31 MAY 1856, Page 7

IRELAND.

Dublin illuminated on the 29th: the public offices were lighted up with great splendour. There was a military review in the Phcenix Reek in the morning ; and at night a brilliant show of fireworks, attended by "throngs of spectators that defied calculation."

There is a reduction of nearly 50 per cent in the number of paupers this year in the Galway workhouse as compared with the corresponding period in 1855. In the latter year the numbers were 862, to 487 in 1866.

At length we have some notion of the financial position of the Tipperary Bank, and the creditors are agreeably surprised by the announcement of a first dividend of 2s. in the pound, payable on the 17th June. As far as can be ascertained, the claims on the bank are 430,5001., of which 105,0001. con- sists of "English draughts over-due." The other side of the account pre- sents these figures—

Cash in bank, Government Stock, and bills remaining due £25,000 Bills over-due at date of official manager's appointmrnt (a large proportion bad) 56,000 Bills since over-due 12,000 Over-drawn accounts, including John Sadleir's 350,000

The manager proposes to make a call of 40/. per share on all the contribu- tories. The number of shares nominally liable to the call is 5439, but there are deductions to be made from these.

Master Murphy decided, on Tuesday, that Mr. James Birch Kennedy and other former shareholders of the Tipperary Bank, having disposed of their shares within the last three years, must appear on the list of contributories.

Tipperary is becoming a model county : there is not a single prisoner fer trial in Clonmel GaoL