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R 18. 1856.

[ PRICE 4D. STAMPED

IRELAND.

v!lunteering for service in the Royal Osmanli Artillery,
-which forms that portion of the Horse Artillery of the
Turkish contingent commanded by Col. Crofton, R.A.
Permission to that effect having been read through the
lines by Capt:' Freeth, DePutv,Assistant-QuarCermaster-
General, the staff of officers, headed by Gen. Whinyates,
commandant of the garrison, stationed themselves in the
centre of the square, where they remained an hour, dott-
ing which time 20 of men slowly came forward and
presented themselv,es for enrolment, only one of whom
was rejected. This is considerably short of tihe requisite
number,'which is 100. \ •
Commander Josiah Thompson is promoted to the rank
of Captain on the "Resereed List ;" Mr. J. tIIE. D.
Cooper, mate, is promoted to the rank of lieutenant, to
bear date the sth of Jam.

DU BLI N, MONDAY MORNING.

THE TIPPERARY BANK.

Tha following information is extracted from the
weekly trade report of the Freeman's Journal :
" The meeting for the appointment of an official
manager to the Tipperary Bauk took place to-day.
unpleasant, not to say. .disgusting, to observe
that the theme of eloquence with most of the, can-
didates was disparagement of their rivals, only a
small minority resting exclusively on their own
merits. The Master made au admirable order in
requiring the names of three solicitors to be pre-
sented to him by each candidate, a plan which
will greatly tend t 6 defeat any legal robbery whiph
might be in contemplation. The Master will give
his decision on Monday, and it is perfectly plain
he is earnest in his exertions to secure the best
man. It is idle to speculate.ou what will be known
to every one in a few hours. It will ()violently be
no sinecure to whomever it falls to the lot of. He
will have to earn his commission. We have been
been informed, and, without positively vouching
for the facts, believe them. to be accurate,,thatithe
great bulk-of the English shareholders resident in
the midland counties who held in; the Tipperary;
Bank are tenants of Baron Rothschild; who pur-
chased,from Mr. Sadleir a large number of shares
—l,OOO or 1,200 in number—at the high price of
ill., and resold them at 121. 101., evidently under
the belief that it was a thriving undertaking; the
purchasers have taken them for bona fide invest-
ments in small lots. The fact that the eminent
capitalist was successfully duped by Mr. Sadleir is
a remarkable one. We fear that in many of the
cases the whole property of industrious persons
have been, sunk, although, from the well-known
character of the princely banker, we do not think
it at all improbable that he will bear a portion of
the loss he has been the unintentional channel of
contributing to. It only evidences an additional
proof that the persons in the bank must have been
well aware of the catastrophe approaching."

The six service companies of the sth Light Itfantry
Battalion of her Mijasty's German Legion arrived at
Folkestone on Friday from Heliznland, and proceeded to
Shorncliffe. They consisted of 18 serjeants, 12 buglers,
and 61$ rank and file. This division was accompanied by
the following officers in command :—Major B ithurst, •
Capts. Da Jouharz, Anderson, Staviskey, Hoveth, Stuck-
rath, Hartmann, Boner ; Lieuts. Sergel, Von Marschall,
Von P.autz,. Von 13pddenronk, Setzer,.and Sievert • En-.
signs 'Stoll, Sitioner, Costerhodie, and acket (of the 4th
Light Infantry-Regiment). i • and Staff-officers—Adjutant
Robinson, Paymaster De Laselle, Quartermaster Darker,
and Surgeon Krauthausen.

Lieut. J. J. Nunn' is under orders to 'sail immediately
in the Resolute from Kingstown direct for the Crimea,
with 3 officers and 180 men of his regiment (the 90th
Light lafantry) from the depot at Mullingar.
On Saturday 160 privates of the'Royal Artillery form-
ing Cipt Tlirides Company, arrived in Limerick from
Liverpool, and are to be stationed in the Ordnance Bar-
racks. Major Millers's battery, with all the cavalry horses
there, left fir Ballincollig, destined for the Crimea.

