The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-28 00:00:00

HAYMARKET THEATRE.

After Bulwer's new play of the Sea Captain, or the
Birthright, Sheridan's comedy of the Rivals was per.
formed here last night. The. comedy is too well known
to require any account of its plot from us ; and so well
were all the characters sustained, that it becomes our
while Mrs... Lacy, as the romantic,
pleasing duty to praise all.. Power,. as Sir Lucius
Languish, elicited great applause ; the
O'Trigger, performed with his
.usual raciness and force ;
y, of Strickland, and
nor was Phelps, as the fretful, jealous, but loving Faulk-
land, less effective ;
novel-sick, Lydia
ould-be-learned
Mrs. M Alaprop, were inimitable, and called forth peals
pmerre:Gptloorvyerd oagsm.
theattc
of laughter, interrupted pretty frequently by the thun-
ders of the gods, and the gentler clapping bSluir.ndA.e
of :he kid-
covered hands in the boxes.. IN e were rejoiced to find
Walter Lacy, as Captain Absolute, perform with taste
and judgment, and if he but keep, as he did last night,
within the bounds of moderation, he will, by study and
perseverance, attain a standingin his profession which
his ridiculous attempts to do wonders would never gain
him. Mrs. Warner's Julia, Miss P. Horton's Lucy,
Buckstone's David, and Webster's Acres, were entitled
to, and received, great approbation. The comedy has
been revived with the costume of the period of its ori-
ginal production, and the scenery reflects great credit
on the management.

HOPS.

An Account of the Duty on Hops of tho Growth of
the year 1839, distinguishing the districts,. and the old
from the new duty:---

Districts. Duty.
Barnstaple
Bath
•••• 6 6 0
Bedford
Cambridge
15 1 6
Canterbury
Cornwall
3 0 6
Derby
Dorset 66 4 10
Egsex
Exeter l3 18 cs
Gloucester
Grantham
Hants
Hereford 22,574 9.
Hertford
Isle of Wight ll 9 0
Lincoln
Lynn

NOrthampton
Norwich
Oxford 127 3 8
Reading
Rochester

Salisbury 5,886 18 6
Salop
Stourbridge
Suffolk 1,!77 14 4
Surrey 33 8 4
Sussex 113,090 8 0
Uxbridge 2 7 10
Wales, Middle
Wellington 76 19 0
Worcester

£357,456 :6 8

Old Duty, at Id. 12.20 per lib.
New Duty, at ;Id. 8.20 per lb.

£357,456 16 8
G. A. COTTRELL, Principal General Accountant,
Excise Office, London, Nov. 27,1839.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.

