The Sun.
London, England, 1839-01-30 00:00:00

UPPER- CANADA.

Warrants have been received by the Sheriff for the execu-
' tion of Christopher Buckley, and five others, on Friday
morn ing. —Kingston Herald.
The following is en abstract of an Act of the Upper Ca-
nada Legislature, making provision for the wives and families
of those militia men who may unfortunately be killed or disa-
bled in the service of their country ;
" That if any officer, non-commissioned officer, private mili-
tiaman or teamster, of any of such corps or detachment, shall,
in any engagement or by any accident or casualty which bath
occurred or may hereafter occur, while performing any duty
or actual service, be killed, or who died or shall die of any
disease contracted on service during the period of such service,
or within twelve months thereafter, and leave a widow, child,
or children, lawfully begotten, his widow shall be entitled to
receive during her widowhood, and in case of the death of
such widow, then the eldest child or guardian, for the use of
such children of such officer, non-commissioned officer, or
private militiaman, until the yougest thereof shall attain the
age of sixteen years, an annuity of twenty pounds of lawful
money of this province.
" And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that
every person who shall have been or who shall hereafter be
wounded or in any way disabled whilst in her Majesty's ser-
vice, may claim and be entitled to receive a pension of twenty
pounds per annum, under the provisions of this Act. and as if
he had been named in a certain Act of the Legislature of this
province, passed during the first Session of the present Par-
liament, entitled, " An Act authorising the Payment of Pen-
sions to militiamen disabled during the late war with the
United States."—Montreal Herald, Jan. 30.
On Monday night last, the 3ist ult., six Canadians way-
laid and attacked one of the cavalry stationed at Chateau-
guay, who was the bearer of despatches, and, after taking
:.is pistols and every other article he had in his sleigh, they
beat him most unmercifully. After they left him, he pro-
cured the assistance of some volunteers, who accompanied him
in pursuit of the rebels, whom they found in a house strongly
secured. They demanded admittance, and, on being refused,
proceeded to force an entrance, which they eventually ef-
fected, and took the inmates prisoners. Considerable resist-
ance heal been made, and several shots were exchanged, but
none of the volunteers were wounded. One of the prisoners
was wounded in the shoulder.—Montreal Herald, Jan. 3.
NEW YORK MONEY MARKET, JAN. 7,
( From the New York Journal, Jan. 3 )
:SO Shares U. S. Bank
1231
70 Do Mechanics Bank 108
12 Do City Bank
114
200 Do Phoenix Bank 104-4 L
100 Do Delaware and Hudson B6O 91
20 Do North Am. Trust and Banking Co 961
Ter Naws AND rite Man:cm—The effect of all the news
on the market is, as near as possible, nothing at all. In Cotton
a fair amount of business is doing at steady prices. Holders
of Flour at 23c. per bl. higher, but there are no sales. A
sale has been made of clean Hemp to go to England at 260
dol, and 265 per ton.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

When the Tory Government of the Duke of Wellington
was broken up, under circumstances, in which no Whig
that ever whined would have dreamed of relinquishing the
sweets of office, he was succeeded by an Administration
of so-called, or rather self-called, Patriots, whose peculiar
boast it was, that they were to eschew the evil ways of
their predecessors ; that, so far as human frailty would

admit, they were to discard all motives, impulses, tenden-
cies, &c., other than such as had the public welfare for their
sole and unmixed principle of action. Together with " peace,
economy, and reform," their watchwords were " government

'without patronage," and " influence without one particle of
bribery or corruption." Nay, so high did they pitch their
key-note of political temperance, purity, and chastity,
that people who took them at their own words ex-

pected to. see the several Members of the ‘Vhig Cabinet
and their subaltern functionaries not merely "governing
without patronage," but " serving without salary," and ad-
vertising in the public journals for candidates of all shades
of politics, without distinction, to prove their fitness by
public examination for each office as it might happen to fall
void. How far such prospects have been realized, and
the pledges which gave them countenance fulfilled, let the
history of the last six or seven years, but more especially
of the last three or four, make answer. Whig peace has
been dishonour—Whig economy has made the revenue
bankrupt—Whig reform has excited those convulsive
throes throughout the kingdom which are the ordinary har-
bingers of fatal revolution. As for " Government with.
,out patronage," we have it not, but the reverse ; for
of patronage without Government the amount is unex-
ampled and awful, the public money being profusely and
disgracefully lavished by Ministers, who are slaves to the

