The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-20 00:00:00

1i LAND.

DUBLIN, FRIDAY EVE-NING.
THE EROADSTONE TRAGEDY.

This afternoon a man named Harrington, the
father of a man employed by the Midland Railway
Company, but otherwise unconnected with the line,
was arrested on the information of a tailor named
Feney and his wife, and a former servant woman
of the accused, named Fitzsimmons. He is to be
brought up for examination at Capel-street Police-
office at 11 o'clock in the morning. It may now be
mentioned that little or no credit is attached to the
story told by the informants of the police.
FRIDAY MORNTNG.
ItUN ON THE NATIONAL BANK.

The Freeman's Journal, alluding to the run on
the branches of the National Bank in Tipperary
and Cashel states that the demand for gold was
general and extended to other quarters ; it is, how-
ever, authoritatively added that the managers of
the several branches have been already supplied
with bullion more than sufficient to meet any
demand that can possibly be made. The same
foolish demand for gold was made at the Limerick
branch of the Bank of Ireland yesterday, but, of
course, as at the National Bank branches, gold was
abundant, and no inconvenience resulted.
POLITICAL AMNESTY.

It is stated that a patent has been passed, grant-
ing her Majesty's most gracious pardon, and exone-
rating and discharging from all pains, penalties, and
forfeitures the following persons :—William Smith
O'Brien, John Martin, Kevin Izod O'Doherty,
William Doyle, Edward Sheehy, John Donohoe,
Luke: Lennon, Matthew Joy, John Lennon, John
Walsh, Edmund Tobin, Thomas Donavan, Richard
Bryan, James Crolly, Thomas Wall, James Lyons,
James Ryan, and Thomas Ryan. With. the excep-
tion of Messrs. O'Brien, Martin, and O'Doherty,
the foregoing names are quite unknown to fame,
and must have belonged to very small deer indeed
at the time of the insurrectionary movement of
1848. Mr. John Martin and Mr. O'Doherty
were never taken in arms, the offence for which
they were sentenced to transportation consisting in
the writing and publishing highly seditious articles
in a newspaper set up after the fcrcible suppression
of John Mitchell's war organ, The United Irishman,
of treasonable memory.
REVERSE OF FORTUNE.
*Among not the least melancholy instances of the
reverses which have overtaken members of all grades
of society in Ireland during a few brief years, one
has just come to light which has caused consider-
able regret here. Every one connected with the
Dublin press at the time of the repeal agitation
must remember the attention and undeviating
courtesy of Mr. Francis Dwyer, the assistant-
secretary of the Association, and for some years
private secretary to the late Mr. O'Connell. After
fruitless endeavours to obtain employment of any
kind, Mr. Dwyer, less fortunate than many of the
patriots who figured prominently upon the stage of
the Corn-Exchange, is now, it seems, an applicant
for admission within the cheerless walls of a Dublin
workhouse. This is not creditable to the chiefs of
the party—or clique, rather—who, in the hurry to
provide for themselves, have altogether ignored the
almost hereditary pretensions of a hard-worked
servant. Dwyer's father filled the post of Secre-
tary to the Catholic Association up to the passing of
the Relief Act of 1829, and had been previously
one of the leading merchants in the city of Cork.