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FIRE AT TI-17 BANK 0? IRELAND. •
Al 5 o'clock this morning the city was thriawn
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into a state of the greatest consternation by an an-
nouncement that the Bank of Ireland, one of the
finest public buildings in Europe and formerly the M
seat of the Irish Legislature, was in flames, and
that from tho rapid progress of the fire the most
serious consequences were to be apprehended. The
prompt arrival of the ungines, however, aided by
the assistance of the police, soon checked the alarm,
and the fire, after raging for about au hour, con-
siderably abated, but the accountants' and book-
keepers' offices are, it is feared, completely de-
stroyed. Fortunately the morning is perfectly
calm, there being scarcely a breath of wind blow-
ing. Owing to the confusiognaianiiindgexaccieteesnsietnot,tiausi
yet to ascertain
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as
the precise amount of damage.
It appears that Miss Roberts, the housekeeper,
did not retire to rest until 1 o'clock this morning,
and at that time all appeared safe. The night-watch
bad been for some time discontinued. The house.
keeper's apartments are immediately opposite the
Accountant-General's office, and at 4 o'clock she
was awakened by the glare of light issuing from
the windows of the bookkeepers' department. Miss
Roberts forthwith gave the alarm, when it was dis-
covered that the flames were raging with great
fury, but, prompt assistance having been speedily
procured, the progress of the fire was fortunately
arrested, and, although the bookkeepers' offices are
utterly devastated, no further mischief has oc-
curred to the building. The first pdrson aroused
was Mr. Dubedat, the cashier, who resides in the
bank. The first thing he did was to order the
steam-engine to work, and thus shortly after the
arrival of the engines, an ample supply of water
was obtained. The tanks on the roof were found,
when most wanted, to be dry, but the tanks on
the ground floor were soon amply supplied, and
thus the devastating power of the flames was soon
got under. Hose had to be carried in the first in-
stance to Foster-place, whence a supply was pro-
cured until the tanks had been filled. How the
fire originated is a total mystery. It was rumoured
through *own to-day that it occurred in conse-
quence of au escape of gas, but such is not the
fact. Yesterday being Sunday, access to any of
the offices was impossible, and it appears almost
incredible that the fire could have been smoulder-
ing siLee Saturday evening. Miss Roberts keeps
the keys ofball the offices, and she alleges, we Wt.
derstand, that no person had entered them since
they were closed after business hours on Saturday.
On the whole, the affair is shrouded in mystery.
The only property said to be destroyed consists of
useless blotters ; all the valuable books were
locked up iu the safes.

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EPRICE 4D. STAMPED SD•

ART TREASURES EXHIBITION.

Since our last notice, the following additional contri-
butions have been promised to the executive committee.
The Earl of Darnley, of Cobham-hall, Kent, has
promised eleven important pictureg, in addition to those
which he had previously placed at the disposal of the
committee :
Titian—Portrait of Ariosto.
Ruhens—Triumphant Procession of Henry IV.
Jacob Jordaens—Girl with a Parrot.
Giorgione—Cesar Receiving the Head of Pompey.
Tintoretto—The Milky Way.
Dalce—Virgin giving Picture of St. Dominic to
the Superior of a Convent.
Le Brun—Centaurs and Lapitlim.
Roger van der Weydeu—Portrait of a Young Man.
Mark Gerardo—Queen Elizabeth.
My tens (Qy.)—Portrait of Sir Hugh Myddletcn.
Nicolas Poussin—Preservation of the Infant Pyrrhus.
Colonel Hugh Baillie, M.P., Mortimer-street, Caven-

digh:sq uare, London :

Velasquez—Phillip IV. in shooting dress ; full length.
Velasquez—Catdival Infant Don Ferdinand of Austria
in shooting dress.
Velasquez—the Infant Don Balthazar Carlos, in black ;
life size bust.
Velasquez—The Count Duc Olivarez, with the Green
Cross of Calatrava on his breast.
Velasquez Queen Mariana, of Austria, with her hair
extravagantly dressed.
This contribution is especially valuable, on account of
the comparative rarity, in England, of the works of this
great master of the Spanish school.
William Angerstein, Stratton-street, Piccadilly,
London :
Paul Veronese—Nymphs Bathing ; Antnion and
Diana.

Rubens—His Wife, Child, and Sister.
Daniel da Volterra—A Pieta ; from the Solly Collee-
Lon.