(From the Morning Chronicle.)
The policy of the Governor-General of India, which,
carried into execution by the energy, endurance, and
valour of our troops, has issued in the complete estab•
lishment of British ascendancy in Affghanistan, deserves '
a more comprehensive consideration than we, or any of
our Contemporaries, have yet bestowed upon it ; for
the result is far more important than appears upon
the surface. It is not merely that our armies ad-
vanced, upon an adequate emergency, far beyond the
frontier of our empire, have triumphed over the diffi-
culties natural to a mountainous country, inhabited
by fierce and warlike tribes, greatly enhanced by the
severe privations to which such a service, at a vast
distance from their resources, necessarily exposed
them, and that they have consummated their glory
by planting the standard of England upon the towers
of that citadel, from which, more than eight hun-
dred years before, Mahmood of Ghizni, surnamed
the Idol-breaker, led out the wild horsemen of the
Steppes of the Caspian to reap the first harvest of Ma-
homedan spoliation in the rich bazaars and temples of
Hindostan : we shall form a very insufficient estimate
of the value of these gallant achievements, and of the
merit due to the political wisdom which planned them,
unless we contemplate the position in which Lord
Auckland stood at the time when he formed the high
resolve of entering upon the avowedly hazardous course
which it has pleased the god of battles to crown with such
entire success. We have learned from Lieutenant Co-
nolly's excellent work, and from other equally authentic
sources, the great influence which the Russian
Government has of late years acquired, not only in
Persia, where that influence has a natural tendency to
predominate, but over the tribes which occupy the
country to the north and cast of the Caspian. And
even where the actual influence of Russia has not ex-
tended, where her disposition to encroach is feared and
hated, as well as where, still further to the south, her
ambition excites no apprehension, the most exaggerated
notions of her power and means of aggression are uni-
versally entertained. If she have not exerted herself to
spread these notions, and to instil, at the same time,
contempt for the relative resources of Great
Britain, the rapid growth of both these impressions
is marvellously unaccountable. Under either sup-
position, however, the fact is notorious, that not
only to the north of the Indus, but in the heart of our
own provinces, and at the seats of the Anglo-Indian
Government, the intimation contained in a newspaper
published at Moscow, that a treaty capable of binding
perfidious England must be dictated in Calcutta, had
found an echo ; that the jealous powers upon our eastern
and south-eastern frontiers had been taught, or had
learned, that they possessed a natural ally in our power-
ful northern enemy ; and that the more intelligent, at
least, of the many discontented spirits which must neces-
sarily exist in an empire held by such a tenure us that of
India, had begun to look fondly for the vanguard of
that invincible army, before which their English rulers
were to fly in terror to their ships. But duly to appre-
ciate the issue of the struggle, we must look still more
closely at the dark combination of circumstances under
the depressing ,gloom of which Lord Auckland was
obliged to choose -his course of policy. On the one
hand, Persia had been incited first to slight the counsel
of our Ambassador ; then grossly to insult him ; and
finally, in spite of his remonstrances, to seize upon
territory----affording an advanced point d'appui for
the intrigues of Russia—in the direction of our north-
western frontier. On the other side, the Courts of
Nepal and Ave, smarting under the humiliation and
loss of possessions, to which they were severally sub-
jected at the close of their former contests with the
British power, assumed an extremely threatening
aspect. The two were in correspondence ; Nepal,
which has always a very considerable national militia
under arms, strengthened her frontier posts, and begun
to stockade the passes ; and her emissaries were not
only intriguing to unite in a league against the British
Government those Princes of Hindostan who still re-
tain a semblance of independence, but were also actively
engaged in stirring up disaffection amongst the two
most excitable classes of our subjects—the wild chief-
tains (half Zemindars and half Rajahs) who occupy our
borders, and the turbulent Mahomedan population of
onr large towns. The latter again, with their millions
of brethren throughout the Peninsula, bearing towards
their Christian masters the most intense religious ani-
mosity, exacerbated by the loss of that temporal domi-
nation over the fair provinces of India which we have
wrested from them, were looking impatiently for the
corning of the Persian Monarch, with the allied or sub-
jected Chiefs of Affghanistan (whose differences with
us their wishes had already magnified into a contest
between the two faiths), to re-establish in pristine splen-
dour the fading glories of Islam. Generally the most
feverish excitement prevailed. Even the sober, monied
classes of the Hindoo community began to doubt the
stability of the public credit. And the Anglo-Indian
Press, always noisy and always ignorant—the authori-
ties at the India House having most unwisely forbidden
their servants from taking any part in conducting it—
was employing itself in magnifying the existing
danger—in deprecating our means of meeting it—
in impressing upon our subjects the enormity of
their fiscal grievances—and in endeavouring to taunt
the Government into premature rupture with Ava.
Such was the crisis, and thus was it met. Whilst
the operations which have resulted in the triumphant
settlement of the affairs of Affghanistan, and, even-
tually, in the complete submission of Persia, were pushed
on with unintermitting activity, arrangements were made
for the assemblage of a strong corps of observation on
the frontier of Nepal. That Court was simultaneously
informed that all its intrigues had been discovered ; that
the British Government was prepared to resent them,
and that nothing but the prompt withdrawal of its
advanced posts, and the most satisfactory proof that it
had altogether abandoned all hostile intentions, could
avert the exemplary punishment of its treachery. Its
compliance was instantaneous and complete. The
land force and flotilla in the southern provinces, ceded
by Ave at the close of the last war, were
strengthened, in order that the Burmese might he as-
sured that their hostile movement would be the signal
for the immediate occupation of Martaban, Rangoon,
and Bussein, their only sea ports ; our position in Ar-
racan (another of the conquered provinces), was also
icinforced by a flotilla, and by raising a strong corps of
natives—whose hatred of their former tyrants is heredi-
tary and intense—under the command of English offi-
cers. In regard to all internal threatenings of danger,
the British Government waited in calm watchfulness for
the first overt acts of its enemies. The entire success,
as respects the affairs of Affghanistan and Persia, of
this bold and sagacious line of policy, by which an in-
superable barrier has been raised against any ambitious
designs on the part of Russia, is already known to the
public. This result has been achieved by means of the
ordinary revenue of the State without opening a loan ;
and the last advices from Calcutta show that the Govern-
ment was so easy in regard to funds, that it had opened
its treasury to make advances upon produce to the extent
of a million sterling, as a remittance to meet its charges
in this country. It is expected that our differences with
Nepal and Ava, intimidated as those courts must be,
by our success beyond the Indus, will be settled with-
out necessity for a recourse to arms : at all events,
the conclusion of the war in Affghanistan has left
us free to resort to the " :Llama ratio" in either
case, or in both cases, without the smallest embar-
rassment. The manner in which the Mahomedan
Powers of the west have quailed before our arms
has thoroughly tamed the pride and turbulence of
their Indian brethren, who regard she Affghans and
Persians, and the intermediate tribes, as the great ori-
ginals of their race and creed, in whose humiliation they
feel their own subjection to our power hoplesalY
sealed.
Though the last mentioned, it is not the least important
comsideration, that the issue of the campaign has ef-
fectually and permanently opened the navigation of the
Indus, and the commerce of central Asia, to the enter-
prise of our merchants. Honour to the statesman

who planned, and to the gallant soldiers who effectua-
ted these measures. Our empire is now, practically,
extended to the Indus; its foundations have been laid
wide and deep ; it remains to raise a corresponding su-
perstructure of justice, knowledge, and religion ; est()
popetuo.

