The Sun.
London, England, 1837-12-30 00:00:00

very unfit for the Jes tlielhold. We may set this good
in the opposite balance to the positive evil of colonial
revolt.—alforning .Herald.
There is one sentence in a long article published by the
Timer yesterday which should not be allowed to pass un-
noticed. The passage we allude to is—" The point which
demands the instant attention of Englishmen is the prepara-
tion of the United States for war unquestionably—with this
country." Now we submit that this is not a justifiable in-
ference from any part of the American President's Speech,
and our Contemporary is exceedingly wrong in endeavour-
ing a bad understantng between England and the United
States, to promote, by giving such a forced interpretation
to his language. We believe, on the contrary, that the
object of America is peace, and that both the Government
and the people are too well aware of the blessings of peace
to seek for a quarrel with this county. There is too great
a commercial interest at stake to allow it lightly to be
trifled with, and some more solid cause of difference be-
tween both nations than that of the unsettled boundary
must be found out to justify hostilities. The President
says, " That the interests of Eilgland and America im-
peratively require that the question of the boundary should
be put at rest" Surely there is nothing unreasonable in
this language. Every man of common sense admits that the
boundary line has remained too long undetermined, and the
President deserves the commendation of all reasonable per-
sons for pushing it to a settlement. The manner in which
the suggestion was referred to the arbitration of the King
of Holland has led both countries into a dilemma, from
which it is difficult to escape. The object in dispute was
not explained with sufficient clearness to the umpire, and
instead :of determining upon either of the two boundary
lines actually submitted for his choice, the King of Hol-
land adopted the common error of arbitration, and fixed a
middle line, with the hope of satisfying both parties. The
award was clearly illegal, and no one can blame the Go-
vernment of the United States for refusing to accept it.
But it is not because the President enforces upon Congress
the necessity of having the limits of the country fixed on
that particular frontier that he is to he charged with using
expressions hostile to Great Britain. He says, and he says
truly, that no nation can suffer its frontier to remain unde-
fined, and he complains, with great justice, that since 1783
no decision has been made satisfactory to the Union ; but
it is not because the President delivers these truisms in his
Message that he is to be supposed to be actuated by an hos-
tile feeling to this country. We are glad that the Presi-
dent has expressed himself in a decided manner, because
it will probably lead to the question being taken up
more resolutely by both Governments. We shall feel more
than ever the necessity of having our Canadian frontier set
at rest, and the United States will be rejoiced to have the
line so clearly settled that no dispute shall arise on the part
of one of its States contiguous to the scene of a civil war.
The Times next alludes to the increase of the military and
naval force of the Union, and considers that it is the com-
mencement of hostile preparations against this country.
But surely this is an overstraining of the fact. The Presi-
dent recommends that the militia should be enlarged, and
that the navy of the State should be more commensurate
with the extent and importance of its commerce. Is there
any thing unreasonable in either? A country daily growing
in population, wealth, and luxury, must feel that the crimes
advance in the same proportion, and that the arm of thelaw
must be strengthened where it can. And surely we cannot
be surprised if a nation like America, whose trade is inferior
only to that of Great Britain, increases its naval resources
to a corresp, nding strength. No ; neither the boundary
line, nor the enlistment of the militia, nor the building of a
few ships of war will produce a quarrel between Great
Britain and the United States. Their friendship is based
on the solid ground of mutual interest, and it is not in the
power of the newspaper press of either country to disturb
it.—Morning Post.
"My voice is still for war." The Time:, it would
seem, has determined that there shall at all hazards be a
war between this country and the United States. It yes-
terday recurs to the subject, and, in two and a half mortal
columns, expends a world of excellent indignation on the
course of foreign policy pursued by our Government, on
the question of the boundary line between the territory of
the United States and our American Colonies. Our con-
temporary waxes infinitely more angry and assumes a much
more threatening aspect on the subject, than does the Pre-
sident himself in his Message to the Congress, though
the whole of its philippic against Government is avow-
edly grounded on that Message. A more martial andi
unnational article has never come under our notice.
IV ere the American President's speech as redolent of
powder and shot as the leader of our contemporary,
then, indeed, we would have cause to apprehend the
breaking out of hostilities between the two countries.
Happily the case is the reverse. There is nothing in
Mr. Van Buren's speech indicative of other than a
pacific disposition and friendly feeling towards Great
Britain. Beyond the expression of his desire to see a
speedy adjustment of the differences between the United
States and this country, on the question of the boundary
line, there is not a syllable, which even party ingennity
itself could construe into a proof that he wishes or intends
to disturb the amicable relations which now subsist between
the two countries. The passage which has so seriously
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this. The passage might have been just as well given in
the speech of our Queen, as in that of the President of
the United States. And if it had, would that have jus-
tified the citizens of the United States in leaping, to the
conclusion, that we were about to make a hostile demonstra-
tion against them ? We have too high an opinion of our
Transatlantic brethren to suppose that they could ever
have adopted so ridiculous a notion. Lord Palmerston,
in the name of the Government and the country, will, we
doubt not, at once respond to this part of the President's
speech, and say that it is highly desirable that the differences
between the two countries should be amicably settled, andi
with the least loss of time. That, we know, is the wish
of the Ministry, and it is not the fault of this country
that those differences were not adjusted long ago. What
better proof of a desire to set the disputed point a
rest could we have afforded than we did a few year 8
since, when, on the decision of the King of Holland
to whom the matter, with the concurrence of both'
countries, was referred, being given, we expressed our will-
ingness to adhere to it ? It was the United States, and
not this country, that demurred to the award of the Dutch
Kin, ; and to it, therefore, and not to Great- Britain, at-
taches' the responsibility—if responsibility there be—of the
disputed boundary line not having been strictly defined
years ago. Tho Times, not content with conjuring up
one bugbear wherewith to frighten itself and its readers,
forthwith proceeds to treat us to another. The President

