The Sun.
London, England, 1828-12-06 00:00:00

this revolting lawis ordered for execution on Monday,
we cannot think that the voice of public opinion cantle
too often or too earnestly raised against a law which
is productive of so many exhibitions that shock our
common nature, and are disgraceful to our eiviliza-
liotl. We remember no case of forgery for many
years in which the circumstances of mitigation were
so strong, and the call for mercy so general, as that
of Joseph I-lunton. It must be a case, indeed,
worthy of the exercise of that truly regal preroga-
tive which gives its purest lustre to the Crown,
when the Grand Jury who' found the bills of in-
dictment, and the two Juries who tried the unfor-
tunate man, have petitioned the throne for mercy,
—when the merchants and underwriters of Lloyd's
have also supplicated the Executive Power to:inter-
pose between the law and its victim, and award
some punishment more commensurate with the
offence. It surely never can be wise, any more
than just, to execute a criminal whose crime is so
far beneath the tremendous severity of his punish-
ment as to make him an object of, we may say, uni-
versal sympathy. We do not advert again to the
security to cover their losses which the prosecutors
held in their hands, but leave the subject with the
hope and confidence that the power which rescued
Savary from death may find a no less deserving
object of its mercy in Ilunton !—Morning Herald.
The efforts of the Protestant People of Great
Britain and Ireland for the defence of their Church
and Constitution have in no degree abated. If we
have not daily to record the formation of new
Brunswick Clubs, it is only because the whole of
Ireland is already overspread by them, and that al-
though arrangements for their establishment are in
progress in almost every part of Great Britain,
their necessity in this part of the Empire, however
visible and universally acknowledged, is happily at
the same time not felt to be so urgent. This
Protestant organization, already perfect in Ireland,
and gradually advancing towards perfection in
England, is not, however, to be appreciated by
the sensation it creates as it advances step by step
towards maturity. Its real value must consist in its

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permanent influence upon the temper and feelings of
society, in its effect to stimulate the languid, to con-
firm the wavering, to embolden the timid, to
strengthen the feeble in the cause of Protestantism
and the Constitution—in affording an open and
visible point of re-union to the thousands of lofty,
resolute, and unchangeable spirits that are de-
voted to that holy cause—in letting the enemies
of the Protestant Church and Constitution of these
realms know that they are watched with vigilance,
and watched by men who ere fully prepared to
repel every assault upon either with vigour and una-
nimity. The effects, the solid practical effects,
which have already flowed from this Protestant or-
ganization, are of incalculable value. It has even in
the infancy of its strength humbled and confounded
the Popish faction in Ireland. Six months ago, the
Popish demagogues, the instruments and slaves of
the Popish Hierarchy, had determined to demand
from every Irish Member of Parliament, as the con-
dition upon which he was to be allowed to retain his
seat, the utterance of a shibboleth, importing enmity
to the British Constitution, the deepest personal de-
gradation to all who pronounce it, subserviency,
mean, profligate, unreserved, unhesitating, and per-
' petual subserviency, to the wishes, of jects,
and dictates of the -Popish faction. Now the
degrading and infamous pledges arc heard of
no longer ; and this we confidently ascribe to the
glorious Protestant organization of Great Britain
and Ireland. For several years the Popish dema-
gogues, well knowing that the Papists arc always,
by virtue of the tenets and practices of their religion,
organized under the authority of their Priests, and
that the Protestants of Ireland wore not orga-
nized at all, have been in the balit from time to
time of bolding over the latter the threat of exclu-
sive dealing, in order to terrify them into abject
submission to the encroachments of Popery. This
insolent threat has been resorted to, not once or
twice, but fifty times during the last seven years, '
and not merely by subalterns in the Popish ranks,
but by the great leaders, O'Connell, Sheil, Law-
less, and in short by all who have ever been sup-
posed to possess any considerable share of influence
or authority. At length the daring proposition is
distinctly made. It is at first fully sanctioned
and loudly applauded by all the great leaders
and all the rabble followers in the Associa-

tion; and assuredly it would have been adopted
by the Popish Authorities, and once adopted by
them, would have been implicitly obeyed by the
superstitious, degraded, and enslaved millions, sub-
ject to the odious and pernicious tyranny of the
Romish Church—but Protestant Ireland, unfortu-
nately for the demagogues and their demoniac pro-
ject, had just completed her organization. The
Protestants were now prepared for a combined and
effective retaliation; and what was more important
in the eyes of the demagogues, to whom the mi-
sery and destruction of Protestants or of Papists
arc equally matters of indifference, provided they
can thereby promote their own selfish ends—the
measure of exclusive dealing would have been com-
paratively harmless to the Protestants, now leagued
together for mutual aid arid protection. These
considerations compelled the brutal and furious
demagogues to pause. The measure could riot,
in the new and happier circumstances of the Pro-
testant community, produce its intended effects;
and the selfish dread of defeat and disgrace
turned the Demagogues aside from a project against
which the voice of humanity cried aloud, and would
unquestionably, but for the defensive preparations of
the Protestants, have cried in vain. We claim then
boldly, for the Brunswick Clubs, the merit of hav-
ing preserved the population of Ireland, and more
especially the Popish population, from scenes of con-

distress such as never before were mit,

nessed even in that country. We might mention as
another effect of the Protestant organization, the
postponement, sine die, of the great Agitator's ap-
plication for admission to the House of Commons ;
or in other words, the indefinite postponement by
professed Agitators of an occurrence so congenial to
their characters and so favourable to their pursuit, as
a new election for the county of Clsre. This is not
perhaps in itself of much importance; but it speaks
emphatically of diminished confidence and distract-
ed councils among the leaders of the Popish faction.
forning Post.

An old farmer in Hampshire, who was verY •
rich, and whose silly neighbours were
ersuadin hit to
have his daughter taught music, saidp, "Na 1;. tdk" of
music, indeed ! gi' me two flails and a cuckoo." I dare
say that this saying was as old as the English language.
The two flails make a very pretty sound at all times. The
voice of the harbinger of summer is also delightful ; but
here was the idea of wealth most aptly associated with
pleasing sounds. The cuckoo never comes until old May-
, on
fa andyt,he yetariv., indicates o
,
flailsitte•agos that
there is a good store of grain
in the barn at that distance from the preceding harvest
and therefore the farmer is rich.— Cobbett's Treatise.
FILEY, DEC. I.—From the sudden change
in the wind this morning froni w,N.W. to E.N.E., it
blowing a tremendous gale, the ships upon the coast had not
warning nor time to get off the land. By daylight, We
had several vessels off the hay, with signal!' of distress
flying, one a barque, with her main and mizen masts car.
ried away. It was impossible for any boat to fare the sea,
although, an hour before, the ercws of the fishing boats 25
in number, had contemplated going out to fish. Most
providential, however, it was that they all did not ; for, in
the opinion of the oldest fisherman, not one could have
returned. The Life Boat was promptly prepared and
manned, and every possible exertion made; the fisher-
men and the men on the preventive station used their
most strenuous efforts to aid the Life Boat establish-
rnent, and it affords me the most heartt'elt and gratifying
pleasure to inform you, that out of twelve ships and one
sloop that have come on shore, not one life has been lost.
The only casualties I know of (and I was an eye witness to
all that passed) was a broken leg of the master of one of
the vessels, and a fractured arm of one of the seamen.
had the, gratification to see a mother and her infant borne
through the tretnendous Waves and landed in safety. There
were several females saved, and from one vessel some sol-
diers. There are five ships on shore at Scarborough.—
York Chronicle.