The Sun.
London, England, 1821-10-30 00:00:00

[BRITISH PRESS.]

Troops of every denomination continuo to be
directed by forced marches from various parts of
Ireland towards the county of Limerick, and
even from this country some regiments have been
sent to meet the pressing emergency that requires
the presence of a large force in the disturbed dis-
tricts. Every town and village within the county
of Limerick seems, from the extent of the force
thus employed, to be occupied by a detachment
of troops, and in most places the yeomanry have
been placed upon permanent duty. It would ap-
pear, however, from the accounts that arrived by
the last mails, that this immense increase of mili-
tary power has been as yet attended by no salutary
effects. The :pertinacity of the rioters seems to
be invincible. We still read of houses being at-
tacked, of ,armed banditti infesting the public
roads both by day and by night, and of.soldiers
and policemen being waylaid and stripped of
their muskets, pistols, swords, and accoutrements.
The acquisition of arms is the ostensible purpose
of every one of these acts of violence, for neither
in the attacks upon houses, nor in the robbery of
the soldiers and policemen of their arms, is any
greater violence used than ,is strictly necessary
for the attainment of the object. There never
was a popular commotion of any kind, or in
any place, which did not, unless timely check-
ed, assume as it advanced a higher and more
imposing tone than it had thought of assum-
ing in its origin. When the county of Li-
merick was first disturbed by parties of riotl
ers, no object seemed to have been conterif-
plated but the redress of a few individual griev-
ances, which arose out of the particular misma-
nagement of one Nobleman's estate. This spirit
of correcting abuses was suffered most improvi-
dently by the Magistrates to go unpunished, and
the rioters acquiring confidence from impunity,
now address their attention to far higher objects,
and begin to talk of effecting such alterations
in the existing institutions as to them may
seem expedient. The system. of tithes has
from time immemorial been held to be a
grievance by the lower orders of the people
of Ireland, and many valuable lives have been
sacrificed in consequence of this feeling. The
Limerick rioters intimate a desire to suppress
the system, and iris not improbable that the
practice of collecting arms has some connexion
with this purpose. This, however, is the only
evidence of a political object which has as yet
appeared from their proceedings. For our own
parts, we still entertain the opinion that the
rioters in the county of Limerick are very few in
number, and are merely those wretched outcasts
from society whom a relaxation of authority will at
all times encourage to commit acts of violence,
in the presumption that they may pursue their
mischievous career with impunity. The energy
of the Government cannot fail of suppressing
them effectually, but it is to be lamented that
the whole power of the State should- be thus re-
quired to restore tranquillity within a very limit-
ed extent of country, which could never have ac-
quired so disgraceful a distinction had the local
magistracy evinced an ordinary degree of vigi-
lance and activity.

SUDDEN DEATH AT TATTERSALL'S.—CORONER'S
INQUEST.—An Inquisition was held yesterday
before THOS. HIGGS, Esq. Coroner, at the Tri-
umphant Chariot, Pembroke-mews, Grosvenor-
place, on the body of Richard Evans. The de-
ceased was in the service of Colonel SMITH, of
Richmond ; he came to town off:Thursday last
with his Master, and went to Tattersall's.with
some horses, was seized with a fit, and -expired,
almost immediately afterwards. He was pre-
viously quite cheerful, and in conversation with
some persons upon the value. of different horses
.
then brought to the hammer. He had only time
to say " Oh, Lord before he was a corpse.—
Verdict—" Apoplexy."

A blind woman preached on Sunday se'nnigh
at the Wesleyan Meeting, in Rxeter, and at
tracted a large congregation.