The Sun.
London, England, 1839-08-09 00:00:00

of that prerogative, as so much waste paper.
This is the proper way to deal with these gentry.
who, through nothing but a worthless and degraded
clique of partizans, yet, from the accidental circum-
stance of their being the majority of the Assernbly,do
just as they like, without any restraint of de• ency,
and are daily the means of bringing the order"
into that odour with the public that it absolutely
stinks in the nostril.

•
It is full time, indeed, th-it this Lordly itch
for trespassing on the privileges of the SOVEREIGN
were purged a•Aay. It is but a week or two since
a gross attack was made upon the prerogative in
the matter of education.. The Crown, forsooth,
was not to be permitted to lay out the money
granted by the Commons for a specific purpose,
and according to all constitutional usage, tutit?ss
their High Mightinesses, the Lords Spiritual and
Temporal, had a finger in the pie I They accord-
ingly voted an address to the QUEEN, tel ing her
MAJESTY, with their usual courtesy, that
they feared she would make a bad use
of the money, and praying that they
might be consulted on the subject. They got
a severe reprimand for their " disloyal insolence,"
and returned from the Royal Palace greater fools,
if possible, than they went thither. This humilia-
tion ought to have taught them better manners, if
it could not give them more sense ; but they are a
set of incorrigibles.

They next fell to work upon the privileges of the
House of Commons, and actually presumed to
strike out or modify certain money clauses in the
Irish Corporation 13111, which sort of clauses they
had no right, as every one knows, to touch. If
this arose from ignorance, what a precious crew
our hereditary law-makers must be ; if from design,
what a grasping spirit of usurpation does it mani-
fest And now, again, on this factious question
respecting the conduct of the Irish Government,
they have made a second onslaught upon the
QUEEN'S prerogative. Her MAJESTY Must not,
in future, grant any pardon to a poor Irishman—
an " alien in blood, in language, and in religion"
—unless according to a rule prescribed in a resolu-
tion of the House of Lords I This looks some-
thing like a departure from the " old wa)s'' of the
Constitution.

The subjoined sensible observation-son the present state
of Canada are extracted from an article in the Colo
Gazette of yesterday headed " Prospects of Canada."
We may observe that the Colonial Galette has, to use
the words of the Editor, " fallen into new hands ;" and
judging from the numl:ers before us, all who take an in-
terest in Colonial affairs have reason to rejoice at it.
We understand that it will henceforth be conducted by
the Editor of the Spectator, whose qualifications for the
efficient performance of the duties of a Colonial Journa-
list are well known and highly appreciated
" Meanwhil.e, time worst injuiy that can befal a colony
is in the course of being irflieted on the Canadas. The
influx of capital and population from the Mother-country is
stopped. We know of great schemes of emigration and
settlement, which arose out of Lord Durham's account of
the capabilities of the country, but which have been frus.
trated by the postponement of a final settlement of Cana-
dian affairs. The fashion of emigrating to Canada,
too, is fast departing from the emigrating slasses
in this country; The stream of outgoing calilt
and population is turned from a land distract( d
by civil war and suspense, and is permanently fixing
of Austraiia
itself in other channels. Pyl.ire money and more people
will proceed this year to the petty colonies
and New Zealand, than to all the British provinces of
North America. Thu emigrants to the 8,01.1. h will be
followed in successive years by their relatives and friend:; ;
for it is hard indeed to interrupt or divert a well.
established stream of emigration. Nor is this mill : emi-
gration from the Canadas, both of capital and people, is
going on at a great rate, and pro.mds,s to continue.
What can restore the economical prosperity of these
Colonies? Nothing. says Lord Durham, but a final
and permanent settlement of their government on time
basis of union and responsibility. But how is this to be
obtained ? Let not the Colonists rely on the operation of
any cause originating in England. No party here cases
or thinks much about them. They must depend on them-
selves alone. If they bad backed Lord Durham's report
by a general and earnest demonstration of their wishes,
the Canadas would ere now have been one province, man.
aging its own affairs in its own way. How did the French
Canadians for years together accomplish their exclusive
objects? By combination, by uniting as one man, by organi.
zing their means of pressure on the Home Government in-
cluding an actiee ageucy in England—by constantly acting
on the say of their mother-country, Aide toi et le Ciel
Caldera! Their resort to insurrection was a folly. If
they had had the sense to abide by organized but peaceful
agitation, they would have preserved their nationality for
many a year to come. Have the English race in the two
Canadas less of the quality of self-reliance? We have
endeavoured to inform that they have no dependence here.
The service will not be small, if it should prompt them to
discard all false reliances, and to depend on nobody's ex
ertions but their own."

The French Government has resolved to act with
promptitude and energy upon the Eastern question. At
a Cabinet Council held on Wednesday—the second on
tLe subject within the brief period of twenty-four hours
—it was agreed that. a large military force should be
collected at Toulon ready to embark on the arrival of
an account of the -sailing of the Russian fleet, and that
in the event of the Russian ships entering the Bos-
phorus, that Admiral LALANDE should seize a certain
point in the Archipelago. These views were so strongly
opposed by Marshal SOULT on Tuesday, that MM.
PASSY, DUFAURE, and DUCUATEL tendered their re-
signations, and had he not yielded there would hare been
a dissolution of the Cabinet. But the Gallant Mar-
shal prudently gave way, and the order for the forming
A corps of reserve at Toulon, ready to embark at an
hour's notice, was dispatched by telegraph. This has
set at rest, for the present, the question of the dissolu-
tion of the Cabinet ; but a modification is becoming im-
perative. All agree in the opinion that Marshal SOULT
has neither the talents nor the information requisite for
a President of the Council, much legs for a Foreign
Secretary of State. At the head of' the War Depart-
ment he might do very well, but he is utterly unfit for
the offices which be now holds. There is not one of
his colleagues, with the exception of M. TESTE, who
does not wish to get rid of him.

From the Spanish frontier we learn that Lord JoHN
HAY, and the Carlist Chief MAROTO, had a second in-
terview on the 29th ult., near Bilbao. Nothing of what
took place bas transpired.
There is every prospect of a much better harvest in
France than was expected. The wheat is of a very
finequality.
" The Duke of Devonshire his just arrived at Paris.
" Count Publen, the Russian Amba.sador to the French
Court, who is now at St. Petersburgh, will not return to
l'aris till about the end of September. Cuunt Medei n
transacts the business of the legation in the Count's
abeence.

'• The approaching visit of the Duke of Orleans to
Africa, is now officially announced, and according to the
latest letters it was believed at Algiers, that the arrival of
the Prince would be the signal for an expedition by land
from Algiers to Constantine. If Abd-el-Kader should
oppose it, this would be the signal for the renewal of
hostilities.

" A Journal says, this morning, that the reduction of
the duty on colonial sugar, by an ordinance will not take
place.

" We do not know how fgr this statement is correct,
we give it without answering for its authenticity."
" BRUSSELS, Auo. L.—The average prices of corn dur•
ing the last week, were Wheat, 241. 16c. ; Rye, 121. 4 c.
per hectolitre. Wheat remains free of duty on impurta.
tion, and may be exported on payment of 25 centimes, for
1,000 kilogrammes. Rye is liable to an import duty of
211. 50c , and to an export duty of Of. 25c. per 1,000
kilogrammes."