The Sun. — 1822-01-03 (London, England)

LIMERICK, DEC. 30. (Private Letter:)— ". Another DREADFUL, MURDER has been committed' in this county. You may have seen from the -Ir:sli papers accounts of nightly attacks made upon the house of a Mr. Condon, of Scart, near Rathkeale, several times in the course of the last six months. He took a man named Gorman for his tenant, in the room of one whom he had ejected. This man became obnoxious as au intruder. The famed 4C Captain Rock" sent him notice to quit, with which' he did not comply. A party of ruffians attacked his house last night, denouncing terrible vengeance. Gorman and his two sons, able-bodied young men, resisted their entrance manfully. Upon this the party attacking commenced a fire of slugs through the door and windows, aril one of the young men wa3 shot dead through the breast, and the father badly wounded in the leg and arm. Is it not singular that this happened within a mile of a strong military post, the town of Rathkeale, and was not known, there until, two o'clock the next day ? The fact was, that no one of the country people would dare to announce it. There were six military parties near the place— the neatest half a mile, the farthest little more than a mile. Information had been given to the commanding officer a fortnight before of the intended attack, and Gorman's. house was guarded for several nights, .At length the' information was disregarded, and the guard withdrawn ; and the very first night after, the murder was committed. Some arms have been delivered up, but, of such a quality, that I verily believe it to be done either for a stratagem, or for a joke, by "Captain Rock"—old guns, and pistols without locks, fit only to make horse-shoes. I. need not' tell you, " the boys" here (so they call themselves) know the 'difference in the use of fire-arms."  (FROM TILE CLONMEL lIEItALD.) The following is au extract of a letter from a gentleman of Tharle.,s, dated the 25th of December:--« Last night; two farm-houses and an out house, on the lands of Laharden, the estate of Lord, Llandaff, within oue mile of this town, were maliciously set on fire and consumed, together with four cows, which were stalled in the outhouse. A party of Captain Wilson's-Police, on hearing of the outrage, repaired to the spot, and apprehended two men on suspicion." • In consequence of a quarrel which arose on Thursday last, at Ballindonny, between two brothers of the name of Henessy, and three other men, James Murphy, John Noonan, and James Lonergan, Lonergan struck one of the Henessys a blow of a stone on the head, of which blow he languished until 'ten on Thursday night, when he expired. Last Wednesday, in the forenoon, a soldier of the 86th coming from Ballynamult to this town, accompanied by his wife, having arrived at and just passed kilmanahan bridge, and handed her his gun to carry for some temporary convenience, an elderly man, named Veale, who had been proceeding the same way for a few yards, proposed to relieve the woman from the burden of the firelock, and, before she had time to accept or reject his offer, took it out of her hand, and at the same instant handed it to a, person nutted Casey, one of two fellows who came up at the instant, and who, on getting the arms, instantly fled. The soldier immediately seized Veale, and singlehanded brought him prisoner into Clonmel, where he has been fully committed by Colonel Bagwell. The gun has since been sent to the Colonel.  (Fnoij THE kiLMAGII