IRELAND.
Three of the rebels of 1848 returned to Ireland last week in virtue of the pardon recently granted to all political exiles. They are Mr. John Dillon, barrister, Mr. John Martin, a North-country landowner, and Mr. Kevin O'Doherty, a medical gentleman. Mr. Dillon has gained himself a name at the American bar, and it is thought probable that he will re- turn thither.
Mr. M. Banim, the surviving brother of John Banim, an joint author with him of the "Tales of the O'Hara Family," has been appointed post- master of Kilkenny.
The English shareholders in the Tipperary Bank have appealed to the Master of the Rolls to be struck off the list of contributories. In the course of the proceedings, on Friday sennight, the Master of the Rolls wished to know where the money was to come from to pay the promised dividend of 28. : "I know of no country except Ireland in which a dividend would be declared without having funds to meet it." The Official Manager explain- ed, that though the liabilities of the bank had been stated at 430,0001., he had satisfied himself that only 250,000/. could be established against the bank; he had cash in hand to pay 25,000/., besides 60,000/. in bills. On Tuesday the Official Manager stated, that if all the sums for the payment of which John Sadleir was represented as responsible to the bank were esti- mated, he would be found to be a debtor to the amount of not muck-lasa than 300,000/. It also came'out on Tuesday, that John Sadleir perpetrated a special fraud to entrap shareholders in England--country-people, who were influenced by an officer of the London and County Bank, as was stated in a former part of the proceedings. Sadleir prepared a false balance—representing that 100,000/. of the Tipperary Bank capital. had been paid-up, whereas only 40,0001. had been paid ; and a flourishing statement was prepared. Sadleir's instructions for this fraud, in his own handwriting, were produced.
There is hardly a prisoner for trial at the ensuing Assizes in some of the Northern counties.
Two men have been struck dead by lightning at a cottage-door in Meter, near Strabane. A number of other persons belonging to the family were struck, but were not fatally hurt.
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