(From the Times.)
Within these few days accounts have been circulated,
as from Montreal, purporting that Mr. Poulett Thomson
had meditated, or 17as meditating, a visit to Upper Ca-
nada, and assigning the curious reason for this voyage,
that, it was the intention of his Excellency to dissolve
the existing Parliament of the Upper Province, for the
sake of rsseertaining whether the inhabitants desired to
Pave a. responsible Executive Government, as recom-
me:/ded by Lord Durham. The first characteristic of
such an expedition, for such an object, would be, as we
think, its needlessness. The natural business of a
" Governor-General" of British North America would
be to accomplish something, or to prevent something,
which no authority inferior to his was competent to
effect or frustrate. But the summoning or dissolving of
a Legislative body is not one of those rare difficulties
which minor hands feel themselves unable to untie ;
it is not one of those digni vindice nodi from which
some preternatural agency is alone fitted to extricate
an heroic performance. Where the thing required is
the dissolution of a Colonial house of Assembly, the
local Governor, and in Upper Canada, the Lieutenant-
Governor, is the proper person to issue the proclama-
tion whereby the Legislature is dissolved—an act which
lies completely within his functions, like that of the
proclamation whereby a Legislature is summoned.
Where, then, is the necessity for a Governor-
General being paraded to execute such a purpose?
It cannot be simply a dissolution that the Mel-
bourne Ministry have in view, through this unac-
customed intermeddling of their late colleague with
the regular functions of Sir George Arthur's autho-
rity. Some coup d'etat is indeed confessedly behind.
They want to get rid of the House of Assembly—
that House of Assembly which was brought toze-
ther by Sir Francis Head—that assembly of "loyal
and constitutional men, for which he had exchanged an
assembly of rank Republicans "—which had so energe-
tically cooperated with him, and enabled him to put
down and crush the spirit of revolt and of forcible sepa-
ration from the mother country. It is the avowed
scheme of Ministers in this measure, if the accounts
from Canada be authentic, to disembarrass themselves
of that legislative organisation by which the loyalty and
British feeling of Upper Canada hare been enabled to
act with the efficacy of system and the weight of law in
support of the colonial relation with Great Britain, and
in hostility to that restless principle of change which,
amongst the Canadian rebels, as well as their brethren
here, assumes the garb of" liberality." Sir F. Head,
by dissolving the M'Kenzie Parliament (M'Kenzic,
the traitor, incendiary, and coward, the intimate
acquaintance and favoured correspondent of Mr. Jo-
seph Hume)—Sir F. Head, we say, by dissolving
that worthless Parliament, gavo free respiration to
the loyal constituency of Upper Canada, and obtained
at its hands a House of Assembly devoted to the
Crown and people of England, and to a permanent
union with both. The dissolution of that latter con-
stitutional assembly can have no object, and truly none
other is pretended, but the resurrection of a rebel de-
mocracy, and a revival of that whole system of open
turbulence and disaffection which, under the guise of
seeking a redress of grievances, made perpetual war
upon the British Government, its main and only real
grievance being the exercise of any semblance of sove-
reignty by Great Britain. The all but professed de-
sign of the Melbourne Cabinet is to give life and ac-
tion to Lord Durham's troubled dreams, and to deprive
both mother country and colony of all benefit from
his unmanly abdication of the ludicrous dictatorship.
It appears that a new House of Assembly is to be
summoned, for the ostensible aim of letting the con-
stituency of Upper Canada express their sentiments
on the one great question of having a Govern-
ment responsible to the "people" or not. There
never was a grosser absurdity more insi-
diously smuggled into public notice than this. It is an
appeal to the electors of Upper Canada, whether they
choose that England should govern them, or virtually
whether they, in spite of England, are to do whatever
they like. We say it amounts to this, or nothing. We
say, that it opens up the entire question of colony or
no colony ; that it attempts to make the colonists of
Upper Canada, occupying a valuable territory of Great
Britain, sole judges of a case in which Great Britain
has a direct and permanent interest ; in which she has
heretofore, and rightfully, exercised a sovereign sway ;
in which, if the colonists presume to contend with her,
they invade her rights, and violate her national domi-
nion, raising the question, whether the Imperial Par-
liament or the Provincial Parliament shall be supreme
over the other in what concerns the interests of the em-
pire? It is clear that a repeal of the union with Ireland
would in substance be a severance of Ireland from the
British Crown. The College-green Parliament would
insist on the official advisers of the Sovereign, in all
that related to Irish interests, being "responsible to the
Parliament of Ireland,"—that is to say, compellable to
