Master Murphy has placed on the file of the proceedings
in the Tipperary Bank ease a minute to relieve himself from two charges—an improper private examination of James Sadleir, and an acquittal of him in regard to fraud. He shows that all parties concerned assented to the private examination; that if it had not been private, Sadleir would not have given so much information, and would probably have fled the country, as his lawyer advised him, in preference to submitting to a public examination. As to the frauds of Sadleir, no direct evidence came before Mr. Murphy to implicate him ; the letter of John, and other testimony showing his guilt, have come to light more recently—no one even made a charge of fraud against In 1849, the Government, on the recommendation of the senior Fellows of Trinity College, Dublin, appointed one Basilio Angeli to be Professor of the Italian Language and Literature in that institution. Circumstances occurred which led some of the junior Fellows and students to doubt the fitness of Signor Angel for his post. Soon afterwards, Sir Robert Kane desiring that a speech he had delivered on the opening of the Queen's College, Cork, should be translated into Italian, commissioned Angel to translate it. The work was so inaccurate that seine of the junior Fellows laid it before the governing Board ; and added a statement that Angoli had obtained the chair under false pretences—he had been nominated on the faith of " certificates" alone. For a time the matter was hushed up, but the accusation reappeared ; to settle the question of competency, the translation was submitted to Mr. Panizzi, and his opinion was of a kind that led the Board to dismiss the Professor at once. Whereupon he brought an action for libel and defamation against three of the .junior Fellows, and chinned 3000/. damages. The case was tried last week, at Athy, in Kildare countythe trial lasted five days, and ended by the discharge of the Jury, who could not agree upon their verdict. In the course of this investigation, it was shown that Angel was a plaster-cast-maker of Lucca ; that he had fled from Italy in 1833, deserting a newly-married wife, now a domestic servant at Leghorn ; and that he had worked as an image-maker until he set up as a pro fessor of language and literature. • Eleven civilians, labourers and mechanics, have been committed to Nenagh Gaol on charges of having taken part with the Tipperary Militia in the recent mutiny.
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