The Sun. — 1822-01-02 (London, England)

THE TIMES.] If the Special Commission at Limerick had done no more than suspend, though but for a short interval, the course of violence and insubordination, it would still, by that suspension, have effected a considerable good. There might be thus afforded room for the public Authorities to look round them, and a breathing time for the resident Gentlemen in the southern counties, during which they could hardly fail to occupy themselves with a consideration of such means of preventing a recurrence of the state of anarchy, or of providing some alleviation of it, should it unfortunately return, as were attainable by a judicious policy on the one hand, and by personal influence over the wretched country-people on the other. That such a check has been administered to the perpetration of crime, seems to be the opinion of persons in the neighbourhood of Limerick ; but, unhappily, this salutary consequence is of very confined operation. It extends no farther than to the west of that county, where no outrage, they say, has been committed since the Court began to sit. In other quarters, the attacks upon life and property are neither mitigated in character, nor diminished in number. At 4 o'clock on Christmas-day—that day on which the hearts of men in these Christian countries are wont to be most powerfully actuated by the combined impulses of religious and of social sensibility—a deliberate and malignant murder was perpetrated on a poor creature of the name of Stock. Two ruffians dragged him out of his hut, and shot him through the heart at the entrance of it. The circumstances in which the unhappy man was placed were such as to connect this assassination with the general system of obstructing the course of justice, which has caused the death of so many other victims. Stock had himself been implicated in the confederacy, and was watched by the police, the object of whose visits was mistaken by the murderers, who suspected him of giving information, and thus silenced him for ever.—Another murder of a most atrocious kind is related by the Dublin Evening Post, on the authority of a Cork Paper, from which the account is taken. A whole family, of the name of VI. hitestone, five in number, were burnt alive at Charleville on the 23d ult. (Sunday week). An inquest was about to be held, and one individual v. a. in cubtudy ; but no facts, throwing light upon the motives or agents of this horrible barbarity--equal in nature, though not in extent of mischief, to the destruction of the Shea family—have yet transpired.— Nor is the catalogue of lesser crimes—bad enough, but trivial in comparison with the above enormities—exhausted. On the same day, the c23d ult., the house of a Mr. Wrixon, at Ehnvale (near Charleville, we believe), was attacked by an armed banditti. The ruffians, owing to a fall of rain---unfavourable, no doubt, to the use of their fire-arms— were compelled to retire to some distance, while the family remained all night at their post. The details, as those also of some further acts of violence, are given in another column. I t will be seen that the counties both of Cork and Kerry are afflicted by these visitations. Some idea was entertained that the men already under sentence, would, in the hope of mercy being extended to them, make such appeals to their criminal associates as might lead to a large surrender of arms; or if this application should fail, would inform against numI bers not yet within the toils of justice.  Lail, night, owing to indisposition, Miss STE PIIENS was not able to perform at Covent-G ardei Theatre, as had been announced.