The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-20 00:00:00

(SECOND EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING JOURNALS OF THIS DAY.

(From the Globe.)
When Sir Robert Pcel gave his well-meant aid to
the Wetherells, and Eldon!, and Wellingtons—(it is in
compliment to the Duke that we place his name last in
the roll of bigots) to trip up Canning on the threshold of
power, what was the pretext ? That he could not act un-
der a Prime Minister favourable to the Catholic claims.
Within two years Sir R. Peel contrived to obey the word
of command of a military Premier,and bring forward those
very claims in Parliament. In 1827, therefore, Sir
Robert Peel studied to raise himself on the ruins of
the Canning school, in ultra-company. In 1829 he
cut adrift his unwieldy convoy, and went, with full sail,
befare the wind of Whig opinion, and Irish impulse.
Where do we find him, and where his Ultras, ten years
afterwards ?

Surely the pleasure is as great
Of being cheated, as to cheat !
We find the Ultras again looking to Peel to undo Eman-
cipation ; and we find Peel (presumably) again looking
to the Ultras for aid in tripping up the party in power
on the very pretexts used against Canning! Is not this
precisely the truth ? Is there any sort of definable diffe-
rence, in point of principle, between tripping a Ministry
up for favouring Emancipation, and turning one
out for acting in pursuance of that measure ? And
can there be a more direct and logical consequence of
the Act of Emancipation than the appointment (in
1 fair proportion) of Catholics ? And is not this the
grand Ministerial crime dwelt on throughout the re-
cess ? Can Sir Robert Peel expect to play his port-
; tical thimble-rig all over again ?To rise, as in
1 1827, on Ultra shoulders, and kick them down,
as in 1829 ? Is this what his present sup-
porters expect of him ? Is this what he destines for
them ? We wish to speak of Sir Robert Peel, as of any
one personally, with perfect candour. We do not think
him chargeable with the crimes, or capable of the merits,
which have sometimes marked acts of decided energetic
apostaci. For apostacy may be a crime or a merit,
according to its motives and circumstances. But Sir
Robert Peel has always kept his principles carefully
I loose about him. He has always seemed intent to pro-
vide that be never should need exactly to apostatise.
(From the Courier.)
All the papers and adviccs received from Spanish Ame-
rica for some time past teem with articles of the most bitter
vituperation on the perfidy and aggressions of France in
the whole course of its relations with the States of the New
World. At Potosi as at Lima, at Bogota as at Mexico, at
Quito, at at Buenos Ayres, at Santiago de Chili al at
ItioJaneiro,tlic feelingand the exasperation is one and the
same, both in the S:atcs which are victimized and in
those which hat e yet escaped, but who read in present
and passing events the forewarning of their own
contingent doom. Nor are the injurious effects of this
just expression of universal reprobation visited upon
France, the guilty party, alone, for they are retaliated
upon :he whole of Europe, and upon Great Britain
above all, because of the greater stake of her com-
mercial interests in those extensive regions far trans-
cending in importance those of the whole of Europe
taken together. With some of those States we have
special and amicable treaties of commerce and alliance,
wherein peculiar privileges are granted in grateful
return for kind service in the hour. of utmost need,
and for that acknowledgment of independence
n the face of hostile Cabinets and the Holy
Alliance which raised them to the dignity of
Sovereign Powers, and crushed for a time those grasp-
ing projects and ambitious aspirations developed at the
Congress of Vienna by M. de Chateaubriand in his
celebrated declaration, that the Spanish American States
" were republics in their own despite, for every thing in
America was opposed to the system which had been esta-
blished, and on that account it was necessary France
should apply herself to establish thrones to be filled by
the dynasty of the Bourbons." With such of the new
republics as have not yet cemented the ties of friendship
with us so closely as those first " raised into existence"
by Canning, but which otherwise might have been hoped
from time and a continued succession of good offices, this
prejudice against European interests artfully fomented
and inflamed by French aggression, is now acting to close
the door against friendly alliance. The State of Ecuador,
for example, has passed a decree placing this country
in the exceptional case of those which are not to be
entitled to the privileges of the most favoured nation ;

whilst, singularly enough, the United States, which, so
far from having been the friends and disinterested allies
of Spanish America, have been first and foremost to
sow dissension amongst them, and in the consciousness
of superior strength to plunder them mercilessly, as in
the case of the Mexican frontiers and the rebellion of
Texas, arc to be ranked in the Ecuador on the same
footing as the new States amongst themselves interna-
tionally.