The Carlow Sentinel states.‘" that there is no
foundation for the rumour that a fictitious bill for
2,000/. passed through the Tipperary Bank into
the Bank of Ireland. No local' or Irish bill for a
larger sum than 2501. was negotiated in the Carlow
branch of the above bank during the last two years.
We believe the statement had no more authentic
origin than rumour ; but at a period like the pre-
sent, when a great calamity has befallen the coun-
try by the failure of a bank, exaggerated state-
ments become current and believed. We have
ascertained that the deposits in the Carlow branch
are under 10,0001., and that the bills under dis-
count at the time of the failure exceed 10,0001.
What amount of this sum will become available to
the creditors we are not in a position to state at
present. So far as Mr. James Sadleir is concerned,
we believe he has been utterly ruined, and it is
stated that he has left the country."

AGRICULTURE IN THE WEST.

Since the commencement of the present mont

there has not been a single wet clay. The Western.
Star says :—" Never has the weather been more

favourable for seed sowing and other spring opera-
tions. The farmers are availing themselves as much
as possible of the opportunity which the weather
affords them, and bustle and activity are observ-
able in all directions. Seldom have the operations
of the season been in such a forward state in March.
Many farmers have concluded sowing who at the
same period of last year had not finished plough-
ing. The breadth of land under oats and barley
will be very considerable, nor will there be any
falling off in the quantity of potatoes planted, as
complete confidence in the favourite root' seems
to have.been restored. The young wheat is thriving
vigorously, and the demand which exists for guano
and other manures is demonstrative of the propor-
tion of land likely to be under green crops. As a
matter of course the labour market has risen, and
instead of is. per diem from Is. 3d. to is. Bs. is
freely given. This will, of course, be only tem-
porary, though the price of provisions, indeed, has
not fallen so much as we anticipated."
The weather, nevertheless, is very severe, and a
bitter east wind, of nearly a month's continuanct,
is but poor comfort to persons labouring under
delicacy of-the respiratory .organs. Yesterday it"
blew a full gale of wind from the old point, and
there was every indication during the forenoon of
the approach of a heavy fall of snow ; but, later in
the day, the wind veered a little towards the
south, and shortly afterwards the rain came down
in drenching torrents, never ceasing until 11 o'clock
last night. This morning the change is complete.
The cold has abated, and at 5 o'clock the city was
enveloped in a thick warm fog.

MONDAY EVENING.
THE TIPPERARY BANK.

Mr. M'Dowell, one of the junior fellows of
Trinity College, has been nominated to the office of
official manager of the Tipperary Bank.
Mr. Meldon is to be the solicitor tinder him, and
Mr. Gibson to be the solicitor having the carriage
of the proceedings.
Mr. M‘Dowell, who owes his appointment to the

stroiSg rccommeudation of Mr. longfield, one of
the tecguraissioners of. Encumbered Estates,. was
proppsed in behalf of the Messrs. Scully as repre-
senting 330 shares in the Tipperary BAtik.
THE REPRESENTATION OF NEW ROSS.

The. following was the state of the poll at two
o'clock :
Tottenham B4
Redington 65
A subsequent despatch states that Tottenham
has been returned.

(Frond the
~Fclipburgh, IVifness.)
We know that the pious Montgomery ranked
among the fervent admirer.; of Burns ; and we
have seen the face Of the saintly Chalmers glow
with delight as lie' pronpunced one of his soul;
stirring lines. No one can defend all that the
poet did or said. True, his frailties have been
somewhat severely dealt with. • He was, with al
his faults, a greatly better man than either of his
two gleatest. contemporaries: He did not drink
:half so hard as- William Pitt ; and-yet respectable
people toast the memory of the "Heaven-bOrn
Minister," without making any allusion whatever
.to the four bottles of port that he used to put under
his belt of an evening ; and while he was certainly,
not more ;licentious or less sober than Charles
James Fox,. he was beyond comparison a more
honest man ; for he was no gambler, and paid all
his just debts, and would have died rather than
fabricate the !mean lie which deprived au honour-
able lady of her moral status as the wife of a British
prince. But it would be idle to represent Burns
as other than an imperfect character. His own-
honest per, gave the lie to the unwise friends of
his memory Who took up a position so untenable.

