The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-16 00:00:00

THE ARMY IN IRELAND.

On Tuesday, a field battery of the Royal Artillery,
under Captain Smythe, with Lieutenants Haig, Murray,
and Robinson, left the Ordnance barracks, Limerick,
fully appointed and equipped, having three six-pounders
and 241 b. howitzer, rations and provender for man and
horse, with tent equipage, &c. The force having
marched into the country drew up in a field beyond
Doonass, pitched tents, and picketted their horses in
good military style. They were inspected by Colonel
Cuppage, R.A., after which officers and men dined upon
the ground, and returned to garrison at seven in the
evening.

Captain Graydon, R.A., is quartered in Athlone with
a demi-battery.

Lieut.-General Sir W. Napier is to go from the 27th
to the 22d, and a general officer on the Irish staff will
get the 27th.
_

Major Hart, 49th, has relieved Major Rainey in com-
mand of the depot at Cork.
Major Preston, 45th, has arrived at Mrs, Preston's,
at Kilmeague, county Kildare.
The several recruiting officers at present stationed in
Newry have been successful in obtaining young men for
the army. Scarcely a day elapses that enlistments are
not made for the foot regiments of the East India Com-
pany's service. The standard height is 5 feet 5 inches.
Lieut. Millus, sth Fusiliers, embarks this day for the
Mauritius.

Captain Pownall and Ensign Turner, 3d Buffs, will
embark next week for Malta, head-quarters.
Ensigns Hugo and Lloyd, 36th, are to embark with a
draft this month for Barbadoes.

The 33d, now at Athlone, bad to pay, previous to
leaving Salford' Barracks, 981., claimed for barrack
damages.

One hundred recruits have recently joined the 91st
Regiment in Dublin.

The officers of the 3d Dragoon Guards have erected
a splendid monument in the Military Church, Arbour-
hill, Dublin, executed by Manderson, to the memory of
Lieutenant Douglas Monteath.

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Captain Barry, 65th, who sold out, has proceeded to
Melbourne to become a settler.

THE ADDRESS FROM GREENOCK TO LORD J. Rus-
SELL.—Provost Martin and the town clerk had an
interview, on Friday, with Lord John Russell, at Rose-
neath Castle, for the purpose of intimating to his lordship
the resolution of the council to present him with an ad-
dress, and of inviting him to honour the council with his
presence in their hall to receive it. The noble lord ex-
pressed his sense of the high compliment proposed to
be conferred on him, . and intimated that he would be
happy to comply with his request. He was not at pre-
sent aware what his engagements might be, but he should
give timely notice what day would suit. We under-
stand that it will be presented publicly on an early day.
—Edinburgh Paper.
DISCOVERIES OF ANTIQUITIES IN LEICESTER. ----
Within the last few days several discoveries have been
made in this town, bearing witness to the splendour and
importance of the ancient Rata Coritanorum. The
workmen engaged in carrying on the excavations for the
twater supply in Nicholas-street have cut through two
‘ecoeslasuemlantesdhpavaevebmeeennts,one of which is noticeable for its
beauty a
buildin
the same
pattern and delicacy of workmanship. From
locality several massive fragments of Doric
one time disinterred, which have evidently at
.... formedof a part of the portico of some public
1 i Roman nearlye two feet in diameter. A number of
' these it imposing dimensions. The shaft of one of
ragment"
Augustus, Co' Ong which are comprised medals of
bone and f .
, and Valerian, as well as pins of
been discovered
4,83 of painted pottery, have likewise
from the workmen
the Town Museum.
ha7:ely of these as could be obtained
have
secured for presentation to
Philosophical Society
Council of the Literary and
columns we have described toath° carefully
xontearom the local authori-
ef New conveyedWalk,and utihaet
andto character of the
they have obtained permission
eir future remo-
-1 ties to ascertain the full
and interest
tesselated pavements, with a view
consists of
val, should such a step ho thought advisable.
nations of the highest archmologichl vaTuloeineea. Two do-
have been presented to the Museum,
the beautifully sculptured capital of a large column
doubtedly of IZoman workmanship, Which
slomen,:„.
since was dug up, with other fragments of ro as3oc:rs
upon a site lying between the Jewry Wall and the RivYe'r
Soar, and which possibly may have once supported the
pediment of the famous Temple of Janus, or the Sun,
mentioned by Geoffry of Monmouth, the real situation
of which has so often formed matter for antiquarian dis-
cussion.
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THIIRLES ROMAN CATHOLIC COLLEGE. —A Limerick
,
"The prelates assembled at the late Synod
paper says
Their
i
have unanimously adopted the College of Thurles as the
provincial college and seminary for Munster.
lordships engaged to patronise and encourage it n every
way in their respective dioceses."