The Sun.
London, England, 1837-10-18 00:00:00

NEW CREATION OF PEERS.

(FRONT A CORRESPONDENT.)
Speculation is at work as to thZ eolifse Ministers
will take to obtain a majority in the House of Lords,
by which to enable them to carry on the business of
the iiountry—to forward the declared intentions of her
MAJESTY, and to meet the tltQefit and jilst demands
of the people, for Reforms in all those institutions of
the country---on the proper working and adaptation of
which, the fottune and welfare of this country and,
we will add, the welfare of Europe, depends, The
object of every people, by their formation of the society
they live in, is Good. Government--by which they expect
to obtain the greatest comfort and happiness which
their individual sacrifices for the support of such
Government entitle theni to have. Government, there-
fore, is but a means to an end—the end and object is
the happiness of the people. There are many men
whose characters we admire, and whose talents, pre-
eminent amongst their fellows, entitle them to great
respect, who care little about the forms of the Govern-
ment, provided the object and substance are secured
to the millions. They applaud the military monarchy,
or rather despotism, of the King of Pit UsSIA, as one
of the best governments in Europe ; and they allege,
in proof, that the people who live under him, in his
, varied possessions, from the shores of the Baltic to the
confines of Switzerland, enjoy more good government
and real happiness than do the people of France and Eng-
land. We will almost admit the truth of that asser-
tion, and will, as a reason, observe, that as the Prussian
Monarch has set the example to the civilized world of
educating every person, rich and poor,high and low, to
prepare them for knowing their rights as citizens, and
their duties as men---as he has put arms into the hands
of every man in his dominions at the age of eighteen
years, and taught him, for the space of three years,
the use of these arms—it is quite evident that he de-
lights in having an educated and an enlightened people,
and that he is confident that he governs them justly,
and with their love, affection, and cordial consent.
He leaves in the hands of, at the least, 800,000 citi-
zens, arms, to the use of which they have been trained,
and it is quite certain that he could not, with all his
military corps, coerce or tyrannise over a nation so
prepared for resistance as are the Prussian people.
What a contrast between the State of Prussia and that
of Ireland, under the dominion of England ? For
ourselves, however, we prefer the forms of a Go-
vernment which establishes responsibility to the people
as the best security for good government ; and although
the Prussians may enjoy good government, and be
really happier than their neighbours, as long as their
present KING lives, yet they have no security that his
son, or successor, will follow his example, and admi-
nister justice with satisfaction to the people, as the
present KING has done. We, therefore, are of opi-
nion that our own forms and institutions of Govern-
ment, which take their origin from the will of the
people—which have the happiness and good of the
people in view----and which hold out complete respon-
sibility from all who administer the laws under these
forms, are better than those of Prussia ; although,
from the abuses and imperfections that have ,crept into
them, they have not been for a long time productive
of the benefits which we expected, and to which the
people are entitled. The knowledge of those de-
fects in the Government, and the sufferings of the
people from the abuses in its institutions, have caused
the people to demand a change—not to destroy, but to
reform—to restore our popular institutions to their
former efficiency ; and we are now in the struggle which
becomes a highminded people to make for their liber-
ties and rights—a struggle between the aristocracy and
the democracy. These observations have been called for
