The Sun.
London, England, 1822-01-29 00:00:00

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[THE TIMES.]
The Dublin papers continue to furnish an un-
satisfactory representation of the general state
of Ireland. While on the one hand, county
meetings, Catholic assemblies, and some local
corporate bodies, are making their addresses to
the Lord Lieutenant so many vehicles for assur-
ing his Excellency and the Government of their
disposition to peace and charity, and of their
confidence in the approaching return of prospe-
rity, the managers of what may be termed the Irish
under-plot seem on their part to be not less alert
oad active to frustrate all hopes of national amend-
ment. ‘Vhile one class of the community is pro-
fessing, another is performing. The ragged insur-
gents in the south, with great apparent indiffe
rence to what passes in the higher regions
of the atmosphere, still prosecute their own
course of outrage and crime.
_ln the county
of Waterford, if we may believe the newspapers,
and more particularly in the county of Cork,
arms have been demanded, and houses burned.
The Catholic Priesthood haring• taken a strong
part against the law-breakers by dissuading their
congregations assembled on Sundays from aiding
or encouraging disobedience to the laws, the
Landitti have in some places posted threatening
notices for the purpose of intimidating the -Ca-
tholic clergy from the discharge of this portion
of their pastoral duties, which they are no longer
to execute on pain of death.—We see that Mr.
O'Connell, the Irish barrister, begins to get
roughly handled hi the prints. It is, we believe,
a matter of surprise how this gentleman ever rose
so high that lie could even tancy himself to be at
or near the head of a political party; and now
that, for the first time, the storm assails him,
it will be seen whether he has stamina to maintain
his post. As a specimen of Mr. O'Connell's
accuracy of language, we shall just quote one of
the sentences of his very long letter lately pub-
lished, where he-chooses to attack the Catholics
of Dublin as a body :—" I cannot express the
anguish it gives me to make this accusation, be-
cause of its undoubted truth." A false accusa-
tion, therefoae, (our-inference is founded, on his
own words), would cost the gentleman no an-
guish whatever. lie afterwards extends his
office of censorship to the Popish church itself,.
and 46 sighs" over the proceedings of the Arch-
bishop and Clergy of the metropolis, on a ques-
tion affecting exclusively their own consciences
as Ministers of religion. The far-famed scene of
the Laurel Crown was of a piece with the other
achievements of this Popish Lawyer.

[NEW TINIES.I
The news received yesterday from Ireland was
certainly of an unpleasant nature, but we do not
regard it in the very alarming-light in which it has
been viewed by some of our cotemporaries. It has
been for some time knoWn that bodies of deluded!
pnsantry had been collecting together in the ad-
jacent counties of Limerick. Kerry, and Cork,
plundering houses of arms, and doing other acts of
oiatrage. Some of the resident magistrates with
great spirit accompanied small parties of the mili-
tary, with a vie w' of arresting ordispersing the ban-
ditti : and on Monday the 2lit one of these parties,
under the direction of Lord Bantry and a Mr.
Eyre, fell in witlyan assemblage of the peasantry
is the mountains, between Bantry and Macroom,
about 40 miles west of Cork. 4 sharp conflict
ensued, in which one soldier was killed, and the
rest of the party were under the necessity of re-
tieating. • It-is asserted that the banditti cut off
the head of the soldier who had been killed, and
carried it °W as a trophy. The number of sol-
diers engaged was but small ; some accounts say
only :twelve, others fifteen ; but the peasants
are represented as having amounted to some
it,undreds.- Intelligence of this event being in-
stantly communicated to the proper authorities,
another detachment of military, consisting of
horse and foot, under the 'command of Cap.
titin Fitzclarence, set out for the place where