The Sun.
London, England, 1836-11-18 00:00:00

the Institution, and the unhappy peculiarities in the
social and political state of Ireland which call for
its exertions, with a degree of truth and power
which have seldom been equalled in productions
of the same nature. The design of the Society
is proclaimed in the Report of its Committee :
"To unite together all who are willing to make
common cause in upholding the religion of the Re-
formation, and the principles of civil and religious
liberty, of which under God it has been the founda-
tion, •
and for that purpose to employ such means as
may seem advisable and constitutional ; to facilitate
and promote the registration of Protestant voters, and
the dissemination of sound political and religious in-
formation amongst their Protestant brethren through-
out the empire ; and to give in every way, by the esta-
blishment of loan funds, and all such other means as
may be practicable, protection and assistance to the
humbler classes of Protestants." That such an asso-
ciation is necessary in the present state of Ireland, and
that if its objects be prosecuted with vigour and dis-
cretion it may exercise a most important and beneficial
influence upon the destinies of that country, and the
general welfare and happiness of the empire, no rea-
sonable man can for a moment doubt ; nor, if any
judgment is to be•formed as to the future course of the
society, from the temper displayed at the meeting
of Wednesday—or from the more deliberate Re-
port of the Committee—which is perhaps a fairer
criterion, will there appear the least reason to appre-
hend that the proceedings of the Association are likely
to be deficient in the qualities either of firmness or
moderation—of energy or prudence. The treatment
which the Protestants of Ireland have recently ex-
perienced from the British Ministry and their Roman
Catholic allies has been such as might have excused,
if it could not justify, some warmth of language in a
Report, one of the professed objects of which is to
vindicate the promoters of this Protestant Association.
That defensive Association, the Orange Union, was
oiven up by the Protestants of Ireland, in deference to
bthe declared wish of the British Government and Legis-
lature ; and the Protestants of Ireland had a right to
expect that the Government would have rewarded this
voluntary submission to its wish by redoubled exertions
to protect them from violence and outrage ; that the
conspiracy which had been so long engaged in constant,
implacable, and lawless hostilities upon the Protestant
Church would have been sternly rebuked ; that the
utmost vigilance and energy of Government would have
been exerted to prove to them that in divesting them-
selves of their defensive organisation, and trusting to
the power of law and government for their protection,
they had not exposed themselves and their religion to
additional danger, violence, and insult. This would
have been to keep faith with the Protestants of Ireland.
But faith has not thus been kept with them. On the
contrary, illegal violence against the Protestant Church,
and against the persons of all who dared to assert the
inviolability of its legal property and rights, has been in-
dulged, in measure more unstinted than ever, with the
open sanction or ill-disguised connivance of Govern-
ment ; the aid of the public force, for the protection of
property in tithe, has been refused or withheld ; the
conspiracy against this description of property, and
the lives of all who should venture to act in any man-
ner in its defence has been permitted, in secure im-
punity, to acquire increased audacity and strength ;
and, to complete the summary of indignity and wrong,
an Association has been formed for the avowed pur-
pose of coercing the Legislature to adopt measures
most repugnant to the feelings and the interests of the
Protestant portion of the country, the author and the
chief of this Association being no other than the
most cherished and most courted ally of the British
Ministry. To this indecent, fraudulent, and insult-
, ing conduct towards the Protestants of Ireland, the
Committee of the Protestant Conservative Associa-
tion might have been expected to advert in terms of
acrimonious reproach or of withering contempt. From
such terms, however, the Report wholly abstains,
preserving throughout a tone of dignified calmness,
which presents a strikin, contrast to the resolutions
and manifestos which daily issue from the association
for Ministerial agitation under the management of Mr.
O'Connell. There is another point of contrast, still,
perhaps, more striking between this Protestant Asso•
ciation, and that over which Mr. O'Connell presides
on behalf of the King's Ministers. The former an-
nounces, as we have seen, that one of its principal
objects is, "to give in every way, by the establishment
of loan funds, and all other such means as may be
practicable, protection and assistance to the humbler
classes of the Protestants." The Melbourne-O'Con-
nell Association reverses this order. One of the main
objects of its leader and founder is to extort, " by all
such means as may be practicable," pecuniary " assis-
tance from the humbler classes" of Roman Catholics."
—Morning Post.