by the perusal of an article in " Tait's Magazine," en-
titled, " The late Election of Scottish Peers,"—
which is written in a proper spirit, and paints the
ceremony of that election as a mockery and disgrace.
The part which the heavy-headed Tory, the once citi-
zen LAUDERDALE, acted in that drama, is well
described ; and, if shame bring blushes on the
cheeks of a renegade republican, his past and pre-
sent conduct ought to bring blushes, deep as scarlet,
on the old and withered visage of LAUDERDALE I
When we consider the nature and mummery of that
election of Peers, and the effects that will be produced
on the affairs of this nation by sending sixteen decided
Tories—enemies of the popular cause and of all na-
tional reform—to the House of Peers, to swell the
already too great majority in that House against the
demands of the people, we are led to question the
wisdom of the institution which permits such unal-
loyed mischief to the people, for whose benefit the
Peerage was instituted. If we have dethroned, and
can dethrone our kings, there surely cannot be any ob-
jection to our reforming the House of Peers, if its pre-
sent constitution be proved fatal to the liberties of the
people. The second branch of the legislature is not
more sacred than the first—the Peers than the Sove-
rign, who created and may create them without number.
If the Peers do not act in accordance with the rights and
liberties of the people, it ought to become a question
how to correct, or get rid of them, as being an obstacle
to good government. Good government is the right of
the people. If the Peers fail in performing the
duties assigned them by the Constitution, whether
they do so from incapacity, from the absolute
nature of their office, or from corrupt and sordid
views, it should be the duty of the people and of their
representatives, assembled according to law, to take
into consideration the misconduct of the Lords,
if such really exist, and deal with them as the Con-
stitution points out. My Lord Jo FIN RUSSELL
may talk against organic changes, and he may at-
tempt to protect the Lords in their selfish and unjust
proceedings towards Ireland and other parts of the
empire ; but he can only do so for a short time, unless
he will give his support to, or introduce such reforms as
shall by degrees deprive the Peers of the power of
doing mischief- to, or of withholding good measures
from, the nation. The people, suffering under the
evils of bad laws, and their bad administration, will
not long tolerate the oppression of two or three hull-
tired Peers, if they persist in refusing amendments to
these laws, and withholding the requisite corrections
of the existing institutions through which the laws are
to be administered. Patience will become at last ex-
hausted, and the downfal of those old institutions may
he the result. We, who are anxious to see Lord
MELBOURNE'S Administration continue in office to
carry out the reforms they have promised, and which
the people expect, would offer a suggestion to Lord
JOHN RUSSELL (who is a hater of organic changes)
viz.—that in order to punish the heavy-headed leader of
the late election of the Scottish Peers, and all his clique,
who have so completely excluded every Liberal Peer from
the House of Peers, he should immediately call up
to the House of Peers, every Scottish Peer whose
Opinions arc known to be Liberal, and who, when
made a British Peer, will support Lord MELBOURNE'S
reforms, and in this way punish the Tory Peers who
have so acted, and enable her MAJEsTy's Ministers
to carry the measures which they introduced to the last
Parliament, and which are essential to the well-being
of Ireland and of the empire. We think those two
objects most important to be effected ; and if the Mi-
nisters, who, it is understood, have powers from her
MAJESTY for that purpose, will now act with vigour
in the way we recommend, Lord jOIIN RUSSELL, in
that will not be required to have recourse to
I organic changes.

