The Sun.
London, England, 1861-12-02 00:00:00

MONTHLY MILITARY OBITUARY.

General—Sir Howard Douglas, Bart., G.C,8.,
G.C.M.G., Colonel 15th Foot.
Lieutenant-General—Sir James Holmes Schoedde,
K.C.8., Colonel 55th Foot.

Major-Generals—Richard French, Barth. V.
Derinzy, retired full pay, inspecting field
officer recruiting district; Robert Mercer, retired
full pay Royal Marines.
Lieutenant-Colonels—William Greenwood, C. 8.,
captain retired full pay Royal Artillery; James
Johnston, late 99th Foot; Eyre Evans Kenny, late
Unattached.

Majors—Frederick Geo. Nuttall Clarke, 3d West
India Regiment ; Marcus Louis, captain retired full
pay sth Veteran Battalion ; Geo. Bownell Pepyat,
retired full pay Royal Marines.
Captains—Wm. Fourbelle Dowdeswell, 7th Dra-
goon Guards; Frederic Southcote Seale, Royal
Artillery ; Stanley Slater, 82d Foot ; Robert M.
B. Maurice, 95th Foot; Robert John Little, half-
pay Royal Marines.
Lieutenants—Henry Bond, Royal Artillery;
Graham R. T. Stevenson, Royal Artillery ; John
Samuel Foster, Royal Artillery ; Frederic C. Irwin,
28th Foot ; Edmond Pakenham, 52d Foot ; Henry
Sturt Lewis, Royal Marines; William Richmond
Nixon, half-pay 52d Foot; Henry John Lindsey,
Unattached; Joannes Justin von Fumetti, half-pay
2d Light Dragoons, King's German Legion; John
Ede, retired full pay, Royal Marines.
2d Lieutenants—James Barry, retired full pay,
Royal Marines ; Wm. Davis, retired full pay ; John
Jackson, half-pay, Royal Marines.

Paymaster—George Bartley (Major), half-pay
54th Foot.

Adjutant—Richard Ellis, half-pay 97th Foot,
Assistant Surgeons—Fred. Gus. Hamilton, Gre-
nadier Guards; George Smith, 34th Foot; George
Parsons Wall, 64th Foot; John M'Leon Cameron,
Staff.

Veterinary Surgeon Christopher Sanderson,
Royal Artillery.
Purveyor—W. S. Rogers, half-pay.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, SATURDAY EVENING.
The insult offered to the British flag is felt as
keenly here as in any part of the United Kingdom.
It is the subject of conversation in all circles, and
the chief topic in all the newspapers. It is the

universal opinion that, unless the Southern Commis

sioners are restored, with an ample apology, war is
inevitable. The whole country sympathises with
the Government in its demand for reparation, and

would be ready to prove its loyalty by any sacri-
fices in case of war, with the insignificant exception
of the "Young Ireland patty" that still linger
among us. The organs of this moribund remnant

have been thrown into hysterics from joy at the

prospect of a war between England and America.
The Nation says the capture of the Commissioners

on board a British steamer was an " act worthy o.

the spirit, daring, and dash of the Americans ; it
was one to make Irish hearts jump with joy."

" The news," continues the same organ, " has
created wild excitement and enthusiasm in Dublin,
and it will awaken similar feelings and sensation
throughout the whole country." If the English
Government resent the insult, then, we are told,
will come "a great time for Ireland. Then will
the men who are gone with a vengeance prove

vengeful men indeed. Then will the Irish race
in America rush to arms and bound into the

battle :

" Yes, then will the forces of England find in their
front such desperate men as crushed their ranks at
Fontenoy to the cry of Remember Limerick.'
Yes, the ;men crowbarred out of their homes in
Ireland; the men oppressed, insulted, scoffed at,
and, wherever they went, pursued by English slan-
der, scorn, and hate—those men will be in the van
of the fight, and then will woe come to England !
And what of Ireland in this great time ? What will
Irishmen do when comes this supreme opportunity,
the like of which can only come once in many ages ?
We can tell what they may do, what they will be
able to do if they act well their part as brave men
—they can, most certainly, establish the independ-
ence of Ireland."

This explains an announcement embla zoned in
both the Nation and Morning News to-day as most
important—to the effect that a large and most re-
spectable meeting of Nationalists resident in Dublin,
Mr. Plunkett, town councillor, in the chair, was
held in the European Hotel yesterday, to consider
and determine upon the course that should be
adopted in the present crisis of affairs. It was
resolved to call a public meeting in the Rotunda on
Monday next. From the names of the half-score
persons given and the tone of their organs the object
of the proposed meeting is plainly treasonable, and
it is to be hoped that the Government will not allow
the minds of the ignorant to be disturbed and in-

flamed, as they did in 1848. The country then paid
rather dear for its joke about the Widow Ryan's
cabbage-garden. It is stated that the meeting on
Monday is to be attended by The O'Donoghue,
M.P., Mr. Moore, late member for Mayo, and Mr.
Martin, who has already suffered for his folly in
this line. The Nationalists know by experience
how little they can count on the sympathy of a

Roman Catholic Attorney General should they get I
into the meshes of the law, and they may be sure
that Mr. O'Hagan will do his duty as zealously and
firmly as Chief Justice Monlghan did his in the
state trials of 1848. They call the outrage on the
British flag a step of Nemesis, but they will pro-
bably watch the progress of events as mere noisy
spectators, inspired by a wholesome dread of the
Nemesis of British justice. The Nation concludes
one of its sensation articles with a prayer—which
is a good one if uttered in the right sense :
"This is a solemn moment—a moment big with the
destiny of nations. May it be that wise and brave
men will use it to good account !"
Thu. Northern Whiy, reforrir g to the same sub-
ject in its commercial article, says:—
"The excitement that prevailed in mercantile
circles today relative to the probable results of the
conduct of Captain Wilkes, of the San Jacinto, ex-
ceeded anything ever seen during the days of the
Russian war. Many of the most thoughtful fre-

quenters of 'Change are of opinion that the act of
the American captain was a portion of the policy of
the anti-British section of the Senate at Washing-
ton. Others, again, suppose that the officer only

consulted his own feeling in arresting Messrs.
Mason and Slidell, and that the President will dis-
avow all cognisance of the matter. Transactions in
the wholesale departments of trade were, for the
time, almost suspended, the dread of a war with
America absorbing most other considerations."
A deputation from the Dublin Corporation waited
I upon the Chief Secretary yesterday, consisting of
the Lord Mayor and a number of aldermen and
town councillors, with reference to the grievance
under which the city labours in having to maintain
provincial lunatics. From the report in the Daily
Express it appears that there are 350 lunatics from
the provincial districts in the asylums of this city,
maintained by the ratepayers of Dublin at acostof
more than £7,000 per annum. The deputation
complained of this as an intolerable grievance, and
they also complained that the east per head of
maintaining lunatics in Dublin is greater than in the
provinces, though it should be less in consequence
of the large number in the same establishment and
under the same management. They proposed as
remedies that the provincial paupers should be sent
to their own districts, or, if maintained in Dublin,
that the cost should be charged to the districts in
which they last resided. With regard to the Lunatic
Board, they demanded that some members of the
corporation should be placed upon it, in order that