The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-05 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, SATIIRDAY EVENINGL Accounts reached
town this afternoon from Dundalk, announcing that
Mr. Eastwood, whose life had been attempted on
Christmas-eve, near his own residence, at Castletown,
is in a hopeless state; and, in consequence, some of
the unfortunate gentleman's relatives, who reside in
this city, have proceeded to Duddalk.
A northern landlord, in a communication to the
Dublin Evening Post, says:—
• I have just seen a letter from the county Louth,
written by a most respectable and humane ag.nt, who
says—' I propose in a few days going to collect rent in
another county, if not murdered in the interval.' I ask,
my dear sir, is this state of things ,in a part of Ireland
formerly ,o quiet—and I ask agai❑ and again, in the
face of such horrors, is it not time, at long last, for the
Irish Government to declare that it cannot be any longer
carried on, if Parliament do not give new, more stringent,
more terrible powers, to crush a system which is making
this land a den of savages? I ask again, when, where,
and how is tnis to end?' May God is his mercy take
pity on this wretched land." _

- The Eveniw Post, in reference to the call for
coercive measures, says :
"It the existing laws be found unavailing, and that
the murder clubs cannot be eradicated by the vigilant
and energetic measures of the Government, in co-opera-
tion with the local authorities and the magistracy in the
disturbed districts, then it will remain for consideration
whether the hands of the Executive ought not •to be
strengthened by measures aoequate to the occasion,
which would afford an effectual remedy for an evil of
great magnitude, and which, by faciliating the detection
and punishment of the guilty, would lead to the resto-
ration of tranquillity, without interfering with the privi-
leges or the avocations of the well-disposed."
The same journal adds, in respect to complaints
about the operation of the Crime and Outrage Act
in the disturbed districts :

"It is altogether contrary to the fact that Mr. East-,
wood will be liable to pay any portion of the police rate for
lands in his own occupation. The principle of the Crime
and Outrage Act, in this respect, is precisely the same
as the prectice for presentments for malicious injuries;
the district is assessed for the amount, but ►he party ag-
grieved is exempted from the payment of any part of
the levy, and Mr. Eastwood, therefore, will nut be
mulcted,' or charged in any way, for the lands occupied
by himself in the townland where so atrocious an attempt
was made upon the life of a most worthy and unoffend-
ing gentleman. The G,,vernment, we repeat, have dune,
and are doing, all that it is possible for them to preform
in restraining the murderous system of agrarian combi
nation in the north. Nut only have the police been
increased, but a military force has been stationed in the
disturbed districts, where the magistrates are provided
with ample resources to afford efficient aid to the civil
power and to individuals, in the enforcement of every
legal claim, and the protection of those who have reason
co apprehend violence or interruption in the exercise of
their lawful duties."