quartered, and contrast it with the description given by this foreigner, of that larger force of the Irish Constabulary. The frequent records of the London Police Courts, attest that in every street brawl of any note, a guardsman was to be found― and there is a certain offence, that of extorting money by threats of an unmentionable and most revolting accusation, which was almost peculiarly a practice of these chosen and petted soldiers. We record this in no triumph, and in no bitter spirit, but in sadness, a feeling that every true well wisher to the Empire must share with us, on contemplating so plain a proof of the anti-Irish bias that exists in England, and the lengths to which it must have gone, when the admirably conducted, and physically as well as morally most desirable recruits, that with proper inducements, could have been got from Ireland, were, until the necessities of the war had begun to grow heavy, not only not sought for, but absolutely rejected by the authorities.

It is not, however, our wish nor our intention to dilate upon so invidious and unpleasant a theme as this comparison: some allusion to it could not be avoided, if only in justice to our own countrymen, upon whom the slur and ban of exclusion from the honorable position of immediately guarding their Sovereign, was so undeservedly, and until lately so perseveringly inflicted. But to dwell further on this point would be worse than unnecessary.

That Ireland has well and stoutly done her part towards maintaining the honor of the Empire in the present tremendous struggle, that she has lavishly poured out her children's blood-that in fact, the major part of the forces of England in the Crimea are Irish, is abundantly and lamentably testified by the returns nomination of killed and wounded: singular to say, they form nearly the only record that is given to the public, of the gallantry, nay of the presence of Irishmen in the Crimea! In all other respects a perfect, and perhaps not altogether unaccountable silence prevails. The guards, the heroes of London streets; and the Highlanders, the heroes of novel and romance, with some few favored English regiments of the line, chiefly noted as being peculiarly English, come in for mention and praise in the accounts from the seat of war; but an Irish regiment never, save when an absolute impossibility exists of avoiding mention of it: as a striking and the most recent instance of this, we need but allude to the suppression, in the

published accounts of the desperate and most bloody affair of the 18th of June, of the fact that the English troops who actually penetrated into the suburbs of Sebastopol, and maintained themselves there for nearly an entire day, until the blunders and failures of the intended supports and reserves compelled a retreat, were no other than our gallant fellow countrymen of the 18th Royal Irish.

Taking quite at random from the melancholy lists of killed and wounded, that are now unhappily so frequent in our newspapers, we find some such accounts as these-a fair average specimen of the whole. The names indisputably Irish, are in Italics, but of those not marked it is probable that many are of the same nation, bearing in mind what a number of apparently pure English names are to be met with amongst the peasantry not only of our Eastern Counties; but even in the far West of Ireland.

Nominal return of Non-Commissioned Officers and Privates Killed, from August 3 to 5, inclusive:-1st Battalion 1st Foot: LanceCorporal Michael Horan. 77th: Private Wm. Connelly. 1st Battalion Rifle Brigade: Private John Delaney. 3d Battalion Grenadier Guards: Private Thomas Miller. 1st Battalion Scots Fusilier Guards: Private Daniel Thompson. 31st: Colour-Sergeant Thomas Behan; Private Henry Oaten. 38th: Sergeant R. M'Ghee. 19th: Private George Moore. 33rd: Private Edward Ryan. 46th: Private Michael Spencer. 95th: Sergeant Maurice M'Grath.

Nominal Return of Non-Commissioned Officers and Privates Wounded, from August 3 to 5, inclusive:-1st Battalion 1st Foot: Privates Thomas Sevvill, dangerously; George Reeves, severely; James Matthews, slightly. 17th Foot: Private Wm. Dowdall, slightly. 23d: Privates John Fowler, severely; David Richardson, dangerously. 50th: Sergeant James Stevenson, severely. 89th: Private George Clarke, slightly. 1st Battalion Rifle Brigade: Privates Wm. Russell, severely; Wm. Davies, slightly. 3d Battalion Grenadier Guards: Privates John Pullen and Win. Holyrood, severely; George Withall and Charles Shepperd, slightly. 1st Battalion Scots Fusilier Guards: Private Thomas Burus, slightly. 1st Battalion 1st Foot: Private Charles Nicholas and Wm. Salisbury, slightly. 18th: Privates James Cautlin severely; John Stanley, Thos. Medhurst, and Daniel O'Connell, slightly. 21st: LanceCorporal George Edwin, severely. 31st: Sergeant James Forrest, slightly; Corporal Wm. Roberts, slightly; Private Jas. Weir, severely; Edw. Leeson, Wm. Critchely, Thos. Cardell, Michael Sheridan, John Weekly, and Henry Walton, slightly. 41st: Corporals John Creedon and Martin O'Dea, slightly. Privates G. P. Gee and Wm. Mannix, severely. 42d: Lance Corporal Robert Ingram, severely. 44th: Private James Duggan, slightly. 47th: Private James Anderson, slightly. 55th: Sergeants Robert Mc Garry,