Parmegiano—Charles —; painted at Bologna at the
time of coronation.
John Anderson, Esq., Coxlidge Hall, Newcastle.upon-
Tyne :
Murillo—St. John with the Pharisees.
Cornelio Sachtleven—Poultry.
Sir Thomas Lawrence—Sir Sidney Smitis.
F. Albano—Judgment of Paris.
Brackeleer—The Young Marauder.
Joseph Dingwall, Esq., Sunningdale, Surrey :
Imola—Holy Family, with Saints ; inscribed and
dated.

Giulio Romano—Portrait of Alexander the Great.
Vandyck—Magdalen.
Rubens—The Tribute Money.
Giovanni Be) lini —Large Landscape;
We have great pleasure in announcing that the presi-
dent and council of the R,,yal Academy— departing in
this instance from a rule which, we understand, has
hitherto been rigidly adhered to—have consented to
allow a selection from the diploma works of deceased
academicians to be forwarded to the exhibition. The
"diploma pictures" are works presented to the academy
by artists, upon election to the full dignity of R sal
Academician,

Naval and Military intelligence.

An order has been received at Chatham from the
Duke of Cambridge, directing that the general superin-
tendence of the Enfield rifle instruction at Chatham gar-
rison shall be under the regulation for district instructors
dated Aug. 1, ISSG, and shall be conducted by Col. C. C.
Hay, the commandant at the School of Musketry, Hythe,
or, in his absence, by a staff-officer of that establishment.
In consequence of this, Col. Eden, in command of the
troops at Chatham, bas issued orders to all officers in
command of corps directing them to give their support
and assistance to those officers, and furnish them with
all the information they may require in carrying out
the orders of that especial duty in connection with the
troops at Chatham.

The contributions to the general museum of art, under
the superintendence of Mr. Waring, continue to be in
every way roost satisfactory.
The committee bare determined to allot a certain
portion of the exhibition building for a collection of
photographs ; and they have entrusted the selection of
specimens to Mr. Philip H. Delamotte, professor at
King's College, London.

26, Capt. W. Loring, C. 8., fitting at Chat-
ham for the Australian station, has received nearly the
whole of her crew, which, with marines, numbers 230
men. She is partially rigged, and yesterday completed
the stowage of her water-tanks. She will take her de•
parture about the middle of February.
Her Majesty's steam frigate Tribune, 31, Captain
Edgell, arrived at Callao on the 4th of Dec. on her voy-
age to the coast of Central America. She bad been de
tamed at Arica, Peru, in consequence of the revolution
and attempt to take the town by the Peruvian squadron
of Gen. Givanco. Her surgeons were of great asAistance
to the wounded, and the Spanish papers state that her
presence and the efforts of her officers prevented much
disorder and bloodshed after the town had fallen. Twenty
were killed and 35 wounded. Several ladies took refuge
on board. The President, 50, Captain Frederick, sailed
on the 29th of Nov. for Arica. Rear-Admiral Bruce,
commanding the British squadron, was expected daily
at Callao. The French Admiral and a steamer of war
are at Callao.

Her Majesty's steam frigate Retribution, 2S, Captain
Barker, w:ls expected to leave Spithead last night for
the Mediterranean I.tation, calling at Plymouth and
Lisbon to leave supernumeraries for the ships there.
Her Maj-sty's steam fr gate Dragon, 6, Captain H.
Stewart, C. 8., arrived at Portsmouth yesterday morn-
ing, from the eastward, with supernumeraries.
The Transit steam troopship, haviaa rp!.:t.l her ma-
chinery at Portsmouth, got up steam yesterday to test
it, prior to being reported ready for troop service.
The following embarkations are ordered to take place
at Portsmouth this week :—Her Majesty's steam troop
ship Urgent, Commander Phillips, 3 officers and 700
rank and file ; the William Hammond, 591 tons, Capt.
Nicholson, 13 officers, and 271 rank and file of the 41st
and 49th regiments for St. Lucia and Barbadoes ; the
Hatuilta, Mitchell, .560 tons, Capt. Lawson, 8 officers
and 214 rank and 'He of the 41st Regiment for Trinidad.
The liar-pills Mitchell arrived at Spithead yesterday
morning, and the William Hammond was expected in
the night from the Thames. Both will return to Ports-
mouth with troops relieved by those they take out.
The Star, 8 gun sloop, Commander Alexander Boyle,
from the sonth-east coast of An.erica, arrived at Sheer-
ness yesterday morning at daylight. She is under
orders to proceed to Chatham to be paid off.
The Amphion, 36 guns, screw steam frigate, Captain
Henry Chads, at Sheerness, commenced yesterday
morning to discharge her pi% der, live shells, rockets,
&c., preparatory to being paid off.
The French screw steam corvette, Le Corse, Captain
Garnault in command, arrived at Sheerness yesterday
afternoon, last from Margate. She has been engaged
for the protection of the French fisheries off the north
coast of Scotland and in the North Sea.

