18 DECEMBER 1869, Page 3

The report of an unusually atrocious crime comes to us

from Ireland. Mr. O'Connor, of Morrock Lodge, King's County, was attacked on the 15th inst. by four men, who drew him out of his house, and cut off his nose. The outrage looks like an agrarian one, and if so, we do trust the Government will take special mea- sures for the discovery and punishment of the offenders. There are limits to all things, and these men have passed any conceivable limits. Admit for an instant that agrarian outrage is in Ireland really war, and these men have broken every rule of warfare. We could find it in our hearts, if they are not captured in a week, to double every rental in King's County till they were, and would certainly break the tenure of every human being convicted of complicity or favour.