The Sun. — 1821-12-01 (London, England)

LBRITISII PRESS.] It is"some satisfaction to find that the last arrivals from Ireland are not stained with the accounts of any further outrages. It is intimated in a Dublin Paper that the monsters who murdered Shea and his family, have been discovered we may hope, therefore, that the exaMple of their punishment will deter others from pursuing a similar course of guilt. ShoUld the ruffians be actually discovered, it would, we think, be wise in the Government to cause their trial to be heard as soon as possible, even though a Special Comrnission should be necessary. To render the process of the law effectual, by impressing into the minds of the ill-disposed a salutary terror, trial ought to follow accusation, and punishment conviction, as quick as possible. The chain of legal procedure froin crime to punishment ought never to be unnecessarily or tediously interrupted, but should appear in the public eye with all the continuity of a dramatic action. Nothing can be more reprehensible than the manner in which the determination of the Crown in -the cases of persons capitally convicted at the Old Bailey Sessions is commonly delayed. So' great a length of time elapses between the conviction and the execution, that the circumstances of the crimes committed must in most instances have escaped from the public mind, and the execution, dissevered from the knowledge of the sufferer's guilt, necessarily excites no other feeling than one of -pity. The punishment thus fails in the accomplishment of its social object, of deterring the spectators from the perpetration of similar offences. An evil of the same character, and of equal magnitude, results from a delay in the prosecution of guilt : and if ever there were an event that called loudly for the quickest interposition of the law, for the purpose not merely of vindicating its own insulted majesty, but of protecting society, it could not have exceeded in its magnitude and its atrocity the horrible transaction of burning Shea and his family. The most obvious means to which tire Irish Government can resort of checking the moral contagion that now rages in the county of Limerick, are the increasing of the disposable military force. For this purpose, a notice has been issued from Dublin Castle, requiring the out-pensioners belonging to Chelsea, Kilmainham, and the royal artillery, residing in the disturbed districts, to report themselves personally to the nearest military station on the 3d December, and to conform strictly to such instructions as may be conveyed to them by the General Officer commanding the district in which they reside. An apprehension prevails that a conspiracy exists in Ireland, embracing not only the southern counties, but extending itself to Dublin and to the north of the kingdom. The appeal made some days since by the Magistrates of Dublin to the licensed victuallers of that city, desiring their loyal and active concurrence in preserving the country from the effects of treasonable conspiracies, manifestly implied such a fear, and we now are told that, as a measure of precaution, the yeomanry corps in some parts of the north of.lreland are ordered tobe placed upon permanent duty. The yeomanry corps of Ireland are a very loyal and efficient body of men ; the cavalry, we are assured, with very few exceptions, consist exclusively of gentlemen of independent fortunes.  [