COMMITTEE.

"Treasurer-Daniel Cullen, Ex-Mayor of Kilkenny. "Secretaries-John Thomas Campion, John's Bridge; John G. A. Prim, Editor of "Kilkenny Moderator;" John Reville, Editor of "Kilkenny Journal.”

Subscriptions will be received by the Treasurer, Secretaries, or by any of the gentlemen of the Committee."

The Testimonial selected was a bust in marble, executed by Hogan, the resemblance being caught, for the most part, from Mulvany's picture, and in the year 1854 it was placed in the Tholsel of Kilkenny.

We lately visited the burial-place of this noblehearted Irishman, and we with difficulty discovered it. He is buried in the grave-yard of the Roman Catholic Chapel of St. John, Kilkenny, where also are interred Dr. Burgo, the ecclesiastical historian, and the Rev. Mr. O'Donnell, the "Father Connell" who gave the title to Banim's last novel.

When Banim was dying he said to Michael, " I have only one request now, lay me so that I may be nearest to my mother, with my left side next her." And so they buried him, more than fifteen years ago, and so for fifteen years and some months he has lain without stone or monument to mark his grave. Thomas Hood died in 1845; he has a public monument: Moir, Blackwood's" Delta," died in 1851; he has a public monument. Have these examples of public gratitude no teaching for Irishmen ? is the only memorial of John Banim to be a bust, quite unlike him, in the Tholsel of Kilkenny? must Michael Banim drag, from his own small funds, the money to purchase a tombstone for JOHN BANIM'S GRAVE?

Michael Banim is now, after many struggles with care, the Post-master of Kilkenny, and the gay roamer by mountain and stream for whom, as Barnes O'Hara, Cauth Flannigan and Peggy Nowlan selected that shirt which " was not a shirt entirely," is the grave official, looking back upon the bright scenes of golden youth, as the pleasant dream-land which can be traversed never more. Patiently has he borne his lot in life; his

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mind was ever impressed with that truth contained in the motto, Le vin est versé; il faut le boire; and so he passes on to the quiet of a happy old age, looking backward with a smile, and expecting the future with the hope and faith of a Christian.

APPENDIX I.

KILKENNY COLLEGE.

Or its most famous pupils, the present master of Kilkenny College, the Reverend John Browne, LL.D., names the following:

The famous men who have received their education in this foundation have been most numerous. On this subject I may quote a passage from Stanihurst, who, in his historical work, De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis Libri Quatuor, p. 25, again gratefully blazons the achievements of his old master :

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"Hic ludum aperuit, nostrâ ætate, Petrus Whitus, cujus in totam Rempublicam summa constant merita. Ex illius enim scholâ, tamquam ex equo Troico, homines litteratissimi in reipublicæ lucem prodierunt. Quos ego hic Whiteos, quos Quemefordos, quos Walsheos, quos Waddingos, quos Dormeros, quos Shethos, quos Garueos, quos Butleros, quos Archeros, quos Strongos, quos Lumbardos, excellentes ingenio et doctrinâ viros, commemorare potuissem, qui primis temporibus ætatis in ejus disciplinam se tradiderunt.' Amongst this array of names, comprising those of most of the old gentry of the Pale, many hold a distinguished place in the annals of literature and of the state,-Lombard, the historian and Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh; Wadding, the annalist; Dormer, the poet (author of the Decay of Ross,' in ballad-royal); Walsh, the translator of Cambrensis, and White, whose refutation of that author's statements regarding Ireland has lately been brought to light by the labours of the Rev. M. Kelly; Gerald Comerford, an eminent lawyer, Queen Elizabeth's Attorney for Connaught, and second Baron of the Irish Exchequer ; Elias Shee, a gentleman of passing good wit, a pleasing con

ceited companion, full of mirth without gall, who wrote in English divers Sonnets;' Butler, who translated Corderius' 'Book of Phrases' in 1562; Archer the Jesuit, for whose actions the 'Pacata Hibernia' may be referred to; and, not the least notable amongst these distinguished individuals, Stanihurst himself, who, besides his celebrity as a man of letters, may also be mentioned as the uncle of Archbishop Ussher. Amongst the names entered on the Register of the School, as re-founded by the first Duke of Ormonde, I find those of Baldwin, afterwards Provost, and a benefactor of Trinity College, Dublin; Bishop Berkeley, with regard to whom it is difficult to decide whether his fame as a man of letters, or as a Christian philanthropist, stands highest; his friend and correspondent, the patriot Pryor; Armaker, Archdeacon of Armagh in 1690, and author of several works; Congreve the dramatist; and Harris the historian. As we draw nearer our own day, many a famous name also stands out proudly from the throng of less distinguished alumni of Kilkenny College-Harry Flood the orator of his day; Yelverton Lord Avonmore, and Sir Hercules Langrishe, also luminaries of the Irish House of Commons; Michael Cox, Archbishop of Cashel; Hugh Carlton, Solicitor General; and though last not least, John Banim. Scions of the noble Houses of Desart, Inchiquin, Colooney, De Vesci, Waterford, Llandaff, Mornington, Lismore, Charlemont, Hawarden, Ashbrook, Rosse, Howth, Thomond, Clifden, Boyle, (ancestor to the Duke of Devonshire), Bandon, Shannon, &c., appear amongst the names entered on the Register; in which also will be found frequent mention of the families of note and mark in this and the surrounding counties, viz., Cavanagh, Staples, Cuffe, Cooley, Penefather, Vandeleur, Wemys, Flood, Langrishe, Bryan, le Hunte, Butler, Cramer-Coghill, Wheeler, Izod, Barker, Greene, Warburton, St. George, &c. &c. Whilst amongst the names by some chance omitted therefrom, may be enumerated the far-famed Dean Swift, and Farquhar the dramatist, who are known to have received their education at Kilkenny College. Sir Richard Steele, the friend and com