ABSTRACT
We regret that the intelligence received since our last from the South of Ireland is by no means such as would warrant the hopes cherished by the public that the terrible examples made, and making in Cork, would have produced a salutary change in the conduct of the peasantry.—The outrages still continue in Cork and Limerick, and a few in Tipperary and Kerry. There is however no truth in the story of the rape committed upon nine women belonging to the Rifle corps. The women belonging to this distinguished corps are as chaste and pure from the White-boys as the eleven thousand virgins at Ursula. It was, we are firmly persuaded, all a fabrication for the purpose of arming the best feelings of our nature against these miserable and infatuated creatures. With regard to the alleged rape, we call on the officers of the Rifle Brigade to give it a formal contradiction, which, if we may believe the Limerick Advertiser, they are well qualified to do.—Dublin Evening Post.
