The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-16 00:00:00

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, JANUARY 16, 1862.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
41-74ighest since noon yesterday.
31—lowest this morning and during the night.
35—this day at noon.

BanomETEa-30.12—still rising.
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THE SUN.
LONDON, THURSDAY, JAN. 16, 1862.

It is as well, since we must pay a very heavy bill
for the American outrage, to extract all the com-
fort we can from its indirect consequences. Mr.
GLADSTONE indeed tells us that he does not de-
spond, by which we understand that notwithstand-
ing the injury to our revenue in consequence of the
American war, and the millions of actual expense
to which it has put us, he may yet make ends meet
without inoreaaing our income-tax. We hope it
may be so, but at best we shall have to pay the same
amount of all kinds of taxes as last year, and think
ourselves well off if it be nothing worse. What
have we got for it all besidas the indispensable
object of vindicating oar flag ?
It is some gain to hare convinced the mob-
monarchs of America that they must give up the
pleasure of bearding England. The irresponsible
millions, and the demagogues who pander to them,
will probably think a little before they incur ano-
ther humiliation like that under which they are
now looking rather foolish. Half mad commanders
superseding judges, and judges praising half-mad
commanders by openly throwing overboard judicial
considerations; and governors governing anything

but their own temper against an unoffending,
rather a wronged, friendly Power—all this style
of thing will be, we may expect, considerably modi-
fied. If so, this will be a gain, for such folly,
though we despised it, is very provoking, and so far
as it goes, tends to create hostile relations between

two powerful countries for the mere pleasure of
foolish bullying and bragging.
But one of the most gratifying results of this
costly and provoking business is the feeling it has
developed in our North American colonies, in
Canada especially, which, as it was more difficult

to assist from the mother country, and its long
frontier laid it open to American attacks, would be
the greatest sufferer by a war. We were taunted
with the exposure of Canada to the prowess of the
Northern heroes of:Bull's Run, even by Mr. SEWARD
himself, and it was the unhesitating assumption of
the mob editors and orators of the North that, in
the event of any disaster in the South, Canada was
to be the compensation ; and that should the Great
North wish to chastise Great Britain, Canada was
to feel the Federal birch as unresistingly as a
schoolboy. The actual prospect of war has put to
flight all these pleasant Federal fancies. The
Irish and French, who were to have welcomed the
Federals with open arms, welcome them with arms
of another kind. All races, and parties, and reli-
gious sects, combine to resist, in the name of the
Crown to which they are cordially attached, any
attempt on their country. They do not believe in
greater freedom and security under a President,
and as a thirtieth or fortieth fraction of a monster
republic, than under a representative of their Sove-
reign, and with absolute liberty to manage their
internal concerns as they please. The French have
shown the most entire loyalty. They feel that they
are reasonably treated, their nationality respected,
and all the alterations in their feudal institu-
tions, which long hindered their progress,
have been made virtually by themselves ;
on all questions relative to Lower Canadian pecu-
liarities, they are honourably left to their own
action, and they have no fancy to exchange con-
nection with a monarchy which takes pleasure in
respecting their preferences, for connection with a
monarchy of unfeeling and irresponsible numbers.

It is the same with the Irish and the Catholics.
The Northerns counted entire!y without their host,
in looking for aid from them. The Irish we may
presume to be generally, of a superior class who
emigrate to Canada, but, whatever the cause, they
meet and openly tell their countrymen in the States
that they do not wish to fight against them, but
that they must join in the defence of
their common country. The Catholics have
been enthusiastic. Both the French and Irish
Catholics have held public meetings in aid of the
Volunteer movement, and with a truly noble liberality