The Sun.
London, England, 1837-05-10 00:00:00

NEWSPAPER STAMPS.

Extract from " Returns of the number of Stamps issued
monthly to each of the London Newspapers, from 1 Jan.,
1837, to 1 April, 1137.
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Titles of Newspapers. January. February. Marck.
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Evening Mail 20,000 20,000 20,000
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The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commented this day
at 10 minutes past Four o' Clock.

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 10, 1837.

In the House of Lords last night the Resolutions pass°
by the House of Commons, relative to the Government of

Lower Canada, were adopted without a division. We ball
so recently discussed the object, denounced the tendeneYf
and regretted the adoption of these Resolutions by the
Lower House, that we would not now refer to them, rlia,
not the precipitation with which the Lords have passe('
them, offer to the country another proof of the
strong sympathy of lordly natures for all measures
restricting the Constitutional rights of the people. There
are no motions for postponing the consideration of the Acts
of the Commons—no amendments mored upon their WA'
sures—when they offer to impose shackles upon colonies
jealous of their independence. On such occasions the most
perfect harmony prevails between the popular and the aris-
tocratic branches of the Legislature. But it is altogether
different when the Commons, as the representatives of the
people, embody in their acts the will of the people.
The Lords are then up in arms to resist the overthrew,
of the Constitution—meaning, of course, the recognition or
the popular will in any act of Legislature. To deprive the
Canadians of their Constitution—to place them at the
mercy of the Crown of England by the virtual abrogatiea
of a solemn Act of the Imperial Legislature—is not pre.
sumed by the Lords to require a moment's deliberation.
The pro osition is adopted, without even the formality
of an adjournment or a division. But when it is pro-
posed to give Municipal Institutions to Ireland—a measure
demanded by seven millions of people, and in full ne-
cordanee with the recognised principles of the British
Constitution—two years is too short a time for lordly
deliberation ! Are the Lords so blind as not to see that

people are capable of appreciating the motives of such coo'
duct ? Or are they so insane as not to tremble at the
idea of provoking a hostile collision with the democracy
of England ?
Lord BaouGriAm delivered an admirable speech againsit
the resolutions, but it produced no effect upon his Lord-
ship's noble compeers. It will be far differently appreciated
by the people.

We renew our exhortations to the 'Westminster elector,
to make every effort to secure the return of Mr. LEAD ES.
They cannot be too prompt in their exertions, for the poll-
ing takes place to-morrow, and will be over in one. day
There is literally therefore not a moment to be lost. The cow
test is no ordinary one, and involves no ordinary results. It is
a struggle between principle and no principle ; between eon-
sistency and tergiversation; between Reform and no Reform.
On the one side are ranged the worst enemies of the people;
on the other, their best friends. The one party fights under
false colours ; the other hoists the broad pennon of Reforni•
Sir FRANCIS BURDETT tells us he is still unchanged ; that
he holds no opinions but such as he has ever held ; that be
is as true to the cause of Reform as ever. How is it then
that we find him supported by the bitterest enemies of that.
cause ? How is it that we find the friend of the people lila
tronized by the foes of the people ? Either Sir FRANCIS or
the Tories must have changed ; and as the late discuss:long
in the two Houses prove that it is not the latter, it must'
of course, be the former. But it is idle to enlarge on this
point. The Hon. Baronet has himself settled the. question
by voluntarily choosing to ally himself with the T' Ties in Pre-
ference to those who, for 30 years, were, through good report
and evil report, his warmest and sincerest friends. He has
left us, therefore, no option but to treat him as a Tory, and to
repudiate him as such. We would wish to speak of the
lion. Baronet in the language rather of regret than bitter-
ness ; but we cannot sacrifice principle to sympathy. He
has left the Reformers—not they him. Had he stuck to the
text on which be has declaimed so many years, they would
have been proud to rally round him ; but he has chosen to put;
a new interpretation upon it, and must be prepared to aleide'
the consequences of his new reading.
Electors of Westminster, do not, we conjure yolA•
allow the past to outweigh the present or the future
in your estimation. Consider Sir FRANCIS BURDET T
as he is, not as he was. Public duty was the
that bound you to each other, and that broken, he
has no further claims on your attention. If you Tr
spect the rights of your fellow citizens ; if you feel I°r
the sufferings of Ireland ; if you desire to see the por
ciples of Reform firmly established abroad as well as a",
home, you must have done with the changeling, and far
ever. Sympathize with his situation if you please, ;but
do not arm him with fresh powers of mischijo,'
;
To return him as your Representative, is •o°,,
only to betray your duty as citizens, but to sh ne"
the moral feeling of the country, and to establish a pr,
dent which, at the first opportunity, will be turned agaialP
you. Support Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, and what chin age'
ling can you ever again visit with your displeasure ? VirP/
did you turn out Hobhouse ? Because you imagined he
had betrayed your interests. Can you, then, support 01
whose desertion of the good cause has been a thouit:ffli,
times more flagrant ? Impossible ! You cannot so stv2itiv
yourselves. All England would cry shame on such irreer
sistency.
The polling, we again repeat, will take place: te°
morrow. Remember this, electors ; and rememboe alOt
that no man can call himself a Reformer, who does oe,
hasten to record his vote in favour of LEADER. Titer'
can be no such great differences between you and bie/1
as there are between you and Sir FRANCIS. The latter i!
a Tory—a rank Tory—supported by the same junta tbs:
you have defeated at every successive election for upward
i
of forty years. It has been pretty generally whispered
abroad that the Hon. Baronet intends to resign to-night.
How this may be, we know not ; but at any rate the re;
port should not be allowed to influence the electors, for i 6
may very possibly have been propagated by the Tories, ler
the purpose of throwing them off their guard, and induce:
them to relax in their vigilance. The safest way thereibr
is to treat it as a mere election rumour, for many a COo,
test has been lost by the over-confidence of the parties e'
gaged in it.

The Paris Papers of Monday, received this morning, or
tain some severe strictures on the precautions taken by the
police to prevent a recurrence of the attempt of FiEsah
ALIBAUD, and MEUNIER, during the review on Sundaf'
which happily passed off without any accident. The Gar
zette de France states, that " such was the extreme rile.;
of those precautions, that it would have been preferable 0
have dispensed altogether with assembling the citizens, tbeei, t
to exhibit before their eyes measures so inconsistent Wi',,
what might be expected from an elected SovEasieli
Early in the morning all the houses fronting the Place 0
Carrousel, where the review was held, were examined fro
the-foundation to the roof, the inmates were interrogate ;
and their friends and visitors brutally pushed abtlf
by the Police: All inhabitants absent from tueoli
houses were refused admittance on their return? ahi
the entire vicinity appeared in a state of close We r
an enemy. The bridges were blocked up, and all Pasts,
gers stopped by an armed force. The muskets of the
tional Guards were all carefully inspected by the Colono,
in person, lest any of them might be loaded ; and the Ins of
were treated rather as prisoners of war than as bulwarkoe •
the French Throne. The ridiculous excess to whiehlb .of
precautions were carried has justly offended the citizen ad
Paris, whose feelings have been outraged, and Perscitap
liberty infringed, by such a mock display of regal P°
and popularity.

New York papers to the IBh ult., received to-dah
gloomy accounts of the state of the Money-market throug
out the Union. In the South failures had not ceased,nne
the prices of stocks were lower, than ever. Want of lebei
obliges us to postpone till to-morrow the causes allele of
American Journalists for the extent and continuance
these commercial difficulties.
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is Irish Tithe Bill was brought in at a late bourd •
Monday night, read a first time, and ordered to be rca
second time on Friday the ninth of June. a_

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