The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-09-22
F1NOCS IRIsRAES.

Sir Eyre Coote. whom Nacaul lay lastly sty.es
lone of the most distinguished soiciefs 81 Iis
time" "eonspicuous among tie founders OF ne
advised Give TO fight IN the famous council OF
war which preceded the battle of Plassey, ~no
best tie French .: WAndi ~ash, AID gave the
:ck gentiernan s.r Philip Francis, slnost
certainly the arthor OF Janus Letters, whom
Mscsulsy styles the solesr member OF the
council" when Warren Hsstipg &c was Govern or
General, uss the son of Dab!in minister. S!r
william Janper, VITO was Sir George Rooke
bss. Ctncer in the reduction of G. braltar, " s-
Cork man. B.Akeney, who made the splen-
did bct unsuccessful deteEse of A;norca against
Riche,ieo, srd whom Admiral BJrg was shot
for not relieving, was slso . native CT Liner
ick. Eyre Aassay, one OF VOTES soiest Lieu
tenants Was also Al lcishman. 50 was Aam;feA
Grayes vho received r3e thanks OF PArlis-
mert as Ss,so seoohd II command AZ CoPen
hagen. Sir George MAcartsey. WHO shared
WITH Give sod Hastings and Coote, snd o.
Indian Empire. ard refused the G2vernor
Gereralship il 1755, was born in the County
Antrim. The soldier and tie s,stesman vho'
after PITTS death ard tie inrumbsraole re-
campaigns, brought the var With France ID
happy issue. ard gave England the vonderfu!
prestige With which sae appeared ss the COZ
Of sse
on both his mothers and lis fAther'e side lad
been settled in Ireland for over three hundred
years. Csstleresgh, whose support if was tlat
snsSl I'd Wellington 10 coIq ner, VISA the SCI OF
brother, tie Marquis Wellea!ey-both OF them
making their way up from poverty and oos'
caIity-was one OF he abiest Goyeroor Cen
erals India has ever had, and played for forty
years 3 conspicuous, AID. indeed We may ssy,
illuEtrioas part in English politics Ot
E1n uCd Burke we Go. not oeed TO speak, nor OF
Sheridan ba: il is not generally known that
George Canning vas the son ard grandson Of
Irish gentleman. lis father baTius settled
in Looaop, where George was barn, owing 70
q family q1a-rei. General Rs~oon Chesney,
the explorer of TIE Ecphratss Valley, was al
Irishman, OF tae Cor1ty Dowr, where his
hardly lees distir gois5ed soa, tie late Co!onel
Chesney, the weukuown writer on military
sub;ects, as also born. Sir Henry Lawrence,
who defended Lucknow during he Sepoy Wax,
vas AZ Irishman, ard soe son of an Irish Colo
eel; and General Nicholson, who fell az Delhi,
who IFS: steumed the tide Of insurection
pending the arrival of !eiafoIcsnents from
England, and whcss death Was pronounced at
the time national misfortune" was tie son
Of O Dublin doctor.
General PskenLan who commanded a. New
Orleans ard fell there, was an Irishman Gen
eral De- Lacy Evans, who rose f.om q sick bed
to bear the STuEt of tie attack a. 1nEeru Sd,
after having been wounded st New Orleans
and serving on Wellirgton's st Al at Waterloo
and Who sat thirty years in the house OF Com
mons, uas q Limerick man also. Sir Garnet
Wolseiey, the rising General of the British
service, who has juss been appointed Governor
OF Cy prpe, Is also an lrlehman, OS.ooBlnS 70
family long settled in Wexford. Ofseven dis
tinguished Ind an officers selected by Mr.. ksye
for one of bis volumes of biography, three
Pottinger, Lawrence, and Nicbolsoa-were
Irish men. ore Scotch, sud only three nglieh.
Captain Crozier, the explorer of Sir John
Frauklia's ex ped itior, was ao Irisbman also :;
and go was tle othee disriu guished explorer,
Sir Robert Mcclure Lord Mayo, who was
Governor General OF India for Two years pr!or
to his assassination in 1872, AID filed she place
in way which excited expectations sach as
We think none of his predecessors called out
was an Iris man of tue ola ugfo-Irisa family
of Bourke Lord Daferiu. who has just left
the Governor GeneraishiP of Canada, ana has
given proofs oo:h tbezs aud as British Con-
missioner in tie reorganization OF Syria IN
1S60, of high administrative ability, is an Irish-
man. aud Sheridaa's great grandson.
1t is not many years since I've OF the twelve
English judges we're men Of Irish birth, ard
native of Belfast, and universally ackno~-
lodged to be oue Of the two or three abless
men who have elled bis position, ard 81 orator
of rare power, though Of ece severer sors.
The organizer of the Irish constabu!ary. [ he
best body of gendarmerie in ex:s'erce, and the
frss really { H ,iert police force which had
been eeen in Great Britain jast the kind of
Q man Sir Chariee Napier said. needed to
govern Indis"-Mr Drumn was an Irish
mar; so, let rs add, was Sir Richard Maybe,
who or gan.Zed the London Metropolitan Po-
lice, which Eas since furnished t1e model of
city police all oSer the Anglo Saxon world.
Captain Croften is ttlil living, the e1thor OF
the Irish system of prison discipline, which
has been SO Successful and so celebrated .-The
Nation.