BRITISH GARRISON IN IRELAND.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2230, 21 April 1881, Page 3

BRITISH GARRISON IN IRELAND.

A correspondent, writing from Dublin, Bays : —" Owing to the difficulty in exercising the rights of property and in levying executions under the Queen's writs, the military authorities in Ireland are at present experiencing considerable pressure, and seldom hare the requirements of the various departments been put to such a test. There is in Ireland at this moment an army of 27,000 men, made up of 2500 artillery, 4000 oavalry, and 20,500 infantry. The guns of the artillery number seventy, and the horaea 150. The force is distributed principally through Munster, Oonnaught, and Leinster, and the expense of providing accommodation for them, notwithstanding that all available workhouses and gaols have been brought into use, will be very great. Dublin is garrisoned by olose upon 6000 men, ohiefly composed of Scotch and English regiments, including battalions of the Coldstream and Scots Fusilier Guards. To increase the mobility and efficiency of the army in Ireland, nine flying columns have been organised, and will be shortly despatched from their various headquarter stations, two being assembled in Dublin, two at the Curragh, one at Cork, one at Eermoy, one at Limerick, one at Athlone, and one at Belfast. The columns, which are fully equipped, are composed respectively of one troop of cavalry, one division of the Boyal Hone Artillery with two guns, four companies of infantry, consisting of 200 non-commissioned efiloers and men, a detaohment of Boyal Engineers, a detaohment of Army Service Corps, four general Bervioe waggons, and a detachment of the Army Hospital Corps, with an ambulance waggon. Seventy rounds of ball ammunition will be served to the rank-and file of the infantry and twenty to eaoh infantry sergeant. The Boyal Engineers will carry forty rounds per man, and the cavalry twenty, a similar quantity being stored in the wagons in reserve for the cavalry. The orders of these columns will be to move to a given spot at the shortest notice, so as to conoentrate their strength with rapidity, and keep open the communication between various isolated detachments. It is proposed to billet the troops in the towns and villages through which they pass ; but, as a means of procaution, all the necessary appliances for enoampment wil be taken. Extra vigilance is used at all the barracks, the Castle, and public buildings."