obey the pleasure of that Parliament on peril of im-
peachment. But the Ministry of the Crown of Eng-
land would be responsible, as they now are, to the Bri-
tish Parliament,—that is to say, compellable to perform
acts, and fix thereto the Royal Signature, which acts
might be directly is the teeth of those required by the
College-green Parliament, and bearing the.official sig-
nature of the Irish Crown. This, then, is the exact
proposition tendered to the people of Upper Canada by
the Queen's advisers, if the accounts be true. Under the
cloak of askinc, them whether they choose the officers of
the Executive Governmeet to be " responsible to them or
not," the question propounded is neither more nor less
than this—" Do you choose to make yourselves entirclyin-
dependent of Great Britain ?" for if the public func-
tionaries are to obey the behests of the Colonial House
of Assembly, even should such behests be contradictory
to those of the Imperial Crown and Parliament, it is
plainly Upper Canada which overrules the councils of
Great Britain ; it is not Great Britain which governs
her Canadian subjects ; the relation of colony to parent
state is utterly thrown aside and abolished. And such
is the blessed Ministry on which Queen Victoria leans!
Why if, under the tricks and malpractices of the Mi-
nisterial underlings, a Radical House of Assembly
should be once more returned, M'Kenzie might he
recalled, with all his incendiary and insurgent col-
leagues. One demand would tread upon ano:her, all
restraint upon crime would become a colonial grie-
vance, and the result would still be armed rebellion,
with means of success multiplied an hundredfold.
And why is this paltry Durham quackery to be
practised—this prostration before the spirit of democratic
turbulence ? For the same reason that has operated
upon our patriotic Ministers to roll themselves in the
dust under the hoof of Popery. By the former expe-
dient they secure a dozen or two of Radical votes on
this side the Atlantic ; by the latter, twice the amount
of Popish ones. No broad or generous policy connects
itself with either. Protestant Ireland has been sacri-
ficed as British America is about to be abandoned, be-
cause the popular Administration of Lord Melbourne
has been reduced to a majority of two ! The fate of
the gallant naval officers, Captain Drew and his Lieu-
tenant, whose service and whose unworthy and cruel
treatment by Lord Minto were so strikingly depicted by
Sir Francis Head in his letter addressed to the Times
of last Monday, affords a fair specimen of what may be
expected by loyal and devoted Englishmen when the
great offices of the empire are filled by political scamps.
(From the Morning Advertiser.)
It is but too frequently and too justly that we hear
the complaint made in private life, that those who have
received the greatest amount of kindness are, generally
speaking, the first and worst enemies of their disinte-
rested benefactors. Indeed, it has become a common
proverb, " confer a favour, and you create an enemy ;"
and though the adage has unquestionably its excep-
tions, yet we are afraid that it is but too true in the
main. Generous hearts there'are in the world that will
sacrifice anything and everything for honour, for friend-
ship, for principle, for country ; but there is a large
mass that is purely selfish—that cares for nothing
but self—to whom honour is a by-word—friendship
a stepping-stool to treachery and betrayal—principle
a thing unknown, and country a place to live in,
but not to love, to honour, to fight for, or to die for.
This doctrine is an unpalatable one—we wish that it
were not true ; but if true, or only partially true in
private life, how much more prevalent must it not be
expected to be found in public, where the obligations
of the former do not exist to coatrol, and the temp-
tations of the latter are calculated to impel, the
baser passions of the human heart ? The history of
almost all countries, in fact, tells us that such is the
result of the labours and endeavours of the honest and
sincere—that property is sacrificed, and blood shed in
vain for noble purposes—that the patriot but rarely
lives to enjoy the desired fruits of his labour, and
that it is but too frequently his lot to see them either
snatched from his grasp, or consigned to
ofa whitened
the tomb of corruption. Such was the result
glo-
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likely to prove too true ; for we speak on no
mean authority when we announce to our readers that
the affairs of Spain have been recently the subject of
much diplomatic discussion in Paris—that it is with
regard to them that Prince Esterhazy's visit to Paris
has been made—and farther, that the late dissolution
of the Cortes is merely a preliminary step to getting
rid of the Constitution of 1812, and replacing that body
by the ancient Cortes of the country ! Acceding to
this line of conduct the young Queen of Spain, it is
said, will be recognised by the despotic powers, and
Don Carlos and his progeny consigned to the same tomb
of oblivion which holds the mouldering bones of the
Stuarts. Now if this statement be true—and we fear
that it is but too true—what an example of Royal ingra-
titude does t not present—what a discouragement to