The Sun.
London, England, 1824-03-29 00:00:00

IRELAND.

( From the Dublin Correspondsnt of March 25.)
We regret to find that the spirit of outrage is
not yet entirely subdued in the South, and that the peasantry
there are every day becoming more and more familiarised
to the sheddin,', of blood. Great GoD!—what must be the
state of demoralization, among a people who can look on such
scenes with indifference, or engage in such cold-blooded mur-
ders and barbarities as would disgrace a horde of American sa-
vages. It is naturally asked, have their priests no influence over
them ? The murder which has recently taken place in the county
of Kilkenny, when the brother of a Roman Catholic Bishop was
the victim, would lead us to conclude they have not. Yet, how
can they account for the appalling state of immorality in which
their flocks are found to exist. If they attempt to shift the
censure from their own shoulders, it must necessarily at-
tach to the loose morality of the system of faith which they pro-
fess ; for, it seems, depriving a human being 'of life is consi-
dered nothing more than a just retaliation for some imaginary
wrong, and the perpretrators are seldom known to be discovered.
The apathy displayed by the Roman Catholic Priests heretofore
in endeavouring to check those atrocietics, has, however,
now brought the evil almost to their own doors. They also
prevent the peasantry. from being instructed, by refusing to
give the slightest sanction to the distribution of the Bible among
them, and by obliging Them to depend on whatever oral pre-
cepts they, their Pastors, may choose to bestow. Can we then
wonder at the situation of degradation, moral and religious, in
which the country is found ? The Roman Catholic Bishops
have petitioned Parliament to have the education of the peasantry
placed in their hands. though wepresume they are bound by their
situation to afford such instruction themselves; and though every
moral and sensitive mind in the country is beseeching them
not to persevere in raising up obstacles to delay or retard a
measure so called for from the wickedness and crime that are
found to predominate. Ribbonism and Whiteboyism have
extended themselves deeply over the country, yet could
this be the case if the Roman Catholic Clergy had early
exerted themselves to check their diffusion. We think- it
hardly possible. But so it is; they have now acquired an ex-
tensive head, and every day is disclosing the fruits which
have resulted from this criminal remissness. The Orators of
the Associations have also not been backward in adding what-
ever fuel they could to supply the flame of discontent which is
seen to yield such bitter and heart-rending results. What
moral mind In the country, be its possessor Protestants or
Catholic, but must be shocked at the outrages which are almost
daily occurring?

ExEcunolt.-.on Monday, pursuant to his sentence, Jas.
Bridgeman was hanged at the drop in front of the New Coon-
tyGaol, for the murder of Major Going. The unhappy man
seemed resigned and prepared for his fate; We hear that he
avowed his guilt in the cell, immediately before his execu-
tion he confessed that he was at the murder, but that he did
not fire any of the shots. The clergymen who attended him
appeared in their robes. This is the third person who has been
executed for this offence; and we trust that the effect his fate
must have produced on an immense multitude'who were pre-
sent, will be productive of the best effect, and tend to let those
miserable and deluded creatures see, that the vengeance of God
and the laws, though for a moment delayed, is certain to pur-
sue the perpetrators of those outrages which disgrace our
country.—( Limerick Observer.)