Patrick Callaghan, and lance Sergeant Benjamin Holdick, slightly; Corporal Daniel Tierney and Privates Jeremiah Leary, severely; Wm. Mortile, Wm. Hanley, Wm. Dagan, Edward Bloomfield, Thomas Steadman, Thomas Graham. Thomas O'Reilly, Henry Adams, James Mc Cann, John Cronan, Wm. Mara, Michael Conway, and John Cain, slightly. 62d: Private James Strangford, dangerously. 63d: Privates Richard Caffrey, Francis Lakey, and Richard Muleahey, slightly. 72d: Lance Sergeant John McGilvray, slightly; Privates John Campbell, severely; Hugh McKee, dangerously. 79th: Privates Robert Rea, slightly; John Urquhart, dangerously. 89th Corporal Matthew Burke, dangerously. 95th: Private James Swan, slightly.

AUG 5-3d Foot; Sergeant Thomas Creaven; Privates Thomas Milton, and Duncan M'Crea, slightly. 7th Foot: Privates James Johnson, Henry Birch, and William Clements, slightly. 17th Foot: Private Michael Walsh, slightly. 23d: Private Levi Ball, slightly. 30th Private Matthew Long, slightly. 31st: Private Joseph Rennox, slightly. 33d: Private Denis Ryan, mortally; Patrick Brazel, and Thomas Walker, dangerously. 34th: Private James Thompson, slightly. 38th: Privates Joseph Linnahan and Patk. Mayle, slightly. 44th: Private John Leahy, severely. 77th: Private Wm. Carr, slightly. 90th Private Joseph Crowick, slightly. 95th: Privates George Shearman, dangerously; John Smith, slightly. 2d Battalion Rifle Brigade: Private Thomas Hathaway, slightly.

Nominal return of Non-commissioned Officers and Privates Wounded, from August 6 to August 9, inclusive:-4th FootSergeant Michael Mc Leod and Private Peter Mc Arragher, slightly. 7th-Private Edward Byrne, severely. 14th-Private James Beattie, slightly. 17th-Private John Kearns, severely. 18th-Private, Thomas McMahon, severely. 19th Private Joseph Holyoake, severely. 34th-Private Thomas White, severely, 46th-Private Joseph Papworth, slightly. 68th-Privates Wm. Gorry, severely; James Delany and Thos. Wyatt, slightly. 1st Battalion Rifle Brigade-Privates Cornelius Cleus, dangerously; Peter McDonnell and Robert Matthews, slightly. 2d Battalion Rifle BrigadePrivate John Green, slightly. Royal Artillery-Corporal Robert Taylor, severely; Gunner W. Collins, slightly. 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards-Privates John Hartlane, John Doherty, William Smith, and John Russell, severely; William Andrew, slightly; James Alexander, and David Thompson, dangerously. 2d Battalion 1st Foot-Private James Larkey, severely. 4th Sergeant John Hodgin, severely; Private Samuel Stevens, slightly, 31st-Privates Henry Paris and Richard Cooke, slightly. 42d-Privates Donald McDonald, James Logan, and John Formby, slightly. Duncan M'Dougall, Festus Hennua, and Neil McNeil, severely. 48thSergeant Michael Kennedy and Private H. McManus, severely. 17th-Lance Corporal John Fowler, severely. 19th-Privates Fred. Osborne, mortally; David Cooper, slightly; Michael Lyden, severely. 33d Foot-Private James Smith, slightly. 41st-Privates Thomas Bolter and Joseph Wilton, dangerously; James Pace and

