IRELAND.
Dublin was nicely hoaxed on Tuesday. A report, springing nobody knew exactly whence, was rapidly circulated that "Sebastopol has fallen." Some said that the Lord Chancellor had announced it in open court; others, that "an aide-de-camp had communicated the news to Master Lyle" ; a third had "seen a friend who had it direct from Sir John Young" ; a fourth had it from a friend of Colonel Browne: A message was sent by telegraph to London, inquiring into the truth of the story; and when the answer arrived, that it had not been heard of in London, Paddy set to work trying to imagine why the Government "on the other side" kept it a secret. It was not until the telegraph reported that Parliament had met without Ministers' announcing anything of the sort, that the delusion was dispelled.
The defendants in the recent trial respecting the Mountgarrett peerage and estates applied last week for a new trial: which was granted by the Court of Exchequer, on Tuesday, on the ground that the Judge had ad- mitted improper evidence, and had misdirected the Jury at the former trial.
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