The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1878-08-30
Famous Irishren in the British Service.

Sir Eyre Coote, whom Macaulay justly
styles Zone of the most distinguished sol
ders ofhis time." conspicuous among the
founders of the British Empire in india"
who with the minority advised Give to
fight Ill the famous council of war which
preceded the battle of Plassey,s who beat
the French at Wandiwash, and gave
the Carnatic to England, was the son of a
Limerick gentleman. Sir Philip Francis.
almost certainly the author of 'Junius'
Letters" whom Macaulay styles the
ahlest member of the Council" when War
rem Hastings was Governor-General, was
the son of Dublin minister. Sir William
Jumper, who was Sir George Rockies best
officer in the reduction of Gibraltar. was
Cork man. Blakeney, who made the
splendid but unsuccessful defence Of Minor
ca against Richeleu, and whom Admiral
Byng was shot for not relieving, was also
a native of Limerick. Myre Massey, one
of Wolfe's ablest lieutenants, was also an
received the thanks of Parliament as Nell
sons second IN command at Copenhagen.
Sir George Mccartney, who shared with
Give, and Hastings and Coote. and on not
unequal terms. the glory of founding the
Indian Empire, and refused the Governor
Generalship in 1856, was born in the Coun-
ty Antrim. The soldier and statesman
who, after Pitts death and the innumera-
BILE reverses by land which preceded the Pc
ninsuiar campaigns, brought the war with
France to happy issue, and gave England
the wonderful prestige with which she ap-
peared at at the Congress of Vienna, We'll
lington and Castlereagh. were both Irish
men. Willington's ancestors on both his
mothers and fathers side had been settled
in Ireland for over 800 years. Castlereagh,
whose support it was that enabled Yelling
ton to conquer was the son of a County
Down gentleman. Wellington's brother,
the Marquis Wellesley-both of them max
ing their way up from poverty and obscu-
rity-was one of the ablest Governor-Gep-
erals India has ever had and played for 40
years conspicuous, and, indeed, we may
say an illustrious, part in English politics.
OF Edmund Burke we do not need to speak,
nor of Sheridan but it is not generally
known that George Canning was the son
and grandson of an Irish gentleman, his
father having settled in London, where
George was born, owing to family quar-
REL Gen. Rawdon. Chesney. the explorer
Of the Euphrates Valley, was an Irlshman
of the County Down, where his hardly less
distinguished son, the late Colonel Ches-
ney, the well-known writer On military SUBJ
jects, was born.
Sir Henry Lawrence, who defended Luck
now during the Sepoy War, was all Irish
man, and the son of an Irish colonel: and
Gen. Nicholson, who fell at Delhi, who
first stemmed the tide of insurrection pend
ing the arrival of reinforcementsf from Eng
land, and whose death was pronounced at
son of a Dublin d6aaf1nrrsa id6aa1n rraisfnrtnne +" was the
General Packenham, who commanded at
New Orleans and fell there. was an Irish
man; Gen. De Lacy Evans, who rose from
a sick bed to bear the brunt of the attack
at Tnkerman. after having been wounded at
New Orleans and serving on Wellingt6 MS
staff at Waterloo, and who sat 80 years in
the House of Commons, was Limerick
man also. Sir Garnet Wolseley, the rising
General nf the British service, whc has just
been appointed Governor of Cyprus. is also
an 1rishman, belonging to family long
settled in Wexford. Of seven distinguished
Indian officers selected by Mr. Kaye for one
of his volumes of biography, three-Pottin-
ger Lawrence and Nicholson-were Irish
men, one Scotch, and only three English.
Captain Crozier, the explorer of Sir John
Franklin's expedition, was an 1rishman
also and so was the other distinguish
ed explorer, Sir Robert Mcclure. Lord
Mavo, who was Governor General of India
for two years prior to his assassination in
1872. and filed the place in such way
which excited expectations such as we
think none of his predecessors called
out, was an Irishman of the old Anglo
irish family of Rourke. Lord DufferiD,
who has just 1e It the GoveruUr-Generaiship
of Canada, and has given proofs both there
and as British Commissioner in the reor-
ganization of Syria in 1860, of high ad-
ministrative ability, is an Irishmap, and
Sheridan's great grandson.
It is not many years since five of the
twelve English Judges were men OF Irish
birth, and the Present Lord Chancellor,
Lord Cairns, is a native of Belfast, and
universally acknowledged to be one Of the
two or three ablest men who have
filled his position, and an orator Of rare
power, though of the severest sort.
The organizer of the Irish constabulary,
the best body of gendarmerie in existence,
and the first really efficient police force
which had been seen in Great Britain
"Just the kind of men," Sir Charles Ma
pier said, ''needed to govern India "-Mr.
Drummond was an Irishman SO, let us
add, was Sir Richard Mayne, who organ
lied the London Metropolitan Police, which
has since furnished the model of city police
all over the Anglo Saxon world. Captain
CroftoI is still living, the author of the
Irish system of prison discipline, which
has been so successful and so celebrated
The Nation.
No TRAMPs IN THE SoUTH.-The tramps
do not take kindly to the Southern States