The Sun.
London, England, 1822-12-26 00:00:00

REVISION OF THE MAGISTRACY.

COUNTY OF KILKENNY.—Vtre have learned the extent to
which the purification has been carried among the illagistracy
of the county of Kilkenny. Writs of supersedeas hare been
issued in this county to one Baronet, one Lieut.-Colonel, ten
Esquires, one Knight, two Majors, anti two Clergymen. It is
but fair, however, to mention that this revision is more showy
than substantial. Only about half of the gentlemen super-
seded are resident in the county. Of the absentee moiety, few
have any connection with it, and the resident half is alto-
gether composed of those denominated Esquires. The pul•ifi-
cation is, indeed, far from complete, and has not, in every
case, evinced that discrimination which might have been ex-
pected on such an important occasion from an unbiassed and
impartial Government.
Mr. Owen returned from Lord Carbery's seat, Castle-Freks,
on Monday ; and on Tuesday, accompanied by Mr. Sheriff
Saunders and Captain M`Donnell of the Royal Engineers, visit-
ed the House of Industry, and some of the other public institu-
tions. In the evening he dined with the Sheriff, who had a
select party to meet him. Mr. Owen proceeds from hence this
day for Sir John Godfrey's, in the county of Kerry, where he
is to remain some days.
CLONMEL, DEC. 11.

On Wednesday last, the Inquest on the body of Mary Ryan,
(whose murder near Thurles we have before been obliged to re-
cord) terminated, after three days' continuance, when a verdict
4" wilful murder" was returned against John Fitzpatrick and
William Gorman, who have been committed to gaol. Deceased
had 13 wounds on her body, three of which were fractures : be-
' fore her death, in her intervals of reason, she mentioned the
names of the two fellows above mentioned, Fitzpatrick- and
Gorman, with great reluctance.
WEXFORD, DEC. 9.
The paragraph in one of our late numbers, respecting the
finding of the body of an elderly female, on the Burrow of
Ballyteigne, anti the annexed receipt for her lodgings in Boston,
which was found in her trunk, having been copied into the
Cork Cons-Wu-Non, a Mr. Matthews, of that city, has written to
us to obtain information respecting her property. It appears
that Mrs. Dobell, to whose sister Mr. Matthews is married,
kept a most respectable boarding-school in Boston, where she
resided the last 34 years. She was returning home with the in-
tention of passing the remainder of her days in her native land,
in the calm of retirement, when her hopes were cut off in so de-
plorable a manner. Another trunk belonging to her, in which
were articles of value, was found by the country people, who

divided its contents. We are confident that the parish priest
will use his best exertions to recover the property.—Herald.
[From the Cork AdvFrtizer of Friday last.]
MORE INCENDIARY OUTRAGES

DESTRUCTION OP TITHE CORN IN THE LIBERTIES
Or CORK.—Yesterday morning, about three o'clock, a party
of White Boys, mostly mounted, and some armed, went to the
house of the sexton of the parish of 'Whitechurch, in the north
liberties of this city, whom' they swore generally to answer dif-
ferent questions; the first of which was—whether he had any
arms, or knew any person in the parish having arms—whether
he served any processes for the clergyman of the parish, or
had any processes or decrees by him. They then swore
him particularly not to have any thing to do in future
with the Clergyman's tithes ; on which he asked, if he did
not, would they allow any one else? He received for an-
swer, they would not, if they could prevent it. They then
demanded fire, which he, , thinking they wanted to light a
pipe, got them, and having ascertained from him that he
had neither pitch nor tar, and that they had made him take the
fire between two sods of turf, to a neighbouring•haggard, where
one stack of tithe corn was lodged, which they immediately set
fire to, and which, though very damp from the late rains, was
in a blaze before he had time to return to his own house, not a
distance of 200 yards. Fortunately, it was the outer stack; the
direction that the wind blew in, saved the remainder of the corn
in the haggard.

We noticed in our last the burning of corn, &c., the pro-
perty of a farmer near Ballinhassig. • The incendiary spirit,
with all the demoniacal feeling attendant on midnight or
matin work, is abroad, and,- we regret to say, that whilst it has
hitherto kept its wanton ravages in the distant parts of the
country, it more immediately threatens the neighbourhood
of our city. The following fresh list of outrages will put our
readers in possession of the state, of things in this part of die
island :--

On Thursday evening the house of Arthur Norcott, Esq., of
Hermitage, near Doneraile, was attacked, and a demand made
for arms, but having, been disappointed, the insurgents
threatened to set his haggard on fire, for which purpose they
procured a sod of turf from the kitchen fire. After a short
time they returned, and said, that in compliment to Mr. Nor-
cott's son, they would not do it at that time. Their numbers
could not be ascertained.

We have been favoured with the following extract from a
respectable Correspondent :
DoxEitAILE, Wednesday Night.
This part of the country is in a bad state, and while I write,
there is a fire burning, apparently about a mile on the road
from this town to Mallow—no doubt the work of incendiaries.

We are concerned to find, that three of Mr. Terence Lane's
sheep, at Coolmore, were plucked of their wool by some mis-
creants, on Monday night last, leaving the poor animals in such
a state of lacerated carcase, as to give but little chance of their
recovering the barbarous treatment. How much it is to be re-
gretted, that these nightly depredators do not spare even their
best friends ! They could have hardly selected a man who more
entirely devotes his ample means to the comfort of his poor
neighbours, than the proprietor of Coolmore.