recipients of their own bounty, and who grovel in the dust
before those whom they gorge with tribute from the na-
tion's treasury. We are badly enough dealt with in Eng-
land by these no-patronage Ministers. Here we are eaten
up by swarms of commissioners and other vermin ; but

tbose who desire to see " no patronage" in perfection had
better step across the Irish Channel, and remark how the

process of " patronage without Government," or perhaps it
night be more correctly said, of government exercised by
those whn received the patronage, not by those who dispense
sto tl.is hour carried on. Tv' °instances of the " no-pa-
tronage" s) stem have long since been stated to us. The first is
that of a certain counsellor, who was appointed by her Ma-
jesty's Government Assistant-Barrister of a county. The
said Assistant-Barrister, however, made, as we understand,
such "a havoc of blunders" in his very first attempt to
discharge his judicial functions, that for very shame he was
removed instanter to another, less important county, where
his ignorance could do less mischief. What says the law

in relation to these Assistant-Barristers, and to the rules
which are to regulate their selection ? The Act provides
that none shall be appointed Assistant-Barristers but those
who are of six years' standing at least, and who for two
years at least, next preceding, have been practising barris-
ters. This personage, however, never practised at the
bar, or left it many years 'before his late :appointment.
Is this man's nomination, therefore, legal ? Has he the
requisites for the judicial function demanded by law ? Arc
leis decisions lawful ? Are they binding ? Can they be
lawfully enforced.? This is a nice predicament wherein to
place the administration of justice. But it is a case which
must inevitably and. speedily be inquired into by Parlia-
ment. The next case we shall notice is a whacker, of
which the merits sautent aux yeux,and we can, therefore, af-
ford to dismiss it briefly. Mr.A.B.Blake, we believe, a"Privy
Councillor," is the chief party, but not the only one, con-
nected with this piece of "no patronage" jobbery. One
of the first acts of this gentleman as a Privy Councillor, we
have been informed, was to " sign and attest Lord Mill-
grave's proclamation for a change in the liturgy of our
Protestav Established Church," he (Mr. Blake) being
a " zealous Roman Catholic." The job in question,
However, was his conversion of the Chief Remembrancer-
ship of Ireland—for which he still receives a salary of
3,500/. per annum, and to which he was appointed in
lieu of the Marquis Wellesley, as to an efficient office—
his conversion of it, we say, into an absolute sinecure!
And why ? Because he became a Commissioner (a salaried
one, we presume) of the Board of Education, where he
acts by no means as a sinecurist, but actively in prosecu-
tion of the understood end of that Board—viz , the put-
ting down of the Protestant religion and the Protestant
interest throughout the whole of Ireland. But how came
Alt. Blake to be Chief Remembrancer of Ireland ? Lord
Wellesley•had been s r, and paid a deputy out of the
in-
come for discharging its duties. However, an effective
Chief Remembrancer became a thing desired. Lord Wel-
lesley was provided for by a very liberal salary, of, they say,
from 4,000/. to 5.000/. per annum. Mr. Blake's appoint-
ment added 3,500/. per annum to the public expenditure.
However, he did the business, and it was all right. But
the Learned Gentleman being a reputed dabbler in politics,
and Privy or Private Councillor to the Lord-Lieutenant,
could not of course find time for such variety of engage-
ment. So that department which furnished the least
ample field to a managing, not to say manceuvr. ng genius,
like that of the Learned Gentleman, was sent to take care
of itself (;he Learned Gentleman first taking care of
the salary), and the commissionership" being an attrac-
tive theatre for party po!itics, became his chosen recrea-
tion. But how, in the meanwhile, fared the business of
the Remembraucer's-office, a most important one ? We
have seen Mr. Blake become Deputy Remembrancer
under the name of Chief to save Lord Wellesley trouble,
the salary of both amounting to about 8,000/. per
annum. We next find him relieved from the whole
duty, though not from a single fraction of the salary, by
the additional appointment of a Mr. Acheson Lyle to take
the part of Chief Remembrancer under the name of Deputy,
with a salary over and above both Blake's and Lord Wel-
lesley's of 2,0001. per annum—the country thus paying
