The ArchST ° *Ti Oam Pr °°? ptljr ans^ed, declaring that" he nefcriow in cfSssiLts^sas ss^j&^ss constitutional effort to resist the latest desperate attempt fipoSd m the public Press) on the part of the Government to depopulate »^%^S^^^ —on which IZTo \rchbi'sho!fS yy T 00 1 ff o the * D( L a - nery ° f Rallinrobe PuWcly thanked the »to nrotS? £S " 01 ' hl l Pr ° mpt action - and reßolved afc a meeting to protect m the strongest manner against any scheme havine for its .object the depopulation of the country, whether such a scheme S^fi dmthih&G^^ntit B eUor\lth ™r of Its inspired cT,* Even f. c . T Try? r y Press and landlords of Ireland denounce the ° f thedeniai ' *» *: J™rfSo^Ji?f bMga VagoiV agoi ? Bl to get 1 Si 11 >fOr ea , ch e *'e«»nt. rations included, a free passage t° dv Mttlf £5H U , IWayS 1° B ° me Place near the North Pole and a "^^sswSsft'si'L 011 ite happy career -" a co-^ S d says!- Bclf<lSt Nem - Letter > a lea <«ng Ulster Conservative paper, n n rt' N ? ing COU ! d be more more monstrous, nothing more im- & C> T\ -T- piDg a T ay bealth7 and hard y SOQ s <>f the ?o°l fi£m an island which is capable of sustaining at least twice the preset SST' f Ever I tru t Patriot must be asbamed he iSdfin s^ffiffjj^sa^ of our peopie tMa *•« - *•« % ItPo^rn?/^ '^u^? 63^** 1 '' 01^ 18^ 4^'"*^ its mark. Th P lP«nn -f f e l nßh - natloU; and fche I"8h nation has received it inerSrßnlt?™? COM ?? t and constant disbelief in every JSnghsh pretence of justice for Ireland.-..Pi&rt.