The Express.
London, England, 1856-12-23 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Deo 22.
Between five and six o'clock on Saturday evening
Mr. Galbraith Joynt, who holds landed property at
Mount Sr. Catherine, county Clare, which he recently
purchased in the locumbered Estates Court, wu
returning home in his gig, and had not proceeded
more than two miles on the Clonlara road, not fax
from Limerick, and on the Clare side of the Shannon,
when he was fired at from behind a hedge by some
daring assassin who lay in watt for he intended
victim; fortunately the attempt was unsuccessful,
for, although wounded severely in the leg, Mr. Joynt
is not dangerously injured. Not long since the
brother of the gentleman attacked received •
threatening notice to the effect " that he should
bear in mind the spirit of Clare wee not yet dead,
and that he ought to dread the fate of Gloater." A
few years since Mr. Gloster was shot in hie gig
when coming into Limerick from the county Clare,
and the perpetrator of the foul deed was never
discovered.
In Master Murphy's office, on Saturday, an appli-
cation was made on behalf of Mr. T. J. Eyre, of Bath,
to have proof received of a bill of exchange for
17,0001., drawn by the late John Sadleir, and accepted
by the manager of the Clonmel branch of the Tippe-
rary Bank. It wu made payable to Mr. Eyre at the
London and County Bank, and wu dated Nov. 26,
1855. As no one on the part of the official manager
was present, the Muter said he would for the present
receive the bill as exhibited, and commented in very
strong terms on the monstrous impropriety of the
manager of the Clonmel Bank in accepting • bill for
so large an amount for John Sadleir on the very eve
of the bank becoming bankrupt, and when John
Sadleir had overdrawn his account to an amount of
more than 200,0001. . .

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The Nenagh Guardian, received yesterday, states
that the panic which existed during the past week in
Tipperary, Cashel, Thurles, Clonmel, Limerick, &0.,
with regard to banks, has seized the people of that
locality too. Since Thursday last the doors of the
National and Provincial Banks in Nenagh have been
besieged by parties holding deposit reoeipts from,
and notes belonging to, those establishments anxious
to get gold in their stead. So great was the rush on
Saturday, that policemen bad to be placed at the
doors to keep order, and prevent the banks from being
uncommonly crowded. Some gentlemen, in order
to show tkiir oonfidenoe in those two great national
banking establishments, have actually made lodg-
' meats while the calla were at their highest. Not-
' withstanding the large number, and the extensive
amount of the demands, all have been met promptly.
Messrs. Hargrove and Hill, of the National Bank,
Nenagh, arrived front Limerick with an immense
supply of gold, and Mr. Rock, of the Provincial, also
brought from the same place a very large amount of
bullion.

The run upon the Limerick branch, says a local
journal, wee almost exclusively confined to parties
from the county Tipperary, where the polio origi-
nated: The transaction was looked upon here with
'total indifference, and the manager (Mr. Goff) met
the demands promptly, with a becoming courtesy,
which established confidence, and led many to regret
having " gone with the crowd."
A special meeting of the corporation of Dublin has
been convened to petition against the present oppres-
sive income tax. It is also expected that meetings
of the Chamber of Commerce and of the citizens at
large will be held on the same subject, and most pro-
bably all the larger towns of Ireland will adopt a
similar course, to express the general feeling on the
grievance.

SPORTING.

TATTERSALL'S —MoND•T.
• meaty attendants, sad only the following bets had:
DERB7.

11 to opt 157;11-14Onny (t)
14 to Loyola (t)
20 to immanent (t)
20 to Sydney (t)
25 to lAdy Hawthorne (t)
25 to Zoyder Zee (t)
25 to Musa] It 30 to 1)
$O l 0 Aikidos (t)
40 to Blue Jacket (t and off )
59 to oolt by Parp/ios out of Blue Davila (t)
CIIEBTek CUP.
40 to apt Tamanio (t)
40 to Malian (t)
1000 to I floridly (t. 1000 to 10 tOo laid)
lu oto I Oloadercr (t)
In tie City thotrig tbo stornion 10,000 to 100 nu taken about Ito(
isingtco.