The Sun. — 1821-10-20 (London, England)

NEW TIMES.; The advices from Spain, like those which we have been but too long in the habit of receiving from that country, are gloomy and distressing.-A private letter from Madrid, of the sth instant, states, that great agitation prevailed in that city, and it was reported that the Ministers would retire in consequence of the disapprobation of their conduct towards Riego, expressed by some Deputies of the Cortes, and the submission of. the King to popular clamour.. The accounts from , Barcelona are .to the 3d instant. The violence of the fever had not materially abated. —The project of the territorial division of Spain has occupied the three first meetings of the Cortes. It has excited considerable opposition; the objections to its being adopted seem to be the increased expences which it would occasion, and the inequality which must necessarily prevail in the population of some of the provinces as compared with their extent. 7-7 We have taken from the Moniteur a Turkish Ordinance, addressed to the Catholics of Damascus and Jerusalem. The Ottoman Government disavows all participation in the oppression to which they had been subjected.—The King of the Netherlands opened the Session of* the States General on the 15th inst. in a speech which gave a favourable view of the state of the kingdom.— There have been some rumours of disturbances in Sicily, in some of the English as well as' Continental Newspapers ; but they- are decidedly contradicted in the Journal des`DeLats of Tuesday, which states that tranquillity universally Prevailed in that island.  r. • - LURITISLI PRESS] The state of the county of Limerick seems to acquire from day to day a character of deeper and more settled malignity. Assassination And plunder are pursued with a daring effronterys which marks how extensively organized is the system that so successfvlly oppoies itself to the ordinary restraints of law, religion, and huma. nity. The face of the county in its midnight outrages; its concerted murders, its armed ban ditti, in all of which there Appears to be far less of private animosity than of some general feeling of public vengeance, exhibits in miniature the aspect of a popular insurrection, and it is with amazement, bordering upon other feelings still less creditable to the ehara der of the present Government of Ireland, that we have remarked the very insignificant efforts that have hitherto been made to check the progress of so alarming an evil. To the shocking crimes already committed in the county of Limerick is now added the murder of Major Going, who lately held the chief command of the Police of the county. This barbarous murder was committed—not in a retired part of the country, or by a single assassin, trem— bling at his crime, and seeking.to effect it in the silence of night, and with such caution as, might ensure concealment and secrecy—it was perpetrated in the immediate vicinity of the large and populous town of ltathkeale—in the middle of the day—by a numerous gang of armed ruffians, all of whom were distinguished by the uniform of a white shirt drawn over their ordinary apparel. This was no act of personal hostility., It was directed against Mr. Going, less as a private Gentleman than as a public Magistrate, and the manner of committing the crime shews that the deluded wretches who murdered this unfortunate Gentleman did not feel that they were violating ' any principle of justice or propriety.— This horrible event, seems to have had the effect of startling the Government, and we accordingly find that as soon as, the intelligence reached Dublin a Privy Council was immediately summoned, for the purpose of devising such measures as the exigency of the case might require. We further learn that yesterday morning a strong detachment of artillery marched from Woolwich, under the command of Major Gardiner, for Holyhead, where they are to embark for Dublin. This force will probably be directed towards suppressing the evil spirit, which now prevails in the county of Limerick, and which claims imperatively the instant attention of his Majesty's Government.