The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-29 00:00:00

ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE.

The re-arrestof Spollen, with a view of putting
him upon his trial on the minor charge of robbery,
is regarded by more than one Irish journal as a
weak effort to appease the public mind, roused and
dissatified as it is at all the fruitless proceedings of
the officials who had the conduct of the Broadstone
prosecutien. Adverting to the lamentable failure
of justice in this instance, a King's County paper
(the Chronicle) enumerates a dismal catalogue of
murders perpetrated -in that quarter wbieh up to
the present have defied all attempts at detection,
and which, fl PI in the ease of 'dm ill-fated Mr. Little,
will probably never come under the cognisance of a
human tribunal :

"In this county the escape of a murderer is the
rule, with scarcely a single exception. Mr. Pike was
shot on the high road in the daylight, almost within
view of the police, yet his murderers are undetected.
Mr. Lloyd's murder, perpetrated in the street of
this town, is still unrevenged ; so is that of Mr.
Cage and others ; and, lastly, the assassins of "the
lamented Mr. m. Manifold are at large. The
Government on each occasion offered a reward, but
no one came forward to earn it, and• then they satis-
thomselves with sending down some detectives
utterly ignorant of the country and its people. We
had in this county a detective-at Considerable ex-
pense who did not make a single detection, and who
at a court of inquiry was proved to have occupied
himself in the more congenial pursuit of cultivating
a farm and feeding pigs. The entire system for the
discovery and repression of crime requires to be re-
modelled and altered, since the present is, undoubt-
edly, defective. The constabulary is more military
than civil in its constitution, regulations, and orga-
nisation. Its members are fettered and restrained
by slrictness of military rule and of formal duties,
and they are not permitted that freedom for exer-
tion in their vocation which would best ensure the
sucessful and certain detection of criminals, and
which, with the repression of crime, is the object
for which that force was constituted."

To this list of undiscovered assassins may be added
the murderers of Mrs. Sarah Kelly, Mr. Callaghan,
and others of recent date. No doubt, a conviction
was had in one of the most mysterious and fearful
murders ever perpetrated in any country ; but in
that case, too, justice was eventually foiled, and for
reasons which up to this hour are wholly inexplic-
able. Mr. Wm. Burke Kirwan, the hero of the Ire-
land's Eye tragedy is still a living man, and for any-
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THE CATTLE MURRAIN.
Information has come from so many quarters that
it is quite impossible to entertain serious doubts of
its general correctness, although it may be, hoped
that the extent of the calamity is somewhat
exaggerated. According to private letters the long-
dreaded cattle murrain has broken out in a virulent
form in parts of the counties of Louth and Meath,
and in a district about 15 or 16 miles from Du lin
on the north-east side. One party is. said to have
raging
gichin had comeunder lost in an incredibly short time 40 out of 106 head
of black cattle, while a struggling farmer, the
owner of ten cows, has had nearly his whole stock
swept off by the disorder. A gentleman just re-
turned from the Kings County states that the dis-
tvemrlyer instance that quarter, and that in
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his observa-
tionel the attack bad ended fatally. Except in the
places specified there are no accounts of any appear-
ance of the desease, and there is nothing to lead to
the belief that it has become an epidemic.