LORD CrLENELG and EARL GOSFORD,

The Chronicle has published an address from the people
of New Brunswick to Lord Glenelg, requesting he will
sit for his portrait to be placed in the Provinte: We wish
Lord Glenelg tvould sho* the Saiii'e teaditieo to do jiistitb
to the Canadians and to enter S 8 Id
art td r ;c+Pit the approbation instead of the curses and exe-
crations of the people of the province,
The following are only samples of the Resolutions, agreed
to at every public meeting, in counties and cities in Lower
Canada, And they state this truthwhich we blush to pub-
lish as the acts of Lord Gosford, whose father's minute in
1825, r speeCng the Battle of the Diamond ought to have
been in his recol•e tion

Resolved- ;-,-That this Committee sees with indignation
that the Governor of this Province continues to abuse the
powers vested in him, by harassing many of our felloiv•
citizens holding Commissions in the Militia, on the pre-
tence of having attended public meetings, at whinh it *0.9
their right to assists and for the exercise of which right
they were hi ho *ay responsible to his Excellency.
Resolved—That the excesses committed by his Excel-
lency, in thus dismissing from his Magistracy and Militia,
gentlemen of unimpeachable worth and patriotism, have
very naturally created such disgust in the minds of many
honourable and spirited men, that they are impelled, out of
respect to their own characters, to throw up the onerous
Commissions which they hold as Militia Officers or Magis-
trates, considering it a dishonour to serve under the pre-
sent corrupt, violent and odious administration.
Resolved—That the people of several populous parishes
are thus entirely deprived of Local Magistrates and of all
means of procuring justice in their immediate neighbour-
hood, and are obliged to travel several leagues from their
homes and occupations, at a great expense of time and
money, whenever they require the assistance of a Ma-
gistrate.
Resolved—That besides the ordinary security conferred
by the militia law, there is this peculiar provision derived
from the law as it is constituted in this province, that it fur-
nishes coroners and peace-officers throughout the country
parishes, (captains and other officers of a lower grade acting
in that quality,) in aid of the administration of justice
throughout the colony.
Resolved—That the country should and will hold Archi-
bald Lord Gosford, the present Governor-in-Chief, respon-
sible for any injury that may result to the lives and property
of the people of this Province, in consequence of the with-
drawal from the public service of such magistrates and
peace-officers, who without any remuneration have assisted
in the administration of justice, and of whose gratuitous
services the country is now deprived, to the manifest danger
of the public peace, through the violence and insane conduct
of the present head of the executive.
Resolved—That this Committee tenders its willing
thanks, and the thanks of the people at large, whose senti-
ments it expresses, to Lieut. Abm. Marchessault, of St.
Ours ; Capt. Joseph B. Hebert, of L'Acadia ; to Paschal
Persillier Lachapelle, jun., Esq., J. P. of St. Laurent ; L.
R. Blanchard, Esq. M.P.P. and J.P., of St. Hyacinthe ;
to Lieut. and Adjt. Antoine Daigle, of St. Ours; to Capt.
Hyp. Chapdelaine, of St. Ours ; to Ensign Joseph Mo-
narque, fils, of Riviere des Prairies ; and to Ensign Fran-
cois Malo, of Pointe aux Trembles, for the readiness and
public spirit with which they sent back with scorn to their
country's oppressor, the Commissions they held in the
Militia and Magistracy, the moment they were given to
understand that those Commissions were granted but to cor-
rupt, and to induce them to betray their country and their
own rights as freemen ; that this Committee declares that
these public-spirited gentlemen deserve well of their country,
and hopes that their good and spirited example will not be
lost or thrown away on such of our fellow-citizens as still
hold Commissions under a Government which rules but to
oppress, and distributes office but to corrupt.
Read the General Order of Militia, dated Quebec, 7th
Sept. 1837.
On motion of Mr. Alexander Dubois, of Montreal,
seconded by Mr. Flavien Desjardins, of Vaudreuil,
Resolved—That the dismissal of Captain Louis Dokon,
Surgeon Dorion, of the Ist battalion of Richelieu Militia ;
of Captain Chas. Monjeau from the 2d battalion of Ver-
cheres Militia ; of Captain Jeannotte and Captain Aug.
Marchesseau, from the 3d battalion of Vercheres Militia,
should be, and is, considered by their fellow-citizens
throughout this province, a mark of respect paid by the
enemy of Canadian liberty to their unflinching patriotism
and uncorruptible love of country.

'e mentioned last week that most of the colliers in
the neighbourhood of Glasgow had resumed work. The
consequence of this has been, that coal has this week fallen
3s. a waggon, with an immediate prospect of a farther de-
cline. The late struggle and exorbitant price of coal may
he considered as the last that will affect to the same ex-
tent the inhabitants of Glasgow. Before the men can have
recovered from the effect of the " turn-out," and the.mas-
ters have had time to collect hills of trash, that can only
be sold in a time of scarcity, railways will have brought this
necessary article to its proper level.
MORAL AND MEDICAL ETHICS.--WC are not
emulous of coming to -a hasty conclusion upon subjects of
enlarged and important principles—and would even hesitate
in offering any observations upon medical works—but in
the present instance we deviate from eur usual caution,
inasmuch as the publications we allude to (Messrs. Goss's
Treatises on the IBgis of Life, &c.) are deserving of public
attention. No complaints are more distressing, than those
which arise from indiscretion constitutional weakness or
mental anxiety—the " secret sorrow" rarely meets with
sympathy—and for those thus circumstanced Messrs. Goss's
works may be recommended as a system of moral and
medical ethics, expressed with equal confidence and delicacy.

111141 SUN, LONDON, WEDNISDAY, OCTOIllat 18, 1837.

POOLE-TUESDAY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN:

Sin,—l have much pleasure in handing you the result
bf Otir Borough Registration, which concluded on SaturdMy
last, after four days' close attention on the part of the ite-
ititik ParriAteia; Meisrs: al ward and Graves. The re-
sult is as follows the Lectors Who voted at the late
contest the Liberals have lost 9, and the Tories ‘-j4- ; of
the LibgrOs claim 28. the Tories 26, leavieg
Thus the Liberal majority has L';;CP in-
ureai?oSu rn
edwrtvbroOttfttieusil7 to 84, and judgitv From the conduct of the
Tories here, well do they know that their remotest chance
of any future success in Poole is at an end. The cause
ti the "Reformers ivas ably supported by Messrs. Aldridge,
Phillips, and Aberdein, and the Tories by Musts, Parr and
Arnold. D. T.