DEATH OF REAR ADMIRAL MILWARD.
We regret to announce the demise of retired Rear
Admiral Clement Milward, which mournful event oc-
curred on the 14th instant, in the 81st year of his age.
This officer entered the navy 26th October, 1793, as
A. 8., on board the Alarm, Capt. Lewis Robertson, and
in the following year was severely wounded as midship-
man of that frigate in an attack upon Pointe--Pitre,
Guadaloupe. After two years of servitude, still on the
west India station, in the Veteran, 64, and Solebay, 32,
both commanded by Captain Wm. Henry Bayntun, and
as master's mate in the Etrueco, Capt. James Hanson,
he joined, in August, 1796, the Prince of Wales, 98,
flag-ship of Rear Admiral Henry Harvey, under whom,
in February, 1737, he beheld the surrender of Trinidad.
In October of the latter year he became acting lieute-
nant of the Favourite sloop, Captain Lord Camelford,
(Mr. Milward was the officer from whom Lord Camel-
ford took the pistol on the well-known occasion on which
he shot Lieutenant Charles Peterson, of her Majesty's
ship Woolwich, for mutinous conduct at English Har-
bour, Antigua, 13th January, 1798) ; and in August,
1799, being then again in the Prince of Wales, under
Lord Hugh Seymour, ho assisted, as midshipman, at
the capture of Surinam. On that occasion he was again
invested with the rank of acting lieutenant, and ap-
pointed to the Surinam, a prize corvette of 20 guns, to
which vessel, commanded by Captain Christopher Cole,
the Admiralty confirmed him by commission,
July, 1800. Invaliding home from the West Indies in
Octoner, 1802, he subsequently joined, 12th July, 18h p
the Phaeton, 38, Captains George Cockburn and John
dated Bth
Wood, in which frigate, after serving off Havrein
M iste:
Grace, and conveying Mr. Merry, the B
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Captain Thomas Gordon Caulteild, also in
the East Indies ; 19th February, 1808, for a passage
home,
the Monmouth, 64, Captain Edward Durnford
74,
and Maroh, 1809, the
Russell,Bseevrenraardta
King, and in September, 1808,
Pompee and Belleisle, 7 4's, both commanded by Capt.
Cockburn, unler whom, in the Pompde, be assisted at
the reduction of Martinique. On his return to England
in the Belleisle, with the surrendered governor and gar•
rison of the latter island, he was presented with a com-
mander's commission dated 14th June, 1809. He was
next, 28th December, 1810, and Bth November, 1811,
appointed to the Elk and Mercury sloops, on the West
India station, where, on Ist January, 1813, he was
nominated acting captain of the Herald, 20. Being
confirmed to that vessel 28th May following, and con-
tinuing in her until 11th October, 1815, he succeeded in
effeeting the capture of several of the enemy's vessels,
and took an active part in the expedition against New
Orleans. Not having been further employed, he ac-
cepted the rank of retired rear-admiral on the let
October, 1846.

CAMBRIDGE, JAN. 19.—DEATH OF TES MASTIM OP
ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE.—A gloom was cast over the Uni-
versity this morning by promulgation of intelligence of
the decease of the Rev. Ralph Tatham, D.D., the re•
spected master of St. John's College. The rev, gentle.
man, who was close upon the ripe age of fourscore, gra-
duated as twelfth wrangler in the year 1800. He wad
for many years president and tutor of his college, and hi
held the office of public orator in the University from
1809 to 1836, discharging its duties in the most credit-
able and efficient manner. He possessed in a remarkable.
degree the attributes of sound scholarship, with the
characteristics of a well bred gentleman, and was greatly
beloved on account of his invariable courtesy and kind.
ness. The friends of the deceased (who was unmarried)
were in some degree prepared for the melancholy event,
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