The Sun.
London, England, 1821-10-20 00:00:00

[TiiETIMES.]

The county of Limerick outrages have pro-
ceeded to an afflicting length. The ruffians of
that country on Sunday last barbarously murder-
ed a gentleman of the name of Going, between two
and three o'clock in the clay, as he was riding to
dinner. Mr. Going had been Chief of the County
Police a short time before, his murder, and in
that capacity had, we presume, rendered himself
obnoxious to the lawless wretches of the neigh-
bourhood. A Privy Council was summoned at
Dublin, on Tuesday, to deliberate on the mea-
sures which it might become expedient to adopt.
The writer of a paragraph in one of the Dublin
Papers seems to think that " the resident Ma-
gistracy might have arrested the progress " of
these dreadful, disturbances. NVe shall not be
suspected. of a wish to undervalue the beneficial
influence of an active Magistracy, or of a vigor-
ous administration of the laws—but the truth
ought not to be compromised. In many parts
of. Ireland, from the multitude of absentees,
there exist few or no materials for a Ma-
gistrac.y. The habitations of the resident
proprietors are several miles apart. The in-
tervening district swarms with peasantry, half
fed, half clothed, untaught, unemployed, rest-
less and ripe for mischief. If a , gentleman
stirs alone, he is impotent ; if he makes himself
odious to the people by his eagerness to enforce
.the legal authority with which he is invested,
they shoot him from behind an hedge. If he
joins with other gentlemen, he leaves a vast tract
of country behind him to the sole dominion of
the White Boys, Right Boys, Caravats, Shana-
vests, or- whatever may be the fashionable nick-
name: It follows, unhappily, that nothing
short of a military force, in the shape of sol-
diers, or of police-men, disciplined and in con-
stant pay, can be reckoned upon in the abientee
districts of Ireland,.as an instrument capable
of subduing the disease. A small force, and
but moderate courage, are required ; for the
cowardice of .the mob is fully proportioned
to their numbers: but a show of armed power
is so indispensable as to sanction in these
ill-fated countries a frequent departure from
what used to be the English practice—that of
resorting exclusively to the law of the land.—ln
the better portion of the north of Ireland, where
the linen manufacture is carried on by the inha-
bitants of the country at their own houses, the
industry by which they live is united with
those domestic and moral habits which make
life respectable and delightful.' The weaver
is a well-educated peasant, with a comfort-
able house and garden, and one or' more
adjoining "fields :—" ease and alternate la-
bour" are theirs.— The absentee aristocracy
of that portion of the north is replaced by
a mere active, strenuous, and useful com-
mercial aristocracy. The mere agricultural
peasantry are overtopped by a yeomanry of ma-
nufacturers, who fill the space, elsewhere vacant
throughout Ireland, between the rich and poor.
Society is there on its natural bottom. The
sail and ballast are each in their fitting place.
The parts of the machine have symmetry and
connexion : they are impelled 'in one course by
the same breeze, and when the storm conies
they resist it jointly.

BURGLAIIIES.—The house of
_Mr. SOLOMON, a
silversmith, in Poland-street, was broken into on
Thursday evening, in the absence of the family,
by forcing the shop door ; notes, sovereigns, plate,
&c. to a considerable amount were stolen, as Nvell
as linen and apparel, and no trace of the property
has been had. The house of Mr. FANSHAWE, in
Thayer-place, was broke into on the same even-
ing, and property to the amount of 1001. was
stolen.

DEATH occasioned Ay a BEE.—An inquisition
was taken by JohiN WAYMAN, Gent. Coroner
for the liberty of Bury, on the 27th ult. at Mil-
denhall, on John Harris, who had eaten some
honey from the honey-comb, and a bee concealed
in it getting into his throat, he almost imme-
diately died from suffocation. Verdict—" Acci-
dental Death."