expresses a hope that a friendly intercourse will be con-
tinued between the United States and France. Our
quick-sighted contemporary discerns in this a league+
between those two countries in some hostile purposes;
towards Great Britain. This is really trifling with the
understanding of its readers. 'What more natural, or
what more proper, on the part of the United States,
which had lately a serious quarrel with France, than to ex-
press a hope, now that that quarrel has been amicably put
an end to—that the friendly understanding which has been
brought about should be perpetuated ? As to the idea of
Louis Philippe engaging in any hostile project against Great
Britain, it is purely childish. Why, the Citizen King
would not at present go to war with the most insignificant
power in Europe, far less give umbrage to this country.
lie knows too well the slender foundation On which his.
Throne rests, awing to internal dangers ; and therefore it.
is he has allowed himself, within the last few years, to be
insulted in various quarters, not only with impunity, but
with an amount of disgrace to which a Sovereign, certain of
the stability of.his Throne, would not on any account have
submittel—Morning Advertiser..

Mr. and Mrs. Wombwell entertained a distinguished
party at dinner on Tuesday.
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acts of beneficence and friendship. To perpetuate this kindly
feeling, the good old custom of New Year's Gifts, 'is admir-
ably calculated, by affording mutually pleasing reminiscences.
As a valuable gift we have been recoramended Oldridge's
Balm of Columbia, for not only to the bald is it inestimable
from its properties of recovering the liair, but to those who are
likely to become sufferers from incirpient weakness. Such pre-
sents, from being productive of lasting results, keep alive a
grateful remembrance, r...na thus become powerful agents in
stimulating us to the e,xercise of benevolence and good-fellow-
ship. The Balm i.e contained in bottles, of which the smallest
size (price 3s. 61.) strengthens and fixes weak, hair; the 'next
in Rile (price lis. ) produces hair on the partially bah',, and
creates hiskers, Arc. ; and the largest (price I ls.) corr,pletely
restores the hair of the head, both to the middle Caged and
young. No other prices are genuine ; and it is rec.r.ested that,
to guard against counterfeits, the public will apply; to none but
respectable venders, or at the Office, No. 1, Wellington-street,
Strand, London.

ARSENIC IN CANDLES.--At a recent meeting of
the Westminster,Medical Society, Mr. Golding Bird stated
that he had examined chemically the bodies of the birds which
had died during the experiments of the Committee from the
use of the stoarine candles, and he had unequivocal proof of
the presence of arsenic. There cannot be any doubt, there-
fore, as to the injurious influence of these candles, and the
sooner their manufacture is prevented the better. We under-
stand that it is in contemplation to petition the Legislature to
appoint a permanent Board of Health, which may exercise
due controul over all, matters in any way involving the public
health. Institutions of this kiad have been formed all ore--
the Continent—indeed Great Britain is the onl cOWAttr
rhich is as yet unprovided,