Alfred Reed, severely; Michael Richardson, John Bannister and Richard Dunnigan, slightly. 46th-Private George Pullen, severely. 49th-Privates James Lennon, severely; Peter Reilly and James Handlin, slightly. 57th-Private Richard Keefe, severely. 63dPrivate Hugh Godwin, slightly. 77th-Lance Corporal Ben Hands, severely; Privates Peter McCabe and George Barber slightly. 88th-Privates Samuel Provens, severely; Patrick Hurtney, slightly. 90th-Privates Patrick Burke, Matthew Elvin and Wm. Pearce, severely; John Hines, slightly; and Jas. Coonan, dangerously. 97th-Privates Wm. Philips, Henry M'Allister, and Jas. Ratcliffe, slightly.

We are sensible that in giving the foregoing lists, and commenting upon them, we have been straying somewhat from the direct course of our subject. But all those who have felt, as every Irishman worthy of the name must have felt, that the gallantry of our countrymen in the Crimea has not been permitted to be known in England, and thus that a crying injustice is done to them, will excuse the brief digression into which we were betrayed by our anxiety to draw attention to the only record within our power to obtain-one that is painful, indeed, to peruse, but most honorable to our country, and established in its facts beyond the power of the most ingenious and artful disputant to controvert.

If a separate military force were to be constituted for Ireland, without any connexion or admixture with the military force of Great Britain, we should not hesitate to chime in with the loudtongued advocates of the system of promotion from the ranks; as we believe that quite as good a class of men, nay, even a better, could be induced to enter, if assured of as good pay, &c. &c., as the Irish Constabulary, to which we have before made reference. But, as we have already stated, such a recruitment would be most difficult in England and Scotland, and as the idea of a separate military establishment for any one of the three countries is absolutely impracticable, and not for one moment admissible, the fine theory of opening the way to the soldier to rise to the higher grades of his profession, loses its last support, and utterly falls to the ground.

What then is to be done? To this despairing question of the disappointed theorist we reply at once-simply improve the condition of the soldier in the points that come home to his every-day existence and ordinary habits of life. Apply the commonest principles that regulate demand and supply in the ordinary concerns and businesses of existence to his case. As his value has risen in the market, let his price rise also and you

will secure a good article. Increase then the bounty, and, as we have in a paper in last REVIEW recommended, let that bounty be paid to him either all at once, or in larger and more rapidly succeeding instalments than at present.

Upon this latter point we cannot too much insist. We never yet heard an officer of any experience allude to this topic without concurring in the one opinion, that the present system, with regard to the bounty, is little better than a swindle, and breeds a discontent exceedingly injurious to the prospects of further recruitment.

After the question of the bounty to the private on first entering the service, come those of his pay while in it, the rewards given him from time to time during service, and finally those which are promised to him at its termination. As to his pay while serving, a step has been recently taken which is certainly in the right direction, although as yet on too limited a scale. We allude to the recent provision made for additional pay to men serving in the Crimea, with power and facilities to allot it to the support of their wives and families at home. But this boon is restricted to men actually in the field; and it is further limited by being denied to men in hospital, whether from wounds or disease, although they have just been brought in from the presence of the enemy.

After five years' service, provided the soldier has managed for at least two years of that period to keep himself out of the Regimental Defaulter's Book"-i.e., the record of grave offences against discipline, &c., &c., he may be granted what is called Good Conduct pay, of an extra penny a day. After ten years' service 2d., and after fifteen years' service 3dwith, as before, the condition of not being in the "Defaulter's Book" of the Regiment. This inducement to good conduct is not only small in itself, but has the additional disadvantage of being most precarious, as a chance absence for a few hours without leave, or an appearance of being affected by liquor, in the judgment of, perhaps, a rough and surly non-commissioned officer or other casual offence, may at once cause the soldier to be deprived of his Good Conduct pay even after fifteen years of careful self-government and watching.

The moral then of our paper is-be more generous to the Soldier, and, depend on it, in the day of battle he will remember it, and pay the boon with his best blood!