The Sun.
London, England, 1837-10-13 00:00:00

institutions of the country productive of good go- '
vernment to the inhabitants. We speak advisedly
when we say the people seek only for justice, and
that Lord MULGRAVE is governing Ireland on
truly Christian principles—he is striving amidst con-
tending elements, the fruit of former misrule, to work
out, as far as he can, fair measures for the people of
Ireland. We cannot say justice, for with such a
Chancellor as Lord PLUNKET, and with so many
officials of the old, corrupt, oppressive, and un-
Christian Government, it is impossible that Lord
MULGRAVE can administer justice. The people of
Ireland see this ; they have confidence in the pure and
patriotic intentions of his Lordship ; and they are quiet
and contented with their miserable situation, in the
hope that the British Legislature, by improving de-
fective, by abolishing bad, and by introducing new
institutions where wanted, will ultimately place them
in the same situation as the people of England and
Scotland. The people of Great Britain are miser-
ably treated by bad laws, by Tory officials of every
grade, and they suffer greatly from the existing sys-
tem of mirule ; but they are, nevertheless, compara-
tively happy when compared with the Irish people. The
people of Ireland demand only justice, equal justice
with England ; and Lord MULGRAVE, in his admi-
nistration of bad laws amidst Tory and Orange
factions, has the merit of doing all the justice he can.

The people know this, respect him for what he would do
if he had the power, and are as ready to support him

with their lives and property as any subjects of her MA-
JESTY. We have stated this much to put our readers
in possession of our views of the past and present state
of Ireland, under the operation of Protestant prin-
ciples; and we object altogether to the Chronicle's
adoption of the cant of the Times and other
Orange journals. We go further—we ask our Con-
temporary, whether he is warranted in saying that
it is the Ministry—i. C. Lord MELBOURNE'S Mi-

nistry—who are governing Ireland on those prin-
ciples he approves of, and which are producing,

under whatever name, peace and satisfaction amongst
the mass of the people ? If we judge from the

conduct of the Ministry in the government of other
Viceroyalties, the provinces of the Canadas, and see
the principles on which their Governors are acting,

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and the results of such government—viz., dis-
cgrd, dissatisfaction, and strife—every thing, in fact,
that can distract a country short of civil war, we
may well ask whether Lord GOSFORD and Sir

FRANCIS HEAD are acting upon Protestant prin

ciples ? Are the proceedings in these provinces the
result of Lord MELBOURNE'S Ministerial Orders, or
are they the acts of the Lieutenant-Governors ? We
know that to the people—to the Canadians—it is the
same whether tyranny and oppression are the acts of
the Lieutenant-Governors, or the acts of Lord MEL-
BOURNE'S Ministry. We are sorry not to have
served our Contemporary a little more alive to the state
of the Canadian people, and to the operations of the

Government there. He has devoted for months his co-
lumns to combat the absurdities of the Standard and

Times about Ribbonmen, Dens' Theology, and other
absurdities and non-entities ; but not a word on the prin-
ciples on which the Ministry are acting towards Ca-
nada. We have been led to think that good prin-
ciples are the same wherever they are acted upon.
They may be honestly or dishonestly carried out, but
the principles are the same. We are as desirous as
the Chronicle to support Lord MELBOURNE'S Ad-
ministration, as being the only Ministry from whom
the country might expect Reform, in return for
its devotion to support it. The Chronicle

talks of the Protestant principles of Lord MEL-
BOURNE'S Ministry. Are its principles really Chris-
tian and Protestant principles ? Is it acting on
the precept of our Saviour—doing to others as
we would that others should do unto us ?" If
principles are uniformly Protestant, how happens it
that the Lieutenant-Governors appointed by it act
differently in Ireland and in the Canadas ? In Ire-
land Ministers take credit for their professions, and
wish to restore the institutions, and to give to the
people the management of their municipal corpora-
tions, and to abate the rancour and animosity
arising from an endowed Church, supported by per-
sons not professing that religion ; and great are the
lamentations of the Whigs throughout the land
that the Orange and Tory party prevent them from
acting in accord with the desires of the people of
Ireland. In Canada Lord MELBOURNE is depriving

.he people of the Constitutional power they have o►er

the revenues of the province—is superseding, by a
resolution of an English House of Commons, the rights
and privileges of a whole people—and the result of such
conduct is discord, discontentment, and the danger of
civil war, or rather of rebellion against the British
,rower. As the Orange faction for many years acted on
Protestant principles, oppressing the Catholica, re-
fusing to admit any one to the magistracy, to the mi-
litia, or to office--so ►n Canada, on Protestant prin-
ciples, Lord GosFoito and Sir FRANCIS HEAD are
stifling, or attempting to stifle, by proclamations, the
expression of public opinion—are dismissing Members
of Parliament in August for having attended meet-
ings of their constituents in May—are prescribing
from the magistracy, frog the militia,' and from the
bench, every Canadian who dares to be honest, and girl
an honest opinion on the acts of the Government. If the
Ministry, therefore, are acting on Protestant prin-
ciples towards the Irish, they must be acting on
Heathenish principles towards the Canadians ; and
before we give credit to any Administration for exces-
sive attachment to pure Protestantism, it must be
consistent, and act to all portions of the empire
with equal justice. When we see conduct sub-
versive of the principles of the British Constitu-
tion, for which our forefathers fought and bled—for
which the STUARTS were expelled, and the House of
Brunswick elected in their stead—when we see such
portions of the Empire as the Canadas torn to
pieces by faetions, oppressed by the misrule of their
governors—the representatives of Majesty ; when we
see discord far and wide, and rebellion threatened—we
cannot say with the Chronicle that Lord MEL-
BOURNE'S Administration, which countenances the
causes of so many evils, is acting on Protestant prin-
ciples. The people of England are even now beginning
to think that the merit of the change of the govern-
ment in Ireland, and of the peace reigning there,
is owing to Earl MULGRAvE ; whilst the demerit
of misruling and oppressing the Canadas is due to
Lord JOHN RUSSELL and the other Members of the
Cabinet here. We trust that Lord MELBOURNE will
look to this. His own character and the Ministerial
existence of his Colleagues are at stake. What Lord
IVIuLGrtA vE would do for Ireland let him effect for
the Canadas. To both concede equal justice—this
this will be to act on the principles of true Pro-
testantism.

Our columns to-day contain proofs of the progress
of Church-rate agitation. The proceedings in the
populous parish of Christ Church, Surrey, will be
read with a lively interest by all who are watching the
manifestations of popular feeling on this important ques-
tion. It is a common saying, that if you give a dog rope
enough ho will hang himself. The clergy of the so-
called National Church are every day affording ex-
amples of this species of self destruction. By the
intemperance of their eonduct, their constant in-
terference in secular affairs which thoy do not
understand, and their systematic opposition to
all measures of a liberal tendency, they have acquired