" The poor inhabitant below
•
Wag quick to learn and wise to know,
And keenly felt the social glow
' And softer flame,
But thoughtless follies laid him low,
And stained his name."
Nor can it be denied that some. of his writings
have done harm. It seems, however, to be a law
of Providence that the earth-stains which pollute
the fountains of genius should be deposited by the
stream in its course, and that the living waters. ,
should at length run clear. And it has been so
with the poetry of Burns. It is not by his worse,""
but by. his better writings, that he is now remem-
bered—by his songs, unrivalled in the literature of
the workl ; and by those undying pieceti, -Sock
the Cottar's Saturday Night," so rich in (shame-
ter and manner, and in high moral sentiment .
withal, that are destined to
"Be known, perchance, when Scotland is no mere,
And tell the tale of what she was before."
And if his writings have done harm, let us net for,
get that they have also done no little good. Roberti
Burns was the man who first taught the Scottish ,
people to stand ergot. Let us not be blind to the
great national faults, and only lynx-eyed to tha
lautts cf the great national poet. A mean and
creeping subserviency to the great—a getting up
"to be hanged in order to please the laird"--:--was
the masbzr fault of the Scotch people ; and a cen-
tury.of persecution had failed to wean them of it.
That part of the General Epistle of James whiCh
treats of "respect cof persons," and the undue
partiality shown to men with " gold rings and
goodly apparel," might have been more appro-
priately addressed to the Scotch, even after the
rich had. "oppressed" and drawn them " before
the judgment-seat," and " blasphemed the Holy
Name," than to almost any other people of Europe.
But the independent peasant who, in the most try-
ing circumstances, never bent himself before the
worthless wealthy or the titled great, and who in
his ever-living strains asserted the dignity of man-
hood, taught them another lesion ; and they have
learned it. Yes ! the Scottish people have lost the
habitual stoop, and uow stand erect ; and all
honour, say we, to the reformer who, more than
any other, effected the change. His life, as cer-
tainly as his works was effectual in producing it ;
and had it accomplished nothing else, would not,
with all its errors and shorccomings, have been
spent in vain.

NIAGARA FALLS IN WINTER-A RARE

AI)V EST t,

During the recent "cold term" ice has formed
above the falls in vast quantities, most/Py in blocks,
which have come down the rapids and lodged on
the shoal places. Last week the ice became weiged
iu and frozen together between Bath Island and
Chapin island, and from thence to the brink of the
cataract. Such an occurrence, we are told, is nut
within the recollection of the oldest inhabit in,
Those of our distant readers who have visited the
Falls will remember an island between the paper-
mill and the American Fall, above and around
which the water rushes with great violence. This
is called Chapin island from the circumstance that
a man named Chapin, who was at work on the
bridge, fell into the rapids and fortunately reached
the island as the current dashed him towards the
cataract. Not less remarkable was his rescue by
the well-known adventurer, Joel R. Robinson, who
succeeded in reaching ie island with a small
boat. This occurred many years ago, since which
the spot has not been visited by any human being
until now. The first gentleman to cross the ice was
Mr. F. B. Fox, who visited the island, hoisted a flag,
and found the ice had formed from the island to the
brink of the precipice, where it was perfectly sure to
stand and look into the abyss below. It was a proud
moment to him as be stood where, in all proba-
bility, no man had ever stood before.
He afterwards visited the place with a number
of our citizens previous to the visit of a party, who
have been announced, through mistake, as the
pioneers.

In company with Mr. Fox and Mr. and Mrs.
Keyser, we visited the enchanting locality on Mon-
day afternoon. Mrs. Keyser is the first lady who
visited Chapin Island, or viewed the Falls from a
point below. We claim to be the first editor who
ever visited that locality.
The eastern edge of the ice formation passes along
the side of the current down which poor Avery
was carried to his awful doom. The water, thou2h
not deep, rushes with irresistible velocity. Yet it
was safer travelling to the island and front thence
to the precipice. Here the cclntinual accumulation
of spray and snow had formed a mound from 20
to 30 feet in height, and front the top of which we
stood and viewed the scene. To the right and far
below are mountains of solid ice, under which were
vast caverns made by the falling torrents. Oa
a shallow point overhanging the cavernous deep,
and fastened firmly to the rock, was a body of ice
from which depended vast icicles resembling in-
verted church spires. Oa our left the ocher per.
tion of the American Fall could not be so dis-
tinctly observed.--Niagara Fall Gazette.