(From the Standard.)
The last card in the hands of the Ministerial
writers is a threat, that the ultra Protestant
class of Conservatives are determined to force Sir
Robert Peel to rescind the Act of 1829 upon his
accession to the Government. This threat,
we own, provokes some jealousy on our part ;
we have been accustomed to hear ourselves
called Orange bigots—ultras of the most extravagant
degree—and we have laboured to deserve these titles,
which, considering the company iu which we have
received them, we have ever regarded as titles of
honour. Now, however, we are assured that
there is a class of Coniervatives more Orange
—more bigotted—more Protestant—more ultra
than ourselves. We wonder where this class bid
itself in 1829, when the chief palm was by com-
mon consent awarded to the Standard, and to the
exalted individuals whose opinions it was our pride
to reflect. It was in:1829 that the question was tried,
and then that violent body, from which so much is
now predicted, could nowhere be found—as we have
said, there was no one more violent than ourselves.
In recurring to our own conduct, and what we con-
sider our present wrongs, we of course act in part
from a selfish motive as far as reclaiming our position
in the van of " Orange bigotry ;" but we have another
motive, and that is to bring under public attention the
fact that the question now is not that which agi-
tated the public mind ten years ago—a question
as to the equalisation of civil capacities—but an en-
couragement of Romanist Propagandism, with the hu-
miliation of the Established Protestant Churches on the
one side, and a defence of the Protestant religion and
of the Protestant Churches on the other. This altered
state of the question will satisfactorily explain why
many who favoured the Bill of 1829, or stood in-
different when that measure was under discussion,
may resist Popish aggression as earnestly as the oppo-
nents of that unfortunate 3 change, and resist it with a
degree of resentment proportioned to their sense of the
fraudulent professions of which they were the dupes. It
by no means follows, however, that their resentment
goes the length of wishing to place Roman Catholics in
the position in which they were 11 years ago.

TIE LONDON GAZETTE.
(THIS EVENING.)

WHITEHALL, DEC. 11, 1839.

The Queen has been pleased to direct ,etters patent to be
passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignities of Baron
and Earl of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
unto the Right Honourable George Lord Auckland, G.C.B.
and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the names,
styles, and titles of Baron Eden, of :Norwood, in the county of
Surrey, and Earl of Auckland.
The Queen has also been pleased to direct letters patent to
be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a
Baron of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
unto Lieutenant-General Sir John Keane, G. C. 8., and the
heirs male of his bo.ly, lawfully begotten, by the name, style,
and title of Baron Keane, of Ghuznee, in Affghanistan, and of
Cappoquin, in the county of Waterford.
The Qi am has also been pleased to direct letters patent to be
passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a Baronet
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto the
following gentlemen, and the heirs male of th&r bodice lawfully
begotten, viz. :
W. Hey Macnaghten, Esq., of the Civil service of the East
India Company, on the Bengal Establishment,, Envoy and
Minister from the Government of India to his Majesty Shah
Shoo, -00 l Moolk ; and
Colonel H. Pottinger, in the service of the East India Corn-
}any, on the Bombay Establishment, Political Resident in
Cutch.
The Queen has also been pleased to direct letters patent to
be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of
it.iiorlt Britain and Ireland, conferring the honour of Knight-
Pon Lieut.-Col. Claud Martine Wade, of the Military
Service of the East India Company, on the Bengal Establish-
ment, Political Resident at Loodiana..

DOWNING STREET, DEC. 20.
The Queen ha 4 been graciously- pleased to nominate and ap-
Colonel T. Wilshire, coorm;nanding the Bombay troops, and
serving with the rankcipm Major-General in India ;
Colonel J. Thackwell,
citnenaenrdi.ng the cavalry, and serving
with the rank of Major_commandi,)al
hlndia ; and
Colonel R. H. Sale,
15th Light Dragoons,
and serving with the rank of A4jotr-eGeneral in Affghanistan,
To be Knights Commanders of the Most Honourable Military
Order of the Bath.
service,
and appoint
Her Majesty has also been Flea,,ed
the following Officers, in her Majesty's
to be
he Bath:
Com-
panions of the said Most Her. Military ordZoei
Lieut.-Colonel J. Scott. of the 4th Light Dragnont
Lieut.-Colonel W. Persse, of the 16th Lancers. S'
Lieut.-Colonel W. Croker, of the 17th Foot; and
Lieut.-Colonel R. Macdonald, of the 4th Foot, Deputy Adju-
tant-General, Bombay.
Her Majesty has been further pleased to nominate and an
point the officers, in the service of the East India Company, to
be Companions of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath
Lieut.-Colonel A. Roberts, of the Bengal Native Infantry.
Lieut.-Colonel T. Stevenson, of the Bombay Artillery.
Lieut.-Colonel T. Monteath, of the Bengal Native Infantry.
Lieut.-Col. H. M. Wheeler, of the Bengal Native Infantay.
Lieut.-Col. C. M. C. Smyth, of the Bengal Native Cavalry.
I.ieut.-Col. B. Sandwith, of the Bombay Native Cavalry.
Lieut.-Col. F. Stalker, of the Bombay Native Infantry.
Lieut.-Col. C. M. Wade, of the Bengal Native Infantry.
Major G. Thomson, of the Bengal Engineers.
Major E. Pottinger, of the Bombay Artillery.

DOWNING-STREET, Dzc. 19.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint William Ogle Carr,
Esq., to be Second Puisne Judge of the Island of Ceylon. 1