The Sun. — 1848-01-29 (London, England)

MAKER—without stopping to dwell upon the profanation of the sacred name—the spirit of justice issuing with the idea of revenge—see what that precept means, and is understood to mean. It means this—that murder is just—that rapine is just—that cruelty is just— that crime, every crime, is just—provided only that revenge be the motive, and its gratification the object• Just to think that such a precept as this should have been issued to our ignorant, turbulent, excitable fellow-creatures. How do they understand it ? They understand fins it was intended that it should be understood. Every man becomes the judge of his own wrongs and the avenger of his own wrongs, and the consequences are what might have been expected. The innocent fall by the arm of the assassin, and the assassin, and the accessory, and the conspirators in their turn fall by the arm of the law." We trust that these great truths may sink deeply into the hearts of the agitators who foster the evil passions of the uneducated multitude, and that we may not again hear of persons, whose education and position in society should have taught them better, speaking of murder as being justifiable under any circumstances, or that if a person was suffering, and " a man of courage, he would go out and shoot the first person he saw with a good coat on his back." Another suggestion of the Lord Chief Justice was exceedingly valuable, and will, we trust, be adopted. He spoke of the power of combination for evil, and recommended tbat it should be tried what it might do for good, adding, " I would humbly suggest the formation of associations to preserve the peace in parishes or lesser districts, and that to those associations every man should be admissible who chose to become a member of it. I enter not into the details of their operations, or the mode by which they may be brought to bear on the suppression or prevention of crime, but of this I am perfectly assured, that there are no means within your power, and of those of the friends of order and peace that are so immediately capable of being put in execution, or are so likely to be effective when put in execution." It is by such means that the friends of order would, indeed, be known, by which the rate-payers may he saved from the heavy expenses to which they would be exposed, if the Government should feel called upon to bring the provisions of the late " crime and disturbance" Act into operation within the district ; and they would also be spared the shame and disgrace of seeing the localities in which they reside classed amongst those that required such stringent measures. These recommendations should not, and we are convinced will not, be neglected; and if they are acted on in the spirit in which they were conceived, Tipperary will no longer maintain the bad pre-eminence in crime for which it has unhappily been so long distinguished. The first trial at Clonmel has also terminated in a capital conviction. JOHN LONERGAN, the murderer of the late lamented Mr. Box, and brother of the gentleman whose letter, heaping calumnies on the memory of the victim of assassination, the Honourable Member for Limerick thought proper to read in the House of Commons, has been found guilty, on the clearest and most satisfactory evidence, of the fearful crime, and is to expiate his offence by an ignominious death on the scaffold. Shocking as it is to witness a young man thus cut off in the prime of life, it would be still more dreadful if murder were permitted to stalk abroad unchecked, and innocent blood was to be shed with impunity.  The Swiss Diet sat on the 26th, and the President announced that Sir STRATFORD CmuslNG, having accomplished his mission, was about to leave Switzerland. The President added that he considered it his duty to declare that the British diplomatist had discharged his mission in the manner most honour.. able and advantageous to the real interests of Switzerland.  The Diet has already commenced acting on the advice given by Sir