10,000/. a-year for an office of which the whole duties are
discharged for one-fifth of the sum ! Such is Whig economy,
and such the Government without patronage ! We tell
Mr. Blake that it ill becomes him to swell the clamour
against pluralists in the Established Church, when he sets
an example of such offensive and mischievous plurality in
his own person. If he be a Remembrancer, let him per-
form the duties. If he will be a Commissioner, let him
give up the Chief Remembrancers' wages.—Times.
The Journal des Debats announces the meeting of the
French and English Commissaries appointed to 'arrange, if
possible, an alteration in the tariffs of the two conntries.
It states with exactness the wretchedly small amount of
commercial relations between countries so wealthy and con-
tiguous, and the chilling effect which the prohibition stem
has had on the great wine districts of France, which ought
to furnish its rich produce to the world. The Journal des
Debats, howeverq is wrong in attributing this to a want of a
free and fair spiritin both countries. England, for these
many years past, has shown the utmost desire, and made the
greatest exertions to open a trade with France, without
being at all met with a similar spirit on the part of the
statesmen of that country. The article in the Journal des
Debats is, however, written in a good spirit ; the more im-
portant, as the writer seems to have been no stranger to the
facts under the consideration of the French Commissaries.
The Journal offers a reduction of the duties on iron and
steam-engines, and the'admission of our cotton and linen
threads at a lower rate, in return for our diminishing the duty
on wines and brandies ; and for admitting their silk at a bona
jide duty of 30 per cent., instead of raising it to 45 and 50
per cent. in an indirect way. The question of our duties
on brandy is not fairly stated by the French writer, who
leaves out of account the excise duty on our own spirits,
equal to at least one-third of that at present charged on
foreign brandies. As to wines, we fear it will not. be so
easy to change the national taste as the French imagine, or
to persuade the English to drink the lower growth of
French wine at any price. They should have a fair trial,
however, and the more fully it succeeds the better.
Diminishing an absurd duty on bottles, for which no doubt
o r Comm's ales are prepa e 1, would prove of material ad-
vactsge. Whilst on the subject of commercial treaties, we
may. mention an important fact, which is, the recent con-
clusion of a treaty between the United States and the
kingdom of Sardinia, in which the latter has abandoned the
system of monopolies, and granted full liberty of transit to
all commodities across the Sardinian Sates into Limburg.
Sardinia is willing to extend the same privilege to England.
—Morning Chronicle.
So far as we know, and we think we know about as
much as our neighbours upon the subject, the notion that
the Conservative party is in any danger of being " broken
up," or " divided,' or " weakened" by the Corn-law agita-
tion, is a mistake and a delusion. We look upon it, in
short, as sheer fudge. It is a trick got up by the Times,
and its wretched partners in turucoatism and other iniqui-
ties, for the purpose of giving that Journal an importance
which does not belong to it. The Times, which found it
convenient to turn from rabid Radicalism to obstreperous
Conservatism, upon other questions of public interest finds
it convenient, from its peculiar connection, to be the op-
posite of Conservative upon the Corn-law question. It
suits the Times, and therepon it becomes the cue of the pa-
rasites of the Times, to represent this as a wonderfully
Important matter. That Journal and its instruments
would have the world believe that the Conservative
party cannot he united upon the Corn-law question,
because the Times is on one side, and the Conservative
nobility and gentry of the kingdom on the other. For the
purpose of promoting this swaggering impertinence, the
stale trick was yesterday resorted to by the Times of put-
ting a feigned letter into its first leading column to show how
the advocacy by that Journal of the repeal of the Corn-
laws was not a break-up of the Conservative party ! Why
who ever said it was, except the turncoat confederates of
that turncoat Journal, and a certain greasy crowd of gaping
simpletons, who have but two sources of ideas upon earth,
namely, their larders and the Times Ncwsaper ? A more
gross and palpable trick than that of the Times of yeater.