The Sun. — 1836-06-25 (London, England)

MONSTER.-Pre-eminent in miscreancy among the felons confined in Civita Vecchia, was the infamous bandit, the celebrated Gasparone, constantly waited on by a couple of sentinels with loaded muskets. This,detest„ble monster began his trade of murder at sixteen, and was accused of 145 similar atrocities, besides rapes and other crimes. Of these he confessed 105 ! His debut at that age consisted in murdering his priest, because he would not grant him absolution ! He fled to the mountains, joined a banditti, triumphed over the police sent to apprehend him, and was elected to be their leader. lie set up his standard, got a great accession of followers, stormed a convent of nuns, and carried off thirty-four girls, who were educating. What an incident for fr a novel, om2o to or 1a m, omelod-oduraarma ! s. Returning ritgi ine teresting e sptiani dg, id home from a skirmish with his troops, he noticed a bishop and a friar, made captives the day before, who now began to treat with him about their ransom. Gasparone declared he would not pardon the bishop unless he denied his Saviour. and then instantly stabbed him to the heart ! Warned by the fate of his fellow-captive, the friar obstinately refused to obey the atrocious mandate, when Gaaparone exclaimed, " Thou wilt be an acquisition to Paradise, and may'st save the bishop's soul in purgatory !"—then he instantly shot him dead. This scoundrel had long been an annoyance to the Papai Government. Rae Wilson's Italy and France.  It is impossible, we think, for at dorsep to turn his eye s'. towards Ireland, and to view the prCch:ain,l*'Avilisli are daily instituted in the Court of Exchequer Thy the, dihre/Pfitigant there, without feeling some alarm for the ultimate consequences which these proceedings are progressively working. It appears to us that the parsons arc digging their own graves, and that every rebellion writ sued, is an additional nail fixed, in the coffin of the establishment. The Church by such overt acts of persecution against the people, it is evident, places itself in a position singularly disadvantageous to its character, and is now doing not only what its stipendiaries, the bishops and beneficed, may soon be sorry for, but what will probably be fatal to the clerical system in Ireland under which they draw their revenues. A church nearly without communicants, established only by law, in a country where the majority are against it, and belong to another and more ancient establishment, will never rest on a very certain foundation. The most that the priests and prelacy of such a church can expect from the other church—a church it must be borne in mind, which contains within its bosom the community at large—is, that they will be suffered to enjoy their offices during their good behaviour. How slender then, a ibrtiuri, must be the tenure of the clerical monopolist whose conduct is so rapacious and reprehensible as to draw down upon them not merely merited censure—not only deserved denunciation, but the curses loud and deep of millions of men. There are, we know, many honourable exceptions, but the Protestant Parsons generally, we grieve to state, exhibit the most rapacious cruelty, and the bitterest persecution. Their policy is equally as unwise as their acts are unjustifiable. What that policy is, is indicated by their converting a Court of Law into a theatre of tithe warfare—and as to their acts, are they not written in blood? Who is there does not remember the clerical carnage of Rathcormac, and remembering, shudders not with horror as he finds present to his memory the frightful scenes of .slaughter of which that blood7stained spot and other parts of the country have been made the theatre. The same antiChristian- spirit is still in active operation, and it will be seen by the following report of the proceedings which took place last Tuesday in the Court of Exchequer, that the Rev. Mr. Ryder, the hero of Rathcormac, has resumed hostilities :