Provost Key, of Dundee, has received a letter from
Sir Henry Parnell, authorising him to contribute one hun-
dred guineas, in Sir Henry's name, towards defraying the
debt on the public seminaries of that town.
ACCIDENT TO THE BRISTOL MOIL.--The
Bristol mail was standing before the White Horse Cellar
at the usual starting time on Tuesday, without the restraint
of either coachman or guard, when the horses suddenly
took fright, and started off at a fearful rate down Picca-
dilly. In its career the coach was driven against a cab,
overturning it and the horse, and doing very considerable
damage. Near Hamilton-place a coach was driven against,
but the shock was in a slanting direction, and the injury
was consequently confined to the horses in the coach. The
mail-horses went at full speed up the hill leading to Hyde
Park, and this having breathed them a little, and an acci-
dent having occurred to the splinter-bar, a person was
enabled to stop them, and to put an end to the danger. In
the mail were two ladies and a gentleman, who escaped in-
jury by extraordinary good fortune. The mail was so much
damaged as to be unfit to go on to Bristol, and, in conse-
quence, another vehicle was procured, which started about
nine o'clock. _ _ _ _ _ _

An awful instance of the uncertainty of human life,
which has cast a deep gloom over the inhabitants of San-
quhar, occurred there on Wednesday last. On the evening
of that day, Mr. Robert Thomson, farrier and blacksmith,
after having performed the duties of his usual, occupation,
apparently in good health, retired to his own house, where,
whilst engaged in reading, and surrounded by his family, the
book suddenly fell from his hand, his head dropt on his
bosom, and in a moment the spark of life had fled, without
a murmur or a struggle. Medical aid was immediately pro-
cured, but apoplexy had too instantaneously fulfilled its mis
sion. The deceased was in the prime of life.—Duntfries
Courier.

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ROBBERY IN AN OMNIBUS.—On Monday fore-
noon a highly respectable lady got into one of the city om-
nibuses in Piccadilly, and desired the conductor at the time
to put her down at the end of Chancery-lane, in Fleet-
street. The vehicle drew up at the latter place, and the
lady, on putting her hand into her pocket to pay her fare,
discovered that her purse, which contained seventeen sove-
reigns and a-half, and some silver, had been stolen since the
time she had taken her seat in the vehicle. She at once
made known her loss to the other passengers, among whom
was a highly respectable county magistrate, who all at once
expressed their willingness to be searched. This, however,
was too late, as the lady on being questioned, recollected
that a well-dressed female who had sat by her, and on that
side in which her purse was in her pocket, had got out of
the omnibus a short distance on the west side of Temple-
bar. She also recollected that the person alluded to ap-
peared very fidgetty while in the vehicle, so no doubt remains
as to her being the thief.
STATE OF TRADE IN MANCHESTER.—The
gloom which hangs over the money market in London, pro-
duces, of course, its share of effect upon the business of
this town ; and mercantile transactions are generally con-
ducted with great caution. Still, with the exception of
_silks and printing cloths, which are seldom in demand at
this season of the year, no important branch of manufacture
can be said to be suffering under any serious depression ;
and the demand for yarn° for export continues decidedly
good. In fact, during the period of excitement, the
staple business of this district was generally, and with
very slight exceptions, conducted on sound and ligiti.
mate principles ; and we trust that the utmost evil which will
be experienced will be a temporary diminution of activity.
—Manchester Guardian.
A poor woman lost her life by poison, on Saturday
last, under very distressing circumstances. The deceased,
quantity of of
I porridge,as ready of
she what.
poured it out, and
Jane Taney, was a poor widow, about 45 years of age, who
obtained a miserable livelihood by collecting rags and bones.
appeared to be
oSa:)tememal ; l atead when
an
qai
scraping the pan out she ate the scrapings with great vora-
city, being evidently very hungry. When she had eaten
this she said, " Oh, my throat is burning, there is something
in that meal there should not be." Before her death she
said that she had found the meal in New Brown-street.
It is most' probable that it had been intended to poison rats
or mice in one of the warehouses there, and had been ac-
cidentally swept into the street.—Manchester Guardian.