The following humorous circumstance, exhibiting 4
deficiency of ready wit in a son of the Emerald Isle, oo-
curred on the afternoon of Thursday last. The boundary
walls of the dockyard are guarded at oertaiu places

by sentinels to prevent any illegal traffic over the walls,
but more particularly to guard against the escape of any
truant eearaeis sent on shore on duty to the d cckyard,
but who may he troubled with an earnest desire to visit
some of their friends outside. At the north-west wall
adjoining Cornwall-street is a pole erected to denote
the course of the tunnel connecting the dockyard with
the K.eyhans docks. A seaman belonging to the Forth
(mortar vessel) boldly marched up to one of the sentries
and asked him the height of the pole, intimating that
an officer required the information. The soldier, who
was an Irishman, said he did not know. To which the
seaman replied, "Then I must k•ow," and desiring the
soldier to hold a ball of spun-yarn he had breughi with
him, climbed up the polo. When arrived at the top he
called to the sentry to pitch him the ball. Pat in him
s'enplicity did so. Jack made a couple of half hitchers
round the pole and gently lowered himself outside the
wall into the street, Pat exclaiming, "By Janus. man,
you are on the wrong side !" All efforts to secure the
witty seaman have yet been ineffectual.—Plymouth
ESTIMATRS OF CIVIL SERTICES.—The estimates on AO.
count of "Public Works and Buildings,"published on Fri-
day, include a sum of 895,3361., against 740,7601. re-
quired for the year 1855-6, thus exhibiting an increase of
143,576/. The items include 195,1411. for public build-
ings and Royal palaces ; 7,8681. for additional works in
the south portion of Buckingbara Palace, for sxternal
enclosures, lighting, and warming ; .111,ti3 IL fir Royal
parks and pleasure gardens; 99,3331. for the new Houses
of Parliament ; 207,305/. for Holyhead harbour and roads;
233,0001. for harbours of refuge ; 331/. for Poitpatrick
harbour ; 41,221/. for public buildin:s i t Ireland ; and
19,3501. for the harbour of Kingstown. Am nig. "extra►
ordinary services" in Sc Aland are items of 2871. for im-
proving the window rashes of Holyrood House, 6,0001.
for improvements in King's Collage at Aberdeen,
1,0537. for a new ceiline and glass windows in Glass
sow Cathedral, and 3201. for the purchase of two
old houses, the property of David Home, for
the improvement of the" grounds of Holi rood.
As regards the parks, it is found that to St. James's, the
Green, and Hyde Parke is appropriated 25,631/., to
Kensington-gardens 2,716/., to Chelsea Hospital grounds
750/., tl e Peeent's Park 6,601/., to "Victoria Park
4,860/., to Greenwich Park 2,287/., and to the Royal
botanical and pleasure gardens at Kew 19,0781. To
Richmond Park is assigned a sum of 4,6221. (exclusive of
the Ranger's department), to Bushy Park 3,1317., to
Hampton•court Park and Gardens 3,651/ , to Holyrood
Park 4,2281. to the Phoenix Park 4,570/., and to Ken-
nington Park 1,5731. Under the head ofthe new Houses
of Parliament, Sir C. Barry demands 9,500/. fer the come
pletion of the Victoria-tower, 7,600/. for the clock tower,
and other heavy items, amounting altogether to 52,5401.,
exclusive of the works not under his direction. 1,3001. is
required for clearing away the dustfroin under both houses
in 1856.7, and replacing the mats and haircloths, and
8,600/. for " furniture, &c.," for the offices and rooms
of the House of Lords. The fuel for both houses, includ-
ing contingencies for lengthened sittings, costs 2,5701.
4,0001. is to be applied this year to the decoration of the
new Palace at Westminsb r under the direction of the
Fine Arts Commission. The works include Mr, J. Gib-
mou'e statue of the Queen and its bas-reliefe, Mr. J. R.
Herbert's frescoes in the Peers' robing-room illustra-
tive of "Justice on earth and its development in law
and judgment," and the marble statues at men of emi-
nence (as members of Parliament) in St. Stephen's-hall.
Tb4ork of Mr. Gibson is nearly completed. Mr. Her
ber is about to commence his fresco paintings, and, a
regards the statues, commissions :for 10, at the cost o
1,2001. each for three and 1,0001. each for the othe
seven, have already been given.