The Sun. — 1852-01-05 (London, England)

IRELAND.  DUBLIN, SATIIRDAY EVENINGL Accounts reached town this afternoon from Dundalk, announcing that Mr. Eastwood, whose life had been attempted on Christmas-eve, near his own residence, at Castletown, is in a hopeless state; and, in consequence, some of the unfortunate gentleman's relatives, who reside in this city, have proceeded to Duddalk. A northern landlord, in a communication to the Dublin Evening Post, says:— • I have just seen a letter from the county Louth, written by a most respectable and humane ag.nt, who says—' I propose in a few days going to collect rent in another county, if not murdered in the interval.' I ask, my dear sir, is this state of things ,in a part of Ireland formerly ,o quiet—and I ask agai❑ and again, in the face of such horrors, is it not time, at long last, for the Irish Government to declare that it cannot be any longer carried on, if Parliament do not give new, more stringent, more terrible powers, to crush a system which is making this land a den of savages? I ask again, when, where, and how is tnis to end?' May God is his mercy take pity on this wretched land." _  - The Eveniw Post, in reference to the call for coercive measures, says : "It the existing laws be found unavailing, and that the murder clubs cannot be eradicated by the vigilant and energetic measures of the Government, in co-operation with the local authorities and the magistracy in the disturbed districts, then it will remain for consideration whether the hands of the Executive ought not •to be strengthened by measures aoequate to the occasion, which would afford an effectual remedy for an evil of great magnitude, and which, by faciliating the detection and punishment of the guilty, would lead to the restoration of tranquillity, without interfering with the privileges or the avocations of the well-disposed." The same journal adds, in respect to complaints about the operation of the Crime and Outrage Act in the disturbed districts :  "It is altogether contrary to the fact that Mr. East-, wood will be liable to pay any portion of the police rate for lands in his own occupation. The principle of the Crime and Outrage Act, in this respect, is precisely the same as the prectice for presentments for malicious injuries; the district is assessed for the amount, but ►he party aggrieved is exempted from the payment of any part of the levy, and Mr. Eastwood, therefore, will nut be mulcted,' or charged in any way, for the lands occupied by himself in the townland where so atrocious an attempt was made upon the life of a most worthy and unoffending gentleman. The G,,vernment, we repeat, have dune, and are doing, all that it is possible for them to preform in restraining the murderous system of agrarian combi nation in the north. Nut only have the police been increased, but a military force has been stationed in the disturbed districts, where the magistrates are provided with ample resources to afford efficient aid to the civil power and to individuals, in the enforcement of every legal claim, and the protection of those who have reason co apprehend violence or interruption in the exercise of their lawful duties."