[From the LownoN GAETTE of Saturday.]
War Office, March 26, 1824.
10th Regiment of Light Dragoons, Lieutenant-Colonel H.
Wyndham, from half-Pay 19th Light Dragoons, to be Lieu.
tenant-Colonel, vice Sir G. A. Quentin, who exchanges, re-
ceiving the difference between full-pay of Cavalry and Infan-
try only. •
4th Regiment of Foot, Lieutenant W. Lonsdale to be Adju-
tant, vice Gregg, who resigns the Adjutancy only.
10th Ditto, Ensign W. IL Adams to be Lieut. by purchase,
vice Lane, who retires ; G.
Crosbie, gent. to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Adams.
14th Ditto,
Major C. Gardiner, from half-pay 60th Foot, to
be Major, vice P. Johnstone, who exchanges.
17th Ditto, Assistant-surgeon J. W. Martindale, from half-
pay 67th Foot, to be Assistant-surgeon, vice W. H. Foote, who
exchanges.
23d Ditto,
.Surgeon E. Weld, from half-pay 67th Foot, to be
Surgeon, vice John Dunn, who retires t.pon half-pay.
24th Ditto, Captain Hon. C. T. Monckton, from the Cape
Corps, to be Captain, vice William Gill, who retires upon half-
pay 27th Foot.
34th Ditto, to be Lieutenants, Ensign J. Montgomerie, with-
out purchase, vice Shaw, deceased ; Ensign T. Hadwin, by
purchase, vice Crawford, who retires.
To be Ensign, E. Brodrick, gent. without purchase, vice
Montgomerie.-
36di Ditto, Hospital-Assistant D. Scott to be Assistant-Sur-
geon, vice Lindsay, promoted.
44 Ditto, Major T. Kirkwood, from half-pay New Bruns-
wick Fencibles, to be Major, vice M. Chamberlain, whose ap-
pointment has not taken place.
43:1 Ditto, M. Lushington, Gent. to be Ensign, hy pur-
chase, vice Capel, appointed to the Ist Regiment of Life
Guards.
53d Ditto, Brevet-Major J. M4Caskill to be Major, by
purchase, vice ingleby, who retires ; Lieutenant J. Silver to
be Captain, by purchase, vice M`Caskill; Ensign J. Little to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Little.
63d Ditto, Capt. H. Knight, from the half-pay, to be Cap-
tain, vice J. Marshall, who exchanges.
65th Ditto, Brevet-Colonel George Viscount Forbes, from
half-pay ',neuron's Regiment, to be Captain, vice W. Ilinde,
who exchanges.
75th Ditto, Lieutenant S. M'Queen, from half-pay 60th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice W. M. Taylor, who exchanges,
recing the difference. _ _ _

C3d ISitto, Serjeant-Major J. Stubbs to be Quarter-Master,
vice Hall, deceased.

84th (Hit°, Capt. fit•'. L. Moberly, from half-pay 100th foot,
to be Captain, vice F. B. Lynch, who exchanges, receiving the
difference. _

Oath ditto, Serjeant-major L. Cartray, from the Royal staff
corps, to be Quarter-master.
99th ditto, Lieut. J. Buyke, from half-pay, 44th foot, to be
Adjutant and Lieutenant. i• Forbes, late Colour-serjeant in
the Ist battalion Royal Artillery, to be Quarter-master.
Cape Corps (infantry), Capt. J. E. Batty, from half-pay 27th
foot, to be Captain, vice Alonckton, appointed to the 24th foot.
HOSPITAL `STAFF.—Hospital-assistant J. Brydon to be As-
sistant-surgeon to the forces, vice Johnson, deceased.To be Hospital-.%ssistants to the Forces.—A Esson, Gent.,
vice Brydon ; and Ilennep,-M.P- -vice H. James, ceased.
commission of Captain 14eslie coth
Foot, has been antedated to -17th May, 1820, that being the
date it ought to bear, but he has nut been allowed any
tional pay.

_ .
o,ffice of Ordnance, March 22.
Corps of Royal Engineers.—Breret.Major W. Reid, from
the half-pay, to be second Captain. First-Lieutenant V. J.
Discoe, from the half-pay, to be First Lieutenant. Second
Lieutenant IL S. Siotherd, to be First Lieutenant.
Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of

Berks.
%V. Mount, T. Gurth, and P. Browne, Esqs. to be Deputy-
Lieutenants.
Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of

Ayr.
Ist Corps Yomanry Cavalry.—A, Cunningham, Gent. to be
Comet, vice H. Cowan, resigned.
2d, or Cunningham and Cumnock Corps of Yeomanry
Cavalry.—J. Richmond, Gent. to be surgeon, vice W. Donald-
son, appointed to the Royal Ayreshire regiment of Militia.