The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-02-10 00:00:00

TIIE ARMY IN IRELAND.

The troops in !rebid (exclusive of artillery, the
most expensive of any class of military), amounted,
according to the last Returns received at the War-
Office, to no less a number than 523.374 more than
the whole establishment of the United Kingdom
ought to be. The following are the regiments
strength, and station :
IttoIMENTS. STRENOTH. 13TAT!ONS.
tat Dragoon Ouards 4.,5 Dundalk.
2d ditto 397 Longford.
3.1 ditto 402 Taber.
t%t Dra!,oons 3.19 Dublin.
2i! ditto 39 Dublin.
341 ditto 399 Newbridge.
6th ditto 401 •Gort.
19th ditto 395 Cork.
loth l'efrran Battalion 10:42 Newry.
9th ditto 11175 - Parsonstosrn.
iltth ditto 11)77 Fernioy.
Ist Regiment of Foot 7113 Dublin.
3d ditto 675 Newry.
7th ditto 674 11ublin.
12th ditto 701 Blitterrant.
I!‘th ditto 707 Waterford.
23d ditto 701 Limerick.
2.itis ditto 703 Cork.
29th ditto 7113 Armagh.
35th dim, 701 Cork.
39th ditto 69 Castlebar.
41st ditto 705 Derry.
42d ditto 693 Dublin.
43.1 ditto GO9. Belfast.
44th ditto 705 Clonisiel.

44th ditto lU6 Ferwoy.
Silk ditto ;01 Kilkenny.
634 'ditto iO4 Dublin.
77th ditto 104 Uslway.
7,tir tiitte • iO4 iltkiatie.
Slat dittu P 3 Enniskillen.
9lst ditto -l3 Winn.
931 ditto 659 Naas.
t.'d Mile Brigade 690 Parsunstown.

Some uneasiness lately prevailed at Amiens, in
consequence of the demands of several clothiers' that
the exportation of wool should be prevented ; but
the Minister of the Interior has written to the Cham-
ber of Commerce, that instead of prohibiting the ex-
portation of French wool, the Government wu die-
posed to support it.

Nothing. can appear more favourable than the
lands after the breaking up of the late frost. The snow
fell and melted deeply, and all its salubrious particles
have fattened and enriched the soil. The last week,
which has been dry, yet of mild air, without frost, ex-
, apt to a small degree on Friday in the morning early,
1 has enabled the farmers to see the good effects of the
snow,w hich they much wanted last year. Theyoung crops
are now springing ; the vegetable gardens are promising
much luxuriance, and the grounds show well for receiv-
ing early seeds ; anal although the pasture seldom grows
till March, yet its prospect is very favourable, espe-
cially to those which have been =mired before the
mow.
A meeting of amateurs took place yenarday at the
i.:otionantler Ju Chief's levee, where much talent was
combined. The object was to name a day for the fights
on the kepis, which were necessarily put off upon the pre-
sent mournful occasion. The fight between Spring auo
Robert Burn, fur lOU guineas aside, was fixed to take
place on Friday, the Nth of the preeent. mouth, with
the consent of the whole of the opposing pszties. Bet-
; ting was 5 and 6to 4 on Spring, and 3 to 1 was taken
I shout naming both winners, Spring and Sampson, the
Birmingham youth.—The great sparring-match at the
• Fives-court, fixed for the lath instant, was also named
for another day.
I . The match between• pelage° and Sampson. which was
I also necessarily put of, was fixed to take plass on the
I flil instant (Tuesday).—Even betting.
31r. Horne, of Tooley-ttreet, undertook his match yes-'
terday to trot his horse Roarer eight wiles in half an
-hour, on the Rirkmansworth road, for tee guineas.—
: The horse won the match.

i A Few days ago, as a labouring man was digging
(/muss in a large ,burgh on Aleiston-hill„ sear *hire
Bostil, he discovered, at the depth of five feet, a huumn
• skeleton, lying ea its side in the solid the& rack, quite
perfect. From hehind the skull he took a sort of pin,
four or five inches long, with s hole drilled theough the
bead of it, which had probably bees used as an ap-
t pendage to the hair; and on Friday lase tke same man
`dug up, in the same burgh, but in a fractured state, a
leery huge uru, rontaining human Noes.
A letter (rota DrogWa, dated February I, rays—
" Early on 31ontlay nwilleg last, seems of the I legker ,
fishermen put to sea in a isibt to shoot their nets. From
the storm of the preceding ellen theee was a heavy swell
in the bay, and on their ret a plc sprees! up, which
. increased the already agi o t kinent, mid before they
bi
could marls the land, tlteit I bark was struck by a
wave and upset, and the entire perished. One of th..
sufferers was found balding with a death gripe by the
pinwale of the boat; the hodieslll the others have not
yet berm found.
1 Ftaz.—This morning an Ida tag fire broke one a'
Earner's Whatf. Itatclifie. b . As she tide n 4,
110
1,
wieg pretty strung, awl aes were h.-might
to the spot very sous, the fi Ilareeeded in storpet,
the coafiagrasiim. A dwei turd a fruit %ban-
house wljoissiag, were destroyed..